Tour de New Apartment!

Well we finally got moved in to our new place and for the most part unpacked. We moved to Houston over the 4th of July, and were lucky enough to have our parents to help us. By the way, thanks again for all your help! For the 4th we went to Galveston to watch the fireworks, what a great show! However the traffic on the way home was horrible! Peggy and Steven, Chris' parents, got a real good taste of the big city traffic that night. It took us 2 hrs and 15 min to get home and it should've only taken 45 min! It was ridiculous! Anyways, Chris and I are just trying to get settled in and learn our way around here. Chris will start work next week and I will head back to Amarillo to finish school. Only 4 more weeks and we will be here together finally. So, here is a tour of our new apartment and furniture. This is mostly for the parentals who didn't get to see it all put together, but feel free to check it out if you want.

I'm not homeless anymore! Yay!

Finally, I have a place to call home again! My own space! Oh my gosh, I don't know what to do with myself. Chris and I will be moving to Houston. He got a job at TIRR hospital in the Medical Center. It is a wonderful opportunity for him. So last weekend we made the trip to Houston to find us a place to live. We found a cute little apartment in the Bellaire area. It's not real big, but is big enough for us. Plus the more space you have the more expensive it is, and Houston is expensive! We will be moving over the 4th of July weekend. Very soon I know! Chris will be staying in Houston because he will start work soon after. I will have to come back to Amarillo until August, booo! But we have our own place!!!! We are super excited. Now I just have to figure out how to decorate it!

Graduation.......It's about time!

Well it finally happened......I graduated! Even if it was 2 months before I will actually finish classses and officially have my Doctorate in Physical Therapy, I won't complain. After a busy week in Lubbock, we had convocation (the hooding ceremony) on Friday and commencement ceremonies Saturday morning. Friday night we also had a dinner for all of my family and friends who made the trip to Lubbock to help me celebrate. It was a wonderful weekend, thanks to all who came. I also want to give a thanks to everyone who has been there to give me support and words of encouragement along the way, especially my parents. I couldn't have done it without all my family and friends, I love yall!

Waiting in line for convocation

Getting "hooded"

Lindsey and I.....now wearing our hoods

Chris and I

Me and the parentals

Me with Chris and his parents.....they made the long trip from Fort Smith to Lubbock

PaPa Tex, Me, and Nannie JoAnn

Dad and I at the family dinner, he made a very sweet toast that I'll never forget!

My little cousin Easton helped me open all my gifts

Chris and I enjoying the dinner

Little cousin Elliot was coloring away while everyone else was visiting


Me on the big screen receiving my diploma......actually it was a very blank piece of paper

Mom and me taking pics from the suite box they had in the Spirit Arena

Dad and I

My two best friends who drove in the night before just to witness the occasion, I'm glad they made it!

A few pics!

So I finally got a few pics from easter, there are more but Chris hasn't sent them so this all you get. Well I am back in the panhandle and enjoying a few days off. I will head to Lubbock next week for school stuff and graduation. My actual graduation is May 15 & 16. Then sadly I have to go to class all summer. I know, how ridiculous is that. No complaints though, I've got this school thing beat. Let's just hope I'll be ready for the national board exam in August. AAAHHHH!

Posing in my new Easter dress

Chris and I after church on Easter

Catching up!

So it's been a very long time since I've been on here! Sorry. It has been crazy busy but not too eventful. When I left Fort Smith, I had one week where I could run home and visit with the family (run home, yeah right it's a 6 and 1/2 hour drive). I had a short and sweet visit with everyone. I had to unpack winter clothes and repack clothes for the warmer Houston weather. Then I headed down to Houston to begin my last clinical. I am living with my friend Mandy who was my first college roommate. She's from Houston and has a house with an extra room, perfect for me. I've somewhat gotten used to the Houston traffic, although I still don't like it. It's sooo unpredictable. My last clinical is over half way over now, I just started my 6th week. All of my class mates, and myself, are impatiently counting down the days until graduation (even though we still have summer classes after that....dumb). But still, we're that much closer. I am enjoying this clinical because I get to work with kiddos, well actually more like babies. I am working with ECI aka early childhood intervention which provides therapy services including speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nutritionist, and social work to children who are birth to 3 yr olds. We go to the child's home and work with the family, so we really get a feel of the child's home environment. I will say I love the kiddos, they are all so darn cute, but I don't like some of the places we have to go......ghetto. But overall, I'm enjoying it. Chris has been able to come down and visit a couple of times and I just returned from Easter weekend in Fort Smith. We have had terrible luck with delayed flights, let's just say we now count on arriving a day later than expected. This is extremely frustrating considering the lack of time we have together these days. But we're making it. Thank goodness for free mobile to mobile minutes and unlimited texting! That's about it to sum up a few months. I'll post Easter pics as soon as Chris decides to send them to me.....so it may not happen, but I'll try :-)

Same ol' same ol'

Well sorry it's been a few weeks since my last post. Not alot of exciting things have been going on, just daily life. Arkansas is going good, I'm still enjoying it. As a matter of fact I am enjoying a nice cozy day being lazy by the fire instead of working due to the ice storm that just blew through here. Sometimes you actually look forward to those days, and I definitely was. Not that I don't like my clinical but I have been gone the past 2 weekends and haven't had alot of down time. Two weekends ago Chris and I went to Oklahoma City to meet my mom for a short visit and to see some of my family that I haven't seen in forever. It was definitely a short and sweet visit. Last weekend I went to Tulsa to visit Lindsey, that crazy kid. And Chris had a "man weekend" planned at the cabin with his dad and uncle but sadly that was cut short and he had to come home early because he got the stomach bug......Yuck! Anyway, like I said before......same ol' same ol!

Christmas......come and gone : (

This year it seems like Christmas just flew by. I know every year it goes by too fast, but this year in particular it wasn't long enough for me. Between a ski trip, moving out of my home in amarillo (yes I am homeless for the next 8 months), getting ready for Christmas, and moving to Fort Smith I felt like I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, especially since this all happened in the span of 3 weeks. So now I am in Fort Smith living with Chris and his parents and have just completed my first week of another clinical. I am in an inpatient rehab setting this time which deals with patients who must recieve several hours of therapy a day and usually stay there for around 4 weeks. Well I just wanted to drop in a quick note and wish everyone a Happy New Year even though I'm a little late. Here's some pics from Christmas.

My nephew Shelton and I playing with his pillow.

Ashley and Shelton, she was tickling him and he was just giggling like crazy! It's so cute!

Celebrating Dad's Birthday and Christmas all in one night. Ashley, Ty, Shelton, Dad, and me

Mom and me on Christmas Eve

Courtney and me waiting to play Chinese Christmas

Allison and me Christmas morning

Allison, Aunt Christie, and Courtney fixing to go eat Christmas dinner!

Mom hula hooping on the wii

Aunt Christie's turn

I was racing the wii people!

Christmas with mom. Taylon, Ashley, Shelton, Ty, Mom, Rusty, and Me.