Guess what starts tomorrow at 3pm?!?

SPRING BREAK!!!!

I literally cannot wait. I am almost giddy I am so excited. I feel like this means that I made it through the first year (even though I will have 4 weeks after I come back). But in those 4 weeks there are NO more write ups (the history and physicals we do at a local hospital and then write up in 30 page write ups...and they take hours upon hours and my hand gets so sore and wants to fall off), only 1 POPE (patient orientated practical exam = the most nerve wracking thing ever), NO PE exams from mosby's (which spelling counts and I spend eons memorizing spelling, which does not come naturally to me), so yeah...pretty pumped about making it this far! Praise Jesus!

So. What are we doing for spring break you may ask?

Well, let me tell you (this is also serving as a little accountability to actually get all these things done):

1. Taxes (ugh, but with all of our money going to school and medical bills we are hoping to at least not OWE money to Mr. Obama, that seems reasonable, right?)

2. Bills (we are STILL getting medical bills - and it seems like there are 439 from each appointment/procedure, but thankfully for once in our lives we were organized about something - this is literally the first time - and have a beautiful excel sheet to keep track of all these horrific medical bills)

3. Haircut for me (we cut Marks hair ourselves). I have not had a haircut since early July, and have terrible split ends, and my hair is just pretty gross (see super bowl post pic) - I think I am just going for a trim, but maybe I will go crazy and go a bit shorter.

4. Clean our room (this includes trying to eliminate the pizza hut smell from my lovely husbands uniform)

5. Clean my car (story of my life, I have no idea why I cannot keep my car clean. I blame it on driving so much back and forth across the state every weekend, and that seems to work, but yeah, def needs cleaned).

6. Study? That's on list, but we shall see. I have to do these health care issue journals that I have procrastinated all semester, boo.

7. Scholarships. (neeeeeed scholarships - see #2)

8. Babysit Anna and Amy (yippeeeee, I am not sure how many days I get to do this, but I am pumped. Its my favorite thing ever, and is a nice little help having some extra money)

9. Ultrasound of my neck. At 9am Monday morning. So pray everything looks good! I cant wait to we get to go to the ultrasound place for exciting things like babies, instead of seeing if they can find cancer. Blah.

10. Hang out with our friends Kelly and Mike Hass. Kelly was my roomie in our amazing Grand River house, and Mark was in their wedding as Mikes friend. They have 2 precious babies and just joined Crusade staff and moved back to Kalamazoo from Virginia! Yay!

11. Going to a meeting at Bethany Christian Services about adoption. This is just an informational meeting, and we are not even close to starting the process of adoption, but we are interested, and so we thought it would good to go and hear what they have to say. We both feel like God has such a heart for orphans, and we want a heart for what God does, and feel like adoption is such a sweet example of the gospel.

12. Going to Caraba's for some fundraiser thing that my mom bought tickets for with my family. I have never been there and am prettttty excited for some Italian!! My mom is also taking me out to dinner (because Mark is delivering) to celebrate surviving til Spring break

13. Spending much needed time with my amazing hubby. Things we are looking forward to include: sleeping in together (one of our favorite things), sleeping in the same house, catching up on The Office and Parks and Rec, practicing with our camera, and spending time with both of our families (including Mark's mom who currently is on a mission trip to Haiti...pretty cool huh? I cant wait to hear about it).

So that's it!
Some of the things are a bit less than glamorous, but I am so pumped to be home, with people I love, and not driving to Detroit Sunday night to go to school all week.

Oh yeah, and tomorrow I get to practice suturing on pigs feet at school! I am pretty pumped, hopefully I can sneak a picture to share!

Love,
Brittany