One GIANT LEAP!!!!

Dear Everyone,Laura called me today and said, "i have your national boards envelope " and I said "OPEN IT OPEN IT OPEN IT" and she opens it and says...."PASS!!!!!"yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
The day when I can take off the "(future)" is getting closer :) :) :)
Have a good day!! I miss you all!! Love, Rachel

New Year's Resolutions!

Hey Everyone!
Happy New Year!! yay 2010!! As well as being a NEW DECADE, this is also the year that something super duper important (to me anyway!) and a LONG TIME COMING is happening: on MAY 14th, I will FINALLY graduate from Mizzou with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree...7 years in the making baby!!

I'm definitely looking forward to getting a real job and continuing to learn how to be a vet, and caring for all my future patients! :)

Here is my New Year's Resolution though:

NO MORE TRAFFIC TICKETS!!!!!!!

Anyone wanna take bets on how long I can last??

Mexico esta muy bonitia!

At the beach...

There were lots of beautiful flowers by the pool...luckily it rained that morning making this loooooooooverly rain drop effect :) :)

A beautiful gulf coast sunrise...I got up at 6 AM and walked to the beach on our last day in Mexico to shoot this...the f/stop is at 1/4000!!

The ocean!! As seen from the plane upon arrival at the Cancun airport.

How to have a good time in MEXICO!!

How to do it up right in Mexico!!

1. Go with 3 great old friends...

2. Lose your passport promptly upon arriving at the Mexican Airport

3 Find it again within 10 minutes (this part is crucial)

4. Pack a ridiculous amount of stuff that way you have to lug it through customs...

5. Lay on the beach for 4 days and get incredibly sunburnt on your right side only

6. Do several shots of tequila and somehow injure yourself under the bar, that's correct, I said UNDER the bar.

7. Go snorkeling and almost get separated from the group because you were swimming after a sea turtle...

8. Tell the customs agents you're only bringing back "Christmas presents"...they might get kinda grouchy about that Mexican vanilla!!

;) ;) These are just options you can take, in case you hadn't guessed already this is the short-and-sweet version of my WONDERFUL vacation to the land of Mexico!!

Thrillllllllller!!!

Ladies and gentlemen...I present to you...EVIDENCE!!!
Evidence that I, Rachel Ray, went to a Michael Jackson impersonator show!!

(In the strangest of all places...Playa del Carmen, Mexico!!! Does anyone else find that weird?)

I've now been to exactly two impersonator shows in my life (that I can remember)...MJ being the most recent and the other one being a Johnny Cash impersonator band called Cash'd Out at the Blue Note when Adam and I first started dating...that was a great time as well!

I think this guy really looked like him but when he started talking he had a Hispanic accent...;)

What impersonators have you seen?

Pawsitive Memories: Happy Holidays from the Whites: Peggy, Tinsel and Sprinkle!!

These photos are of Peggy White, one of my Vet Med classmates and buddies, and her 2 cute kitties, Sprinkle and Tinsel!! Tinsel was a bit shy, but they are still the cutest!! I wish I could take pictures of cuddly animals all day long...I love my self-proclaimed part-time job!! I'm taking boards tomorrow though...then going to Mexico (the country) to blow off some steam with my girls from high school....expect about 40 million pictures of that trip when I return!!

Pawsitive Memories: Dr. Odunayo, Grace, Zoe and Duke

Here are some more holiday photos of one of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care residents from the VMTH, Dr. Desola Odunayo, and her adorable animals Grace, Zoe, and Duke!! I had a blast doing the shoot and I think they turned out really cute!!