Sweet Sundays...

Ahh! Sundays…

Total bliss.

A day off work. Church. & All day spent with John.

Okay, maybe not all day… but a majority of it. He ditches me the minute a game comes on which is fine because JB was calling my name: I am officially Jack Bauer’s (no, not Bieber!) biggest cheerleader!

I’ve been thinking lately about how quickly his rotations are flying by… it blows my mind. It also kind of scares me… this May I will have lived outside of Arkansas for 2 years. Talk about out of my comfort zone!

We’ve developed so many wonderful friendships in the cities we’ve lived in. We’ve grown close to our neighbors. We’ve become regulars at restaurants. We now know Blacksburg/Christiansburg/Roanoke, VA and Bristol, Kingsport, & Johnson City, TN like the back of our hands. It’s just crazy to think we could be moving away from this city in the next 6 months.

Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to get back to my old stomping grounds (hey, hey Natural State!)… but I just wanted to take some time to address that it hasn’t been all that bad. Of course, there are some lonely times… like when my entire family was together the week before last to celebrate my Dad’s birthday or last winter when my brother’s team played in a championship game. Overall, it’s been a huge growing experience. In fact, I started blogging as an outlet and as a hobby while John studied, and obviously it’s turned into so much more!

Anyway, John finished Internal Medicine last week and started Surgery today. Despite the bad hours, I am thrilled for him to experience this rotation because his Papa was a surgeon. It will be interesting to see if John has any serious interest in the field… more specifically plastic surgery... ahem, Emmy wants dimples! (I kid, okay?)

So, back to Sundays… we have a little Sunday tradition. Every Sunday we get up early and attend the early service. Afterwards, we come home and walk down the street to the local Bagel shop… where I inhale a cheddar-jalapeño bagel & a cup of tomato basil soup. Then, I usually take a cat nap while John does his usual ESPN thang. 

Waiting on our bagels!

We don't eat out much but last night we decided to walk down to a restaurant we've never been to have pizza!

Growing problems... yes, growing out bangs is hard & painful to look at... exhibit A is above. Anyone have recommendations?

In other news... I had a best kept secret that is now public information... While in college I had a tooth fixed (after braces it decide to grow upward, no one but me noticed it.) The dentist ended up using a photo in some of his ads. It wasn't something I shared with anyone... I kind of kept the whole thing on the DL. 

Until Saturday night anyway - the dentist office used the ad during commercials played in the Miss America Pageant & 20/20. I had no idea the photo would be used so when I started getting texts/FB messages/etc. I got curious. My mom's good friend, Sasha, recorded the commercial and sent it to me. It was very minor and not a big deal - but I guess people were curious why I was in it. Once John started getting texts from people saying "isn't this your wife?" I decided I'd bring everyone up to speed.

I'll be posting a before/after photo and explaining how it changed my entire life later this week.

Happy Monday.