Moving on...

This past week was my last week with oncology patients. My rotation is now over and I will be heading to pediatric clinics for the next 8 weeks! I am so sad to leave all the patients that I became close to, but am excited about meeting new ones! :)

Each week we had to provide an art activity for the patients. Since mine are long term patients, I wanted to do a project that the patients would be able to do every time they came in.. I decided on a tree with falling leaves and pumpkins. I also came up with the idea of making butterflies out of masks and I think one girl decided to put a cat in the tree. I loved how this project turned out, and the kids LOVES doing it.

One of my favorite things about these past 8 weeks is my refrigerator. Alot of the patients have made me things. They have made me lots of jewelry and several things I could hang up on my frigde!

Since we all had a long stressful, exciting, heart breaking, emotional, and sleepless past 8 weeks we decided to treat ourselves to seeing a movie on Friday night. We all wanted to go see the movie Courageous! It was so good! I think we spent most of the movie crying and getting all of our tears out that have built up the past 8 weeks. This picture was taken AFTER we did all of our crying during the movie!

I will post another blog soon on everything that I have learned so far!

Perfect weekend. Perfect family. Perfect boyfriend.

Last weekend was the first weekend I have been home in a month.. I did not get as many pictures as I would have liked to have made, but this past weekend was perfect... (almost) The only other thing that could have made it better would have been if my brother came home!

On Friday I got my hair dyed, went shopping with Mama, and then had a movie day/night with the family!

Saturday, I spent the day with Anthony.. the day started off by eating at the mall, then we went back to his house to play some ping pong and get stuff to go shoot some skeet!

I was also able to meet his new cat, Mooch.

Skeet shooting was probably the highlight of the day! We had so much fun, and we were actually both really good!!

After we finished skeet shooting, we went to see the movie 50/50 about the guy battling cancer.. It was such a great movie. I cried, and Anthony teared up.. (He will admit it too!)
I took this picture of a little boy at church on Sunday. I thought it was so sweet. He saw other people raising their hands and singing, so he wanted to do it too!

After church, I went and made my rounds to say goodbye to the family. First stop: Nanny (my great grandmother)

I think she was more excited to see my dog than she was to see me!

Next stop: Mimi and Poppys.

and of course I had to get a picture of their dog, Honey.

The final goodbye: My parents.
After the 4 hour drive home, this is the first thing my dog wanted to do.. get in bed!

All in all, it was a wonderful relaxing fun weekend!! Watching movies, shooting skeet, going shopping, going to the movies, and seeing my family and boyfriend were exactly what I needed after this long stressful month!! I love all of yall so much who made my weekend so special!!

FALL!!!

This is the first full week of fall, so I figured I would post things that I am excited about!!!

I love the color of fall

I am so excited about going to the fair!

Fall fashion. Fall time is my favorite season for fashion! I love the sweaters, leggings, boots, scarves. I cannot wait to start wearing it all!


Caramel apples

apple cider.

Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte
Bath and Body Works fall time candles! I have 4 in my apartment right now, and one is ALWAYS burning! I LOVE the smell of fall!

I have also become addicted to Pinterest.com I have found so many cute things that I want to do during this fall season......

Fill a jar with olive oil and put a picture in it.

Happy Birthday Gdaddy!

Yesterday was a VERY special persons birthday... my G-daddy!! I hate that I was not in town to wish him happy birthday in person.
G-daddy,
I hope you had a wonderful birthday!! I miss you so much. I hope I will be able to see you when I come into town this weekend! I am so blessed to have you as a grandpa!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!

Special Visitor

This past weekend I had a very special visitor come see me! Even though it was only for a short time, I had so much fun!!

Right after Anthony arrived to Augusta, we went to one of my new favorite places (and cheap) to eat... The Pizza Joint! I guess we picked a bad time to go because it was during the UGA game.. So it was loud and crazy in there...

...and he didnt pay attention to me, he was watching the game!

That night we went to my favorite deli/dessert place to eat... Boll Weevil.

The best part about our meal was our cinnamon cheesecake!!!

After we ate, we went down to the River Walk so I could show him how pretty it was!
Ive been wanting to try out a church here, but I havent had anyone to go to it with me... So Anthony offered to go! It was called True North and it was inside a highschool auditorium. I can honestly say it was one of the best churches that I have ever gone to!

The message was on "How to Deal with Difficult People in the Workplace". It was definitely something that I needed to hear! I was so excited about it, I called my parents right when it was over to read them my sermon notes! haha
The music was awesome...and the preacher even planked in church! I am so glad that I finally found a church to go to!

Downtown...

Tonight, the interns (minus Stephanie) and Laura Merriems fiance went to the Pizza Joint to eat. It was absolutely amazing, not to mention... VERY CHEAP!! The weather was absolutely perfect, and we had such great conversations!

After dinner, we walked down the road to the "Arts in the Heart" festival. Different booths were set up with art and jewelry, several stages for local bands, and food vendors from all over the world. It was alot of fun.... but ended up being freezing outside!
....there was also some creepy belly dancing....