A few days left...

until the semester is over! I have two finals, a notebook, and a manual due along with one more lab and then I'll be finished! I'll technically be a 3rd year. I'm excited! I have about 3 weeks in between my last final and the first day of summer classes. This summer, I'll be at Lamar for my clinic. I'm happy to go back because I'll be getting a lot more experience with hearing aids and I'll be close to home! But I'm pretty sure starting in the fall I'll be in Houston three days a week. It's ok, I'll be done before I know it.
Sam and I saw "Water for Elephants" last night. It was a good movie, but it wasn't as much like the book as I would have liked. All in all, still a very good movie. Two thumbs up.
P.S. My birthday is in two weeks. I'll be 25! I can't believe I'm going to be 25. I'm getting old.

Anyway, I need to go study. I have a lot to do over the next few days and I can't afford to waste any time! I'll update after finals, hopefully to say I've managed to make all A's this semester!

Rae

Chicago, Church, and Cleaning.

Let me start off by saying I had a fantastic time in Chicago. I went there in August, so it wasn't a new city to me anymore. We didn't do the tourist (visiting buildings and important places) thing this time. We did, however, stroll over to Millenium Park. It's the home of the bean...you know...this one!

The Bean!!!

It's so cool! And you can see the Chicago Skyline in the reflection. On our way to the bean, we ran into Vince Vaughn. No big deal. Whatever! I was freaking out! But I couldn't get my camera out fast enough but I managed to get a picture of the back of his head. It's totally him. Zoom in. He's the tall one with the sideburns. I promise it's him.

It's Vince Vaughn. For real!

Anyway, other than that, we had a fantastic time in Chicago. The convention didn't seem as interesting as it was last year, but it could be because I spent most of the time I was there in meetings about the Student Organization. Either way, it was fun. It's in Boston next year, so I'm excited!

Last week, a bunch of people and myself participated in a Human Video for Palm Sunday. It was to "Dry Bones" by Gungor.  The song is amazing. Anyway, I'm going to post the link off of my friend, Deirdre Field's facebook video, and hopefully you'll be able to see it. If not, I apologize for teasing you. 

We will be doing that video again tomorrow, along with "Beautiful Exchange" by Hillsong, and "Living in Me" by someone's name I can't remember at the moment. That one is a really upbeat, cheeseball kind of song. It's ok though, I still enjoy dancing to it :) And "Beautiful Exchange" is an amazing song, as it naturally would be since it's by Hillsong.  So, if you're in the area and you don't already have plans for Easter Sunday morning, you should come join us at Triumph Church Nederland. We'd love to have you! (shameless plug...)

We have practice and dress rehearsal today starting at 2. I've been up since 9 cleaning my house and I'm nowhere near finished. But I have two clean dogs, a clean living room and kitchen, lunch is cooked, and all of the clothes are washed. So I have made some progress today. 

Let me just say that everytime I sweep, I have enough dog hair to make a new dog. Whether I sweep once a week, once a month, once a day, it doesn't matter. I always have enough hair to make an entirely new dog. It's ridiculous. Like the dog hair king is out to get me. 

I recently read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. What an amazing book! The movie came out yesterday, but I haven't had time to go see it yet. Maybe I'll go either tonight or tomorrow evening sometime. I also just finished The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Another good book. The last chapter almost made me want to throw the book at the wall, but Mr. Sparks tied everything all in perfectly, like he usually does. I can't wait until these last two weeks of school are over so I can dive into all the books I can possibly read...until summer school starts in June. 

That's about all I've got for now. I have to go get everything ready for practice and rehearsal. I have a feeling we may be there several hours. By several hours I mean 6 or more :)

Have a beautiful Saturday and a Happy Easter!

Rae

Grown-up purchases, dressed up, and traveling!

Wow! It's surely been a long time since I've updated this. A lot has been happening lately. My Honda decided she was tired and she died on me. So, a few weeks ago we added this new addition to the Guerrero family:



This is not MY car, but it looks just like this. It has everything: navigation, leather seats, sun/moonroof, heated seats, etc. We are so blessed. We named her Ana. She's our first big purchase besides our house.








In addition to the car dying, our refrigerator decided it was time to go also. So last week we had a new refrigerator delivered:

Nothing special, just a fridge.














I'm obviously most excited about the car. I love to drive it and I feel awesome driving it. She's currently getting fixed...apparently there was a cracked rim (the disadvantages of a used car) and they are fixing it at the dealership. So at the moment, I'm driving this thing:

It's ok. Not my favorite, but it's free while they're fixing Ana.

Moving on from that, this past Friday we hosted our White Coat Ceremony. What's that you ask? It's a banquet honoring the 3rd year Audiology Doctorate students. Before they leave off on their 4th year externships, we send them off with their white coats and a gift. We had a wonderful ceremony on the 8th floor of the Library and I believe everyone was pleased with it. It was very nice and everyone looked great, especially these two beautiful people:

I LOVE this picture, courtesy of Stacy Waller. Sam has been trying to grow his hair out since like January and he finally gave up and cut it back to how he used to have it and I have to say, I LOVE him with short hair. It's really a huge difference. His face is so much more joyful with short hair. He's a different person. I promise.

Here is a picture of my class. We're the best class ever.

Other than that, things have been going good. School and work have been consuming most of my time but I'm trying to keep them balanced.

Oh, and I'm flying Wednesday to this lovely city:

Chicago!!! My class and I went there in August and we didn't get to see everything. Our national American Academy of Audiology convention is there this year. So we get a second chance to see everything we missed! So I'll be gone starting tomorrow night and I'll be back Sunday. 

That's about it! I'll definitely be updating when we return from Chicago. And I'll definitely have lots of pictures!

Love,

Rae