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It's Official!

Today was Ben's graduation from Residency! These past 3 years have flown by! No more saying, "oh, he's just a resident..." :), he's a DOCTOR! Way to go, Ben! What an accomplishment, I'm so proud of you! What a great fit too-- you're so great at what you do. He won't tell you this, but he's so good, he has lady patients switching over to his care, and telling him he's their favorite. ...Bet he's the "McDreamy" of Wilford Hall to all those older ladies! CONGRATULATIONS, Ben! We love you~

(His fellow Internal Medicine grads)

Dancing Queen

Abby had a dance recital to wrap up her year in ballet and tap. She was in 3 numbers, and thoroughly enjoyed herself! The best part for her was dressing up, of course, and getting a trophy afterwards of a gold ballerina. Here are some pictures of her and her cute class.

WAY TO GO, ABBY!

Mother's Day Weekend

I had a great mother's day weekend! My choir sang our final concert series of the season with the SA symphony... ending with a bang (literally-- some intense Russian music). I love the challenge and practice I get with Mastersingers.

Then Sunday was awesome, of course, because I have a wonderful family that I'm so grateful for! Ben and the kids are great at making meals, and gift-giving... but I love how Mother's day makes me so in-love with my kids, and grateful that I get to be their mom.

With Abby in school, she brings home a lot of fun projects to share with us. For mother's day, she made me a big card and dyed paper for making a flower bouquet (the one to the left). On her card, she filled in questions about me, and drew a nice picture of me (which later, she wanted to add "dots" on the face for my freckles...I told her "no, that's okay, I like it the way it is," and took it away). According to Abby, my job is to take care of her, my favorite color is brown, my favorite food is hot dogs, my favorite thing to do is play barbies. I think she started answering them in first person. I loved it!

This year was especially great because we got to share mother's day with Ben's mom. We loved having her here! She's been sick for a while, so it was great to get her here and have the girls spend time with her. We got to take a quick trip to the beach and enjoy the warm water and sand (her favorite!) We'll blog more about the trip later. But thanks for coming out, Linda!

Megan and her boy, Tanner, came too, and those cousins loved playing together. They all have different shades of red and it was so cute to see them together.

SO it was a fun, eventful weekend. Hope you mom's enjoyed your special day!

OLIVIA!

I wanted to have a moment of focus on our Livi--she's such a trooper! She just had eye-muscle surgery on both eyes last week and she came out of it with flying colors... almost acted like nothing happened! She even brings the steroid drops to us and asks us to put them in for her daily dose. I don't know how much easier she could make things like this... it's more like she's a comfort to me than vice versa. She'll most likely need another surgery, and watching her handle it all so well makes me feel more okay with it. So here's to our happy Olivia!

WE LOVE YOU!!

News Flash

Thanks to my radiologist nurse neighbor, Ben and I got to take a quick look at my baby and find out that we're having....... a BOY! The doctor took like a second and said, there you go, it's a boy. I totally needed more time than a second to prepare for that so I said are you sure? ... I guess you don't ask that when you have a clear shot of the obvious. So I shed a couple tears of joy/freaking out and Ben was thoroughly happy about it. So that's our news. Any good boy names? Send them our way!

Easter Fun!

Decorating Easter CookiesEaster Egg Hunt at Church

Easter Sunday!

Hope you had an "egg"cellent Easter!
:)