17 months

until Michael graduates medical school! How in the world are we only 17 months away from his graduation date? Don't get me wrong, I'm pumped that he's so close to being done, but man time is flying! It really feels like we found out he got into UT Southwestern's program yesterday and now all we talk about is where we want to be for Residency.

Currently Michael is halfway through his 3rd year and has done rotations in Internal Med, Pyschology, and OB/Gyn. Let me just tell how akward that last rotation was! :)

Next on the list is Pediatrics, Family Med, Neurology, and Surgery and then he will be starting his 4th year.

I'm so incredibly proud of my wonderful hubby and all his hard work! The next year is going to be a big deciding year for where we want to spend the next who knows how many years.

New Year's Resolutions

After dinner tonight Michael and I were talking about our 2010 resolutions and things we wanted to accomplish this year. Every year I complain about not having enough (or any for that matter) pictures of things we did during the year. My excuse in the past has always been about how "horrible" my camera is, but that cannot be my excuse anymore because this was my Christmas gift:

Yep, my wonderful hubby, parents, and in laws all chipped in and got me the Nikon d3000! I absolutely love it. I'm still learning how to use a fancy camera, but I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of fun learning.

So, to help keep me on track with my resolution, I'm going to attempt to do the 365 days of photos. I have a couple of friends who did this last year and now I want to try. This will also help me update the blog more than 4 times a year! :)

To kick things off here is a picture I took tonight of one of my favorite places in Dallas during the holidays. This is Highland Park Village and tomorrow all these beautiful lights will be taken down. Isn't it gorgeous? Sad it's already time to take down all the holiday decor.

Christmas 2009

Our Christmas was...

very, very, very merry!

And since I haven't blogged in a while here is our 2009 Christmas card:

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Long Overdue

Wow, I can't believe I haven't blogged since April. I just haven't been much in a blogging mood lately nor had the time honestly, but I'm back and ready to catch the blog world up on what the Carter's been up to for the last couple of months.

First things first... we are now dog owners! We adopted Bauer from the McKinney SPCA back in April. For those of you who don't know, Michael has been begging for a dog since we got married and I decided to surprise him with Bauer for our 2 year anniversary.

We were told he is a lab/boxer mix, but who knows. This photo was from the day I adopted him. My sister came with me to pick him out. Isn't he adorable?!

The pictures above are from the first week we had him. I can't believe he was ever that small. Here he is now...

Bauer has been so much fun to have around, especially now that Michael is on call several nights a week even if he's a little bit over protective sometimes. He is also a very smart puppy, although he has his occassional blonde moments. :)

United Breaks Guitars

Sorry, the airline geek in me is coming out! I think this is absolutely hilarious, but it's probably not so funny to United Airlines.

PS...I'll be joining the blog work again soon, so check back for updates on the last 3 months of our lives!

On a Roll

Today we celebrated Britney's 24th birthday with a bowling party. Back in the day, she was the youth champion in the state of Arkansas, and man did she make us look like amateurs!

But, I have to say, Wii bowling has been really good for my game. I got my highest score ever today and beat my hubby by 1 point! :)

(don't judge my highest score!)

Making Up for Lost Time

Growing up, music wasn't a big part of my life. I grew up in a small east Texas town where my mom was the children's minister at our hometown southern baptist church...so I'll let you guess what kind of music I grew up on. If you guessed Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace, and Stephen Curtis Chapman, then you guessed right. I'm not knocking christian music, I still like it, but I just didn't experience many other genres.

Don't get me wrong, my friends in elementary school taught me how to belt out some New Kids on the Block with the best of them and dad taught me to love John Denver, but beyond that my exposure to music wasn't particularly broad. Then I met my amazing hubby, and he has introduced me to music that I probably wouldn't have listened to otherwise. My two personal favorites are Marc Broussard and Jonny Lang. We recently got the chance to go to both their concerts and I can honestly say they blew me away. By far the best concerts I have ever been to in my life, especially Marc Broussard! Enjoy some short videos from the Marc Broussard concert!