Remembering Mo...

A coworker of mine recently passed away in a tragic car accident.  Today, I was able to attend a memorial service in her honor and left feeling extremely grateful that I was able to know her and work with her.  Mo was a very loving, compassionate, and selfless person and truly cared for other people.  As the chaplain spoke at her memorial, he talked a lot about her "work family" and the countless number of hours she spent there caring for other people.  I am happy to know that I was part of her "work family" and am very blessed that I was able to work along side her.  She truly treated me as family and was always looking out for me.  Not a week went by without her asking how my husband was doing in school and how my family back home was doing.  She even called me "KK" just like my family does.  She was a great example to me and taught me many things about life and about being a nurse.  She was always smiling and laughing and made work a much brighter place to be.  The night before she passed away, I was suppose to be on call for work.  She knew I had family coming into town so she took my call so I could spend time with them.  I wish I could have returned the favor for her.  Remember, life is fragile so we need to make the most of each day.  Miss you, Mo... 

27

On March 13th, Todd turned 27.
We celebrated this year in Hilton Head with friends.
No school or work to get in the way.
Happy Birthday Babe!

Rocky Steps

Todd's favorite thing to do in a new city is to wake up early and go for a run.  Philadelphia is a great place to do this because they have awesome paths that lead you straight to the Art Museum.  So we enjoyed reenacting Rocky Balboa as we ran up the steps.  However, we did not drink any raw eggs before hand.  Maybe that's why our filming isn't very good.  But to give us some credit, we were using Todd's phone to film this and filming while running is no easy task.      

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

February 24th-26th

We are trying to take advantage of living on the East Coast so we ventured up north to see what Philly had to offer.  I had prepared myself by watching Rocky and National Treasure before we left so I knew what to expect!  We had a lot of fun exploring the city and seeing the sites.  

Rocky Steps

LOVE park

City Hall

Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell

the Todd House

Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rodin Museum

Philly has some awesome artwork inside and out.

Jim's Steaks for our first real Philly cheese steak.

Such a fun city.  Hopefully we will be back one day soon.

VCU Winter Ball

We had so much fun at the Winter Ball this year.Lots of friends, food, games, and dancing!This time it was held at the Richmond Convention Center.Not as pretty as the Jefferson Hotel but plenty of room to dance.They had a room full of carnival games and it was fun to watch our future surgeons play the life size Operation game.(Based on that, I don't know if I would trust any of them doing surgery on me!)

A Lunch to Remember

A few months ago we saw a groupon for lunch at Feathernesters.

We looked it up online and it looked good so we decided to get it.

Some of my coworkers had told me about it too and they have a cute shop there.

A few weeks ago, we went for lunch and when we walked in we both starting laughing.

Todd was the only male in there and we were probably the youngest people by at least 30 years.

The old lady sitting next to us, asked if we wanted our picture taken because we were on "a cute, little date."

The food was good and the shop was cute! 

But it's a place to go with your girlfriends, not so much your husband!

Natural Bridge, Foam Henge, Humpback Rock.

A few weekends ago, we decided to take advantage of this awesome winter weather we are having.

We headed to the western part of the state to see the Natural Bridge.

On our way back, we saw a sign for Foamhenge and decided to see what it was.

It was definitely an interesting replica of Stonehenge someone created.

We also stopped in the Blue Ridge Parkway and hiked up to Humpback Rock to watch the sun set.