An Update

I haven't posted a blog in over a month because I always feel like I have nothing to blog about, mostly because I don't have any pictures or events to write about. I know that's a little silly but I still think like that. I want to change that though! I always LOVE reading Julie and David's blog because Julie updates so often and it's fun knowing what's going on with them. Especially since they are so far from us. It's probably my favorite to read because they always update. Then I realized, Julie doesn't always put up pictures... and she doesn't always have big events to write about. So, in an effort to blog more often I'm going to try do it more like Julie and David! (hope that's ok with you guys)

So nothing major has been happening but life. I get up at 6:00 every morning and Josh at 6:40. We get ready and I leave for work at 7:10. I recently got a job as a 3rd grade paraeducator at Breckinridge Elementary. This is my 3rd week. Basically what I do is go between the four 3rd grade classrooms all day and help with reading and math. I usually work with a small groups of kids: the same leveled reading groups and math groups of kids who are struggling with the concepts and need extra help. I leave at 3 everyday and have the rest of the day to relax. I usually come home and rest/read until Josh gets home between 5 and 6.

Josh is in med school at UK and leaves the house at 7:20 (just after me) every morning (well Mon-Fri). He drives up with his brother Adam who is dental school there. Josh has 2 classes this semester- Anatomy and Histology. In his anatomy lab they dissect real bodies, I've seen one and it's weird! He has one class a day and is done by noon. He studies (hard) until about 5 when he comes home to me! On the days he has anatomy lab he comes home smelling yucky (formaldehyde).

In the evenings we eat together and relax. That usually consists of watcing 24 (we're on season 3 right now, we get it from the library for free!), watching a Netflix movie, and/or hanging with Adam and Jenn and playing with our nephew Jackson. Currently, Josh is sitting beside me playing Super Mario World on the Wii.

So that's our life right now! We are super happy and loving living in Lexington. :)

Josh is practically a doctor now!!!

Jennilyn, Jackson, and I went to Josh's white coat ceremony today. It was so neat for me to see my hubby in a white doctors coat. He just looks ready to go now! I'm so proud of Josh and how hard he's worked to get here. He is going to be such an amazing doctor. He starts classes on Monday and I keep hearing about how BUSY he is going to be. Josh can handle it though, he's so smart and I'm happy to support him. The video below is of Josh going up to put the white coat on and then shake hands with the dean. He's not the one already on stage when the video starts. You hear them call his name and then he walks out.

We're so happy

He looks so great and doctorish!

with our nephew Jackson- so cute!

This one was at our house right after his stethoscope came in the mail, now he looks even more like a doctor!

Family Pictures and White Water Rafting

This summer has been fun. We spent a week at a beach house with my family (see Jenna's album on facebook) and then last week Jenna and I went to the South Carolina/Georgia border to spend a week vacation with her family. We stayed in a cabin up in the mountains and saw the sights and went white water rafting. It was a ton of fun. It was the first full family vacation we have had. The area was beautiful and the cabin was a lot of fun. We spent a lot of days and nights playing games. Her family is very competitive and loves playing games. Other activities we did were hikes to see some waterfalls and we went tubing down the Chattahoochee River. Naturally I won quite a few games, as did Jenna. We were probably the most winning couple in the cabin. We were also the King and Queen of the Chattahoochee River (we had the best ride) and the King and Queen of Dukes Creek Falls (we finished the hike to the bottom first) and Jenna was the ultimate Queen of Rumikub because she won the tournament. We also did family pictures. These were the first for the Rhames family in six years. Her mom picked out nice colors that made us look like a beautiful sunset. Below is a selection of the pictures that were taken.

Back Row: Josh, Dad, Bryan
Front Row: Angelyn, Jenna, Kyla, Mom, Holly

The sissies

The original Rhames

In this picture there is also Jayna (in purple) who is Kyla's best friend and pretty much an honorable Rhames also.

Now we get to the fun stuff. These are the rafting pictures. There is a series of pictures that show us approaching the biggest rapid of the day (Bulls Sluice). It amazing that we didn't all topple out of the raft. After that there are pictures of us jumping into the bottom of the rapid. The whole experience was a ton of fun. At one point in the trip we even rescued (and at the same time maybe almost killed) a lady who fell out of her raft. Ultimately we rescued her, but in the process we drug her over some rapids and rocks. Half the family was in our raft and the other half were in another raft. We'll have to post the other rafts pictures in another post because Jenna's dad has some classic expressions as he goes over the rapid. While we went down the river we also had some splash wars. I am proud to announce that our raft won every splash battle on the river.