updates

me in front of the king's chateua in Versailles, huge and amazing.

the whole group

me at a really good bakery

in the hall of mirrors but facing the windows out to the gardens. the lump on the left begin my bag and coat. didn't think to remove it.

I realize you are all probably missing me a lot. Also wondering where are all my Paris updates. Lets just say I am not very good at this blog thing but want to be better so I am going to work on it for everyone else's sake.
I have A LOT to catch up on. After leaving Provo I went to CO for less than 24 hours, made a pit stop in Mesa, Arizona and Boston before arriving in Paris. I have so many pictures and stories I want to tell you. First I should clear up some confusion from my last post. My family was very much apart of Christmas but I did not get my camera until Christmas day and did not open it till after because I thought I might exchange it. So all of the pictures involving more of the fam are on my mom's camera. So it might take a while for ME to get the pictures. None the less, Christmas was fabulous and we all enjoyed Steve being around to celebrate.
I guess I could start with some Paris updates because it will involve less thinking because that is where I am. Today we went ice skating outdoors in front of Hotel de Ville, it was fabulous, and there was music playing so I just jammed along. I only feel twice and the first one I jazzed up. As I fell I landed in a perfect plank position so just to keep the style alive I threw in a push up. Yeah, I know I am such a dork, but I miss having anatomy classes. The French Revolution is quite interesting and all....but sometimes I need someone who speaks my language (I am not refering to english or spanish) I mean anatomy language. It's okay though, I do it in my head all the time. Well, how about some pictures to keep you all content.

Christmas in Colorado

I got to go home to CO for Christmas and New Years. It was so nice to be home with the family and relax a little after a very crazy semester....now that I am back to reality I am trying to get everything done again. I enjoyed fantasy land with nothing to do but play, eat, and do active things.
Steve decided last minute to grace us with his presence. It was wonderful to have him around. My mom likes him because he is neat and tidy :)
Steve was so excited to see real snow. So we spent a lot of time cross country skiing and sledding. We also played games with the family, did a lot of shopping (poor steve) and watched movies. And we ate a lot. Steve took me to a restaurant called BJ's and the pizza was super fantastic. If you have one in your area I would highly reccomend it!!!

Kimball Farms

I went with a couple girls on a 26 mile bike ride....and then we got ice cream. We figured we deserved it, right? Well the ice cream is AMAZING! It is a place called kimball farms and totally worth all 26 miles. I got a HUGE cup and finished it all, i won't be making that habit. But, seriously the ice cream is locally made and SOOO good! And the bike trail is also pretty sweet. We get to look at big huge houses along the way with big yards and trees. Jealous.

Walden Pond

Today I went to Walden pond with a bunch of people in the ward. We had a sunday afternoon picnic. It was fantastic but i was so tempted to jump in the water because it was warm water, being from colorado I am not used to ward lake water. We are going to go back the week for a dip.

Mom and Dad in town!!!!

Sorry I have been a little blog lazy. Now that I have a full time job and it is not a receptionist I don't sit around all day on the internet. I actually have to work and get things done, i know crazy, right?

Well my parents came in town last week and we had such a fantastic time. We went to the vineyard again. We spent all day on the beach saturday and it was BEAUTIFUL, no clouds just sunshine. We also had a "jack and jill" baby shower for Lisa. I am so excited for that little girl to come!!! I don't have a lot of pictures of these festivities but I will post as many as I have.

The picture is us in Harvard Yard touching Mr. Harvard's foot. Apparently it is good luck to touch his foot but even better if you pee on it....
Sorry the picture quality is lacking.

Memorial Day on the Vineyard

Many of you know that Brent and Lisa live on the Vineyard, and we spent memorial day weekend on the vineyard and it was fantastic. Thanks to Brent and Lisa for entertaining us and cooking. Lisa has a fantastic enchilada receipe, it was wonderful! I can't wait to go back next weekend with the parents!!!

Me and Lisa took a bike ride on the cruiser bike. Notice her cute basket, that was her bday present from brent!

Lisa's bike is name Rosie. I need one.

Henry loved the sand!!!!

Brent decided to take henry by cooler. He was a little reluctant.

Memorial Day celebration!!!

He had talent.

Everyone is always stopping Henry from going in water, poor Henry.

Henry liked the texture of Brent's hair. This hike was really cool. We went to the highest point on the island and looked out over the water, and it was beautiful and then down to the lowest and played on the beach a little.

I love bike riding. I get all over the city on my bike. Everywhere I get I am a little sweaty but so is everyone else because of the humidity so i'm over it :)

FULL TIME!!!!

I would just like to publicly announce that I am employed full time at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and like you'll probably thinking I am the new surgeon on the vascular team.
Okay, maybe that's just my dream job. My real job is in some office where I get my own cubical and am helping audit their files, but at least it is at a hospital! I think it will be great because the hours are very flexible I just have to work 40 hours a week. It feels good!

I would like to attribute this success to my father who gave me cheesy interview lines. I am not very good at interviewing because I think it is so stupid to say cheesy made up stuff. Well my all knowing father talked some sense into me and told me interviewing is a game and I have to play the game to win. He helped me out by telling me exactly what to say and while I felt like such a cheese ball I said it during the interview and apparently they loved me so I guess my Dad wins yet again.

Ask him to tell you his cheesy lines about my greatest strengths and weaknesses, they're fantastic.

Get excited for more coming posts about last weekend on the vineyard and going to the Red Sox game!!!!!