My new family

Meet my new family. Well, at least my family for the next 22 months. They are my class mates at school. There are only 12 of us and we pretty much travel in a pack where ever we go around the school. To the lunch room... big green pack, to the classroom.... big green pack, to the clinic.... big green pack. Do you get my drift??
So I'd like you to meet Eileen, Teresa, Hien, and Nikki (from left to right):

And Angela and Amy...
And Mirey (pronounced Me-ray) and Neeray (Raj for short)...
That is obviously not all twelve, but I don't have pictures of the rest as of yet. I have plenty of time to capture them all on film!

Below you can see me little darling working on her thesis...
And here she is taking a break from her tiring work on her thesis to enjoy the company of Joe (Boxer).
Just kidding on the thesis part.... just in case you weren't sure.

Next time I hope to have some pictures of us working in each others mouths for real, not just the dummy's we've been working on.

PIctures!

Ok, so I got my camera and I know i haven't posted any pictures. So here are some that I've taken recently. I also have been playing with the settings on the camera that my old one didn't have. I now have a black and white setting:

And a sepia setting, I really like this coloring... but this picture isn't the best.

Alrighty, here are the real pictures of stuff that has been happening around these parts. This is Lucas getting his new DS for his birthday. He got it on his actual birthday but his party is not until tomorrow because his birthday falls right when school starts and he wanted a chance to invite friends from school.
Here is Luke's small package of presents. At his age they get smaller yet more expensive, LOL!!

And here are the boys on the actual first day of school.

Hunter is waiting for his teacher and looking about ready to cry in this picture. He did end up crying. It was a horrible morning. He makes me so sad that he is nervous about leaving me. Even now he has days where he cries getting on the bus, and everyday he says he doesn't want to go to school.
Hunter and Stella playing in an old box.

This is just some of my books, I think there are 3 books missing from this stack. That big one on the top and the big one on the bottom are for the same class! Some days my backpack is so full!!

Oh and Hunter is finally going to lose a tooth. I don't know when, but his permanent tooth is coming in behind his baby tooth. Technically it's his permanent mandibular left central incisor (tooth number24) that is erupting posterior to his deciduous mandibular central incisor (tooth number N) I can just barely make out some mamelons erupting through the gingiva. See how much I've learned so far... that's probably greek to some of you, I know it was greek to me about 2 weeks ago,LOL!!!
I am having fun at school. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of info to learn, but still fun!!! I was chosen to be the student delegate at the Dental Hygiene symposium at the end of this month. I'm excited about that too! (Don't ask me what that is because I don't really know..)

Hi there!

I'm here and alive, I really am!

I have a camera again!!! Yeah for me, thanks to my mom, Yeah for her too!! LOL

I do have some pictures to post but I'm still figuring out the camera right now.

Do you see that lady over there on the right side of my page? That's supposed to represent me. Yeah, I know, it's not exactly me but close enough...

Well, I have dressed her up in scrubs, just like I wear everyday to school. The color is pretty darn close to what we have to wear. there are 12 of us poor souls that have to wear that god awful ugly color for the next 2 years. We look like big highlighters walking through the campus. you can see us a mile away.

At least we won't get lost.....

First days of schools

Ok. I know that sounds funny. But lots of us here in the house started school this week. Me included.

Lets start with...... Lucas.
He has 8 classes, but only goes to seven each day. the schedule is less confusing this year than last year when he also had eight classes but only went to 6 each day. So far no huge complaints, and no homework has been assigned...yet. So far so good!

Ok, now for Hunter.... Ummm lets see, where to begin? Should we start with the crying or the crying? The crying that he doesn't want to go or the crying that he wants to stay with me. Maybe we should start with how I have to shove him on the bus while the bus driver closes the door and I have to squeeze my arm back out of the door. (Sort of the way you quick close the door of an over-stuffed closet so the stuff doesn't fall out) Or how about on the first day of school when the teacher had to pull him off of me and practically drag him away.

Do you want to know the kicker.... do you? The kicker is that he comes home and tells me that he had a good day. There is no torturing or finger-nail pulling. No force feeding of worms. Not even getting a yellow (which is the first warning). Nothing significant happens that would cause the above to be the expected reaction. Nothing!

Ok, so me. I started school too! I had a good first day! the whole day was spent in my Radiology class. We learned how to take bitewing x-rays (aka BWX). We didn't actually do any because we don't have out dosimeters yet but we will next Thursday. A dosimeter measures the amount of radiation we are getting exposed to. (less is better in this case) I'm totally excited about next week. I happen to think that I'm one of the smarter ones (or at least I think I will have to study less than some others, I hope) Not to pat myself on the back or anything, but it remains to be seen, I'll let you know how I feel about that in a few months. Just remind me to post about that.

I have 8 classes in total, 4 lectures and 4 labs. It's a very busy schedule.

I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can.....

Oh yeah, no pictures because, remember that my camera is broke. I did borrow a camera but I don't have the cord to transfer the pics from it to my computer.

no more pictures

at least for awhile. My camera is officially broken and will not take even one more photo. I'm very sad. I just keep thinking about all the things I won't be able to take pictures of.

On Monday I will miss the first day of school pictures :-(

On Thursday I will will my first day of class picture :-(

Then there is Lucas's birthday party, Jillian's party, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas....

I am now a poor college student with no means of getting a new camera until I'm done with school.... In two (yes 2) years. I will miss out on capturing all those memories for 2 years..

I'm very distraught over this,
very sad,
and frustrated,

I really want a new camera,
I guess I can always resort to stealing my daughters VTech camera, it doesn't take good pictures, usually very blurry and too bright, and no way to zoom in on the subject....

very sad...

Maybe the retailers will here my distraught voice and put out some really great fabulous deal on Black Friday at 5am and I can wait in a crazy long line and be one of the people to get a $500 camera for $10!! I can hope, right?

Cousin Bob

Last Saturday i went to my cousin Bob's graduation ceremony. He graduated from University of Florida with a B.S.. I got a call from him 2 days ago telling me that he won't be seeing me or the kids for a long time. I ask him why what's going on?? He tells me that he just got a call from the University of Hawaii telling him that he has just been accepted to their college of pharmacy!!

I can't believe it! He had been wait listed at that University since May or so and just now gets the call. Classes start next week I think! In Hawaii!! He's so lucky!! I hope he does well and doesn't get too carried away surfing.

yeah for Bob!!!!!!

More pictures from Cape San Blas

My camera stopped working about half way through the week so I started using my video camera to take stills but it's quality stinks. So I actually have quite a bit more to share but I don't know how to work the video camera yet.

Anyway....

Hunter after battling the waves...
Stella and Jillian their matching pj's...
Shannon and Jillian posing for the camera...
A special form of torture... Just kidding, they are playing Hulabaloo
One of the desserts that Barbara made for the kids. It like fondue. Hot fudge melted into waffle bowls with all sorts things to dip in them like marshmallows, cherries, bananas and graham crackers.
Hunter's creation, piled high with lots of cherries!
The lighthouse on Cape San Blas
Stella looking for shells down at the beach by the light house. We were told there was good shelling by the lighthouse. They were wrong. Only big giant clam shells that were all broken...
and fiddler crabs...
The sunset. I thought it look kinda neat with all the tree stumps on the beach.
These are only our foot prints, no one elses. You can't get a picture like that on Clearwater beach!!!
Stella flying the fairy kite...
Hunter flying the dragon kite...
Awwww, how cute is she?
There were a bunch of these interesting looking jellyfish. They kept getting the kids. The kids still wanted to play in the water anyway. This jelly is about the size of a quarter plus the tentacles.
There were lots more pictures, but I had to pick just a few to share. I'll post more if I can get pictures from Shannon's camera. She has pictures of the last half of the week when we went to the Florida caverns and Blue Springs rec area, and face painting and more!!!