Two more pictures.

Other happenings. We went boating to celebrate the completion of third year of medical school. I can wakeboard now! It took about 26 tries. Not joking. Yay for friends with a boat!

This is the Kaylen workspace. It's all her stuff from her apartment, plus wedding swag that we have gotten, plus a creativity table. She had made all the bouquets and boutonnieres (impossible to spell) from scratch. Here she is working on her wedding shoes. Hot glue gun FTW!

I finally figured out how to do this thing.

Hello everybody!

So the point is letting everyone know what I'm up to? Okie dokie. I'm one week away from taking my Step 2 CK (clinical knowledge) exam, followed by the CS (clinical skills) exam. That means I'm studying basically all day...these are the middle of the three Step exams that equal doctor. (My parents did not have to do this!!)

Otherwise, did y'all here that I'm getting married?! You should have your invites by now...RSVP ASAP! We know you're coming but it sure is fun getting 2-5 envelopes per day. Kaylen and I trying to follow the workout regimen of P90X, a super-intense home workout program, to get smokin' hott for our honeymoon. It's HARD! But I'm addicted now. Oh, and we recently transmogrified our home into a vegetarian safehouse. Partly for honeymoon hotness, partly from a book a read recently, The China Study. It's a book about diet and chronic disease, mainly the American "diseases of affluence" - heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol. It combines a lot of lab research and epidemiology. Check it out! Pretty scientific at times, but the author always explains things very well. Not like many of the McCulloughs need convincing anyway!

Uhhhhh...other recent events....OH! We had a giant (well, small) ant battle on the sidewalk a couple days ago! Check it:

These two hives, from Sidewalk Crack West and Sidewalk Crack East, were in the middle of a ten-thousand ant war. The action was furious - ant on ant brutality, lifeless exoskeletons of spent ants strewn about, and calls for reinforcements. Only one colony could be victorious and claim dominion over the continent of Sidewalk Square 37. Oh the ant-manity!

If you haven't figured it out, I'm super bored studying.

Fourth of July

I hope each of you had a great Fourth of July. What did you do?

Claudia and I spent Friday night at Lee Ann's lake house. Then we did one of our favorite things, which is kayaking White Oak Creek. It was a great day weather wise. The water as always was crystal clear and we had a lot of fun paddling the Creek and seeing the wildlife and all the 4th of July campers. Later, while I read a book at the house Lee Ann and Claudia went to the lake. When I got down to the lake I discovered that they had decided to swim along the bank of the lake for about a mile to another boat dock. When I got there I could not find them. As I scanned the horizon I saw two what appeared to be logs over by another boat house. As I watched over time the logs would morph and grow in size. Then I realized as I saw the logs doing water ballet in the lake it must be the girls. The returned in a joyful and tired mood. They had taken their lifejackets so they could float when needed. As always life at the lake was a very relaxing and reinvigorating time.

Quick Update

Hey everyone! I am so excited about this Blog...haha I have never really been a blogger, but since out family has moved past facebook stalking and on to blogging, I thought I should jump on! So here goes...here is a quick synopsis of what I have been up to this summer! I started off the summer with a trip to San Salvador (island in the Bahamas) where I was a TA. I visited this amazing island last year and had a great time this year! On this trip I finally got to scuba dive...so I ended up being about 10 ft. away from a HUGE hammerhead, a couple black tip reef sharks, and some really cool fish! (If I can master this picture loading I'll put some pics up!) After the Bahamas trip I came home and bummed around Nashville for a little before my next trip to Denver!! I havent't had the chance to go out west in a while, so I was really pumped when I learned I was going to get to go to Colorado. I travelled to downtown Denver for a few days for my sorority's National Convention, then visited Dave (another TA from San Salvador :) for the rest of the week. The Convention was really great way for me to connect with a lot of other alumni in my sorority as well as learn a ton!! I explored downtown Denver some and and found som really great areas (16th street was key!). So after that I hung out in a Denver suburb with Dave and his family....went hiking and camping in the foothills north of Denver....and, the most EXCITING part...caught my FIRST fish!...and cooked it! Needless to say, I was sad to say bye to the mountains..So now that you are all caught up to date, my next adventure is starting tomorrow with Dad, me, and Rach travelling to Venice to catch our cruise that is sailing all around the Mediterranean Sea!! I am so excited to get over there!! Not so much about the long flights...but ohh well I'll get over that part!!!


So there is my summer so far :) Hope everyone else is having an amazing time, and I can't wait to see what everyone else has been up to!