So it seems like everyone is getting on my case for not posting in like...forever. Haha. And I even sat down to post yesterday and I had written a ton and then I barely moved my computer and the cord fell out and my computer died, so it all got erased. So maybe its a sign that I shouldn't post, but since I am sitting here in my house all by myself except John who is studying about Pseudomonas and beta-lactams and I just finished my book, I figured I would post something.
I finally got a group of pictures to blog about, so here they are.
This first group is pictures of Halloween. We got to go home to Mesa for Halloween because John's brother David got back from his mission and I was super excited to dress up. I had thought about dressing up as Wilma and Fred Flintstone, but I wasn't sure. I talked to Heidi (my littlest sister) about what she was going to be and she said she was going to be Pebbles Flintstone. So then we decided we should all be people from the Flinstones. Holly decided she would rather be Betty than Dino, so we let her. And David (my brother) wanted to be a skeleton like last year...and I guess that kind of fits in, because the Flintstones are all about bones (Pebbles wears one as a fashion accessory). Anyway, it was super fun to make the costumes too. We got sheets from Walmart and made them into AMAZING costumes, thanks especially to Holly's ability to sew better than me...which isn't saying much. Anyway, it was super fun. We dressed up to go to my Mom's ward party, and then John and I wore ours to open the door for trick-or-treaters at his house. They thought we were cool. (They were like 8.) : ) So that was pretty exciting.
The next exciting thing that we did (that we have pictures of) was take our little flat brother around Houston. Flat David came to us in the mailbox, so we showed him around Baylor and Methodist. This first picture is of a Nobel Prize given to a doctor at Baylor that is in the Debakey Museum there. We had to get a picture of where I work, since we got some of where John is all day. And this is a picture of the Texas Medical Center. It really is a lot bigger than it looks. ; )
These next pictures are another example of me having fun dressing up. We went to the Houston Rodeo, which is actually pretty huge, so we had to show our Texas sides. I wanted to have big Texas hair like all the women are supposed to have here. The only problem is that we live in the most unTexas-like part of Texas. There aren't any women with big Texas hair or people walking around in cowboy boots. It is a little depressing. So I decided I would be that big Texas hair lady. Anyway, when we were actually at the rodeo we first went to the Livestock show. We saw tons of cows there, and John was pretty impressed by them. These cows weren't the normal cows you see on the side of the road when you are driving down from Idaho, these were big, buff cows. AND their hair was nicely combed. John decided that he was going to skip med school and become a farmer (obviously this didn't last long, otherwise he wouldn't care about ceftriaxone right now). But it was pretty cool. We even got to be best friends with one of the cows. Another shining moment at the rodeo was the fried Snickers. We figured if we were in Texas at the rodeo we should probably eat some of the most fattening and fried things out there, just to get a feel for it. And the fried Snickers was pretty amazing. We actually had to buy two, because we forgot to take a picture with the first one before we ate it. The rodeo itself was pretty cool too. John's favorite part was the cart racing, my favorite parts were the calf scramble and the mutton bustin'. The cart racing is pretty self-explanatory (see picture). The calf scramble is where a big group of young teens go out onto the floor and they let a bunch of calves out and the teens run around and try to catch the calves then drag them to the middle of the field. The funniest parts were when a few of the kids ran and dove at the cattle to catch them and then after they caught them they tried to drag them by their tails, and they still wouldn't budge. The mutton bustin' is when little 5 or 6 year old little kids try to hold on to sheep while they fun across the field. Most of them fall off within 3 seconds, but the little kids are so cute. Some get a little trampled and cry, but others turn around and start waiving to the crowd like they are little Miss Americas. After the rodeo was the Rascal Flatts concert. It was awesome. We didn't know all the songs, but they were really energetic, so we all got into it. Also, they played some Journey in the middle and then some Boston and Kansas at the end and John and I went crazy! haha. You can tell we were born in the wrong decade. : ) We went with a big group of our friends, from our ward and John's med school class. It was great!
