Anyone???

So, some of the delay is my tendency to think that a post needs to be a perfect masterpiece and some of it is that John and I are trying to come up with a name for a new joint blog. Also lots of shifts at work, hospital clinicals, and school days.... I know, you don't really care. We'll get it sorted out soon, hopefully once John returns from the Seattle/Columbia river area where he's with his brother Aaron seeing what he reports as the best Dave Matthews concert he's ever been to. In the meantime, does anyone have suggestions for a new blog title for us???

Red-eyes for sure!

We're home...very well relaxed, rested, suntanned, and way out of shape from eating famously and lying by the beach. That being said we are also super exhausted after long red-eye flights home with less that pleasant fellow plane passengers. We had a good five hour nap after getting home, just finished unpacking, are drowning in laundry and getting ready to go back on shift early in the morning. Both John and I have had the obligatory panic dreams that include missing gear, remodeled fire stations and other disconcerting factors that make us both wonder if we'll remember how to do our jobs!

Big thanks to Melanie and Portia for picking us up at the airport and leaving our fridge full of some basic food necessities so that we could have something to eat without having to hit the grocery store!

Anyhow, we had the best time ever and look forward to updating everyone with pictures and stories soon!

Countdown!

Scattered...that is how this post will most likely be. Apologies in advance, I'm tired!

Well, here we are, less than two days away from vacation and entropy rules indeed. John is working his last 48-hr shift before our wedding vacation and I have been running errands today on my day off between shift days. This whole packing a few days before a flight is for the birds! I can't be responsible for anything missing on our trip with this kind of schedule. :-)

Anyhow, I'm back at work tomorrow and then we leave Monday morning to travel to California for a little celebration with the Gulledge gang for a few days prior to flying to Maui on Thursday. I think I can speak for John as well when I say that we both desperately need a little mental check-out for a few days. As much as we are looking forward to a vacation we are both really looking forward to the wedding and in sharing the rest of our lives together more than anything. I am so lucky to be marrying such a kind, caring, loving, respectful, generous, funny man. Thanks to all of you that had a part in making him who he is and in bringing us together!