Sorry it's been so long since we've updated this!  I'm sure you've all been dying in suspense to know what we've been up to these days!  I'm at Children's Hospital in Seattle this month, so they have an apartment in Seattle for us to stay at so I'm only home a few nights a week when I'm post-call and my days are pretty long and I hardly ever get to sleep on calll... it's been a crazy month.  I've learned a lot, but I've seen a lot of really sick kids this month and I'm ready to get back to the healthier ones!  Not quite yet though.... in July I'm in the NICU again, but I'm not an intern anymore so that's fun!  I only have 4 more days of internship left, and only one more call night!  So that's pretty exciting.  We had our intern graduation earlier this month already and had to wear our dress blues so that was pretty cool--it's definitely our neatest uniform.  Mom and John came out for graduation so that was fun.  We went to the Olympia Farmer's market, on a short hike at the Nisqually nature preserve, did some Wii bowling, and they came to an after graduation barbecue with all the other interns and to the farewell dinner for the seniors where we watched the video roast we did of them so that was fun.  We also made a brief expedition to a rhododendron ranch, which was fun, especially because they bought me a red one!  It's done blooming for the year already, but we found a nice place in the yard for it so we'll enjoy it next year! 

   We also made a trip to Portland for the Memorial Day weekend, so that was great--I never have a whole weekend off of work so that was a great treat!  We had a good time checking out the rose garden, the arboretum, the science museum, and the zoo.  We brought Lilo too so she had a nice trip.  We ate some really good food but did a lot of hiking/walking around during the day so we didn't end up doing too much damage. :)  We met up with Carmen, Bob's old boss from Vegas, who lives in Portland now, so that was really fun. 

   We planted the garden a few weeks ago and stuff is finally starting to pop up so that's nice!  We've got corn, potatoes, green onions, carrots, peas, strawberries (I ate the first 2 today!!!!) and I planted some watermelon, but it is NOT popping up... I guess it's not warm enough.  It's always fun to see things grow!  My lilies are getting ready to bloom, roses are blooming, and many other flowers too, so the yard is getting colorful!  We tore out the raspberries earlier this spring so we expanded that area out a little bit and planted tons more corn than last year which is exciting... we sure love our corn!

    We had a very fun double date night last night--I was on call Friday and post call yesterday, so I drove back and took a nap while the boys went mountain biking, then Tamara and I went to Color Me Mine and painted some pottery which was a lot of fun!  We had the boys meet us when we finished so they could see our creations and then we all went out to dinner and it was great.  Good times were had by all!  We've had a nice relaxing Sunday but I'm not looking forward to my long drive back in the morning... at least I'm almost done there!   I'm done with Children's this Thursday and we're headed home for a brief weekend visit so that's our big upcoming excitement!  We're hoping we'll get to see some of you then!  And we'll be able to catch Cristy's wedding too which is great! 

   Hope all is well with all of you!  Happy Anniversary to Ronny and Monika a little bit ago, Happy Birthday to Monika today!  Sorry that I've been a card-making slacker lately... all I can say is 80 hours a week of work and many hours a week commuting leaves me with NOT ENOUGH time period!  Looking forward to enjoying the summer and being a 2nd year! 

~Cathy