Okay..here we go

So...it has been months and for that I am very sorry. Please don't give up hope. I am coming back to the blog. Life has been nuts but great things are happening.
1. Got the white coat...officially I see patients and I love it. Don't worry I am not making the dx or prescribing medication. I see pt do the interview and physical and then present to others. This is what I will be doing all of next year and for now we do it in occasional little spurts.
2. Graham Weston Carnagey, my nephew, joined us on October 21, 2009. He is absolutely handsome and has taken us all by storm.
3. Jordan turned 26 today!!
4. School is running and my sprints are keeping me on tract but I am very tired thus the no blog updates.
Short I know but hopefully more steady in the near future.
I will put up pictures next.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I am thankful for all of you and pray God's blessings on you this holiday season.
Be blessed,
Barbara

We have a home!

Alright friends! We did it. We got the apartment at Greenlake and Jordan, who arrived two days ago (YEAH!!!!), has been busy setting everything up while I go to school. School is buzzing right along and I will be done in 1.5 weeks for the summer and heading into 5 glorious weeks of vacation. Who knows where you will see me. I am headed to Bellingham, Spokane/CDA, Sacramento, and Yakima for the short list. It will be so exciting to be back in the PNW and have time to see people. This is a short update. Hope you are all well. Congrats Brian on the amazing ride.
Barbara

So here comes the update. I am in Washington!!!!! This part is so exciting. Jordan is in Boston. This part is not so exciting but I have been counting the days and we are 16 days and counting. It has been absolutely gorgeous in the Seattle area and I can't tell you how much I missed the people. sights, sounds, smells and...everything. ;)
School has been intense but good. There truly is a difference when you are not working and the difference is amazing. Although I leave the house at 6:45 am and get back at 7-8 pm I feel much more rested than I did during the spring when I was working full-time and taking a class online. We have already had two exams and I am working on a research paper while studying for another exam on Monday.
On another topic we (Jordan and I) put in an application on an apartment on Greenlake and we are so excited to have a home again. I am ecstatic to get my kitchen back and all my dishes. It was harder than I though surviving a year without having more than one pot and one pan. The apartment we applied for is a two bed one bath and it is pretty big so if you need a place to stay let us know. I was really blessed that this was the first place I saw and after looking at 9 others I still loved it the most. ;)
I think this is the major new stuff. Please pray for Jordan as he travels across the country at the end of this month. He is bring precious cargo (himself and our cat cheza). Pray that they will be safe and that cheza, who hates cars, will make the trip safely.
Much love to anyone who still reads this (I have been more than a little missing in action since March),
Sincerely,
Barbara

Last Day of Work

Always trying to keep people up to date but usually failing. I am so sorry. Today is my last day at Watkin's Cardiovascular of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. I am sad to be leaving the amazing staff, who threw me a great goodbye lunch the other day, but so excited to be heading to the west. ALRIGHT!!!! Coming over for Sally's wedding was great but definitely a tease considering how gorgeous it was there and the fact that we had 1 sunny day the whole month of June in Boston. Yes, it is the worst June on record. Jordan and I managed to take advantage of the one nice day this month to bike most of Cape Cod. It was an amazing day and we feel really blessed to have spent the time enjoying the beauty of God's creation. My flight leaves bright and early Sunday (6am) for Seattle and praise the Lord it is a direct flight!!! Hope to see some of you very soon.
Much love,
Barbara

Leaving Tomorrow

WooHOo!!!! Headed to Yakima tomorrow for another marathon visit. Jordan and I have been excited for this visit for about 6 months now and it is time. Jordan is spending the first three days in CDA visiting family and friends while I head to Yakima with Valerie to get all the last minute things done for Sally's wedding. My littlest sister is getting married....what??? We are so excited. The morning after the wedding we are headed to the Seattle area in order to celebrate some of Jordan's cousins who are graduating from college. It promises to be a fun, exciting and busy couple of days. We fly back to Seattle on Monday and then back to the work force for a couple more weeks. I head back to Seattle on a ONE WAY flight July 5th and Jordan flows with the car and cat, yes cat, in tow at the end of the month. Please pray for our little Cheza that she will make the move okay.

Huge hug to everyone,
Barbara

Again it has been forever

School and work has kept me very busy. In the middle of this we had two weeks of glorious fun with the fam. Laura and Cahnen were here March 20 - 28 leaving 1/2 before Mom and Dad arrived. Thanks for being the airport shuttle on the west end Val. ;) We also had the great pleasure of hosting one of my friends, Mary, from Spokane. So much fun and I will post pictures this weekend. Life has been flying by and I realized today that I am leaving here in 2 months (jaw drops). In between now and moving back we are headed to Washington for Sally's wedding. I could not be any more excited to share in her joy and she is so excited.

Things that have been happening.
Jordan is traveling again Santa Fe and back and now he is off to D.C. for his final Sarnoff presentation. Woohoo, this is like a thesis kind of thing so it is pretty exciting. Pray for him, it is tomorrow. We headed back down to the cape (cod that is) where we enjoyed some sunshine and wine tasting. For those of you who like/know about wine, it is very different out here. The weather doesn't support the grapes we see on the west coast so mostly they are fruit wines of blends of grapes that certain wine makers buy from other locations and ferment on-site. A couple of local grapes are the concord and the diamond. The concord grape makes a wine which makes me think of communion wine, a great deal like grape juice with a zing. ;) The diamond is something so different, spicy and fantastic. We really enjoyed it. This is a short update but I wanted to give you something. I am headed to the ballet tonight with a friend from church to see Sleeping Beauty which should be amazing.
Hopefully be back to update you soon. I am working on a comparative analysis of Boston vs. Seattle so look forward to up coming fun :).

Blessings all!
Sincerely,
Barbara

Getting Excitied

So many great things are happening in the next month that it is hard not to be ecstatic about life. One Mom, Dad, Laura, Cahnen, and Mary Eagle are all coming to visit next month. Gotta love spring break. I am really looking forward to the opportunity to show them around town. My online classes start March second and I am pumped, just like when you go to the first day of class and all you really do it get the syllabus and talk, to start learning. This is of course before the realization of all the hard work to come sets in. For now I am basking in the glow of, my brain will be used, glow. I received my schedule for the next year and there are so many tidbits that have me ready to celebrate. A huge one is having holidays again. The kind that last more than a day and you don't have to worry about qualifying to get the time off. The last thing I am going to add to this update is that we have and amazing cat. She is a loving cuddling fiend with a passion for playing fetch. I am going to put a youtube link on here. For all of you who choose to leave the sound on please do not mock the baby voice I utilize to encourage her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQOqdgb7Fb0

Have a fabulous day!!
Blessings,
Barbara

Obamas

Because it is sweet!! Look at all those secret service men looking different ways! I thought it was cute.

New Addition to our little Family

This is Cheza! She is a sweet little cuddler and makes the cutest chirping noise when she is loving on you. We are super excited to have her exploring our home to hopefully settle in quickly.

Thank you for your prayers and thought

I AM IN!!!!! Yeah for going back to school. I am so excited and am looking at pursing the tract in medicine for the underserved. I will still need your prayers as on-line classes start March first and I will be working full time until this summer when we move back to Seattle. Who am I kidding? I will always need your prayers!!! Also, there is so much to get figured out before the school starts: financial aid, moving (again :( ), and everything else in between. My love to you all!

Blessings,

Barbara

Once Again

...A million days have passed since my last post. At this point so much has happened I don't know what to share. The Holidays were wonderful. I was blessed with tons of snow in CDA which meant we all had to stay in together and hang out. It was so nice to be lazy and I read Twilight (yes the whole series). In Yakima we ran around a great deal more and while navigating through jet lag it was hard but great. I am so thankful for loving friends and family. We saw Ashley, my best friend since forever, and had a wonderful meal with her family. This was followed by cramming in as much as possible and sleeping very little. Due to the snow in CDA though we recouped pretty quickly. My fabulous husband spoiled me with my first set of diamond earrings, which I wore every day for the next well going on month. :) On New Years Eve I sent him off to Boston while I languished in Bellevue for the next week preparing for my interview and spending great and much needed time with family and friends. Thank you Valerie for your hospitality. New Years Eve was great, fun times with people from Mars Hill. After a rousing Jenga competition we headed to Alki beach to watch the fireworks and toast in the New Year. The rest of the week flew by as I visited with people from Bone and Joint (my old work at UW) and friends from college. Then Wednesday came and after a night of very little sleep I headed to the U district for my interview. It was a long as hard day compounded by the fact that I was flying a red eye that night to Boston. The interview consisted of two essays and three separate group interviews; basically 3 people being interviewed and 2 people doing the interviewing. My writing was much better than this scattered update. ;) I don't know how I did. I wish I could tell you. I know this: I worked hard and prepared and had tons of people praying (THANK YOU!!!!!!!). It is in God's hands where is was from the beginning. I will keep you all updated on the process as much as possible and try to get pictures up shortly but there is the brief (haha) synopsis.
Much love and many blessings,
Barbara