Cheers to a Cancer Free 2012

Hello! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years. Ours flew by and now its on to another semester of school. This semester is Pathophysiology and Pharmacology. Its a 3 in one kind of deal Patho has 2 parts a lecture and a seminar(clinical) and thankfully Pharm only has one part!! Pay special attention to the size of my large mug and the size of the dictionaries that are assigned for these classes. They say it is expectation that we spend 21-35 hour a week studying on top of working and trying to find some time to sleep. It should be fun semester....I say that now.
(Thank you Karyn for the coffee cup!!)
The past couple of months have flown by and I have spent a lot of my time at home (Valpo) or in Chicago. I have tried to spend some spare time over Christmas break making scarfs and burp cloths but that has been unsuccessful.

Their Scarf

My unfinished Navy Blue and Cream scarf

Here are some pictures from the 96th floor of the Hancock Building from last week.

For those of you that don't know it costs 15.00 to ride to the top of the Hancock building just a few floors above the 96th floor, for essentially the same price you can have an amazing lunch and see the same view a few floors down.....

Looking down.....

Looking Up....

Mallory came into town on Christmas Eve, it was so wonderful to see her and spend time with her. Unfortunately we did not get to meet her beau Cody, hopefully next time.

Our good friends the Bozovich's welcomed their new baby Brooklyn Kate into the world in December. Congratulations to them and Hopefully we get to meet her soon!!

We.....by that I mean Adam finally got our master bathroom painted!! Its a beautiful gray/beige color. The only room left to paint is the work out room.

I talked to our nephew Maddux on the phone yesterday. He is getting so big with such a sweet little personality. It seems like yesterday he was born and now his cousin baby girl Shuttz will be here in March!! It is so exciting to watch our family expand and see Maddux grow up into such a wonderful sweet little person. We can not wait to meet our new niece!!

I just wanted to give a special thanks to everyone for the outpouring of love, support, and prayers for my family over the holiday season. People are truly amazing!! Also I am truly grateful for my Aunt Sandy and Liz Frances for being amazing people and spending their Holiday at Northwestern in the waiting room making me laugh.....you guys have absolutely beautiful souls and you are amazing friends and we are so grateful to have such wonderful people in our lives :) .

Waiting Room Cards

I Won...one hand

Thank you Aunt Sandy and Jillian for waiting in the freezing sleet at Garrett's with me...:)

On That Note:
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Thank You. -Marcel Proust

PS: I graduate in May of 2013....4 semesters