Hilton Head

March 10th-17th

This year for Spring Break we went to Hilton Head, South Carolina and spent the week in a beautiful beach house with some amazing people.  We packed the truck with every toy we could fit to guarantee a good time.  We had perfect weather and spent most days relaxing at the beach.  We had surf boards, boogie boards, skim boards, and the Wood's had an awesome bag full of beach toys.  We had paddle ball and tennis tournaments, played soccer and football, went on bikes ride on the beach and Todd even convinced Paige and I to ride our bikes around the island.  When we weren't at the beach, we were eating too much food and staying up way too late playing games.  We ventured to Savannah, Georgia one evening for dinner and a haunted ghost tour around the city.  We celebrated Todd's birthday with a chocolate fountain and enjoyed a "dolphin seafari."    

Beach Days...Paige-Lara-Me-Jessie-Natalie-Sallee

The boys spent hours on this sand castle.  It was awesome and people walking along the beach would stop and take pictures of it too.  They were so proud of their sand castle and asked for a little photo shoot with it!  Todd has never wanted his picture taken until this! They were nice enough to let Jack destroy it when we left the beach since he had been eyeing it all day.

We love these kids!

Jack, Benson and Brylee

Tennis Tournament

Matt and Natalie                                                      Eric and Sallee

                            Kurt and Paige                                                                             

Savannah, Georgia

Ghost Tour

Dolphin Seafari

Last day... We were so sad to pack up and head back to real life :(

However, on the way home we had to stop at South of the Border since we passed hundreds of billboards advertising it.  We are all since confused about that place and not sure what makes it so great.

And thanks to Innes' for providing us with great company and conversation on the drive!  Matt told us one of the creepiest things one of his roommates did to him was took a picture of him and girlfriend sleeping.  So we couldn't resist!  

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!