Trip Home in May. my rhodie grows up, and some baby birds

Ok, so this post is full of randomness! For starters, it's springtime, which means baby birds! At Madigan there are tons of waterfowl, and they've got some kiddos! There are actually 2 families of geese that we've seen so far, one with 7 goslings, and one with 3, so here's the big family! They kept us pretty entertained this week--we watched them out the window of our work room on the 4th floor between patients--they look a lot smaller from up there!

In our front yard Bob uncovered this bird's nest! He found it about 2 weeks ago and the babies are flying now and almost as big as their mom! Here they are as tiny little babies!

Here's a pic out the window of the workroom. We are so lucky to have such a great view! The fountains are beautiful, but the sunsets and sunrises over Rainier are really amazing. I have one call night left since I'm at Mary Bridge (peds ER) this month, and although I won't miss being on call, I will miss the beautiful views here!

This is one of the most random pics. :) It's a picture of MONDO cash in my purse! We returned some stuff to Home Depot and apparently if you buy anything with your debit card these days and you return it, they have to give you cash and can't put it back on the card, even if it's a chunk of change and they have to empty multiple registers to get enough to give you! Now we have plenty of cash for our trip without the ATM!

Mom and John bought me a beautiful rhododendron for intern graduation and it's blooming in all it's glory now!

Here it is next to Lilo--it's tripled in size in the 2 years we've had it

We went home last weekend and had so much fun! I went to Time Out for Women with friends and had such a great time, and Bob had fun just relaxing while I was there. We ate some delicious Mongolian, I got some cute new stuff from Down East, we were present for yet another Poteet Birthdaypalooza, and even had a nice dinner with my fam at Texas Road House--I love those rolls! I had a salad and a delicious sweet potato with caramel sauce and marshmallows and Bob had a steak AND ribs. That's right, he's an eater. :) He was definitely happy. I think it's sweet that every time we see my Stepdad John he intentionally wears that green Hawaiian shirt--I got it for him from the gift shop at Tripler when I was there as a med student. :) This pic did not come across well... it was low light, with bright light coming in through the windows and I took it with my iPhone... the perfect storm of bad pic quality! Sorry...

Here are 2/4 of the Poteets! We went to church with them on Sunday before we drove home. Grayam was super-cute as always and when Mans asked if he wanted to do a quiet activity book with her or Bob, he chose Bob, because "he's really good at them" which was so cute. He matched those butterflies and leaves like nobody's business!

Mans and I hanging out

Bob and Grayam working on the Toothless puzzle (from How To Train Your Dragon)

That Grayam really loves his Bob!

Mans and her belly frosting cupcakes and cake for the birthday boys!

The color seems a bit off on this pic, but here we are again!

Finally, here we are on the drive home! Carolyn made Lilo a very cute bed and even embroidered her name on it, and she loves to run around the car while we drive, which is not so safe, so we put the bed between us (where she always wants to be) and she settled in for most of the drive! (The black and white material is my purse--cute, eh?)

Ok, Happy Mother's Day everyone! We are so lucky to have such kind and loving Moms, and Moms-in law! Hope you all had a great Sunday and to all the Mothers, hope you had a great relaxing day, and to everyone else, hope you had fun appreciating your mothers today!

Also, congrats to Cristy and Nathaniel on their new baby boy! Yay!