The Season in and out of Sac!

Pictures are better than words...
Esp. when you're on call on Dec 24th and you're getting paged up the wazoo.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!
(some updates...)


Flicks from Michelle's Holiday Potluck last weekend...

Michelle and Andy (the hosts)


Mmmm. Stuffing. My favorite.


Dishing up dessert. Jeremy made his famous Lava cakes.



So content after dessert...





Kids and in-utero babies, galore !!!

Rebecca, and (Serena holding) baby Bryce (11 mo)


What's with the stuff in my mouth??! (Jeremy caught me on all these pics!)


Me with Tom and Betza (expecting end of May!!.... and me still chewing on something...)


(looking at Michelle's wedding pictures...) Am I still eating??


Alvin with David

Shannon, with David and Bryce

Bryce has learned to clap, which is adorable!!!

Daddy (Joby) and Bryce

May babies coming!!! (Betza, now ~17w [baby boy] and Noelle, ~21w [baby girl]).

Aren't they darling??!

Sunday: adventure to Tahoe

(from Sac-town to snow!)

Shom puttin' on the newly-purchased chains!

Love having an engineer around for stuff like this!

Brr. Snowshoeing by the lake

Snow-woman-making.

I can't take credit for this one; it was already there, and I am NOT creative in the slightest!!

We had an awesome lunch, warming up at the Beacon Grill, lake-side at Camp Richardson.

Then: expedition to the Hot Springs at Grover Hot Springs State Park, where I've been wanting to go for ages!!!

We certainly warmed up there, with the natural mineral water at 102-104 degrees in the "warm pool" (there was also a "cool pool" at around 80 degrees!). Believe it or not, it (the hot pool) was almost too hot to get in initially, but then felt HEAVENLY compared to the cold outside air.

There is nothing like sitting in a warm pool looking out at the mountains....

Around 5:00 p.m., they actually started to set up a large projector and play "Christmas Vacation" while people basked in the warmth, but we had to head back over the passes back to Sac-town.

Fun trip!!!

Much more fun than being on call on December 24th.

It was kind of a crazy day including a moderate decel and getting an intern here for a continuity delivery for an OB patient this a.m., admitting the baby and dealing with another newborn with jaundice and an arrythmia, covering the inpatient family medicine wards service with some complicated people, including one going in/out of complete heart block (now, thankfully, on the cardiology service-- I didn't really want to have to put my ACLS [advanced cardiac life support] skills to use today), taking operator FP phone triage calls what seemed like every 10 minutes, harrassing OB patients who called the OB advice nurse to actually come to triage on Christmas Eve to get checked out, admitting from the ED and putting in a central line on a (former) IV drug user admitted for an abcess (oh yeah.. and she's + for cocaine, too...)...

... and there's still 5 hours left of call!

I fly to Virginia on the 10 a.m. flight out of here (through Las Vegas). Can't wait to see my parents and doggies! I hope there aren't any storms on the way ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE !!!!