The End of an Era

Tonight my grandparents informed me that they have renters moving in to the little house in the yard that my Brother and SIL lived in. I immediately became so sad. It really hit home that B and J were gone! :( It was such a blast living next door to them. So much of our lives were shared, and I'm just now realizing how much that was. It was such a fun time in life and I'm so glad that they are moving on to bigger and better things with their first home and their practice!!!

Here's to new neighbors! 

Photo Dump from my Phone!

Bryan and Jeanette at their Hooding ceremony--the Drs. Wingate, DMD!!!

Our Favors for their party!

At the party--their respective regalia holding hands!

The teeth with the flower--cracks me up!

And now onto my Bourbon tours. . . Buffalo Trace

Tasting! Bourbon cream and the Buffalo Trace Bourbon--both are my favorites out of all the tours!

Woodford Reserve Warehouse

Fermentation Vats

Beautiful Woodford Reserve

Daddy's Favorite Bourbon--I liked Buffalo Trace better though!

Break

Break has consisted of my grandmother's 80th birthday party with 80 of her closest friends at our home, Bryan and Jeanette's (my brother and SIL) hooding was the next week and then their graduation from dental school the next morning, followed by a rush back to Columbia and a party with 45 of their closest friends at our home that evening, the next morning I got up and was in Kentucky by noon to take on the Bourbon trail in a day! After 3 distilleries AND a home winery (whew!) it was back to Tennessee to finish out the weekend and then returning to Columbia the following Monday. Lots of traveling and partying but also lots of sleep, working out, reading and relaxing!! [Pictures to come!]

Tomorrow evening I head back to Charleston after Memorial Day with the family. Tuesday I hit the ground running with a full day of classes and on Thursday, my K9 nephew, Keller, will be delivered to my door for 10 days of fun (and lack of sleep for me) while his parents are in California for their graduation vacation [Pray for me--he's a big yellow ball of energy fun.]. I'm looking forward to the last 2 months of the classroom before rotations!

Sweet Accountability

I'm in the midst of exams (2 more left--woot woot), and that means SUGAR OVERLOAD.

Seeing as I'm going into healthcare it'd probably be best not to wind up with diabetes from PA school.

That being said, I'm going on a 10 day cold-turkey dessert fast. This will be hard--my grandmother's 80th is on Friday and we're throwing a huge par-tay with beautiful, homemade goodies abounding. BUT it must be done.

So, I started yesterday at approximately 5 pm (my sugar gluttony ended on a high note with Chocolate pie that was warm and had walnuts in it -- delish.) and will be able to reintroduce dessert on Wednesday the 15th at 5 pm. There. I said it. Now I have to do it. Because it's on the great world wide web. Bah.

I'll let you know how it all goes. . .