My bad, Batman!

So I realized I haven't posted since November of LAST YEAR!  Holy smokes, Batman.  My bad.  So much has happened since then.  I'll try to fill in the blanks the best I can.

Pat spent 6 week in the Florida Keys from Thanksgiving to just past New Year's doing a rotation for school.  B and I stayed home and roughed out the holiday season on our own.  It was miserable but we do what we have to do.  We spent Christmas between Cleveland and Melbourne.  It always takes a lot out of us.  This year we were lucky to fly to Ohio so it wasn't as bad. 

January started my ultimately successful decision to finally get healthy.  I was tired of being stupid chubby.  As of today, I've lost 26 pounds :)  Now if I could get the remaining 17 pounds to go away I'd be happy.

Pat and I made a decision in March to officially say we're moving back to Columbus.  We're really excited about our decision and can't wait to get there.  Our lease is up at the end of February so it's Columbus or Bust!  I had to ::cough cough:: drop out of St. Leo's because of our decision so I'm back at UF and have only 1 class and my portfolio to finish and then I'll have my Masters!

Brutus celebrated his 5th birthday in May (the 26th to be exact) and we celebrated our anniversary a little early because of a busy summer schedule.  We went to Hollywood Studios for the day and it was so much fun.  We hit every ride we wanted to plus waited in line for a picture with some of our favorite characters.

June 2nd Mom and Dad came down with some friends to celebrate our anniversary with a gift to the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw concert.  It was an amazing, yet very long concert!  It was fun to spend the weekend with rents.

School let out in June but Pat's still doing rotations.  His pysch rotation was my favorite to hear about.  His current E.R. rotation, not so much.  I can't stomach hearing about stapling people's heads back together.  Blah.  He's off to Cleveland next Friday for his LAST rotation!!!  Woo Hoo!  From there it's on to getting ready for his national test.

3 weeks ago today actually I had LANAP (laser gum surgery).  It was ridiculously expensive but it appears to be healing nicely and I go back on the 23rd to have an actual teeth cleaning. 

As for right now....I'm finishing up summer school with the kids, two classes at UF and dreading Pat leaving me for another 6 weeks.  Pat's prepping for his last rotation and B is just lounging like always.  Promise it won't be so long next time friends!

What an AMAZING concert!

 So the Keith Urban concert was just too good to be true!  First, we got into our best "country get up" as we like to call it.  It's rather funny to see, but we both think that we were secretly meant to be living in Texas, with horses, and...stuff.  

Back to the concert though, we prepaid for parking online which at first we were a little skeptical about since it was $12 but we ended up parking directly next to the arena.  So we go up to the 300 level where our seats are and it's DEAD!  There's only about two out of the tons of vendors actually open and not a soul in sight so we grab a beer and a pretzel and head to our seats.  Before we can get past the curtain the usher stops us and asks if we'd like better seats at no charge to us!  Well, YEAH...DUH!  So we head over to this really nice lady who offers us our choice of seats in certain sections of the 200 club level.  In celebration fashion I decide I MUST have my picture taken with Keith...or at least a banner with his face on it.

We pick the section that faces the stage directly and get lost trying to find this seemingly secret floor.

Jake Owen opens up the show just after 7:30.  We don't know many of his songs but find it pretty humorous that he places the words "Tampa" and "Florida" into whatever song he is singing.  There's no jumbo-tron, if you will, that helped you actually see if it was him singing up on the stage, but we took his word for it.

After a quick bathroom break, we got back in time to take a cute pic of our cowboy boots and finish our drinks.  

 

When the lights dim the crowd goes wild (are you surprised?!) but Keith's lead in song is a Beatles song....Silly Love Songs.  Either way, his Aussie accent is hot and so is he.  The crew rips down the backdrop and a huge screen appears with his gorgeous face!  

He belted out 26 of his best songs before retiring for the night...oh..wait...nope...an encore...or two!  Make that 28 songs that I absolutely love and I of course made it a point to sing just about every lyric.  (You can check out the setlist...I'm pretty sure I've found a new playlist for the iPod!) I'm pretty sure Pat was tired of listening to my desperate attempt to be one of Keith's backup singers by the end of the night. I even tried to video tape segments of my favorite songs, but the crowd completely interfered...or my phone just blows...so unfortunately I have 6 video clips of teenagers and country girls screaming wildly while what appears a miniature ant moves across a piece of grass.  Either way, one amazing concert!

Love us some Keith Urban!

So last night, just before ticket sales ended we made a last minute game time decision and bought tickets to see Keith Urban tomorrow night!  We saw him back in Columbus a few years ago and he's amazing in concert.  Granted we're so far up in the nosebleeds we could probably touch the roof of the building, we're still really excited!  I made Pat give up his favorite Keith Urban song which proved difficult at first because there were lots of questions and debate like, "fast or slow?" or "well from his old songs...".  Turns out we both decided on Days Go By as our favorite song.  Even after we still just kept naming songs we liked.  If I wasn't excited before I am now!