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!

It's been forever and a day...

At least that's what it feels like since I've last posted.

Pat and I have been pretty busy since school started back up for each of us.  While nothing exciting has happened we've both been incredibly busy.  Pat started and finished his first rotation already at Planned Parenthood her in St. Pete.  The hours were different each day and he was always leaving herpes pamphlets on the counter so needless to say I'm glad he's done with the rotation!  Although they really seemed to enjoy having him there!  Check out the picture of the card they gave him on his last day.  He's moved on to family medicine in St. Pete and now feels the pain of having to get up while it's still dark out.

On my end, school is leaps and bounds better than last year.  The students are much better.  I only have about four that make me go crazy but with the new bell schedule it's eliminating a lot of the issues.  Tomorrow marks the opening of our new building on campus and it's beautiful.  I've moved rooms last week from the third floor to the first.  I'm not feeling as stressed out which may be why I've signed up for just about everything else this year.  Outside of teacher, I tutor now on Mondays and Wednesdays, work ABS (alternative bell schedule - 4 hour after school suspension) every Friday, I now lead the Student Literacy Team, and the University of Florida Inquiry Coach.  I'm still taking UF Master's classes and working on my ESOL endorsement too.

A few weeks ago Momma and Papa Beyer rolled through St. Pete for a weekend and we had fun.  Some Boilermaker chili made watching college football just perfect.  While Pat was working, the three of us headed to John's Pass and did some shopping and some wine tasting, but mostly some wine tasting. :)  It was a great weekend.

Just this past weekend Pat's parents came down to visit and surprised me with an early birthday get together complete with a birthday cake and singing.  I was a lucky girl and they gave me a gift, my new "beep beep"...you know one of those things that locks/unlocks your car for you.  :)

Brutus, well, he's doing just fine.  Although, he got bit by something this past week and looked a hot mess, covered in big bumps. Come to find out, he loves relaxing just as much as anyone else...

Overall, life is good...busy as ever, but still good.

New York to North Carolina...Road Trip!

It's been a long two weeks but Pat and I made it!  At the end of July (I can't even tell you what day it feels like it was so long ago) I drove over to Mom and Dad's to drop off Brutus.  He stayed with his grandma and grandpa for the trip since we couldn't take him with us.  He loves staying there.  Apparently mom dressed him up to keep him preoccupied.  Too funny.

I drove back to St. Pete and packed up for the big trip.  Pat finished his last exam of his didactic year (woo hoo!!) and after dinner we headed back to pack up the car.  We left bright and early for New York.  Our friend Erik was getting married and Pat was the best man.  We meet Erik in Gainesville a few years back.  It took us 19 hours but we finally made it to New York around 1 a.m.!  Friday we ran some errands before heading out to the rehearsal dinner which was delicious.  We headed over to Zach and Kelly's house to have a few drinks and play some cornhole before heading to the bar.  There we lost Dan, one of the groomsmen.  All that was left was a lonely can of Pabst where he was sitting.  After wrangling up the groomsmen we headed back to our hotel where we found Dan!  Apparently the allure of McDonald's and a ride home were pretty appealing.  Saturday was the wedding and the ceremony and reception were both beautiful.  Erik's family were so incredibly sweet and his friends were such a trip.  We had so much fun with them.  We had a riot at the reception playing the "pebble" game with the boys and dancing our butts off.  Unfortunately after the reception we couldn't hang out since we had to get up early and head off to North Carolina.

We were on the road by 8 the next morning and cruising down to Duck.  Pat's parents and sisters were already there.  We arrived safely by 7ish Sunday night and were happy to sit down and eat a meal with the family.  Elizabeth, Kim and Darren's daughter, has really gotten talkative and she's so inquisitive.  We spent the next few days laying out at the beach during the day, playing games at night, and eating delicious meals.  The boys went golfing on Thursday and the girls went shopping.  By Friday we couldn't believe how fast the week went.  We headed out for dinner our last night there.  After dinner we headed up to the upper most deck of the house to snap some pictures.  Early Saturday morning we headed out back to Mom and Dad's to pick up Brutus.  We spent the night hanging out with them and having a few drinks before heading to bed.  A quick but yummy breakfast at Mulligans was in order before we finally started our last leg of our journey. By Sunday afternoon we were home.

53 hours in a car total!  Don't get me wrong, I love road trips...but I love being home with my hubby and my pooch even more :)

Pretty as a Picture

When Pat's school held the golf outing and silent auction we ended up with so many prizes that some never received any bids.  Toward the end of the auction we opened up the bidding to a new starting minimum of $5 per item for all items left without bids.  There was a mad dash to certain items but I gravitated toward a photo shoot.  I scored a one for $40 on a river in Tampa and it was the quickest photo shoot I've ever been to.  Brutus almost jumped in the water which is unusual for him since he doesn't like to swim.  I know it's just Pat, Brutus, and I but I thought it would be something fun to do and get the whole "family" picture thing accomplished.  Today they sent us the proof for the picture we chose to have put on canvas and I think it turned out great.  I'm hoping for two minor touch ups and then once I give the final okay they'll print it!  Can't wait!