Smitten

On Friday while my family was in town, we went out to eat to celebrate my sister's birthday.

Jackson was just smitten with Hillary!

Coffee Outdoors

This morning before going to the grocery store, the kids and I went to a Starbucks with a great outdoor patio! Sarah and Jackson had pastries and watched the birdies!

He's staring at the birds! They would come up so close to eat the little bites of food from Sarah!

Now he's looking at his blueberry muffin!

Cooking with Sarah

Last night, Sarah cooked dinner. This week, she chose to make tomato soup with bacon and cheese panini. It was so yummy!!

Stirring and seasoning the soup. This was one of her favorite parts--learning to chiffonade the basil!

Pressing down the panini!

Viola!

Yum!

Daddy-Daughter Date!

On Wednesday, Bryan was post-call, and since he got a fairly good amount of sleep while at the hospital the night before, he took Sarah on a date. They went to go see the "Judy Moody" movie. Sarah has checked out several of those books from our library, and she couldn't wait to see it! When they got home, Sarah said that the movie was excellent, whereas Bryan was bummed that there was no violence in it! : )

Sarah loves dates with Daddy!!

Great Job, Bryan!

Bryan never ceases to amaze me and the following are just a couple of examples why:

A few months ago, Bryan took the Comlex 3, a standardized test for his DO Medical Licensing. Due to the fact that he works 80+ hours each week, he only put in about 5 actual hours of studying for this exam. Other than that, he just relied on all that he learned in medical school and thus far in residency. In 5 of the categories, he literally scored off the charts, (see where there's an asterisk on the right side--off the charts!)! Because he did so well, his residency program put additional money into his book fund!

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Last month, one of the doctors working on a call shift with Bryan wrote an email to the Chair of the Anesthesia Department and two of the faculty members praising the residents she was on call with:

"Dr. Crowder performed an awesome axillary block under ultrasound guidance as the primary anesthetic for surgery, was very receptive to suggestions and managed a variety of cases."

She went on to write:

"The best thing about the cases, was that each case seemed to have 2 to 4 Anesthesiology Residents in the room. The teamwork was so common that I had trouble figuring out who was doing the case! Not only did they help out in the OR and/or angio, but they were helping each other go to the ICU to bring patients down or attending to EC calls. They were all an absolute pleasure to work with."

The doctor did discuss each resident on call that night, not just Bryan, but he's the only one I figured y'all would care about!

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As always, I am so proud of him!!

Birthday Gifts

Yesterday a package for Bubs arrived from Gramma and Paw Paw, (Bryan's grandparents in Georgia), so we let him open it early!

"Presents...for me?" Daddy teaching Jack to rip open the paper!

"I like that!"

Jackson playing with his new book--he loves it!

He also received an adorable new pair of overalls!

Father's Day Dinner

Since Bryan was post-call on Sunday, we decided to postpone taking him out to dinner for Father's Day. So, we went to Zios yesterday evening and had a wonderful time!

Jackson had oatmeal and sweet potatoes that I made, then he had some of my chicken cannelloni and bread. He loved his big dinner!

Father's Day!

Father's Day started with a drawing from Sarah

and ended with a peach cobbler! And in between were gifts and lots of hugs and kisses!

Bryan is the absolute best dad! He loves his kiddos to death and does everything from playing "Pretty, Pretty Princess" with Sarah to teaching Jackson how to catch a football, (yes, already!). I am so blessed to have him as my husband and the father of our children.

Father's Day Gift

Since Bryan's on call tonight, I thought I would share what the kids and I did for one of his Father's Day gifts. Last week, I took these pictures of Sarah and Jackson sitting in the rocking chair that he built for them:

So sweet! Love them together!

It's so fitting that he put the "D" in his mouth...he puts everything in his mouth!

And this is the finished project! We can't wait to give it to him in the morning!

Date Night and an Award!

Bryan and I went to the Anesthesiologist graduation tonight. Although it was a graduation with dozens of other people in attendance, it was our first date night in 5 months! We were both really excited about it! He opened my car door and everything...he's the best!!

LOVE date nights!

Because Bryan's so awesome, he was one of three people in his residency class to receive an award for his "outstanding dedication to medical student education!" Each of the students that the residents teach for a month voted for their favorite resident, and Bryan was one of them! As always, I am so proud of him!!

Summer Is...

Summer is...

sitting on the porch swing and eating watermelon!

Summer is picnics

and sharing ice cream cones!

Cooking with Sarah

It's time for another edition of "Cooking with Sarah!" Last night, she made pasta with a pesto cream sauce and dump cake--one of Daddy's favorites!

Blending up the pesto! This was her favorite part of the whole cooking process! Ta-da!

Close up of the finished dish. It was yummy!

Sarah was so proud of herself. She did everything: poured salt in the boiling water before putting the pasta in, stirring the pasta as it cooked, adding the ingredients into the food processor for the pesto, pureeing the pesto, chopping the tomatoes for the pasta, and stirring it all together!

Big Boy Car Seat!

For Jackson's birthday, Bryan's Nana bought him a new car seat that we picked out. Can you believe he's already big enough to need a new car seat?! I sure can't! Bryan installed it last night during halftime of the NBA finals (hot dog Mavs!!), and we tried it out this morning on the way to Target! We still need one for Bryan's truck, but for now, we'll just have to switch this between the two cars.

Bubs trying to figure out how to unbuckle it! Haha!!

Random Pictures from my Phone

"Peek-a-boo! I see you!"

Sweet girl " Hello, world!"

" I like milk now!"

Playtime!

" This is my serious face."

It's the simple things in life...

Swimming!

About a month ago, we bought the kiddos a plastic pool for the summer! We broke it in this morning!!

The water was really cold at first, but after about 30 seconds, Jackson starting clapping from excitement! "Jackson, look at the camera, please."

"Jackson, try not to look so evil!"

(This picture makes me laugh so hard!!!)

Sissy teaching Bubs how to splash in the pool.

Still not looking at the camera...

They had so much fun!!

Hooray!

Splashing from Sarah Bear.

I have a feeling we're going to use this pool a lot!