Rosemary Beach

The last week of July, James and I went with my family to Rosemary Beach, Florida. We had never been to Rosemary before, but we definitely want to go back! We loved the sand, the water, the beach time, the bicycles rides, the food, the family time, and we must mention the snowcones. Just a few miles from Rosemary Beach down 30A is Seaside and an Airstream trailor where very nice people make delicious cold concoctions. James and I indulged in 3 "Piggly Wigglies". Let me just tell you how they do it...homemade frozen custard on the bottom, snowcone in the middle, and sweetened condensed milk on top. So. Delicious.

James found a skim board at the rental house and the next day Meggie and James attempted to teach themselves to use it. This resulted in water front entertainment not only for the family, but also for those sitting on the beach in our vicinity. There were a few hard falls, lots of laughs, and no sustained injuries.

Published

During the summer between my first and second years of medical school, I had the wonderful opportunity to be involved with some great clinical research with a few really great doctors at Vanderbilt. Since then we've published an abstract at the American Thoracic Society. I also did a poster presentation at the St. Jude Student Research Presentation at UT. But this week, our paper was finally published in CHEST after much hard work! Needless to say, we were quite excited.

Check it out:

http://www.chestjournal.org/content/early/2009/06/26/chest.08-2776.abstract

Thunder Road in Memphis

This weekend my parents paid us a visit in Memphis. Since I had been working last weekend, we celebrated as psuedofather's day today. I attempted to recreate the "Thunder Road" burger that originates at Litton's on Broadway in Knoxville. The concoction formed between the buns includes a burger, a slathering of pimento cheese, and grilled onions.



This was my first attempt to create the specialty myself - and it went fairly well if I don't say so myself. Homemade pimento cheese, Memphis' own Folk's Folly ground prime, and onions off the grill.

Now tell me you don't want one of these delicious creations.

Happy PseudoFather's Day Dad!

Chattanooga

James did an Emergency Medicine rotation during May in Chattanooga. I was very lonely without my hubby, but I went to visit for Memorial Day weekend :). It was so nice to be in a city where it wasn't scary to walk around downtown. Highlights of the weekend included the walking bridge (3x), Ice Cream Show, Table Two, Good Dog, and hanging out with the Lokeys.

Caroline's Graduation!

My kid sis is a college grad! Caroline graduated

from Lipscomb on May 9th! I am so proud of her and excited to see what plans God has in store for her. Here she is with the important folks that pay the tuition :).

Numero Uno

This weekend my kid sister Meggie came to visit. She made a great pick at the Redbox--Changeling- and also a good pick at Muddy's Bake Shop-- Capote. James and I love having company!