Colored Eggs, Bottled Soda, & Fighting Cancer!

Better late than never, right?  I feel like I have been neglecting my documentation of life with Hep.  In my defense though, the past few week have been a little crazy, what with holidays, family in town, finals, etc...  We've been surviving though.  John is on his last test block before he's done for the summer and I just finished my last final last Thursday.  

So... let the updating begin!

It's been fun to celebrate holidays in Oklahoma.  Granted we miss our families and the fun traditions that each holiday brings, it's been fun to start some of our own traditions and celebrate together.  For Easter we dyed eggs on Saturday night and then put together surprise baskets for each other.  It was a lot of fun!  

  

We especially had fun coming up with fun ideas for the eggs...

 

Since John and I are both Aggies and Sooners I made an egg with a USU "A" on one side and the OU logo on the other.  It was pretty legit. 

 John wanted Hep to feel included too.

(You can see my new haircut in that last one...)  We had a really good time dying eggs together and letting out some creativity.

When I woke up Easter morning there was a special present for me from the Easter Bunny...

That afternoon we went down to Adam and Stephanee's to have Easter dinner with their family.  I made some DELICIOUS scalloped potatoes to contribute to the meal.


Last weekend John's parents came into town for a few days.  His dad (Robert) also went to medical school at OU and had his 40-year class reunion.  We took them to Pops on Route 66.  If you haven't heard of it, it's a really cool gas station turned burger place that has 500+ different kinds of bottled sodas!  It's also the only place we've found in OK that has Henry Weinhard's (amazing gourmet soda, if you haven't had it, you haven't lived!).  Hep is a bit of a lush, so we bought some to take home.  The hardest part is deciding which ones to try, there's just too many to choose from!

We got to spend mother's day with John's mom, so that was special!  And then we sent them off on Tuesday.  But not before a picture with our virus-ie friend!

This last weekend we participated in Relay for Life to raise money for the American Cancer Society.  Hep stayed home because we thought it would be a little weird for Hepatitis to fight Cancer.  Maybe not? 

It was a really cool experience.  But man were we tired afterward!  We got home at about 6:45 am and went right to sleep.  We got in a good 7 hours, but it was weird to start the day at 2:00 pm...     

All in all, it's been a pretty great few weeks!  This weekend we're going to our first Roller Derby!  We'll let you know how it is!