At the end of May, Bryan graduated medical school!!!! <------this a="" deserves="" exclamation="" lot="" nbsp="" of="" p="" points="">
I am seriously amazed by all Bryan's hard work. 4 years of medical school is not an easy road and there were a lot of days the first two years where he would be up all night studying and then the last two years where he would be gone, months on end. But we did it! And the most amazing part was how Bryan balanced and handled it all. He was always so good about putting us first. He would check up on us, make sure we were still having fun when he was gone. He was always happy when he came home and played with the kids whether he had slept the night before or not! He amazes me!

Medical school was also some of the best 4 years of our married life as we met so many cool people. The people is what made the experience such a positive time in our life! I feel like the luckiest person to have known so many of these friends!

In December it was the match day......which means we found out where Bryan would be matched for residency and if he would match general surgery. We knew it would be posted at 10pm at night. So Bryan went to play basketball then went to cheesecake factory to get 2 cheesecakes in anticipation for the big night. We gathered over the computer, so nervous to see where we would be matched. It showed we would be going to Hawaii and Bryan matched a preliminary spot in general surgery. Which means he would be a general surgery resident for one year then he would need to reapply for next year. It was a night mixed with lots of different emotions. Should we be excited for this spot? Would reapplying be harder next year etc etc. After talking to lots of people, a lot of people told Bryan not to take it and to do a transitional year or look into another speciality. Bryan handled all of this like a champ where I broke down into tears multiple times. Although surgery was a rough road ahead, this is something Bryan has wanted to do for so long and I felt bad just giving it up so fast like that. Of course I was making more a deal of it then Bryan who was over it and ready to move on to a new speciality. After looking at our options of all the specialities around, we saw that there was one more spot for pediatrics in Hawaii.

We reapplied for that spot, called the program director and then found out in January that Bryan would be a pediatric doctor! The funny thing, all his friends joked that Bryan is more suited as a pediatrician than a surgeon. For so long, his friends joked about it and then at the last minute when we thought we were ready for a surgeon path, he becomes a pediatrician. We both feel so good about it and know the Lord was guiding us the whole way. Although I felt so good about going down the surgeon path, I learned that sometimes God leads us down a path and then allows curveballs to happen so that we know for sure that that path was not where we were supposed to be. I'm grateful for the hand of the Lord in our life.