Julia and Sterling: July 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

It begins...

As you can see I have updated my blog twice today. Well, I also went bike riding after work, made dinner and cleaned up! I guess that's what happens when med school starts. Today was his first day. He got off at 3 and has been at the kitchen table studying ever since.

His school (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)

Very concentrated, studying

Happy Birthday!

Sterling turned 26 on Thursday, July 15th. I started work on the 14th (bummer), so he picked what he wanted for dinner (pizza of course!) and german chocolate cake....mmmmm, so good, and we made it on his birthday. Then Friday his parents came up and his brother came down, and we had dinner and more yummy cake!

I'd like to point out the level of difficulty of blowing out all the candles. On my birthday there were two cakes with 25 candles dispursed among the two (which I thought was quite unfair). Therefore I put 26 candles with a few sticking off the sides to increase the level of difficulty for Sterling. Impressively enough, he got them all! Hope it was a good wish!

This was the delicious cake his parents brought. I was sad because we didn't have 26 candles to put on the cake....so I spelled an applicable word instead.

This is unrelated to his birthday, but he told his boys from Providence that we'd go see them at Youth Conference if they went to scout camp. So, we drove to Youth Conference on Saturday to see them. They were very excited.

Sterling with his boys.

Me with some of my girls.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Grab Your Passport....

We're goin' to Arkansas!!! We moved the beginning of July and Sterling starts med school on the 26th, so we took some time to go to Arkansas to meet some of his family that I had never met before. We decided to make it somewhat of a family history trip as we would be passing through many of the states that our families are from. We headed up and went through Pensacola so we could stop and see Gammie (my grandmother). We stayed the night in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and then went on to Louisiana. Now, Sterling has heard about the infamous family bible since he was little, and has, of course (with his love for old books and genealogy), wanted to hold it in his hot little hands. We only knew Esther Fuller had it, and had since passed it on and passed away. Well, that doesn't stop my hubby. He looked up E. Fuller in Louisiana, and we found one in Monroe and just stopped on by. They happily invited us in, gave us 45 minutes of stories, and a stack of family group sheets they just happened to have copies of! Then mentioned there were more Fullers in Eros (a tiny town in Louisiana) that they were not related to. Well, Eros just happened to be on our way! We stopped at a 10x10 building labeled City Hall, and asked if there were any Fullers in town. They called them up and sent us over. They too, kindly invited us in and we met some new cousins! They told us all about Sterling's grandfather (whom he'd never met) and let us get copies of old pictures they had. Then they sent us "all the way across town" (two blocks away) to speak with another relative! We got more pictures and were sent back to the first home to..... look at the family bible! It was quite the trip. Then we headed up to Arkansas to meet and stay with Nana (Sterling's grandmother). It was very nice, and Christa drove over from Texas to hang out as well! On the way back, we not quite so successfully searched for some of my ancestors (for 3 hours in 100 degree weather in Alabama), but it was a great trip nonetheless!