The future "Dr Todd"

After four years of school, two babies and a very patient Heidi, Todd graduated in May from Pharmacy school in Wingate, N. Carolina. We are really proud of him and want to wish him good luck in Kingman, Arizona where he will be a Pharmist at the only CVS there. They have rented a cute house and are getting use to our dry heat. A few days after moving in Ivy fell and broke both bones in her arm by her wrist. They probably weren't quite ready to look for a permanent doctor, but Ivy required them to. We hope to see them often.

Christmas 2008

Family News: Heidi and I have accepted a job at CVS pharmacy in Kingman AZ starting as soon as I graduate and pass the National licensing exam. CVS is supposed to be building a brand new store that will open in Kingman around October 2009 so after graduation we will probably move to Lake Havasu so I can start familiarizing myself with Arizona pharmacy law. We have already started the process of going through our stuff, selling items we haven’t used in a while, and packing up items that we won’t use but want to keep. We will have to decide when to put our house on the market and how to best make the 2000 mile journey back west.

Scarlett Spears

Scarlett (left) Ivy (right)
Scarlett (Red bow)

Ivy (White bow)

Ivy Spears

The girls are doing very well here in North Carolina. They love their nursery class and have started learning their ABC's. They started stringing words together recently and are very clever at making sentences out of their limited vocabulary. One of my favorite expressions that they say is during the song “pop goes the weasel” where they instead say “Pop goes the doggie”. Sometimes it is difficult to mediate between the two because they always want to do the same thing at the same time, but overall they have been fun to watch grow.

Family Update: Todd, Heidi, Scarlett, Ivy

At our house here in Wingate North Carolina we have an acre of land that is totally undeveloped. I thought it would be a good idea to clear some of the brush and found in the process that we have a lot of either poison Ivy, Oak or Sumac back there. I've never been exposed to poison ivy and can now say that it has been torture. I can't believe something could be so itchy for so long (so far it has been ten days and its still slowly going away).


The baby girls are starting to grow up fast. We've already had solicitors from older neighborhood kids asking if they can play with them. They are so sweet sometimes when they take care of their baby dolls by trying to feed them and love them, but other times they fight with each other which usually results in one being thrown to the ground.

I have been busy with my first of 9 five week rotations at Pharmerica Long term care pharmacy. We do consulting at local nursing home facilities and make medication/lab/housekeeping recommendations to the doctors/nurses/ and administrators. Its basically a 9-5 job that doesn't pay.
Love you all
Todd Heidi Scarlett Ivy

Hello everybody, I hope all is well.
I need to keep this short because it is past my bed time and I have a power point presentation on multiple sclerosis tomorrow. This week has been a particularly busy week with school due to rotations and last minute lectures before the final exam week. After next week I will no longer have to sit through lectures or study for tests. I start my first fourth year rotatioin on May 5th and in another year I will be eligible for the national licencing exam. As for Scarlett and Ivy they haven't been helping me with my studying time. Yesterday Scarlett had her first febrile seizure exactly 3 months to the day that her sister Ivy had one. Since we were now "experts" at how a febrile seizure works we weren't nervous this time around. Since our primary care doctors office was closed we had to go to the ER and after a chest X-ray, blood work, urinalysis, and lumbar punture, all they could find was she definantly had a fever for some unknown reason. Of course we didn't get out of there until midnight but they are doing well today. Heidi is doing well due to the fact that as the babies get more independent her job gets a little bit easier. She still spends her little free time going to the gym, painting, and doing crafts. Finally, one last pseudo exciting health concern from our house is that I had a positive TB test as part of an anual screening at school. I had to go to the health departments tuberculosis clinic to get a chest X-ray to see if I indeed had tuberculosis but the chest X-ray came back negative (weird). I guess I have sensitive skin, but once you test positive you will always test postitive so at least I wont have to get stuck by that TB needle anymore.
Anyway if anyone is in the neighborhood you always have a place to stay.
Love you all
Todd, Heidi, Scarlett, Ivy