I went down to Arkansas last weekend for Elizabeth, one of my college roommate's, wedding. The picture above is of the bridesmaids and Elizabeth after her shower that we threw on Friday. L-R Megan, Elizabeth, Brittany, Amy
The rehearsal dinner was on the porch of her family's golf course. The view below is from the porch. Gorgeous!
The couple, now Elizabeth and David Bruce.
Bridesmaids: Megan, Amy, Brittany
L to R: Sarah, Bob, Caleb, Matt, Amy
We had a nice time going to Matt's choral arts ensemble concert, playing Frisbee, hiking, eating sushi (my first time!), and of course, talking. I received my own private concert in the Ghonda building with Caleb on the piano and Matt singing.
Today completed 12 weeks of ICU training classes that I went through with some of my best friends here, Tiffany, Emily, and Sarah. This picture was taken by Bob, Sarah's special guy, on our last day of class.
Bob jumped through so many hoops to provide a feast for us during lunch break that day! His story brought many chuckles.
Below: Sarah and Bob. Enough said:)
My girls. These and a few others are my girls here in Rochester. They're fun, encouraging, inspiring, thought-provoking, interesting, beautiful blessings! Left to right: Kristy, Sarah, Lindsay, me, and Tiffany.
Now that my classes are over, I will leave the neurological ICU and begin orienting on all of the others, including medical, trauma/general surgery, thoracic/vascular, cardiac transplant, cardiac surgical, cardiac medical, and the ICU at Methodist Hospital, including liver and kidney transplant patients. Thursday means a trip home to Texas! We will help Grandmother and Granddaddy celebrate 60 years together! Other things include camping out with family and friends, touring the Eagle Med flight team place where Daniel is working now as a flight medic, spending time with all of the family, and playing with the newborn baby goats! I'm just a little bit excited!
The breeze is softly tickling my face, twirling my hair and lifting the music through the air. How can I convey to you how I feel in my heart right now? It's spring!
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After class today, a friend and I went for a long walk and talk along the river. It was in the 40's today, and the coat became unnecessary as we trudged through the melting snow! See! Bits of grass are showing through and the ice on the river is cracking!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the winter, but it is exciting to have more sunshine, see some ground, and even hear the first few birds chirping. A few days ago, we had the fluffiest snow imaginable. I hated to brush it off of my car and wanted to take pictures instead, but alas, I had to go to work. Even with signs of warm weather, we will probably get a few more snows before Narnia completely melts into spring. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain and snow! Here's how I feel about it: 
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old aquaintance among the pines." Henry David Thoreau
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin
Note: only the first two photos are from today.
We debated as to whether it would be worth making the trip to Bayfield yet again simply on the hopes that the sea caves would be half as spectacular as the few pictures I had seen. Wow! It was well worth the time!
The picture above is a personal favorite. Fairyland? Is this real?
Erin taking a picture, gloves and ski pole aside.
No, Erin is NOT suspended, and no photo editing was done!
While there appear to be pools of water in some of these photos, its all ice, except in the photo below, where a stream did run into the lake.
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