We have a busy weekend coming up with my sister Christine’s wedding but before the festivities begin today we wanted to post some long overdue pictures from our friend’s George & Kara Morris’ wedding and our trip to Florida to visit Disney World. Have a great weekend! Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
An Update Long Time Coming
13
May
Clearly we have not done the greatest job keeping the blog updated over the last two months or so. Hopefully I’ll be able to remedy part of that this evening. Since our last update, I’ve finished two more rotations of intern year, Vivek has gotten to 3 months, we made a 4500 mile road trip to North Carolina, Florida & Alabama, made another road trip to San Antonio and have spent lots of time in our garden. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictures from White Sands…
26
Dec
We’ve gotten to enjoy our first Christmas as a family with me away at work…not the most fun way to spend Christmas but Melissa and the kids were super flexible to accomidate my schedule. I’m now half way done with my internal medicine rotation and have got about a week and a half left to go. I was post call on Christmas eve but managed to get about three hours of sleep before we all went out to my mom and dad’s house and celebrated Christmas a day early since I was working on Christmas day. Read the rest of this entry »
Christmas Wishes…
21
Dec
Merry Christmas wishes to everyone early since I’m not sure if I’ll get another opportunity to post another message before Christmas because I’m on call the night before. I’ve been busy at work the last few weeks and thus very little time to devote to working on pictures or posting an update. I finished another rotation in the ER (my second month there this year) and have started three weeks of internal medicine. Read the rest of this entry »
Lou Malnati’s And Our Appearance on the Travel Channel
18
Oct
In my last post, I had talked some about one of our favorite restaurants in Chicago for deep dish pizza – Lou Malnatis. We first discovered this pizzeria about 4 years ago when we we did a marathon 3500 mile trip that brought us through Chicago on the way to Kalamazoo, MI. Since then we have loved the pizza at Lou Malnatis so much that if were are within an hour of Chicago on a trip we will usually make a detour to stop at Lou Malnatis for some pizza and buy a couple extra to eat later when we crave authentic deep dish Chicago style pizza. Apparently because of our love for Lou Malnatis pizza we also go to make our first TV debut last November on the show Food Paradise on the Travel Channel. Read the rest of this entry »
Back From Michigan…2660 Miles Later
13
Oct
Sorry we have not posted in a while. We were on vacation the first week of October to visit my sister, Chrisly, in Battle Creek, Michigan and since we got back I’ve been working long days in Labor & Delivery at Parkland until today, which was my first day off since I got back to work. We had a wonderful time hanging out with Chrisly and enjoying the beautiful fall weather in Michigan. The leaves had started to change in Battle Creek although they were not at the height of their fall color but the kids still enjoyed getting to play with all the fallen leaves.
First Week of Labor & Delivery And Leaving For Michigan
30
Sep
We’re all packed up to leave for Michigan this morning to visit Christo’s sister, Chrisly, who works for Kellogg in Battle Creek, Michigan. We’re so glad that I’ve got a week off during my labor & delivery month so that we can have time together as a family and to enjoy time with Chrisly in Michigan as we explore the Lake Michigan area along with visiting Kellogg where rumor has it that the kiddos will get to see Tony the Tiger. Please keep us in your prayers as we travel because Luke has been sick with some type of viral gastroenteritis and he was throwing up all last night and we are praying that we can make it through this trip without others in our family getting sick. Read the rest of this entry »
Some Pictures From Our Last Few Days in India
03
Jun
We are still working hard on getting projects done around the house before Christo starts his residency orientation on June 22nd. The big things we have done so far have been to put in new ceiling fans in all the rooms (did you know that a ceiling can make a room feel 10 degrees cooler and uses a fraction of the energy compared to running an AC unit?), picking out applicances for the home, putting in new programmable thermostats to make our AC unit run more efficiently, and putting in wood blinds throughout the house. Our big project that we started tackling today has been adding built-in bookshelves similar to the ones we had in Rochester because we still have hundreds of books and right now nowhere to put them. We hope this project will be finished by this weekend so that we can tackle our next project of painting the house followed by landscaping work for the third week. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Week and Return to America
16
May
Just wanted to give all of you a quick summary of our trip back to the US and our first few days back in America. We left Makunda last Wednesday to start our journey home back to the US. Before our departure, the staff at Makunda threw us a wonderful farewell potluck dinner and so we were able to visit with most of the campus families before we left. We were sad to leave so many new friends who have such a passion for serving Christ through medical missions work but we we were consoled with the thought that we will soon be able to return to India to labor with them to reach people with the Gospel. Read the rest of this entry »
Melissa’s Post From Week 3
14
May
Because of the problems we had with our internet connection, we were not able to put up this post from Melissa. Continue to lift up Luke in your prayers as he has still been suffering from diarrhea. The kids are having a difficult time with jet lag…they were up this morning about 1:30 AM. We hope that they will be able to re-time their body clocks soon. We’ve also put up some pictures from our third week along with this post. Read the rest of this entry »
