For the past month, Bryndon was on a pretty crazy rotation at the IMC hospital working with Shock Trauma patients. He had to work a 30-hour shift every 3rd day, so he didn't get a lot of sleep. He had one day off a week, and his "post-call" days were mostly for sleeping. Needless to say, I'm glad he's done with that rotation. And the great thing is that he may never have to do a 30-hour shift again! The field he's going into doesn't have to do over-night call, and if he every is on call, it'll be from home and they'll mostly just ask him about a patient, etc.
He is now doing a one-month rotation in Radiology, which offers a very nice lifestyle. He doesn't have to be there until 8am and gets off around 4pm or so! That is SOOOOO great. And we find out in 2 1/2 weeks where we'll be for Residency starting in July, for the next 4 years! I get butterflies every time I think about it! March 16th is Match Day, so we'll make sure to spread the word to family and friends when we find out!
I wanted to share some pictures of what we did for each other on Valentine's Day...
Bryndon wrote all over our shower/tub walls with shower crayons with hearts and cute little notes. :) I thought that was fun.
A while ago Bryndon had joked about putting pictures of us kissing all over the house and I took that idea and ran with it. He never thought I'd actually DO it! :) I had a couple of pictures blown up from when we were dating years ago, but the rest were kissing pictures from our wedding day, engagement photos, the day we got engaged, and even one on the Eiffel Tower! I think I printed about 25 of them and taped them up all over the walls in our living/dining room. He thought that was fun.
The big red poster-thing in the picture below was actually an over-sized Valentine's card I wrote in for him. He thought the whole time that it was just a poster, but when we exchanged cards, I had him go open it up and read the message I had written inside, with it right on the wall. :)
We joked with friends about our PDA all over the place without us even touching each other. :)
He also gave me flowers: a dozen orange roses that were absolutely gorgeous, and also a few daffodils to go with them because those are my favorite flowers. :) So thoughtful!
Then a couple of weeks after Valentine's Day we both had our birthdays! Mine is the 26th and Bryn's is the 28th. We did a lot of celebrating with family and by ourselves. We decided to go shoot some arrows at this archery place in Sugarhouse that we've been wanting to go to, which was really fun! I just ended up with a sore left shoulder because those are some muscles I don't use as often. :) It was cool though.
We had dinner with my family, and a few days later we had dinner with his family. For my birthday Bryndon cooked a superb meal of salmon, brown rice, green beans and salad, with Martinelli's to drink. Then on his birthday I made him brown rice again (that's a staple at our house), asperagus, garlic bread, Martinelli's, and he requested to be able to cook some delicious steaks! They were both delicious meals and it was fun to celebrate with our own little family! So we're both one year older and hopefully wiser too. :)
The best and biggest present we got (on Bryndon's birthday) was a new car! It's not literally new, but new to us! We had been looking for a new one for a little while because Bryn's car was driving him nuts with some problems, so he found us a great deal on a salvage title Nissan Altima that'll suit us just fine! The funny thing is that when I would ask what Bryndon wanted for his birthday, he always said "a new car", and he ended up getting one! :) Happy Birthday, Bryn. Thanks for being born!
