Farewell Auburn!

I decided to make a cake this weekend for my last rotation EVER!! I made this two layer golden butter cake with vanilla buttercream icing, topped with a fondant cow and vet cadusus.

War Eagle

On Friday, Gene Chizik stopped by the vet school during CPC. A student in my class put together a presentation for him, showing how we named all of our dairy calves after the Auburn starting line up. Since we only keep the females, we came up with some creative names. Miss Darvine for Darvin Adams and Gina for Gene Chizik himself. He found all of this very humorous and seemed impressed with the vet school and our support for his tigers. At the end of the presentation, we went outside where he fed Gina her afternoon milk!

Lion Mania!

I am on ophthalmology right now and we went to the Montgomery Zoo to look at a lion. The lion's name was Daniel and he was 19 yrs old ( thats pretty old for a lion). The zoo vet and lion keeper darted him with sedatives and then used a mask with gas anesthesia to keep him asleep. After we looked at his eyes, one of the zoo workers was cleaning his teeth (she had to take the mask off to do this, pretty stupid). Daniel started twitching and when she went to put the mask back on him, his eyes were open and he growled! Very scary! Needless to say, we all went running. No one was hurt so it was a great day. We also toured the zoo on a golf cart. Overall an awesome day!

In the Kitchen

I spent a chunk of today in the kitchen—I just felt like making yummy things, for no apparent reason!  I made coconut chicken fingers…

and red velvet cupcakes!

The chicken fingers were a super easy Cooking Light recipe : dredge some tenderloins or sliced chicken breasts in flour, egg & buttermilk, and coconut and pan fry until golden.  Easy!  I dipped them in a sweet Thai chile sauce from the grocery store.

The cupcakes were the standard red velvet recipe I usually use.  It’s on FoodNetwork.com and I think it might be Paula Deen, if the cream cheese, butter, and powdered sugar frosting is any indication.  Matt and I each had to sample one of course and they got a thumbs up from both of us!

20 Weeks!

Here we are at 20 weeks (these are from last week—sorry I’m behind!)!  Halfway, halfway, halfway! 

I feel great lately and am definitely in the “honeymoon” period of pregnancy.  I finally look pregnant instead of like I’ve hit the beer & pizza too often, but I’m not enormous yet (still holding at about 10-12 lbs gained).

Dear Baby,

A few super exciting things have happened in the last couple of weeks.    I finally felt you move for the first time (I think…) and it’s so exciting to know that you’re healthy and growing and sometimes kicking me in the side or sitting on my bladder—at least that’s what it feels like. :) 

I also feel like you’ve made your first debut to the world since I actually look pregnant now and people notice and ask about you!  Already, you’re hogging the spotlight, but I think we’ll be happy to get used to that. 

We’ve been looking for a new place to live as well—one that we can call our own and decorate and set up just perfect for our new little family.  We can’t wait to find the right place and get everything ready for you.  Of course, it might be that it takes until after you arrive, but either way, it’s going to be great.

Keep cooking little June Bug!

Love, Your Mama