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The Royal at Playa Del Carmen

After much debating on whether we should go on this trip or not we decided YES!!! Scott has been working unbelievably hard and I don't think we have had a full conversation in about four months. His next break is Thanksgiving, so we definitly needed this. Brighton and I left to Utah on the twenty sixth of March so I could go work and then leave Bri with the Grandparents. I flew into Cancun and then drove forty five minutes south to Playa Del Carmen. I met Scott, Cheryl and Ryan in Mexico at the hotel on the tenth of April. The hotel was all inclusive and there were six different restaurants to pick from. All we did all week was eat, lay on the beach or by the swimming pool, eat, relax, oh and did I say eat. We had the time of our lives. The hotel, food and the beach were amazing. This trip was reenergizing and exactly what everyone needed.
After spending a week in paradise, Scott and I returned to Utah for four more days to visit family before he started third year rotations. It was so cool because he spent a week on the beaches of Mexico and back to Utah to do a little snowboarding at Snowbasin. "The best snow on earth." It doesn't get much better than that.

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Children's Museum at the Gateway

Makeup Artist

I bought Bri an art set for her birthday because she is obsessed with coloring, crayons don't cut it. She must have markers. You would think the markers that come in a kids art set would be washable. Think again. I let her color in her highchair while I was cooking dinner and when I came to check on her, she had worked on this lovely canvas. I asked her what she was doing and she said , "makeup mommy". Come to find out, when I went to wash her face they were permanent markers. I especially love the pink eyeliner. Fabulous!

Brighton's 2nd Birthday

I can't believe it, Brighton is two years old. The time has flown by and I hate that it is going so fast. She really is the light of my life and I cannot imagine my life without her. She is so entertaining. I, of course, had to have a birthday party for her. The plan was to go to a park and have a cookout, but the weather must not have got the memo, so we ended up in the gym at the church. About 47 of our friends showed up. We had dinner and the kids played. We had so much fun. We are so lucky to have so many good friends.

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Boars Head

These are some of our very best friends Ryan and Cheryl. Scott and Ryan are in the same class together. Every year UVA has a huge end of Basic Science party for the second year medical students at Boars Head ( a really nice homestead in Charlottesville). It is so much fun. It was so nice my mom was still visiting when this was going on so we had a babysitter. A very uncommon word for us in Virginia.

Hiking up to Thomas Jefferson's house

A day at Short Pump

I really have the best mom in the world. I am so lucky, she really is my very best friend. She came to Virginia to help us out because Scott was studying for his second year boards and was pretty much non-existent for a several months. I really don't know how he does it. To give a little insight into a day of Scott's life, his schedule from the beginning of January until the ninth of April was about like this. Get up at 6:00 and go to class until 1:00. Head to the library with his sack lunch until around 6:00 p.m. Come home, eat dinner and play with Bri for about 20 minutes then go upstairs to what he reffered to as the hole (his desk) and study until around 1:00 a.m. Now that is pretty brutal. When boards aren't going on he still has a very tough schedule, but he can maybe hang out with us for about an hour and that seems like a dream. And remember this goes on for four years of medical school and then depending on what specialty you choose, you do another five to seven years of residency, but we will cross that bridge when it comes.

Now if anyone wants to ever complain that doctors make to much money. You clearly have absolutley no idea what they go through to get there. And the funny thing is that we pay big bucks to have this schedule.