The cat in the hat in the car

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Wow! What a party!!!

My mom and Bill threw me a finished with residency party Saturday night. It might have been the best party I've ever been to, but it was for me, so that probably had something to do with it. The event kinda started Saturday around lunch, when I went with my mom to run an errand. It was to Sugar Rush Bakery to pick up the cakes.



This is 2/3 of the three headed monster. Emily, Daniel (not pictured here), and I spent a large part of the first 2 years of medical school in the basement of Volker Hall in Birmingham together studying. Something about that experience makes you bonded forever.


The party was catered by Townsend Catering from Destin, FL. They also did our wedding. They were just as great this time. And let me go on a tangent about them for a minute. I cannot tell you how awesome these people are. They are so very nice and professional, and have amazing food. They came in, set everything up, cooked, and cleaned up before they left. I will make it a point to have another event just so I can get them to do it. Really, I can't say enough good things about them. So, after filling up on coconut shrimp, marinated mushrooms, steamed asparagus and baby carrots, parmesan cheese grits with roasted corn, shrimp, and bacon, crab cakes, chicken wontons, and several other things that I just can't remember right now, we went down by the pool for the real partying. A local band, Smoke and Lace, gave us a reason to dance, and we did!


From left to right: Jon Williams, Dr Emily Williams, Dr Daniel Jones, Vance Doherty, me, Jared, Jessica Ross

Mama, me, Jessica, and Ne Ne Massey.

Me and the Massey girls--Joanna and Jessica. Jessica and I were in the band together in college, and had many (mis)adeventures off the football field as well. Joanna joined us in Tuscaloosa our senior year. Joanna is now my wonderful hairstylist and Jessica is my little librarian via the Washington County Public Library.

THIS is the entire 3 headed monster!!!! Emily, Daniel, and I.

Sisters.....

It did get a little rowdy there toward the end, but for good reason..... I'm done with residency!!!!

I had so much fun. What an amazing night! I got to visit with dear friends I have not even seen since my wedding 5 years ago. Specifically Abbie Sightler Robinson was able to make the trip from Oxford, MS to be here. We did get to visit Saturday morning--she came over to help me paint Porter's room in the new house. Our third, Candi Collier Tait, wasn't able to make it, but her dad was able to come. Daniel and Vance came from Baton Rouge, Jon and Emily came from Monroeville (they don't even need an excuse to get out of town ;) ), and Nancy and Jeremy Wilson came from Niceville, FL. Nancy and I went to school together and have reconnected through blogging and parenting boys the same age. I think that's all the people who came from out of town, and I was so honored to have them all there. Everyone else was from Andalusia, but that didn't make them any less special. I really was shocked at everyone that came to help me celebrate this very joyous occasion. Friends from high school, parents of friends from high school, physicians from the community, and some were just friends from this journey. Unfortunately none of my resident friends were able to make it. They all had to work--imagine that.
Anyway, it was really a night to remember. Great food, great company, and great new beginning!!!

Cut a rug

Here is a clip of Porter dancing at the party.
Party post to follow. Sometime this week.

2 days and counting!!!

I haven't really done any countdown for the end of residency. It just didn't really make any difference to me. I sill had to go to work all of those days. It was more of a reminder that I had to work.
BUT, this morning I couldn't help but smile when I was putting on my scrubs at 5:30am that I would only have to do that at a rime dictated by someone else one more time. Not that I'm going to start rolling into work at 9:00 or anything, but it will just be different.


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Thomas the train enthusiast

Obsessed.









I would name his one "Godzilla meets Thomas."



It doesn't take long and Thomas has to go off-roading because his track is in shambles.
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Popsicles

The after breakfast Popsicle...



And the after school Popsicle...



He seems to think that Popsicles come after everything.
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4th of July 2010, Destin, FL

I have to first say, I only have 3 or 4 days of residency left. (I think I might not have to work on Wednesday).
Ok. We went to Destin for the weekend to spend 4th of July with family. We arrived late in the afternoon on Friday, and Porter swam in the baby pool that had already been readied by Uncle Parrish and Papa. We had a wonderful supper and went to bed early. Saturday, Papa and Parrish babysat while the girls went to the spa, compliments of Mama!!! I think the most common thought during that event was, "I don't deserve this." I was treated to a facial, full body massage, and pedicure. Beth, Katie, and Mama also had 3 "services" as they called them. We had a very relaxing morning, while the boys and sylvie went to the book store. Papa learned why we have to roll all of Porter's shorts down because he caught him in the book store one time with his shorts around his ankles.
We checked in around lunch and got ready for the outlets. We headed back to Sandestin after lunch with a tired Porter who would not give in to a nap. He did fall asleep on the way, so Mama played chauffeur and nap supervisor--she drove us around and stayed in the car so Porter could sleep. And he did. For 1 hr 45 min. We hurried back to the house to get all of our food ready and went over to the cottage for dinner with the whole King family and had another great meal. I don't know who won the rib contest. Can you tell how Porter feels about Sylvie?

Porter enjoyed some homeade ice cream and played in the water with Kayla. She found the way to his heart quickly--"Want to go see the ducks?"






We broke the rules and let Porter stay up late so he could see the fireworks at Destin Commons Saturday night. We thought he might enjoy playing in the fountains while we waited on the fireworks, but he wasn't too interested. He was so tired he could barely stay awake for the fireworks and was a little unsure at first, but he did want to see them and would turn his head to watch if we went a different direction.











After the fireworks we quickly visited Build A Bear to commemorate Porter's first fireworks with a bear. He loves all things fuzzy and soft. Hmmm.... guess that's why he likes his Mama so much. ;)

iPhone drama

First of all--ahhhh. This might be the first time I've sat down in a week. Oh!!! Except for our spa trip on Saturday!!! That's going to be included in the 4th of July post. So, back to the iPhone. It started the day you could preorder. I tried multiple times that day and never could get through. I decided I wouldn't order because I could go to the AT&T store the day they came out and buy one faster than if I ordered one. So that's what I did. I drove to Biloxi early the day they came out in the store and waited in line in the rain. And they had sold out. But, they would have more later that day, and I was able to reserve one of those. I went back to the store after work an picked it up. I came home and started the process of transferring my info from my old phone to the new one. This is why I love apple products. It is usually completely user friendly and basically idiot proof. Well, I plugged in the new phone and it said I had to have a newer version of software for the computer. I didn't think that was possible, but Jared looked it up and confirmed that it was true. We would have to get upgraded software, and that would take 48 hours to get. We ordered it, and had it shipped overnight. So the next day when it came, I downloaded the new software and thought I was yet again, very close to iPhone 4. However, once I plugged in my phone, iTunes didn't recognize that the phone was plugged in. And I was getting a little frustrated. Long story short, after 4 phone calls to apple support, I was at the same spot, except now I had no working phone (the AT&T store had activated my new phone, so I could make phone calls, but had none of my information on it--still on the old phone). So the next day I went back to the AT&T store to get them to re-activate my old phone so I could at least feel human again (so funny how we feel about phones now), and I just gave up for the weekend and went to destin, just happy to have my old phone back. Jared "worked his magic" while I was gone and somehow got iTunes to recognize phones again. I didn't even ask how. I was over it. So finally last night I was able to sync my old phone to back it up, and then sync my new phone, which transferred all my stuff over. But, it still didn't work because I had deactivated the sim card when I reactivated my old phone. Thankfully the AT&T store had provided me with a new sim card that I could get activated when we had the software problems worked out. So finally, finally I called and got my phone activated this morning and the nearly one week phone drama was over, and I had a working iPhone 4 with all of my info and stuff on it. The End.



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Video from iPhone 4

Supposed to be better video. What do you think?

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Home made tag blanket

Mama made porter one out of leftover material and ribbon.



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