Flood. This past Tuesday our lovely 1 bedroom apartment decided that it wanted to flood! As you can see from the picture, our cat Casey, decided to rush to the high ground to keep dry! Luckily it was just our bedroom and so we moved stuff into the living room where we had a slumber party for a couple of days. They came and fixed the gutter outside that was clogged and replaced the padding underneath the carpet along with cleaning and drying the carpet. We are back to normal now, but it was quite a fiasco to have happen in the middle of midterms! 

Hectic....

Life has been hectic since the last time that we posted here. Oh, how we wish we were still on vacation! Getting back to the grind of work has been rough. A few weekends ago we did get to go on a weekend getaway up in the wine country of Napa Valley, CA. This trip was a retreat for all residents and their spouses provided by Oakland Children's Hospital. We stayed in a little town of 1,000 people called Guernville, CA. We stayed in a nice cottage which had our own spa in it! To check out where we stayed go to www.ferngrove.com The Saturday that we were up there, we went canoeing down the Russian River. This was a lot of fun, once Lauren and I figured out how to steer the canoe! We only ran into a couple of trees and only got impaled a couple of times... It was a four hour canoe trip that about 30 of us went on. Definitely a fun time.

Graduate school has been busy for me. I have two speech clients this semester as well as 2
4-hour classes. It has been greuling, but I am getting more used to it. Lauren has been super busy as well. She is now working in the ER and is busy stitching up kids and putting splints on them! This weekend was her first day off in three weeks. She spent it going to our Church's annual Women's Day. To see more about it go to http://sfnet.cc She reports that it was a great time of inspiration! I continue to be a volunteer soccer coach on the weekends for children with special needs. It is a lot of fun and tiring! But it is great being out there with the kids. To see more info about the soccer league go to: http://sf.ucd.net/home/content/main/2003/03/2003_03_27_e_soccer.htm

Thats about it for now...

Vacation

So this is our first time doing something like this so be patient as we try to improve the stuff you see here. Mainly we wanted to do this share pictures and stories with family and friends about what is going on in our lives. With Lauren in residency and Luke starting graduate school next week, life is busy! We both have a lot of relatives that we are not able to keep in frequent contact with, but we want to keep in better contact.

The pictures that you will be seeing are from our vacation that we just returned from. we went to Yosemite, CA for 3 days, then to Orange County, CA for a week and then we stayed in San Simeon, CA for 2 days next to the Hearst Castle. Please feel free to comment on our posts and we are excited to share all this with you guys! we will try to add updates weekly (we'll see how this goes!).

this is the indoor pool (next to the movie theatre). The ledge in the middle is a diving board. All of that yellow you see is pure gold! 

this was a cool statue because it is from the year 1500 B.C., I forget what is was called but it is old and so I took a picture of it! 

this is the entrance to the main part of the castle 

this is the outside of one of the guest houses (1 of 3)..for the tour they will only let you see one guest house...unless you want to pay more money 

this is a side view of the pool...you can tell which spot was my favorite! 

this is the outdoor pool at the Hearst Castle...someday we are hoping to have this in our backyard...yeah right! 

this is the measley waterfall that we hiked up to...during the spring the fall stretches across the entire cliff you see there 

this is us on a 4 mile hike that we went on up to Vernal Falls in Yosemite 

these were the deer that got a little too close to us! 

This is the view of Half Dome in Yosemite last week. This view was just right outside our cabin. It is so beautiful there! 

this is us at a rest in