For SALE

Well, our house is officially listed!!! So crazy all of this is becoming reality! Here is the listing (<- click here) if you know anyone who needs a new home :)

We Matched toooo.............

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota!!

We are so excited and so proud of Chance! Mayo was his top choice! I heard too many times that most people don't get their top choice so I had no clue where we would end up! I was OK with going anywhere because it's a minimum of only 3 years. I think I can handle anything for only 3 years...even Minnesota winters (at least I hope so :)

I set my camera out on the counter to take with us to the Match Day Ceremony and when we were half way there I realized I forgot it! The reason? Chance moved it to make coffee and I didn't see it :( Luckily I have smarter friends who didn't forget theirs!!

The matching process has been so crazy. I think I have tried to explain it 100 times and I am still not sure I even understand it?! In short, after you are done interviewing at the schools you applied for an interview and got accepted to interview at, you rank those programs by "favorite" to "least favorite". The hospitals do the same thing. On the Monday before Match Day, the students receive an email to let them know if they have matched or not. If they have, AWESOME...they just sit back and "relax" until Thursday. The ones who didn't match have to "scramble". I really don't understand this process so I won't go into detail, but basically they have a few days to try to find a school with an opening still (out of the ones they interviewed with). I believe they have until Wednesday or Thursday (the morning of Match) to find one. If they don't, they have to wait until the next year to try to apply again.

Once Thursday rolls around, there is a Match Day Ceremony. We all loaded up and went to the Merket Alumni Center for this event. Ella was excited she got to come too! Just before 11am they started passing out everyones sealed envelope with they're fate waiting inside! Each student also got a personalized letter opener to use to open it! No one is allowed to open it until exactly 11am! (they took a long time to speak and call everyones names so we didn't get to open until like 11:08...it was HARD!).

I had heard someone say that at theirs there was a lot of crying and stuff so I was SCARED! It seemed like everyone was really happy at this one?! A LOT of people got their first choice and if they didn't, it was still pretty high up and they were still so excited! I was just at a loss for words! haha. I kind of thought it was going to happen but reality hit when I saw the letter. It will be an exciting adventure for our little family. and I can't wait to start it! Chance will graduate on May 21st and we will move shortly after that. I have already started looking at houses...can't say that I am that excited about what I have seen. Their style of houses and decorating ideas couldn't be more different than mine!! haha hopefully we still fit in there! We will be taking a trip soon to go look at some houses! I will keep you updated!

on our way!









You can kind of see where all the students are going in his class. Not all of them are on there...


It's alomost IMPOSSIBLE to get a picture of all of us where everyone is smiling!



Later on that night we went to the Match Day Dinner... I have a cute picture of us, but just need to get it from the friend who took it :) They did awards at the end...something no one was really expecting and Chance won outstanding Internal Medicine student from all the Internal Medicine Doctors he works with! So so proud of him! All the hard work these last 4 years is really starting to pay off (finally ;)!

He Matched!!

Yay! We are so excited! We found out today that Chance matched to a residency program! Which one? NO CLUE! but we find out on Thursday at 11am! We can't wait to find out. The anxiety and anxiousness is started to get to me! Hopefully I can make it a few more days!

Will it be Texas? Minnesota? Missouri? Tennessee? Alabama? We will seeeeeee!!!!

WEE Sports

My friend and I enrolled our girls into a "wee sports" class at one of the community centers here in Lubbock. She origionally wanted to sign her daughter up for basketball, but she wanted to do soccer. I found this wee sports class that had basketball, tee-ball, and soccer and jumped at the idea. It's a 10 week class so I thought it would be good for the girls to get a chance to practice all of them and get a basic idea of how to play them all (since I have NO clue how to teach her myself, haha)and then she coudl choose next year what she liked best!

The first class was the night before the big winter storm hit so the class was inside. They were limited on space so the kids played hockey...the girls were not fans.

The next class they played basketball. The girls were not fans. They couldn't dribble the ball and were definitely afraid of the 8 boys launching the adult size basketballs at their faces. Their were lots of tears from both of them. We stuck it out though.

The next class they played a basketball game. We were in Wichita Falls, thank goodness.

Today they played a basketball "game" again for the first half. Ella was VERY standoffish but I coerced her into participating (bribed her with the park next door). She still can't dribble, but really tried! and even made a goal! A+ for effort!! That's ALL that matters to me.

They also practiced catching/throwing the plastic softballs and pitching them into the target net. Again, she looked at me like she was miserable, but stuck it out and did an awesome job!

The problem isn't that she doesn't want to learn. It's that there are all boys in the class (except Pearl) and some of them are way older (have to be almost 5!). They are all boy too..they know how to dribble, they have played all these before, and they are awesome at being rough...Ella is not. She's around me all day!! So glad she is being a good sport about it and is participating!They will play tee-ball for a couple more weeks then HOPEFULLY we will move on to soccer! Oh, the other problem is that the teacher has NO clue how to teach or talk to 3 year olds. I won't even go into the details, but she is less than encouraging to the girls or the little boys are don't know what they are doing. buuttt I guess it is a 35 dollar class through the community center, so I guess you get what you pay for! The teacher that was supposed to teach, backed out last minute so they scrambled and found a trainer. Shes real nice-just not great with the little ones. Like I said though, it's a good experience though for Ella and it helps me see what I need to be teaching her to get ready to play sports!

Here are some from the first day of class. She is running around testing out her new kicks! Which BTW, she wears and 11 now and that means she is in the "big girl shoes" where a pair of Nike's run you like $60!! I can get a pair for 80 or 90! Crazy-ness.





These were from the second day...the first day of basketball.


ella is in the cool colored hat ;)








meanwhile in the car...

furry, wiggly, cat tail

so this morning when Ella woke up she immediately told me that she was mad at me because she was in her room scared and crying and I didn't come in there and check on her. I had no clue what she was talking about...her room is kinda far from ours and I don't have a a monitor in there or anything because she usually doesn't wake up, and if she does, she does her thing and then will go back to sleep. If it's in the morning, she just comes and gets me ( usually we are already up in the living room by the time she wakes up! ). I started asking questions to see what happened and she said she saw a cat's tail in her room. haha wait WHAT? She went on forever how there was a furry wiggly cats tail... I just kept laughing telling her it was her imagination. Then came bed time, and she like refused to go in her room by herself- even just to get her pj's. Got her dressed for bed and she made me carry her in there, then she started crying begging to sleep in my bed or me to sleep with her. We have never had this problem! So I "checked" her room, made Dad and the dogs check her room, turned on her bright lamp, and put the video monitor so I could watch her room all night to see if I saw a cat (her idea). I think I spent an hour telling her she was going to be OK. We kept telling her she maybe just dreamed it- THEN it clicked! YESTERDAY, Chance had the brilliant idea to let her watch the Johnny Dep version of Alice in Wonderland (what the HECK). He asked me if I had seen it the other day and I said yes, it's creepy and he said Ella should watch it- umm no, did you hear me just say it was creepy? Then I walk in the living room yesterday and they are watching it!! I was like this is creepy she doesn't need to watch this. WHO WAS RIGHT! Either she had a nightmare about the cat from Alice in Wonderland or she "thinks" she saw him walk past her room. this is why we say "mom's ALWAYS know BEST!". Finally got the little one to go to sleep- yes, her door was wide open. The imagination and the thoughts that go through a 3 year olds head- if only we knew half of it!

ummmm CREEPY RIGHT!!!!

"big boy crib"

now that mr. man ("little bud" as Ella started calling him while we were trying to get him to crawl, haha)is crawling and pulling himself up on EVERYTHING, I decided to lower his crib to the lowest setting. Bittersweet! It's nice that he's growing up because it makes it a million times easier on me and chance (AND ella!) but so sad he will be 1 in less than 3 months. I feel like I don't even remember ella as a one year old! I break out pictures all the time but it's not the same. trying to take in all these with him as much as I can so I DON'T FORGET THEM!!

I had it in the middle for like 2 weeks and now he's all the way down! Glad I am tall or else this would be killer to get him out! how do short people do it?

9 Months!

Big boy Creighton is officially 9 months old! We took a (shot free) trip to see Dr. Scott this week. He weighed 25 pounds and 4 ounces and was 30.7 inches long. On the chart, he is in the 99th percentile for both height and weight. Dr. Scott compared his size to a 15 month old baby, haha. He's a big ol' boy for SURE! He's wearing 18-24 month clothes right now... some are too small. He outgrows clothes faster than I can find them! Ella weighs 35 pounds...only 10 pounds more!

Nothing major happened at the doctor and thank goodness he didn't need shots. He was happy and healthy! He will go back at 12 months (may!).

Chance went with us so I forgot to take a picture in the doc's office so I snapped this when we got to the car. He was EXTRA tired...hadn't had a nap and it was 200!!


A little run down of Mr. Mav (ella keeps insisting we call him Maverick these days)..

He's crawling, pulling up on everything, getting into everything, pulls out all of my cords that are plugged in, eats all the time!, talking (says Ella,Ball, Mom, Dad,Bite and says something every time he sees the dogs but we can't decide what it is, ha!), has started biting us, has 2 chompers, still spits up but not NEAR as much, isn't a fan of baby fruits...usually only eats the veggies or meals.

LOVES Cheeto's, peas, feeding himself, ELLA, baths, DAD, the puppies, balls, chasing Ella, pulling tissues out of box, crawling on Ella, BOUNCING, riding in the stroller.

HATES putting on clothes (ESPECIALLY SHIRTS), laying on his back, getting diaper changed, being put to bed (not ALWAYS), being strapped down in his car-seat!