to Africa!

Christopher is traveling to Zambia, Africa on Saturday Aug 30 to spend 2 weeks serving at the Zimba mission hospital. He is going with a medical team from our church- Christ United Methodist. We are incredibly grateful for his opportunity to go... God worked his school schedule out perfectly and our family was extremely generous, providing all the funds to make it possible to go! I am certain that God will do amazing work through each member of the team and I can't wait to hear about the miracles and adventures upon his return!

Communication will be slim... probably restricted to email only... remote African villages don't have very many Sprint cell phone towers I presume.

I'll post stories and pictures when he gets back!

visiting Chattanooga

So I drove to Chattanooga this weekend to visit my hubby… We had such a great time together!! Friday evening, we went out for sushi with our friend, Dusty, then came back to the apartment and watched the Olympics before falling asleep. Saturday we played 9 holes of disc golf with Dusty then grabbed some lunch with Mom after she dropped Natalie off at church for a lake party. After lunch, we chilled out at the pool for a few hours. It was so nice to swim and get some sun!! My poor little pale body. My college buddy, Nick Garofalo, drove up from Atlanta to see me while I was in town. He provided lots of laughs for us, as usual. After Nick and Mom left the apartment, Chris and I got all dressed up to go downtown for date night! What a fun time. :) We ate a late dinner at a nice restaurant near the river then walked around for a little bit. It was so nice to be in Chattanooga again, and especially with my sweet husband. The downtown area has really been developed over the last three years... and they're still working on it.

Sunday morning we went to church with Natalie, mom and dad (got to see Natalie sing in the choir while on pain pills from her wisdom tooth extraction... an interesting site... poor thing) We went to lunch at my old fave restaurant, Taco Mac, then ran over to UTC to say hi to my other college buddy, Matt Broom. Chris and I said our goodbyes to the fam and went back to the apartment to take a good Sunday-afternoon-nap. We met up with Candace and Geoff for dinner and a milkshake and then unfortunately I had to leave. :(

So I get on interstate 24 and take the wrong exit for 840. I go west when I was supposed to go east… who would think you’d take the Knoxville exit to go towards Nashville? Not me. So I drive almost 45 minutes away from Mount Juliet, which is where I’m supposed to pick up my dog. Lovely. I decided to just backtrack and spend the night at the in-laws’ house and drive to work early the next morning. Probably was a good decision, b/c I was exhausted. And mad. I made it to work at noon with no hard feelings from my boss. That’s what vacation hours are for I guess.

Anyway, I think I’ll hook up the GPS system in the car now.

chattanooga

Chris moved to Chattanooga on Sunday July 27 and will be gone until Aug 22. He's doing an Emergency Medicine rotation at Erlanger to scope out the program and meet some new docs. I'm happy that he gets a chance to work outside of Memphis for once. I will miss him for this month, but I'm very excited for him and hope he learns a lot since E.R. is at the forefront of his career decision. I'm practicing passing the time in preparation for when Chris is in residency. I finally hemmed my dress pants (yes, by hand) that I've been putting off for over a year. I watched a movie with Avery, cleaned up the kitchen... again... And tonight I'm hosting craft night for my medical wives' Bible Study group (Side by Side). I'll find stuff to do. We have an alarm system on the house now, so I'm safe. Plus my little guard dog protects me- no sound gets past him. And of course I've got the Remington by my side.

Anyway, say a little prayer for Christopher as he works hard in Chattanooga this month. We will see each other on weekends, so pray for our sanity in between those times... in particular, mine. :)

Cameron

Chris and I were offered the opportunity (and honor!) of becoming godparents to the precious Cameron Lee Putz, daughter of Scott and Kelly Putz. She was born on May 14, 2008 and baptized at the Lutheran church on June 29, 2008. It is such a joy to be a special part of Cameron's life. And because of her, I am learning to crochet. I made her a cute little burp cloth... the first crochet project of my life.

Avery

Avery... our pride and joy.

Official name: Colonel Avery Waynick

Quite the spaz, but a lovable cuddler and ferocious guard dog. He's a people person... if you're nice. (-;
He loves to sleep, ride in the car (with his head out the window), play with socks, and chase squirrels. He gives us hours of entertainment and laughs. Hopefully he'll be good with kids whenever we decide to have them. I can forsee a jealousy issue. Perhaps we'll call in the Dog Whisperer.

New Blog

Our friends have blogs. I guess we should have one too so we can be in the cool club. Haha :)

So this is life in the Waynick fast lane.