Happy Easter!

Our first married Easter has come and gone. After a very nice Easter service, Amit needed to get some study time in before we went to the Keyes' for Easter dinner.

So off we went, to the best place in the world to study. Can you guess?

The Beach!

It was beautiful out and we were so excited to be able to hang out at the beach. We picked up lunch from a little beach front restaurant. Food, crashing waves, a good book (at least for me), and the sun beating down on us makes for a heavenly afternoon. 

For those of you who doubt that Amit is capable of studying while on the beach, I figured I would take a picture for proof. 

Note the notecards in his right hand!

After several hours of the bright, beating sun, I was ready to go inside. Its a good thing I did, I am a beautiful shade of pink. ;-)  I don't mind, in another day it'll turn into more of a tan color and it was worth every minute out under the sun. (I totally got my daily dose of Vitamin D though!) 

Sadly, those are the only two pictures I took of our Easter. I forgot about my camera when we were with our friends. The DMDs studied for a while before dinner, which was good, from what I hear their pharmacology test went well today. I had brought grape salad and crescent roles for dinner, so somehow I got lucky enough to be little Ben's cuddle buddy. While Ben was sleeping on me, his big brother Aiden wanted to play some Battleship. Needless to say, I practiced some good multitasking skills during that game. Dinner was fantastic! Tamsen is an amazing cook and Melinda had baked a delicious lemon cake. It was a nice break for our dedicated studiers. We are so blessed to have such a great dental family!

We totally enjoyed our Easter. It isn't too difficult to convince ourselves that we have to go to the beach, when its 70 degrees out. I think we'll need to find a house close to a body of water, those crashing waves do wonders for your stress.

Special Delivery

We got a special package in the mail today! Look who it was from -

I wonder what he brought us...

Whoa, jackpot!!

 The first thing Amit did was to 

divide our candy up evenly. 

We share a lot of things, not food though,

at least not willingly.  ;-)

We had to take a picture of how excited we were.

Thank you, Easter Bunny (aka Dad & Grace)!! We love our goodies!

Pizza Pizza!

Amit is back home, trying to get back into his school routine. Luckily we've managed to ease him back into it. A few walks, some home-cooked food, and one afternoon off is about all it took. Today we walked to the beach, kicked a ball around with Seth, and then ran back home. We finished tonight off with a blizzard run! I am so, so glad that it is now officially spring. Dairy Queen season has finally come upon us!! Woo-hoo!! Even with all that fun, you would think Amit would be willing to get back in the groove. If only he would stop watching "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and focus on his computer screen I think he'd find it that much easier...

So back to the real reason for this post. I feel like bragging tonight. :-)  Last night, I made my first attempt at homemade pizza. It turned out way better than I had ever planned!

It was a great way to get Amit to eat tomatoes!

We spend our walks talking, 

but enjoy watching Top Gear while eating...

It is one of our favorite shows,

you have to check it out!

I am becoming quite the cook, well, more of a semi-homemade style cook. I love shortcuts. I must have done a good job with the pizza, because Amit just told me tonight that we should make the pizza more often. Woo-hoo!

When the boy is away...

... the girl will play! 

Well, I don't know if play is really the right word. While Amit is spending his time at the ASDA National Conference in Baltimore, I'm at home in Quincy, finding ways to fill my time. Besides work, I've been trying to enjoy the beautiful weather. Since it feels like spring is finally here, I decided to start spring cleaning. Our closets are in desperate need of some Martha-like organization.

Besides that fun stuff, which aren't really blog worthy, I've done some other fun things.

Did you fill out your census form yet?

I did... After 8 months I still get excited when 

I have to fill out my part of a form under husband/wife!

The weather has been beautiful here, too.

Great running/walking weather!

Thursday night I babysat for our three favorite kids, all by myself! John and Tamsen went out for a much needed date night, and I settled in for a fun movie night with the kids. Aiden (5) and Abby (almost 3) were so good for me, even when Ben was getting impatient waiting for his bottle to warm up. It was so much fun, I knew I wanted to hang out with the older two again. So I did! (I kind of inserted myself into the Keyes family during the week, but playing with the kids is way more fun than cleaning a lonely apartment.)

So Friday we decided to do some baking. A funny thing happened when making our cookies, though. Aiden was cracking the eggs (and did a very good job), but cracked one more on the table than in the bowl. So we got distracted... and only added 3 eggs instead of the 6 we were supposed to. Oh well, they were still good. I can't wait to try it with all 6 eggs added!

Yummy Monster Cookies

Look at how warm it was!!

Don't worry, I took this picture at a stoplight.

On Saturday afternoon, a group of us headed to another classmate's for a Meet Baby Ben party. The star of the party was wearing the onesie I appliqued for him!! It was super cute (and stitched on by Tamsen). He's such a chunky baby. He's almost 3 months and wearing a 6-9 month onesie. I think its okay though, I love chubby babies!

Amit got back from Baltimore today. We went out for dinner at Lime Leaf in Weymouth. We had a gift certificate from Restaurant.com, love Thai food, and needed to have a date night. Perfect combination! It was fantastic!! It is so good to have him home!

Check out ASDA's blog, Mouthing Off, to see our favorite dental student! A free toothbrush would win anyone over, well, any dental student for sure.