Ole Miss vs. LSU

Colt and I went down to Oxford, Mississippi this past weekend to watch Gerald's last home game of the year. It was a great and a very exciting game to go to! Gerald's parents, Sterling, Allison, and his godparents, PJ and Jeff were all there. They are all amazing people and we had a blast with them!

The game started out with major bad calls by the refs. Ole Miss scored two that were called back because they dove into the endzone and for a so called block in the back. It was ridiculous, but the best team came out on top 25-23! Plus it guarantees them a spot at another bowl game, at least the Capital One Bowl!

Colt and I didn't get to MS until after midnight Friday night. Then we went out to "The Grove" Saturday morning to tailgate and eat Sterling's famous homemade wings. After the walk of champs, we headed to the stadium for Gerald's senior presentation and the game. Afterwards, we went back to eat some more and we're supposed to go out, but then I was running fever so Colt put me to bed and we stayed in. Besides, the whole me getting sick part, it was a great weekend and it was great to see everyone!!

PJ and Jeff have most of the good pics from the weekend, but here are a few from my camera.

Before the game, tailgating at "The Grove."

The Colonel

Gerald before the game

Senior presentation

Gerald coming out of the tunnel

Colt and I after the big win against LSU and the "Hotty Totty" cheer, which is probably the best college chant I've ever heard! LOL. I have a video too.. but it was taking to long to upload and messing up Colt's game playing :)

Sterling, Gerald and Jamie. Can you tell they're brothers?!

Gerald and Colt

Me with the two of them! I was getting a little red faced already. I think the fever was starting to hit me. Great weekend and we're very proud of Gerald for all his hard work!

Colt's Med School Interviews

Colt is finished up his interviews on November 13th at Baylor in Houston. I know he is so glad to be done with them! He interviewed at all 8 in Texas, besides El Paso. We are lucky in the fact that he is in a program called JAMP (Joint Admission Medical Program) that guarantees him a spot in TX. We just don't know which one yet! He did great on his MCAT though and is ranked in the top 15% in the nation, which of course isn't good enough to him, he wanted to be in the top 10%! Go figure! These are all the schools that he interviewed at. He puts in his match (top choices) in December and he finds out where he goes on January 6th!

He interviewed at UT - Houston first. I got to go with him to this one. He spent last summer there in a program where he took classes and shadowed some doctors. It was comfortable because he already knew all the administrators and some of the teachers and students. The dean even came out to meet me! I was impressed with the school, the only downside is the location, due to family, my job, etc.

Texas Tech in Lubbock

UT - Galveston

UT - San Antonio

Texas A&M Medical

This one he has the option of where he spends his four years. He can do 2 years in College Station, 2 in Temple, or all 4 in Temple and would be doing his clinical rounds at Scott and White. He seemed impressed with this one too. All the ones I didn't go to, I just hear the bits and pieces of what he liked and didn't like!

TCOM in Fort Worth. This was an osteopathic school that he basically kinda "had to" interview at since he is in the JAMP program.

UT - Southwestern in Dallas

I got to go to Friday's rounds of this one. We went at lunch and listened to information regarding the school, curriculum, clinical facilities,etc. , had a brief tour and had dinner with some med students. It's not exactly in the "best" neighborhood in Dallas. It's on both sides of Harry Hines, but I could see my office downtown from where we were though so that would definitely be a plus. The curriculum fit the style that Colt likes and some of the horror stories and "cut throat" rumors we had heard about the school seem to have changed. He went back on Saturday for more information sessions, his actual interviews and tours of the classrooms and hospitals that he would be at.

His last interview was back in Houston at Baylor. He spent the summer before last at Baylor shadowing a physician. He said the interview seemed to go great at this one too. Now he is all done with this part of the process. Now he just has to put them in order and submit his rankings and wait and see what happens!

Colt's Birthday and Halloween

Colt is a Halloween baby. I wanted to do something on his actual birthday this year so I made reservations at Del Frisco's for Halloween night. It was SUPPOSED to be a surprise. If you know Colt, you know he is a big steak eater and neither one of us had ever been there so I thought it would be fun. He knew we were going somewhere and he knew it had to be his favorite meal so he had it figured out (as usual). After we were seated, we got the 15 minute explanation of the menu and both went with steak. You should have saw his face when he bit into his steak. He looked like he was in heaven! LOL. We had an awesome meal and he even got a birthday dessert. We had a ton of fun and definitely recommend the place.

Earlier that day we went to his parents house to watch Gerald's Ole Miss game. I dressed the dogs up in their Halloween costumes to go over there! Here are a few pics of our little spider and devil.

Alex's 1st Birthday (and yes we do doggie presents)!

Alex, our lab, had her 1st birthday on October 17th! Can't believe we've nearly had her a year on Thanksgiving! She got a new bone and a new toy for her birthday. Once she got the bone out of the bag she could have cared less what else was in there though!

Colt trying to get her to come back and finish opening her present.

We do doggie presents for every birthday and Christmas! What can I say, we have spoiled dogs.

Christmas morning last year with their stockings and gifts.

I'm not the only one that spoils them. My mom bought Lucky a present for his 2nd birthday too!

Lucky on his first birthday! I don't know what we would do without our dogs :)