Home Again

It has been a VERY busy past 2 weeks. But everything & everyone is great!!

Mrs. Dill's surgery went very well. It took less time than the surgeon had originally planned & she recovered extremely well. She is back at home after a nice stay in Cleveland. Thank you to everyone for your thoughts & prayers. I cannot say enough about the Cleveland Clinic, what an amazing place! Makes me wish I was back at work in the hospital, but I'll take Matt Dill over anything any day!!

Wedding planning was wonderful. My Mom did an amazing job helping me plan a wedding in one week. It was so much fun. I am truly the luckiest girl in the world! I had a very easy, but fun time. Marrying Matt is a dream come true & everything else just seems to fall in its place.

Also, I have recently received some sad, bad news that a family member has very aggressive prostate cancer. He has 2 young sons, I think ages 2 & 4 and a wonderful wife Dawn. Please keep them in your prayers. I am unaware of his prognosis, but his recent email sounded very unpleasant. This is such a hard time for my family. Steve & Dawn were married just a few years ago before starting their family. They both waited to fall in love & get married until they were a bit older(think mid 40's?) They are very dear to my family. Any & all prayers are greatfully appreciated.

I hope everyone is doing well. We loved seeing all our family & friends & hope to see the rest of you soon! If not soon, then please keep in touch!
Cheers!

On the Road Again...well not 'til Thursday really

We're coming home!

Please pray for us & for Matt's family & his Mom as she prepares, undergoes & recovers from her heart surgery scheduled for next week. She has wonderful doctors & the Cleveland Clinic is an awesome facility. We are confident it will be very successful!

Updates to follow soon!

Not Betty Crocker

As some of you know, I am definitely not Betty Crocker. I learned on a date a long time ago that apparently I don't cook, I just heat stuff up. I felt a little ego bruising on that one(sorry I wasn't a short order cook for El Chico). But with all that said I really feel like I have gone & completely redeemed myself for my lack of culinary expertise....I made the best meal last night of our lives. That's right folks! I made chicken with stuffing. Yeah, stuffing. Like the Stove Top stuffing. Okay, okay it comes in a box, I know. But, do you know how hard that precious little red box was to find? It was the first time I had ever seen anything like that over here. It was so scrumptious my Hubby-to-be and I ate the whole 6 servings. Now I feel sick. Yucky. But I cannot tell you how unbelievably good it tasted. Western food, LOVE it. I think it curved our cravings for Umberto's, Senor Tequila & many other delicious places to eat until we get back to Tulsa. Which, I'm sure we will try to head straight for the Mexican as fast as we can.
And, in other news, sources have been heard saying that I am the unofficial queen of stir fry but we cannot confirm nor deny any of those rumors at this time.

Wanderers

I don't know if we feed off each other or what, but its great that we are so much alike. Its amazing to me how two people can wander around so aimlessly. Its almost crazy! I love the fact that we get along so easily with each other & compliment each other so well. Its just effortless & feels so natural. Love that!

So a couple weekends ago, we ventured out to the Singapore Turf Club, just in time to see the first horse race of the day. We loved watching the races & even managed to figure out the betting system & placed a couple bets. Matt usually looked at the odds & other stats to make his choices & of course I picked them by their name!! I won a race & he won a race, think we made ~$26 at the end of the day. Not too bad! The race track was so busy. There were a ton of people there. It made us laugh because there were so many Chinamen yelling & cheering for the horses. All I could make out was !Go! It was great though. Definitely going back again.

This past weekend we didn't do much at all. Just stayed around the homestead. We layed out at the pool Sat & Sun. We were so lazy. But it was good. Matt has been putting so much into work I think it was good to have a weekend where he wasn't going non-stop. Its good to be lazy sometimes, right? Sometimes it good to just do nothing, or at least that's what i kept telling him :)

We love going to new places to eat. Its one of our favorite things to do. Last night was our 9 monthery(9 month anniversary). Heck yeah! So we went to this rooftop bar. The view was cool. I cant even describe it. And of course I took Matt's camera, but we forgot to take a picture. So I'll allow you a few seconds to imagine a rooftop bar overlooking the city at night time.......................breath-taking isn't it?

It seems like almost every week there is something new going on here. A new tent, with different people, music, food, events, etc.. Its unbelievable. This is a very busy time of year. August was Hungry Ghost month, we've officially entered Ramadan, and from the end of August until Mid-September is the Mid-Autumn festival. Its like a circus every day! But we love it! We have no idea whats going on until Matt asks some of the guys at work.

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. More to come soon!