I’m Baaccckkk!

After the hardest 4 months of my college career I can now say I’m a senior nursing student with only 348 days until I graduate! Is that sad I have already started the countdown. :-) School had taken over my life and I’m so glad to finally have a 4 month break to enjoy summer.
It seems like May has already flown by. It has been a busy month with graduations and birthdays. We also celebrated Mother’s Day with our families. Going out to brunch with mine and having a cook-out with Brian’s. It is so nice we are from the same town. It makes family gatherings so easy!

Happy Mother's Day!

Some exciting news for both Brian and I is that I got a job at KU Medical Center as a Nursing Associate on the Pediatric Unit and Brian got transferred to a branch closer to home. I start tonight at KU working the evening shift. I'm so excited to be back in the hospital. I love nursing and I love kids. What could be a better job?!?

Brian is now working in Independence, MO which is a 30 min drive rather than the hour and a half (one way I might add) that he has been traveling for the past 6 months. He makes me so proud. Driving the long hours, waking up early and getting home late all because he wants the best for our family. His dedication to Enterprise hasn't gone unnoticed and even the "BIG DOGS" of Enterprise as Brian calls them know who he is. He loves his job and I know he will go far in the company. The best thing of all is getting to see him more and getting back to eating dinner at a normal hour. LoL

Wanted to give a shout out to my Daddio (who is looking trim and thin these days…) turned 55 on May 8th. Love you Pops!

HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE!!!

Little Man turned ONE!!!

Our sweet nephew Evan turned one on March 22! Man did a year fly by. I still remember getting ready for bed when Kate's sister Julia called to tell us it was time!! We jumped up and headed to wait for his big arrival! We didn't have to wait very long before we got to meet that little man! Evan Bryant McNeil was born at 1:44a.m. He weighted 7lbs, 15.4 oz and measured 20.5 inches. He was just perfect and wide awake!!

Here is Aunt Lane and Uncle Pudge just a few minutes after he was born (Evan's Dad Matt gave Brian that nickname when they were younger. Matt no longer refers to Brian as Pudge but his friends still do...oh and my Dad too! LoL! And now Evan will!!)

I have tons of pictures of Evan but this is by far my favorite! They are both just so cute!

We celebrated Evan's birthday on the 19th with lots of friends and family. It was March Madness themed so everyone was dressed in their favorite teams. Here is the little Jayhawk with the only 2 Wildcats in the family!

Here he is enjoying his birthday cake. He was being so polite using his silverware!

I decided to get Evan a rocker for his birthday after discovering his love for rocking. I found this little one off Craigslist! I couldn't pass it up! I had the whole design in my head on what I wanted to do with it. Too bad I can't take any credit for it besides shopping for it! (Which is what I do best right?!?)

I'm so thankful to have family in Kansas City. My Aunt Cyndi and Uncle Dave were nice enough to let me bring it over to sand & paint it. I dropped it off and planned to come back on the weekend. When I headed back over there to my surprise my Uncle had done it all for me. So now I was off to Lawrence to let my best friend Hannah do her thing. She is such a talented woman and is a beautiful artist like her Mama! I told Hannah something sports themed and this is what she created! It turned out awesome and Mr. Evan loved it!

Happy 1st Birthday Evan! Uncle Pudge and Aunt Lane love you VERRRYY much!

Married 100 days!

Well I have been a little MIA from blog world lately mostly because of school. And I will probably be until the end of the semester. Since I missed posting about our 2nd & 3rd month together I thought why not blog on the 100th day of being married! (I promise I'm not counting! I just saw the count of my facebook page) I still can't believe our special day is over but what a beautiful memory I will always have! Our love for each other continues to grow each day and I'm so glad I have such a wonderful man to call my own.

In our 2nd & 3rd month together....

• We bought a Dyson!! (This thing is a amazing!!)
• Celebrated my Mom's 55th Birthday with her and the family in Lawrence
• Filed our taxes together (I loved that check)
• Celebrated our first Valentine's Day together
• Planned a surprise party for your mom's 60th birthday with a successful surprise
• Visited Kelly, Peter and baby Eli(in Mommy's tummy) in Wichita
• Cheered on my brother and the Topeka High Trojans as they played for State
• Helped Evan celebrate his 1st birthday
• We received our Wedding Video! (Aunt C-I will post it if I can!)
• You experienced Corn Beef and Cabbage for the first time on St. Patty's Day
• Jordan moved back from DC :-)
• Watched the Wildcats make it to the Elite 8
• I got to go to the Black Eyed Peas concert (sorry you had to work)
• Hosted our first dinner party as a married couple using all of our great wedding gifts
• It took us 100 days (yes it took that long) but I am so happy to say our house is FINALLY clean. We had run out of room with all of our wonderful gifts that we had lots of organizing to do.

I love you Mr. McNeil. You are the best hubby ever!

Prayer Request

The Everleys: Hayden, Mark, Heidi & Parker

Please add our dear family friend Heidi “Garren” Everley to your prayers. She was recently diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 35. The biopsy of the lung tumor came back as adenocarcinoma. This is the same cancer my Grampie had.

Heidi is the daughter of my mom’s best friend Linda Reynolds. Heidi use to come over to babysit us or we would see her at church, around the neighborhood or at the pool where she was a lifeguard. She has grown up to be a beautiful woman, with a beautiful family. She has two children, Hayden 3 and Parker 8months. Hayden was the ring bearer in my wedding along with her cousins Marin and MaKena as flower girls. She is an absolute doll. And according to her, I’m her best friend! (I’m sure she has LOTS of BFFs!)

Marin, Hayden & MaKena

My heart hurts for Heidi. It actually makes me sick to my stomach to think about it. This is such a scary thing to be going through but she is not alone. She has such a strong support system that is right by her side ready to beat this!

Feel free to follow Heidi’s journey on her website http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/heidieverley/createorsignin and check out her blog that some friends have set up! http://heidishelpers.blogspot.com/

"You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it" Matthew 21:22

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Surprise!

Last Saturday all the McNeil kids surprised Chris with a surprise party to celebrate her 60th Birthday! She had no clue! Watch the video! (Sorry for my screaming! Didn't think it would be that loud when I did it!)

All the family was there along with some of her good friends! We had lots of great food along with cake and homemade ice cream! After everyone had left the family sat around a played my new favorite game Taboo! It was a great time!

You can never trust Kansas weather and once again there was lots of snow to greet us when it was time to leave! We all planned to go to church in the morning but decided to enjoy the snow from the inside and just laid around in our PJs instead! We headed back over to Jenny and Clayton’s for leftovers and to open gifts! We gave Chris a new coffee pot that she desperately needed and a picture of the family from our wedding! It turned out beautiful and I loved the frame I found! (Hobby Lobby is the best for 50% of frames!)

Chris I hope you had a great birthday! Thanks for being such a wonderful Mother-In-Law! Cheers to your 60th year!

Congrats!

Congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Eric Waterman! Eric asked Heather to marry him on February 15th! I couldn't be happier for the two of them! Eric is such a wonderful guy and makes Heather so happy! Their wedding is set for July 23, 2011! Thank you for getting married you two because the wedding diet is back on!