Thursday, October 29, 2009

And we fianlly made it to August

Since July was crazy and I was ALL over the place I decided to do little trips in Aug. With my friend Maggie I went on a little cruise down the Rhine and did this wine tasting thing.







Over all is was a wonderful weekend and I had soooo much fun!!
Love y'all
Rachel

Maggie's wedding

The Happy Couple

Getting my hair


Maggie and I

I had the honor of being in a second wedding while home for a dear friend Maggie.

The sweet feel of family

The dress rehearsal night we all went out and got a beer and just hung out all night!


We drink together


The Stovall's chatting it up!!!
Michael sneaking in a wee bit of texting.....while Mom and Haley have deep thoughts.
Teever's birthday but I think Michael wants a bite.....
The day after Sarah and Mike got hitched the cousins went to Kings Island to have some fun!!

Maggie was not a fan of some of the big rides so we sneaked out and went to ride the swings.

Maggie and I eating dinner! I do love that girl!

Good luck boys!
When everyone got in to town earlier in the week we all hung out on the deck at my parents house.


Aunt Mary Jane, Ellen aka Aunt La La, Aunt Vicki and Aunt Sissy

I do love my family and they are sure as hell fun to hang out with!!!!!!!!! I love every last one of them...most of the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Events in July cont.

Aunt Sissy threw a BEAUTIFUL bridal luncheon for the ladies of the wedding party as well as female relatives!!!!

We all had a wonderful time, thanks Aunt Sis!!!




Our group of ladies sitting down for tea!!

FYI it is hard to keep the pictures where I wanted them so I am just making a post for each event!

Events in July

To get y'all updated faster....I think I will make a whole bunch of picture updates for tonight and then get some good writting in when possible. So here goes...


Got HOME in time for the 4th!!!
Threw a Spanish shower for my sister!!!!

Sisters

Sarah and Haley (our beloved cousin)

Sarah with a very good gift.....



Kendra and Sarah


Sissy, Me, Haley, Sarah, Kate and da Mom (aka Ellen)








Sunday, September 27, 2009

Where has the time gone???

Sorry I have not posted much as of late, it has been CRAZY busy here in my world.


July- Sarah's wedding, Maggie's wedding and coming back to Germany where the hospital was busy!!
Aug- still busy, went on a few day trips, had a birthday, Kate came and visited for a spell then went on to see her family!!

I will post the pictures from all the events I have done so y'all can see all the cool stuff I have seen!!


Just to show you HOW crazy it is here I've included a picture of me driving in Scotland (will get to that in a moment) on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I was sooooooo stressed at that time...but not enough to not smile for a close up!!)
Love,
Me

Friday, June 19, 2009

Meeting new people

I got to meet the first female four star General, Gen Ann Dunwoody the other day


June well what has happened so far

June has been a good month for me. I have been here in Germany now nine months, yeah a number that does not escape me. So in nine months my new life here has grown into something I can be pound of. The work at the hospital gives me a great deal of pride in my profession. As some of y'all may know becoming a nurse was a bit of a leap for me. I was not the type of gal or person (just to keep it pc here folks) who has always wanted to be a nurse since they were small. I was just driving home from a friends house in TN one summer (I had already been at UT for two years at this point) when God and I had a little talk and I decided to become a nurse from then on.


Who knew that one little talk and a few years of school would have me living in Germany taking care of our Nations heroes!!!!!! I just wanted to thank everyone of y'all for your support!


And now for more pictures, come on its the real reason people visit blogs we love the pretty pictures and music!







Our town

Inch, Ireland

Maggie and I



Me on the coast of Ireland

Maggie and I at Ladies View point

On the border of Kerry and Cork Ireland

Driving the circle of Kerry

Too funny!!




I have tons more but these are some of the highlights of the trips.

May (wow I got behind again)

So just in case you are wondering I am doing well. Have had a few weeks between now and the last time I wrote that were pretty heavy work wise. It seems to be feast or famine in the amounts of patients we have. Some days we have all locals whom have bogus chest pain (aka indigestion) that the our doctors here like to put in the ICU. Other days we are busting at the seams with vents, burns, blast wounds etc. I have learned to roll with it and am enjoying myself here learning new things each and every day!


Enough talk here are some pictures from the month of May;

Milan Italy
Me on Como Lake


Rhonda and I at Lake Como, Italy





A view of Milan from the top of the Domo


Rhoda and I on top of the Domo

Milian city center



Pray all is well with y'all!!!