The million dollar question...

Question: Have you guys decided where you are moving to yet?

Wish I knew... Still waiting to decide till we hear from a few more schools-could this process take any longer?

growing up

(ry was really happy to be at graduation)

Lately I have felt like we are really growing up, pete graduated with his masters (pending he finishes his thesis by july:), he turned 29, and we have been trying to decide what state we are going to move to in three months. I have very mixed feelings about all of this, but I know it will all work out just how it should (or so I am told).

I heart N.Y.C.

My wonderful friend Lauren was going to hang out with her parents and play in NYC on her way to run the Boston marathon and she invited me to come along. I was MORE than excited for the invitation considering I have always wanted to visit NYC. She was so great and let me check off my huge list of things I wanted to see and do: Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wicked, Time Square, the Statue of Liberty, SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown, shopping, Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue, Dylan's Candy bar, Donut Planet, Fat Witch Brownie and the list goes on... As you can see it involved eating a lot of desserts-my favorite:) I even got to sneak in a visit with my cousin Lara whom I hadn't seen since I was pregnant with Ryan.




In honor of the show Felicity





Even better than I remembered


My luggage very inconveniently decided to break as I was rushing thru Manhattan trying to meet my cousin. I still have bruises on the back of my right calf from my luggage hitting it so many times


My cousin Lara and her darling kids in Bryant park



Central Park


my heaven

Just as a side note, do you ever get really frustrated posting-me and blogger are not friends today as you can see by the weird question marks that are showing up in my post and the fact that this post took WAY too long to create.

The Latest Adventures of Peter Reichman

Ry and I were a little excited when last Tuesday finally rolled around. It may have been an ordinary day for the rest of you, but for us it meant that Pete would be coming home from his three-week stay in Cambodia. We were so excited in fact that I got to the airport forty minutes early:)

Pete went over to do research for his final project to finish his Master's in Public Health. He had a few hiccups along the way (ie. he got his luggage four days after he arrived), but overall he had a great trip. We both had some lonely moments without each other, but I kept telling myself at least it wasn't the two months he left for last summer. I was just glad he got to take advantage of such an AWESOME opportunity. Here are some pics from his latest adventure.


Buddist Temple



Some of the delicious food offered in Cambodia. Ry was obsessed that his Dad was going to eat bugs so Pete tried some crickets just to tell Ry he did.



Handing out disposal cameras to elementary school students. This was part of his research method he used called Photovoice. The kids took pictures of things that made it hard to stay clean and healthy.



A temple at Ankor Wat-part of the movie Tomb Raider was filmed here



A buddist monk at one of their temples



This land mine was right outside Pete's bedroom window, an unfortunate sign of the horrible civil war Cambodia experienced.

Ryan for Hire

Looking for an Interior Decorator? Ryan will definitely add a boyish touch to any home:)

waiting

I am not good at the waiting game, or the unknown future game, or the being patient game, and yet somehow I find myself in a high stakes competition with all three of these. All of Pete's law school applications are in and now we are just waiting... It could be months before we know where we will be in the fall. It is hard for a control freak, like myself, to let everything go and trust it will all work out how it should. I need to just take a deep breath and hopefully this nervous/excited anxiety I am constantly experiencing will go away for a bit.

It's been one month...

...since this crazy cat became potty trained. I was/am so proud of him and as I told my little sister, i have never been so excited to see human waste in my entire life! (She came to visit us after that comment because she was slightly worried about my sanity:)) I feel like I fulfilled another motherhood rite-of-passage by surviving (for the most part) the potty training experience.

Inspiration

Last Sept our friend Levi was diagnosed with Colon cancer about a month after their first baby was born. The news was shocking and devastating-Levi is so young and takes such good care of himself. Levi, Kelsie, and Brecken baby (as Ry calls her) live in Colorado and pete and I had been talking about going out to see them. I told Kelsie about how we wanted to come visit and she thought it would be fun for us to come and surprise Levi. So that is exactly what we did. Levi's mom picked us up from the airport and when we pulled up to their house Levi heard car doors shut and looked out the window to see who was at their house and saw us getting out of the car. He was shocked, confused, and surprised that Kelsie didn't seem phased at all by the fact we were standing outside their house. We had a great weekend and it was fun to spend so much time with them-It made me wish that they lived back in Utah again. But the thing Pete and I were so impressed by was Levi's attitude. He NEVER complained-even over his weird chemo side effects-he really only talked about it when we asked questions and always seemed so positive. Both he and Kelsie are amazing.




The first night they took us to a Mexican restaurant equipped with a pirate variety and diving show, arcade, caricature drawing, haunted maze and the list went on and on-it was ghetto fabulous and we were laughing the whole night at everything this one restaurant had to offer. Ry, of course, had a blast and I fell in love with skee-ball all over again.





We went to the stock show and Mexican Rodeo. We realized that night they seemed to be taking us to do things with a hispanic theme and joked that we needed to continue the theme throughout the rest of our trip.





Playing "Uno" and hanging out with some of their fun friends





Ry loving Brecken baby a little too much

Today was one of those days...

...that I never should have gotten out of bed- I somehow was given a large dose of bad luck sometime during the night. I managed to spill contaminated blood all over myself and a machine at work, experienced my first complete code (the pt stopped breathing and had no pulse) and watched someone perform CPR while I got to deal with the paramedics-it was much more traumatic than it sounds esp because the pt didn't make it. Then I stuck myself with a dirty needle and got to spend the next two hours at WorkMed waiting to get my blood drawn. Afterwards, I had to go back to work to attend a meeting and finish up a lot of charting. To top it all off I never got a lunch break. I was very grateful when I finally got in my car to drive home an hour and a half after my shift actually ended:)