New Look!

Like my new look? It took me a day and a half to decide and figure out how to do this. Thanks to Kori for telling me where to go! Check out my new background on my crafts blog too, I love it!

Our New Home

This is our house in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (a suburb of Tulsa). We are excited first time home buyers! It needs a coat of paint on the exterior and a fence in the back, but other than that it is in great shape. Bekah wants a green room and has tons of paint samples she is choosing from. Jonah wants a blue room with clouds on it, like Andy in Toy Story. There are four bedrooms and the boys will share, so we'll have a guest bedroom for family and friends to come and visit. For more pictures of the house go here.

PA-C!!!!

Alan is officially a PA!! He just found out that he passed the test. He had to drive to Iowa to take the 6 hour long test. Thanks to our friends in Iowa for letting Alan stay the night! We are so relieved. Now the work begins, and back to "normal" life- maybe not so much studying!

Locohoma!

We went to Tulsa Oklahoma this week. Jonah called it Locohoma. We looked at houses and drove around the areas where we could live. We found some nice houses and two in particular that we are waiting for more info on before we decide. The kids were pretty good while we were house shopping. We bribed them to be good by promising a good swim session at the hotel afterwards.
We even had a bonifided tornado warning while down there, the sirens went off at 11:30 one night. We got up, turned on the TV and got ready to evacuate the building since we were on the 2nd floor. We are totally used to tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms, but it was a little scary being on the second floor and not knowing where to go for shelter (the hotel main office attendant had no clue!). Luckily, the storm went to the south of us and we didn't have to go anywhere. The lightning was pretty awesome though!

Alan has to take his board test on Monday. So, on this trip I quizzed him for almost the whole trip down and back (7 hrs.) I was reading questions out of his test prep book. We had a few laughs as I tried to pronounce some of the crazy medical terms he has to know. See how you do!

• Papanicolaou smear
• Homonymous hemianopia
• Subsphenoidal
• Transesophageal ecocardiogram
• Nephrolithiasis
• Cholelithiasis
• Staphyloccus aureus
• Serratia marcescens
• Paroxysysmal supraventricular tachycardia
• Camphylobacter
• Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

Drugs:

• Methotrexate
• Hydroxychloroquine
• Xanthelasma
• Hydrochlorthiazide
• Trimethroprim/sulfamethoxazole

How'd you do? It took me so long to read some of these! I have a new appreciation for the determination it took him to go through school and learn not only to pronounce these things, but to know what they are!