Insert Thanksgiving Through January Here

Wow, I just realized this had not been updated since early November!  Oops!  To all of you who are wondering, yes I am alive!  Last semester ended in a flurry of prep-forms, papers, tests, finals, and a farewell to Illinois for a month. :)

End of semester celebration dinner with Morgan, Sarah, Rachel, Eryn, Alecia, & Emily

The view near our house...
You may be from Colorado if just seeing blue skies and mountains can make your day complete!

I spent winter break in Colorado and enjoyed every minute!  It was great to reunite with friends from UW, Regis, Grand County, and the barn!  I rode horses multiple times a week (Landi is still a big dork and Grigio is headed to California to find himself a new home... we'll miss him) and skiied even though there was hardly any snow until the day before I left (got to love that irony)! 

Hunter and Mater... I can't let this Christmas go by without an animal in a santa hat!  

Skiing with Kaela & Brittany- a roommate reunion!

Kay turned 21! A ton of our friends from Regis got together to celebrate!

Sara & I even made it to the National Western Stock Show
(Thanks, United, for changing my flight!)

 School is back to taking a full-time role in my life.  I will have a total of 4 clinical locations this semester: Neurology, the Birth Center, Pediatrics, and Cardiac.  So far I absolutely love the birth center- I guess I have my family genes for loving babies, and all those years of babysitting have sure paid off; I never realized some people have never changed a diaper in their whole lives!  School is a ton of work this semester (even our teachers call it the hardest), but I am still enjoying it! 
I cannot wait for Spring Break in early March for round two of skiing... keep the snow dances coming until then!  
I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas and are off to a great start to 2012!  To all the conspirators about the year ending: it better not, I have been putting in way too many academic hours to not have them pay off!