This and That!

Jake and Ireceived our wedding photo album from our photographers and were so excited to see it-It came a day before Christmas, but we were down in Monrovia so we didnt actually get it until this past weekend-but I love it!

Christmas is over and we have already taken our first tree down along with all the decorations, and we rearranged the living room so we would have more room for our guests at our New Years Party. Ellen & Ryan, Jackie & Alex, maybe Fife & Jay and a few others may come over for some Apples to apples, Ticket to Ride, and Euchre. We were at Meijer today buying some wine and came across a brand labeled "Jacobs Creek" and thought it would be neat to try it, but sorry Jacobs Creek-Sutter Homes was cheaper!

Tonight Jake and I are going to one of his co-workers house for a dinner party! Apparently Steve has some left over wine from his wine party he had a few weeks ago-Lets just say thats exciting along with his great cooking skills :)

I start back at the internship on January 12th for a week of orientation into the Medical Nutrition Therapy rotation then starting January 19th I will begin my 16 week commute to St Vincent in Caramel for the rest of the rotation. I'm looking forward to the rotation, but not the drive-I'm hoping Ginny and I will be able to carpool most of the time. Ginny works down at Westfield High School so the hospital is pretty close to where she works.

Because the next semester will be long for both of us we planned a mini-vaca to Pheonix, Az to catch some rays and see Jakes Aunt Donna. She is always telling us we should come out and stay with her, but this is the first time we've actually taken her up on the idea.I think we are planning to take a trip to the Grand Canyon one day we are there. The rest of the time we will probably just enjoy their company and the nice, sunny, dry weather that comes with living in the Southwest!

Maybe this trip will inspire us to move to a warm place?! Indiana is OK in the summer, but the winters, especially January and February are killer cold-you all know what I'm talking about!

Until next time.....Happy 2009 from the Standefords!

Secret Santa

At work we have a secret santa which was decided by drawing names from a hat. The rules were 5 $1 gifts and 1 $5 gift, but I couldnt see spending a dollar on 5 gifts so I changed it to 2 $2.50 gifts and 1 $5 gift so that I could give my person a few nice gifts! This has been going on for about 2 weeks now and I still havent received a gift from my secret santa. I dont know who it is but I havent been the happiest person when I go looking in the sleigh for my gifts! Needless to say, I think I have figured out who my secret santa is and everyone elses for that matter. I enjoy the mystery and figuring out who has who more than anyone else I work with. I've been looking for clues and checking the hand writting out on each of the presents. Along with that I've been taking mental notes of when the presents arrive in the sleigh! I might be taking it to extreme, but I've got to keep myself sane for my last couple days! Speaking of last day...its tomorrow :) It's been fun here in the ADR, but there comes a time when you must move on...move on out of a position you didnt really enjoy too much.

I love this time of year and I'm so excited to see friends and family we havent seen in a while. This time it is well overdue for many of them! I hope to see you all soon!

Jake always wins!

I just want everyone to know that I never win and Jake always wins. I cant win against him at "HORSE" or "PIG" (we played back in Monrovia 3 weeks ago) , any board games-my most recent attempts was Ticket to Ride (A game Mike and Kate got for us for the wedding), or any other game we have tried to play together. This is sort of a big deal to me because I like to win and you could say I'm a sore loser, but I would just like to win a legitimate game against him one of these days.

The week in recap!

This week flew by! I'm not so sure what made it go so quickly, but I know I'm not getting older that fast. The first 3 days were gone like that. Sunday, Jake and I went to Edinburgh Outlet Mall and did a little finishing up on Christmas shopping, Monday and Tuesday we both worked, worked out, and watched our favorite TV shows together. Wednesday-work..., Thursday we had my Holiday Dinner at work where I presented my dessert buffet as my special function for my internship. Needless to say, after doing a little quality control and dessert eating, I was stuffed and sort of felt sick from all the sugar! Jake left the dinner and went quickly to a wine tasting at one of his Co-worker's house. I was pretty jealous that he was able to do it and I had to stay at work :( Then, after wine tasting and purchasing a bottle of our favorite Riesling he had a basketball game at Faith. When I was off work he told me the team named him MVP of the game because of all of the points (24) he contributed to the game. They won by 2 and he was very excited because last week they lost to a bunch of older guys (about 30-45 yo) because some of their players were lacking in the defense area! I sorta felt bad, but I saw how those old guys drove right in on them and made the lay up everytime. I do have to defend Jake and say that never did the old men drive on him, he was out guarding their number 1 player. As for today, I got caught up on all assignments that are due on Monday! One more week and foodservice is over!

Tomorrow, I plan on baking up as much banana bread as I have bananas for, freezing it and taking it to grandmas for Christmas along with a few other goodies! Tomorrow at 5 we are headed down to see Jakes dad in the hospital, then staying at John & Rachels Saturday night, going to the Colts vs. Lions game (yeah Lucas Oil Stadium) and then one last time to check in on Jakes dad, then we are headed home on Sunday night. Its going to be an eventful weekend :)