Funny!

That's a great picture, Steve! I think I will put it on my desk at school to remind people to leave me alone because I have a sharp-shooting father-in-law :) We wish we were going to TN tomorrow - I bet it's just beautiful there at this time of year.
I did a "practice" surgery on a pig's foot today. It was fun to work on my skin sutures and get ready for my first attempt at saving a life in 2 weeks!! YIKES.... I'm studing hard to make sure I have all bases covered.
Everyone else in this family is just fine and keeping busy like always.

Bad idea

I guess the skillet won't work for what I wanted to use it for.

Belated Annv. wishes

Hope everyone saw this happy couple in the Lincoln paper on Sunday and the Kearney paper on Tuesday. It's also online at www.journalstar.com in the celebrate section.

We're getting packed and ready to head to Ft. Morgan tomorrow morning. Looks like it will be a rainy trip. It rained her all day today and is STILL coming down pretty hard. We saw that Ogallala had close to 3 inches today!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Having a brain tsunami

Anyone have a old castiron skillet they want to get rid of? The bigger and heavyer the better. I'm not looking for a collector. It won't be of use for anything else when I use it.

New e-mail

I love reading the stories!
Just wanted to let you all know that we have finally moved past our stinky internet service and have a new e-mail address:

hernandez104@windstream.com

Hope you all are enjoying this beautiful fall weather!

Vet

I worked for vet's the 4 years I went through collage. It was a little scarey when I first started, but after being covered with dehorn blood or sloppy cow manure or run over by a stampeding heifer or haveing your foot stomped on by a thousand pound steer the scareyness goe's away.

Back to school...again

I'm full swing into my third year of veterinary school - or grade 20 like I told Sophie when she asked what class I was in (she started Kindergarten this year as well). This year looks to be more interesting with my classes finally coming together and my first chance at real surgery! I will pick my senior rotations on Oct 6 so that is exciting, yet slightly frightening that I will be in clinics in less than a year!! FYI - my White Coat Ceremony will be April 27th. That's when we mark our transition from corsework to clinical and get our intimidating white coat!
Clay is keeping busy with his classes as well - finishing up one and getting ready to start another next week. The good news with him is that they are FINALLY opening his position at work to full time, which equals benefits and cheaper health insurance for both of us! Yippee.... Also means that I can get tuition rembursment up to 3 credits for having a spose work for KSU.
Other than school, we have been fishing at a new little lake we found a few miles away, working in the yard, and enjoying the start of football season. I have started some new knitting projects and it's making it hard to study! Speaking of, has anyone drawn names for Christmas yet? It's never too early to start... :)
Hope everyone is doing well!

First day of Kindergarten

Christopher is getting ready to start his second "full" week of school. He loves it! Every night we hear a 40 minute re-cap of his day complete with what he ate for lunch. Christopher's first day was full of stories too. I laughed about the "curly haired girl" that wouldn't leave him alone. He was so irritated that she sat by him in class and chased him around at recess. He just didn't know why she was bothering him. Too cute! Christopher has a few friends from his soccer and t-ball teams in his class too, so he's been excited to line up with them in the gym each morning. On Thursday I was able to take him to school. He told me where I should park and then ran from the car until he was about 10 feet from the door, then he stopped and walked in a real casual and cool pace up to the door. So independant and "Mr. Cool" already!
Dahrin is enjoying him move up to the 5's room. He has our favorite teacher, Ms. Melissa. Dahrin loves art and Ms. Melissa makes sure he gets to paint and/or color everyday, we have a full folder to bring home each week.
Hope to see you all again soon!

road trip

We went to Prairie Village near Madison, South Dakota last weekend to a steam threshing jamboree. I wanted to see all the old tractors and steam engines. (Been trying to get a picture on the blog for a week with no luck yet). It was like Pioneer Village but everything was operating and more spread out. When they fired all those tractors up for the review parade we could hardly hear without shouting to each other. Really was neat to see the old steam powered tractors and equipment running. They had a nice flea market also, we picked up a few items. I hope we can find another jamboree closer. We stopped by the ranch on the way back to see if any grass was left, it was better than we thought it would be.