Um....all of summer update?

Three months later and I am finally updating this! I promise I haven't forgotten. It's just kinda a pain in the butt to upload the pics and write stuff about all of them! So quick updates:

I won the long standing bet of who would be seriously dating first! They all owe me dinner still!

 Ashley graduated! Terrible picture though!

Alexis' birthday celebration at Gallup Park.

Things that make me smile at work: funny door decorations...

and chair racing in the hallways

DQ and movie time with Alexis

Memorial Day festivities

Along with a grossly swollen finger and bruise from the front door slamming on me. As of now, half the nail has fallen off. But I won't show a picture of that because it's gross.

A goodbye party for Lydia from work at Bar Louie with the best martini ever

A double rainbow...

and 4 am goofing around in the playroom at work.

A pit stop on the way to Mackinac at the Hartwick Pines State Park and Lumber Jack Museum

Our room that slept 8....for Natalie and I

The bridge

The flip flop throwing away ceremony.

they served for many many years

Double bikes are hard to ride, but are a island tradition so we had to

Spiders like caves

Arch rock

Day of ice cream and sunshine

Summer and Grant are having a girl! And had a fun gender reveal party!

Dominick's Sangria is good. But don't go on 100 degree days. They don't have A/C.

But Charlie's is nice and cool. And have good breadsticks!

And finally....

Convincing a friend...

to run a 5K where they throw colored cornstarch at you....

is a great idea :)

Phew!

Spring is coming!!!!

I think I have missed a couple weeks here in there, but here is what I've got...

I had been looking forward to this movie coming out since I read the books back in December! So, after recruiting almost the entire night shift to read the books, I convinced a bunch of people to come to the premiere! Yay! But I finally got the tickets and was so excited! (more later in this post)

Ignore my short nails, but decided to try a pinterest idea of swirl nails. It turned out cool, but took some practice and it was really messy if you didn't tape your fingers up all the way.

Speaking of pinterest, we had a party at Alexis' house with that theme. People brought food from recipes they found on there and we did crafts!

My lemon tree is blooming! That means fruit is coming! The flowers smelled really good too.

For Grant's birthday I decided to make him a t-shirt because he is obsessed with the cat from The Hunger Games. So forget Peeta or Gale. Team Buttercup!

Speaking of The Hunger Games... we were all excited about the movie we even decorated the white board at work in Hunger Games theme! Seeing the movie was really fun! We got there really early and were pretty much the first people there. Ha! We made shirts and brought nail polish and magazines and our mockingjay pins they had trivia and I won a poster! I also did the Katniss braid in Kaitlyn's hair! Ha, ok so we were a bit bored until the movie started...

View from work one morning. One of the benefits from being on the top floor of the hospital. And working the wee hours of the mornings is the sunrise.

Summer and I have been playing a game on our phones that is like pictionary. She decided to draw out for me that they will be bringing a new person into the world in December! Yay! Ignore the word on the bottom, the last picture she drew was "thong".

When patients on our floor get bored, this is what happens. They decorate wheelchairs :) And yes, the wings flapped and the propeller spun.

Spring is coming and that means planting stuff! This year I decided to do more basic, easy stuff than carrots. They didn't turn out so well. So I planted a bunch of herbs and lavender.

I also added a picture to the last post....

Fail

Tis the time of year that the New Year's resolutions go out the window. I admit (and Bryce has noticed) that I have slacked on this once again. I haven't completely forgot about it, but it is a challenge to keep up with it and remembering to take pictures. I know I have missed a few weeks, but here is what I have:

Murder Mystery Dinner: It seems that Shelly had a pretty good time during my murder mystery dinner party in December, so she decided to have her own! It was 1950's class reunion themed. It was fun to see all the costumes and much easier to find clothes to wear compared to 1890's Turkey! It was also much larger than mine! Could have up to 50 or something people!!

Pinterest: My mom has finally joined the 21st century! Not only does she have Facebook, but she has also joined Pinterest! She found this pictures and I couldn't believe how much it looked like Grant! That could be Dale sitting on his shoulder if he was all grey!

Valentine's Day: A bunch of girls from work went out to dinner and to see a movie. It was so fun and so nice to spend time with them outside of the craziness at work!

Outback: Summer has been coming over to my parent's house every couple of weeks to help my mom clean the house and the basement to get ready for her meetings. We decided to go out to dinner since I don't get to see her that often. Just an FYI, Outback has a GF menu!

Baby Shower: Ashley, Natalie and I went shopping for baby shower gifts for a friend. It is always so hard to decide what to buy, so we decided to think out of the box! Instead of a diaper cake we did a diaper motorcycle!

January-blanuary

Ashley and I finally decided to exchange Christmas presents! I went to Lansing for the weekend to visit and also got to exchange gifts with Natalie. A little late, but at least we did it before February! While at Ashley's I saw this sight:

Alyssa, their cat's place setting. Notice the water cup she drinks out of all the food that she paws out of her bowl to eat. This is the same cat that eats cheez-its and spray cheese. Hilarious.

Ever since the holidays, my mother has been into puzzles. Yes, puzzles. I believe it's genetic. Grammy is the same way and I hardly remember a trip to visit her without working on a puzzle being involved. The first puzzle we started on was insane. It was a picture of beads. Thousands. It was awful. So we put it away and started on plan b.

This past week has been a bit miserable. For some reason work has been really draining and then I caught a cold. So this has been my life for the week: chapstick, kleenex and lots of fluids. Not pictured is my Neti-pot, my raw nose and all of the trash cans in my house that are full of more piles of tissues. Hopefully I can nip this in the bud!

On the bright side, today was 45!! This winter has been CRAZY! After last year's blizzards, I was concerned this year about driving in the snow but it hasn't been a problem since it keeps melting! I am ok with this kind of winter!