Back to Work.......

It's official! Steve is done w/ his summer classes! Monday Steve turned in his last few assignments and did his presentation for his math class. He did well in all his classes and now has a 3 week break until Fall Semester starts. Since he was done on Monday, I decided to take Tuesday off to be w/ him and get some other things done. Monday night we had a little date night. We had dinner at home, then walked over to Cold Stone for some ice cream. We sat next to the place on the grass and just talked, then walked to a few stores, then came home. Steve wanted to swim a little, so he did while I just relaxed for a while (it was a little too cold by 9 pm for me). We then rented a RedBox and watched the movie. It was a fun evening!

On Tuesday unfortunately I had to a test to take online, so I did that for a couple hours then we went to my Dr appointment. It was my 2nd checkup after the surgery and things are looking pretty good. Depending on how these next couple weeks go, we might not have to go back! When we got home, we got ready for a double date w/ Rob and a girl from Steve's class, Kellie (yes, Steve set them up). She has been back off her mission for a year now and actually served w/ Samantha Morrison (from my home ward) in the Independence Missouri Mission. We drove up the canyon to Silver Lake and planned to grill some hot dogs, but we had some technical difficulties w/ the grill, so we ended up just walking around the lake. We then came back down and grilled the hot dogs on our BBQ here, and played some games for a while. It was a fun evening as well. We'll see if there will be a 2nd date for those two. ;)

Wednesday Steve started working (though he's not getting paid just yet). He started doing his 200 hours for his intern at First Med, an instacare, and has been working ever since. They are pretty flexible with his hours and when he comes in, so he has been going in basically when he wants to. On Wednesday he went in from 10-10 pm, which was fine since I had class that night anyway. Ironically, as Steve was working, in comes Dwayne Bates, a physician assistant who just happens to be a really good friend of Dave (Steve's dad). Neither knew that the other was working there, but boy was Steve happy to see him!!! Dwayne has really been helping Steve out too. Usually while doing your 200 hrs you more of just shadow another MA, but Steve is jumping right in. He's practically been working since day 1, all day! At first he was a little overwhelmed by it all, but he's getting the hang of it and starting to enjoy it more and more. He definitely is in the right career; he just LOVES it when someone comes in, especially when they're bleeding. (Who knows, he might just work towards working in an E.R. ).

On Thursday, he decided to go in from 8-8 pm so he could get home a little earlier. After work when I got home, I went to a yoga class at the gym, then we spent the last little bit of our evening just relaxing.

Friday he wasn't planning on going in to work, but since he's done w/ school now, he figured he had nothing else to do, so he went in for 6 hours. We got home at about the same time, then got ready for another double date. We had Eve and Aaron over for a double date. We made fajitas for dinner, then went over to Mulligans to play mini golf. I figured it was going to rain, but we decided to go anyway, since it's Summer Time. We hadn't played maybe 20 minutes when it started to down pour. There wasn't much shelter, so we just toughed it out and continued to play. It was a really fun course; we'll have to go again soon. We then came back we had brownies and ice cream and watched "Hitch." It was a really fun evening, thanks Evie. :)





Steve just waiting his turn



Right before it started to pour! Aaron, Eve, Me, and Steve



Eve taking her turn (notice the rain spots on her pants, ya it was pouring)



Nice swing (again notice Steve's back is soaked also!)


We are SOAKED but we had a great time!

Though we had a late evening on Friday, we decided to get up to go to the Temple before Steve went to work. We hurried and got ready, then went and did some initiatories. We drove separately so Steve could leave when he needed to. They asked me to do 7 names, and it took me 40 minutes to get in, so luckily we each had our own cars. After I got done, I went home, cleaned up, went grocery shopping, and made stuffed peppers for Steve for dinner. I decided to drive it out to him so he could last the rest of the evening, and of course so I could see him for a few minutes. He didn't get home until after 11 pm actually, since they had someone come in at the last minute right before they closed at 10 pm.

Steve went it after church to work a couple hours since Dwayne is there and can help him work on some things. As soon as he gets back, we're having Carrie and Ryan over tonight. Our 3rd double date per say this week, we're on a roll!!! We're going to make Cajun Chicken Pasta and play some games. We're looking forward to it.