Friday
Friday morning didn't start off so hot. I got in my car to come to work and my "low air in tire" light came on. It was my front right tire, so I hopped out and checked it. Yep, it was low alright! Luckily it was only down to 24 psi. I texted Taylor and he said I should be ok to drive to work on it. So on the way to work I stopped at two gas stations to try and air it up a little bit. First gas station, no air machine...awesome. Second gas station, air machine but...there was a quarter stuck in it. I told the attendant and she let me know she couldn't fix it, they had to call the company to come unjam it. Awesome again. So I just drove to work. After an hour of worrying about it my boss let me go and air it up at another gas station. When I got back to work I was able to spot what was making my tire leak air.
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| Ain't she a beauty? ....not. Thank you large screw! |
Taylor is part of a group from dental school, his Great Expectations group. Taylor met this group on the first Thursday of classes out at the organizer's home in the hill country. I was able to go too and I even had my own group, the spouses! All the groups have about 10 first year dental students, 2 second year dental school students (mentors), and a mentor dentist from San Antonio. It is a really neat program they have set up. In order to best utilize the group, they meet together on occasion to catch up and talk dental school and/or questions they have. It is also a great time to just relax with fellow students. I tell you all of that because that is the group Taylor was meeting on Friday night. They met at the Flying Saucer which is really close to where we live! They had drinks and just hung out. One of Taylor's friend's wife joined after they had been there about an hour so I decided I would put my book down (something else I just have to blog about!) and join as well! I loved getting to meet more of Taylor's peers along with his lab partners! We had dinner there and it was delicious! I had the mac & cheese and Taylor had a soft pretzel, covered in cheese & beer bratwurst! After dinner we headed home. Taylor did my workout with me and then I read late into the night.
Saturday
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| Leah (due in November), Me, Raygen (due in September, her shower) & Erin. |
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| Tiff's!!!! |
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| M&M Cookies with Vanilla Ice Cream - YES! |
After the ice cream sandwiches we went to HEB to grab a couple of things for the week and for the cookout on Sunday night! After HEB is when we headed to our date night, had a detour and ended up back home. Like I said in my date night post, we watched stand up comedy on Netflix & ate dinner! I stayed up pretty late reading my book again but eventually my eyes shut down.
Sunday
We had class & church on Sunday morning. Both were great. This summer our class has taken turns teaching on Sunday mornings. Taylor has taught twice and I've loved his lessons both times. Our friend Ethan taught on Sunday and it was about priorities. That is a topic I could rant about for HOURS! Needless to say, we really enjoyed it! Worship was great as well, we really do love our preacher, Mark. After church we had lunch and headed home. I made sopapilla cheesecake (my go to for get togethers) and got ready to draft!!! I drafted my fantasy team at 3:00. I had 9th pick AGAIN!!! That was the pick I had last year so I wasn't happy. But I think it turned out ok! I got an A for my draft so that made me happy! Once we made it to the later rounds of the draft I cut up the veges for the cookout and as soon as I picked my kicker, we were out the door and headed to the cookout!
As I said earlier, Taylor was put into a group at the Great Expectations event, and so was I! I was able to meet other dental school spouses. We made a Facebook group and decided we needed to start hanging out! We had dinner together the night before the guys' first test and it was a blast! Since the guys don't have a test this week, Taylor & Garrett (the Myers) invited us over for a cookout at their apartment's pool. We had burgers, chips, salsa, potato salad, brownies, sopapilla cheesecake and drinks! It was awesome! I really am so happy to have this group of ladies for the next four years. It is also exciting to think about how many we will be able to add as people find love & get married! So far there are about 8 of us from all over (Texas and beyond), with different backgrounds, careers, some have babies & children, some don't, but we all have one thing in common, we are dental school wives who have husbands that are B-U-S-Y! It is and I can imagine will be so nice to have that support system as we go on this journey for the next four years. I also loved that the guys were able to just hang out, outside of school, and not study for ONE night. I think we all needed that break & bit of fun! I'm glad the Myers invited us! We went home, relaxed a little more and then Taylor went to sleep, ready for another full week of school. I, on the other hand, rolled over and decided I would read my book some more before I went to sleep. At 11:27 my Kindle told me I only had 39 minutes left in the book. **Note, this isn't the first book I've read on my Kindle, it should know my reading speed by now.** Well at 12:10AM I checked my phone because I felt like I had been reading a while and it still said 22 minutes left... well I was almost done so I just said, whatever and I finished it. At 1AM I went to sleep, but I was so glad to know how the book ended! It was a trilogy! I just had to know!
Well, I did it again, wrote a very long post! I hope you stuck around for all of it! We had a great weekend! We are both excited for fantasy football season (AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL OF COURSE), new friends and date nights! Hope y'all had an awesome weekend too! Love you all!
-The Kauffman Krew
