Wild Card

Natalie will eat anything as long as we give her "dippers" as long as she is dipping her food she will eat it.

The Brewers have made the Playoffs, for the first time in 26 years. Why? Because we jumped on their bandwagon, they couldn't have done it without us. Amy, being the best wife ever, called me last Monday and asked if I wanted to go to the Brewers vs Pirates game on Tuesday. She got me tickets, best wife ever!!! We went with a few of our friends, Prince Fielder hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. Awesome Game!

Told you she is the best wife ever!

These are our friends Brad, Kjerstin, Justin and Jessica that came to the game with us.

Continuing with the Brewer theme of this post. One of the Brewers physicians came and gave us a lecture during Grand Rounds on Sports Enhancing Drugs. It was a very interesting lecture.

I also went to a workshop on echo-cardiograms and I was chosen to be the "model." Shirt off, laying on my side with arm behind my head. Sexy, I know! Well anyway my heart is functioning at 100%. we also learned about 3-d echos which is a technology that is very new but awesome. Cardiology in my future? Maybe!

I have found out my favorite surgical instrument, THE STRYKER BONE SAW, it is the coolest saw. It cuts through bone like a hot knife through butter. My anatomy group always lets me use it when we need to, I love it. Orthopedic surgery in my future? Maybe!

HARVEST FEST

Friday night Amy, Natalie and I all went to this fest called Harvest. Natalie loved the petting zoo portion. However, anytime a baby goat came near her she stiff armed the goat. She also went on the marry-go-round. Once we were done with the Harvest Fest we went to Chipotles, Natalie loves it.



Also this weekend Natalie woke up sick Saturday morning so Amy and Natalie got to spend the day at urgent care, which was actually a very good experience, good doctors, reasonably fast and Natalie is doing much better, she has an ear infection in both ears. Today she was up and running around again so I think the antibiotics are working!

Wisconsinites

This weekend we decided to go hiking, so we obtained a book on "hikes" in Wisconsin. "Hikes" is in quotes because the hike we went on was more like a nature walk. However, it was way fun. It was a hike that took us to the second highest point this end of Wisconsin. At the top was a lookout tower that had us climb 7 flights of stairs so we could have a view of the lake. Natalie loved running down the trail and yelling "ahhhh" and also saying "hi" to the puppies.

Saturday, Patrick worked at a clinic for the uninsured and to get there the GPS routed him through the ghetto. He was driving through at 7:00 am and there was a fight in the middle of the intersection. That GPS needs to have a no ghetto button.

Patrick is enjoying medical school, he is in class from 8 to 5 almost everyday, but always comes home and plays with us after that. He just finished his first round of tests and did well on those. He is always becoming interested in new specialties. The latest are Cardiology or surgery.

Natalie loves giving hugs now and will run to where ever you are and give you a hug when you ask for one. She loves playing with her dad, and will find him even if he is hiding out so he can study.

I am liking my job, but I am not keen on leaving Natalie. Luckily it is only twice a week. I think Natalie and I are going to go to the zoo sometime this week with her friend. I think Patrick and I are due for another baseball game also.

Almost settled in

I know I am a total slacker when it comes to blogging. I told Patrick that I would be and that he should be the one to keep everyone updated, but he said it was my turn. We have been having lots of fun getting settled in and trying to figure out our way around these crazy roads, I definitely miss the Utah roads. Roads here start and end in random places, they go from 2 lanes to 1 without notice, and cars pop up parked in the right lane on busy roads, its crazy. I think I am finally used to it now though. Anways back to the important stuff. I am a speech therapist at a charter school here two days a week it is working out very well, they are super flexible and easy to work with. Our neighbor is watching Natalie and Natalie loves playing with their daughter. I also finished putting together our upstairs a few weeks ago and finally have pictures to post.

Now here are some pictures of Natalie, she is getting so big. She is talking a lot more, learned how to fold her arms to say her prayers, says thank you, she is so cute and so much fun everyday. She is excited to go to nursery next month, they leave the doors open at our church and she always goes up and looks at the kids playing and asks to go in, poor girl, almost 18 months!

Natalie has started posing for pictures.

And as you can see she definitely still has her curly hair.

Her first experience with a whole cookie all to herself, no mom giving her little pieces. She loved it. We will try to be better about updating our blog more often now that we are getting into a routine.

Week Two

Amy and I were able to go to the brewers game last Friday. It was the craziest baseball ggame I have ever been to. They tailgate hours before the game, drinking tons. They drink beer until they enter the gate and then then drink like no other once they are inside. It was pretty entertaining watching all the drunk people make fools of themselves. The fans were all way into the game, it was way fun to watch the whole time.

This week was orientation week for Amy and I, lots of activities and meetings. On Monday, we had a huge meeting on financial aid and how much debt we are going to be in. They basically scared us to death, and then graciously lunch was provided by the military offering to pay for our whole school plus 20,000 dollar bonus. I thought it was a pretty cheap move by the government, trying to scare us into the military.

On Wednesday, we went to the zoo with Natalie and she loved the "kitty kitty" or the lion. Her favorite thing was the fish, she sat there with her face pressed against the aquarium and laughed at all the fish. However, when a shark would come near her she would scream and back off. Natalie loves the zoo.

Natalie also went swimming with her new friend myleigh in our backyard, she loves swimming.

On Thursday we went to a root beer/beer brewery with some friends. We did a tour and at the end we were able to drink as much soda as we wanted. We paid for Natalie so we decided "what the heck, let her drink soda." She loved the rootbeer and orange soda and once the sugar got into her system she went bonkers. She was running all around screaming, crawling under furnitures, etc. she was hilarious. As you will see in the pictures she went crazy.

To finish off the week I had the "White Coat Ceremony." This is a ceremony were we are given our first white coat and is kind of the initiation into the medical profession. It was a really neat ceremony.

This is me getting my white coat on.

New House

So our house is slowly coming together. The main floor is now finished enough so I can show you picutures of it and also of the front and back yards. I am too scared to finish the basement because, in case you have not heard, we have mice. I think we have finally taken care of the problem, but I am still going to wait a couple of days before I finish down there. Anyway, here are the pictures of our house. I love it!

Week One

There she is our beast of a moving truck.We were able to travel with no incident across the country. The drive was exhaustingly boring, but we survived. Amy even took her turn driving the truck as you can see.

It has been a week since we have left Provo and we are loving it here in Milwaukee. Amy absolutley loves our house, i is way nice and Natalie loves the backyard she shares with her new friend Myleigh.

Well we arrived here on Friday and Patrick's mom flew Natalie in on Saturday. We picked them up at the airport, however, on the way home the freeway was closed so we followed a couple of cars over the median and onto a side road and our trusty GPS detoured us right through the ghetto, Welcome to Wisconsin MOM. She was a little freaked out so we had to drive her around the nice area to calm her down. Oh and the other day coming back from Costco Mr. GPS lead us right throught the ghetto again, there has to be someway to block that area off. Don't get me wrong that GPS is the greatest investment we have ever made, other than the two ghetto experiences it does pretty well.

Oh and did I mention I, have a new love? I have broken up with Cafe Rio and have fallen in love with chipotles. Chipotles blows cafe rio out of the water and plus it is three dollars cheaper to eat there. I have only eaten there 3 times, Amy has since limited me. It is amazing. For those of you in Utah that still have't tried it, there is one up near southtowne mall.

A couple days ago we discovered that Milwaukee also has beaches as you can see below.

Yesterday, we drove into Chicago and went to Wrigley Field to watch the cubs game. It was a spiritual experience being in Wrigley Field. Natalie loved only about one inning and then she was ready to run around like a crazy lady. We were able to get there and back pretty fast, on the way there we realized we are 7 minutes from Miller Park, where the Brewers play. We are 30 minutes from 6 flags, and the jelly belly factory. We are still discovering Milwaukee and may go to a brewers game tomorrow night. Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

This is a little section of the Medical School, the campus it huge and way clean and nice.

Natalie Sue

Amy and I at Wrigley.