The Tastes of Summer

Alex and I have been taking full advantage of the beautiful summer-like weather.  We cook out on the grill most nights.  Tonight, we decided to have grilled pork chops, corn, and jalapeno poppers for dinner.  I made homemade peanut butter ice cream for dessert.  It was a wonderful taste of summer!

 

Making our dessert

  

 Jalapeno poppers

  

 Grilled dinner

 

We love ice cream!

CMC Alumni Events

This past Thursday and Friday were special days for the Ob Gyn Department at CMC.  We spent the last two days celebrating our alumni.  There were several guest lectures, department case presentations, and third year resident research presentations.  Thursday night, we had the annual Harrison Alumni Dinner Event at the home of one of our alumni.  Friday night, there was a reception and dinner at the Marriott Hotel.  It was a fun two days!

  

Logan, Robin, Alex, Sean, Kate and Lindsay at the Alumni Dinner.  The weather was so nice!

  

 Girls at the Marriott!

  

 The second years couldn't hold it together long enough for a picture.

       

   

 Some of our wonderful third and forth years!

 

  

 Amit and Aishwarya

  

 Me and my date

Special Cargo

Mom came to Charlotte this weekend by train!  She wanted to celebrate the end of Step 3 with me.  We spent the weekend walking around Uptown and eating tons of great food.  Mom tried pulled pork at one of our favorite BBQ places, ate awesome sushi, and had brunch at the amazing Peculiar Rabbit.  We took her to tour Carolinas Medical Center, see Katherine and Tessie's new house, and visit Kaylyn at UNCC.  We had a wonderful weekend!

    

Eating lunch at Queen City Q!

Food Truck Friday

We started off our weekend at Food Truck Friday!  Food Truck is an event held every Friday in South End, where a bunch of food trucks line up and people come to eat all the goodness.  I can't believe Alex and I had not been yet!  After sixteen hours of Step 3 last Thursday and Friday, I was sure ready to eat!  We met some friends from work and had a great time.

  

Food trucks all lined up!

  

 Some of our gang

  

 We headed off to Pinky's after Food Truck so that we could see Sean.

   

Juicy

I have been on vacation this week!  It has been amazing waking up after sunrise and spending time outside.  Unfortunately, I take step 3 of the board exams next week and have spent the majority of my vacation trying to relearn all of the information I learned in medical school and have since forgot, whomp whomp.  Today, Alex and I made juice!  We used pineapple, kiwis, lemon, limes, apples, broccoli, and wheat grass.  It was a refreshing reward for a day of studying :)

 

 Our fruit and veggies!

  

 All ready to juice!

  

 Our tasty product

   

 Cheers to vacation!

Hoppy Easter 2014

Alex and I went to Cary for Easter this year.  We had the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Teresa and Jeff's house.  Alex, Shilpa and I were the official egg hiders this year.  Our eggs were so perfectly hidden (and our memory so poor), that four of them were never found!  It was fun watching the kids search for candy-filled eggs!  Sunday we had Easter dinner at Grandma's house.  It was a quick, but nice little trip!

 

The cousins getting ready for the Easter Egg Hunt!

  

 It was cold and rainy outside, but that didn't stop us!

  

 Lily was the first to find her limit of eggs.

   

  

 Proud of their catch!

   

Lisa, Sami and me!

  

The Easter Bunny still comes for 26 and 27 year olds :)

  

 The Easter Bunny does not come for cats :(

  

 Barbara, Schecklunds, and Grandma

Moo and Moose

We were in charge of two Moosies this weekend.  Aishwarya asked us to watch her sister's dog for the night and we gladly said yes.  Her dog's name is Moose, which goes perfectly in our house with little Moo.  Moo loves to boss around dogs and Moose was perfectly happy to sleep in Moo's chair.  After a day of antagonizing each other, they both took a nap within a few feet of one another and it was super sweet.

 

Moose is a snuggler!

  

We took Moose to Freedom Park and had a picnic!

 

We had a fun time with the Moosies.

Grandad Scheer in Charlotte

Alex's Grandad was in town this past week for the Charlotte AutoFair 2014.  The AutoFair is the largest collector vehicle event in the Southeast and takes place on the Charlotte Motor Speedway.  Grandad drove down from Michigan to be a judge in the event.  We enjoyed having him in Charlotte and were able to spend his 77th birthday with him!  The weather cooperated this week and we showed him just how wonderful the South can be!

  

 The Charlotte Motor Speedway

   

 Alex was able to attend the AutoFair with Grandad's free passes.

  

We took Grandad out for some authentic southern barbeque at Queen City Q.

  

 We went to Hickory Tavern for Grandad's birthday then over to Amelie's for dessert!

  

 Happy 77th birthday!

  

 Grandad stayed with us Saturday night and we had our first cookout of the year!

    

  

Sunday breakfast!

My Chef

Last week I came home to the most amazing dinners.  I couldn't help but take pictures of them!  It is so nice to have such a wonderful chef in my family :)

 

Grilled Chicken, Spinach, Tomato and Avocado Sandwiches

  

 We started this meal with amazingly yummy Bruschetta.

  

And then moved on to homemade Spiced Pommes Frites.

  

And finished the meal with Peppercorn Steak.

  

 One night Alex decided to make homemade Honey Chicken and Buttermilk Waffles with Maple Syrup Ice Cream.

  

 The maple syrup ice cream!

  

Chicken and Waffles

   

  

We usually eat Indian food about once a week.  Last week Alex made the entire dish from scratch!  We had Curry Chicken with Saffron Rice, Hummus and Cucumbers.

  

 Homemade Roquefort Gnocchi

  

 I love coming home to Alex's dinners!