Happy Holidays!

<3 Jeff, Christina, & Anchovie

Christina

Christina is celebrating the end of her clinical year of medical school this Christmas. She has successfully survived sewing up a hernia, lending a hand during brain surgery, performing an abdominal ultrasound, reading an MRI, playing test subject for electromyography, delivering twin baby boys, staying up for two 26 hour trauma calls, 6 weeks as a Pediatrician without getting a cold, her first patient death, her first CPR, weekly visits to Schizophrenia clinic and a few exams (...phew that was a doozy of a list). In this incredible year of self-discovery, she spent a few weeks walking in the shoes of every type of doctor and learning more than she ever thought imaginable while sleeping less than she would have liked.

In her home life, she has found a new love for yoga this year thanks to free classes at Carrot and mild tolerance for running after doing a 5K with friends from medical school. Despite being in the hospital most of 2014, she was able to enjoy some nice dates with Jeff, occasional brunch with NYC friends, a mini family vacation to Jacksonville Beach, a girls weekend in Gainesville, and spend time with all of her best friends from Davidson at some point during 2014. Basically, she feels blessed and wishes all of her loved ones a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season with so much love! Besitos!

Jeff

Jeff is thoroughly weirded out by writing about himself in third person, but since Christina did it, he guesses that he has no choice but to follow suit. He has been working hard at Carrot Creative still, transitioning into mostly internal efficiency and tooling work over client-facing projects. He spent many months on the next version of what is currently his most popular open source project, roots, as well as a bunch of other smaller supporting projects, all of which have been very useful and which this site itself is built on top of. He also managed to support a certain hard-working little-sleeping girl along her way through medical school as much as possible.

Outside of work, he took up photography as a hobby, and has been making a lot of progress. He photographed a number of carrot events and a technology conference, which was quite a challenge with environments ranging from auditoriums to roof decks to mirror-ceiling cruise ships. He also spent a lot of time riding his bike around on weekend and shooting photos for practice, many of which can be found here. One of his biggest accomplishments here was this photo, which reached the "most popular" page on 500px, a large community for photographers, for a day, and which a friend purchased a physical print of. He also took a vacation to California (first time there!) with his family, both having an awesome time and grabbing more great photos. Finally, made an absolutely insane halloween costume, and took an improv comedy class, which was a lot of fun and culminated with a public improv show. Lots of exciting stuff this year, and lots more to come!

Anchovie

Anchovie is growing up fast. She has had a very eventful year, which has both challenged her sense of self and her sense of humor. Anchovie started out the year with a life of stardom. She quickly rose through the ranks as Instagram’s beloved bunny model picking up 800 new followers faster than she could come up with new poses. Though Chovie is not one to disappoint her fans, so she fearlessly rode in Christina’s bicycle basket over the Manhattan Bridge to Prospect Park for a picnic, wrapped herself in American flags to rep the US for the World Cup and bravely faced off with a hairless cat.

Anchovie needed to take a break from the lime light following a fateful trip to the vet when she found out she was actually a boy. Despite being initially shaken, Anchovie is taking the news well and has not let her inner spark fade. She is still a feisty little princess and enjoys giving Jeff and Christina a run for their money on a daily basis. Her current project is shortening the Christmas tree by eating it from the bottom up, because she agrees with Jeff that Christina went overboard this year. Otherwise, she spends most of her time lounging like a loafy pants pretty much everywhere. She doesn’t really care how your holidays are, but she supposes you should try to enjoy them!