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)

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

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!!!

Visitors

We had some senators visit the Unit the other day and so we (just a few of us) took a picture with the Illinois Senator who happened to have had a son who was injured down range and was taken treated at LRMC. Just thought I would share. There were more people there but mostly this groups is nurses, doctors, techs and of course the Senator.

So as my dad was in town so were my friend Rhoda's parents. So like any good kids who need to find ways to keep your folks entertained we took them to dinner together!!

Pa comes to town

My dad came to visit me this past week or so. I was very excited to see him since really in January I don't recall much of our get together since I was so sick. I did have to work two of the days here was here but no worries he found things to do. Such as build me a shrunk!! On my days off we went to Heidelberg, Trier and then for three days went up to Holland.

Trier

Heidelberg

Holland

I have a million pictures of all the flowers and tulips but I will not bore you with them now. On a side note I accidentally erased every picture in Holland and Amsterdam till we were at the tulip fields, yes I was very sad!!! When my dad left yesterday he took the chip to see if he could recover the files ie the wonderful pictures I had taken. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

In review

Let me think back and share with you my family all the things I have done this past month while I have stepped away from the computer.

In the beginning of March I switched to a new team, team 2. They work days which is agreeing with me ten times better than nights for my mental health. I adored my team on nights (team 4)and they will of course be my family here and I am sure I will stay in touch with them as time goes by. Working nights in Germany was a bit hard just due to nothing being open after six or seven. It was also a bit hard this winter since I really never got to see sunlight due to our geographical location in the world. All is well now and I am loving seeing sunlight. As I told my boss flowers need sunlight to grow me being the flower that is.

St. Patrick's day here is just as festive as it is in the states

I have had my first visitors here in my new home. The first being Flat Ava from Cincinnati

The second visitor being my father whom I will be so kind as to devote a whole post to!

Life is going smoothly so far and the traveling is picking up. Dad and I just did Holland and parts of Germany. I will be going to Ireland next month and possibly Barcelona come June.