Packing Up Our Life in Tennessee

Life has seemed to be heading full speed ahead for the past few months, and is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon! The results of Match Day came in late in March and we found out that we will be in West Virginia for the next four years as I do my residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology! It was definitely a dream come true to find out and we have been trying to prepare for the big move that will happen in early June since then. Jeff also found out that he got a job in WV with the Red Cross...so for the first time, we will have two real incomes! Woohoo!!!

This past weekend was my graduation from medical school and thankfully the last graduation I will ever have! It was such an exciting weekend and we got to spend a few days with the fam in a beautiful cabin on the lake.  In comparison to having 12 people in one house, this week has been super lonely whenever Jeff heads off to work...I was so used to noise!  Thankfully, this weekend is the Bobo-Q, and there's always plenty of fun and noise there!

 My class's match results!

5 peeps going into OB/GYN!

Me pointing to where we are heading!

 Super honored to receive the Outstanding Anatomy Student Award!

Posing in front of my school!

 Such a supportive hubby!

 We did it!!!

Our beautiful cabin for the weekend!

 An amazing view from the porch!

Such a sweet little beauty!

Jonah is going to be an amazing photographer! Starting early!

She's really good at the hair pulling!

 Em really loves her Jeff Jeff! 

Kyle and Jonah having fun on the dock!

Couldn't have asked for a better graduation weekend surrounded by my loved ones!

Match Week is upon us!!!

One of the most exciting events is FINALLY here...MATCH WEEK!!! For those not in the medical field, this process is very strange...well, it is even for us who are in medicine.  I've been asked many times in the last few months if I had heard anything from my interviews, but the way the Match works is a ranking system, not just an interview and job offer.  Yesterday felt like the most important day of the week to me, when I found out whether I matched or not.  I had interviewed at 5 locations, all for a position in an OB/GYN residency, and Monday was the day I finally got the results on whether I would end up at one of those 5 places.  And....I MATCHED!!! I had spent the last weeks and months coming up with possible "what if" scenarios and trying to convince myself I would be happy in something other than OB/GYN if I ended up having to settle for something else.  Thankfully, my efforts to accept becoming another type of doctor were unsuccessful and unnecessary! I am going to be an OB/GYN!!! I've only known that is what I wanted to do for about a year, but that was enough for me to fall in love with it.  Thankfully, as Jeff put it, somebody wanted me!!! I have a job starting July 1st!

Now, my thoughts for the rest of the week are being consumed with where we will end up for the next 4 years.  This Friday at noon we find out where we matched to, and then the real fun starts! We get to house hunt and job search for Jeff.  Another question I've been asked a lot the last few months is what Jeff was going to do when I moved.  There was never a thought of him staying behind at his current job and me moving without him.  We spent years at opposite sides of the state and I hope to never go through that again. I know that we can live anywhere for 4 years as long as we are together.  So, come this Friday we will know we are heading to one of the following places: Augusta, GA, Charleston, WV, Huntington, WV, Odessa, TX, or Kansas City, MO.  And after that, a few short weeks to graduation and the rest of our lives!

The email I was waiting not so patiently for!!! All smiles here!

Our 1st Christmas

This year marked our 1st married Christmas! We've been married for almost 6 months now and it has flown by! This was also the first year that I did not wake up Christmas morning at my parents' house...only took 28 years for that big change! I was able to spend time with much of my family on Christmas Eve and then headed back home to wait for Jeff to get off work.  He had to work on Christmas, so we did our exchanging presents that morning and spent a little time with his parents before he headed off to work, then I headed over to my aunt's house for the afternoon.  We got to do Christmas with the rest of the family that Saturday, and it was so fun! Here are a few pictures!

We are registered for the Country Music Half Marathon! My 3rd and Jeff's 1st!

He loves his new camera!

He's imagining the face he will make during his massage! We got each other couple's massages! LOL!

Wow! I look tired! I could use this pillow to go back to sleep!

Jeff got me a new memory foam pillow with a cooling layer! It's amazing!

A shoe rack!!! I think he was tired of me having shoes all over the bottom of the closet!

My beautiful new earrings!

I love jewelry! Haha!

Our Christmas tree after we opened our presents!

My warm slippers! Jeff always gets ice cube toes pressed against him!

I made Christmas breakfast consisting of biscuits, sausage, eggs, and tater rounds! Yum!

Spending time with one of my biggest fans...Jordan! We had a great afternoon!

Our 1st Christmas picture after Jeff got off work! Can't wait to celebrate many more together!