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Long time no post...I know....surprise surprise. It seems like EVERYtime we get back on the blog waggon something dramatic happens that consumes my life. I didn't even get to post about my birthday! The major thing that has happened recently is the death of my car. Yes. The green essence that has been me since high school died. BUT have no fear....three weeks and an unholy amount of money later, it's back in full force, good as new. What happened to it? Apparently every car has a computer in it and mine stopped working. It was giving out all these false readings about the transmission and this that and the other and when they found out that nothing was wrong with all that, they new it had to be the computer. Yikes.

Anyway, Let's recap the life that we have missed on the blog. First of all I turned 24 on the 17th! William and I got to go to Garner for the weekend where my mom had these beautiful roses waiting for me (I love fresh flowers!):
Mom and I went shopping Saturday and she bought my a pair of shape ups! I needed some new shoes for work since I stand on my feet a lot and hopefully they will help at the gym also. They look like this but mine are green. I honestly haven't even had time to lace them up but when I tried them on in the store it felt like I was standing on a rocking chair. They are pretty cool.

Saturday night we met my aunt, cousin, and grandma at the Outback and had a birthday dinner complete with this cute cake that was to DIE for. It was from Sams and had my favorite whipped cream icing instead of the heavy buttercream:

And here's a pic of the crazy family afterwards: My cousin had a cuter picture where my dad didn't look like he was asleep but I couldn't get it to upload on here, lol.
Sunday William had to get some studying in because he is in the cardio block which is another interruption in our lives. He absolutely hates this block (which means it's driving me crazy also) but his test is tomorrow so hopefully we can all make it through. Anyway, I was able to meet my friend Lauryn (her birthday was the day before mine) and she also gave me a beautiful flower arrangement which is sitting on my coffee table right now. I had a wonderful birthday!....Then my car died.

William and I have had a rough time trying to carpool because our schedules are SO different. Luckily my parents were on vacation last week so we were able to borrow their car for the week. Both of our cars are paid for so William and I are reallly trying to make it to his residency with no car payments! His birthday is in December so one of our gifts to each other was tickets to see Blondie. She was at the DPAC last wednesday...you may know her from such songs as "The Tide is High", "One Way or Another", "Heart of Glass" etc. and the concert was SO much fun! Here's a picture that is pretty bad quality but I dont think we were alowed to take pics so I was doing it secretly:
Our past weekend was spent just catching up and helping William get prepared for his upcoming Cardio test. This unit and his next unit which is pulmonary are supposedly the worst two units of second year. Once he gets through the next three weeks then he will leave for Elizabeth City again for the last time (this trip will only be a week). This weekend (the weekend AFTER his test) is supposed to be our fun weekened with no studying but now he has to do a poster for the student research day showcasing all of his research for this summer. If only it wasn't required...LOL but it's fine because once he gets through it, it will be done forever!

So that's about it for now. We're trying to plow through these next few weeks and hello? Can you believe it's about to be October? Where does the time go?!?!

Sunday in Boone

My dad and I both had to work this past Saturday so my parents came up to visit us once he was off work and I was home also. Saturday night we went out to eat and Sunday morning we got up early and took a trip to Boone. William and I have been here for a over a year and we never realized that we are only about an hour from Boone! We did a lot of driving around, taking in all the mountain scenery, and we went to Linville Falls and hiked up to the different overlooks of the waterfall. Here's the view from the highest point:

Here's mom and William sitting on the edge (I must admit that getting that close to the edge made me a little queezy--LOL):

Here's mom and dad at the lowest point (Charleigh was cut out by accident!)


And me and William in the same spot:

We drove along the blue ridge parkway with the windows down and blankets on top of us because the air was actually chilly! Once we got back to Winson it was a different story with all the humidity. We drove through blowing rock, passed tweetsie railroad, and scouted out all the places we would love to take a mini vaccation back to! We came back home, dropped Charleigh off, and went out to a mexican restaraunt. We had such a great time and we always hate it when we have to say goodbye. :( William has his first test as a 2nd year this friday so he is really working hard and I am trying to recover from some sort of sinus infection or cold or something. Hope everyone has a great week!