Welcome Home, Daddy!

Hallelujah, Daddy is home for good! As of Friday, August 7th, Mark has officially completed his didactic portion (classroom portion) of PA School and is now in Lubbock for the rest of the program. Kolbe, Reagan, and I travelled down to Midland for Mark's white coat ceremony which officially transitioned him and his classmates to their clerkship year. Mark's mom and dad also drove down to join us for the occasion. We spent most of the day cleaning out Mark's little apartment and then after the ceremony we had a wonderful steak dinner with the grandparents. It was a wonderful day! And best of all, we are SOOOO glad that we no longer have to send "Gaggy" off to Midland every week!!!

It has certainly been a LONG 15 months...a whole pregnancy, Kolbe's second surgery, a new baby...WAY more than we (in our infinite wisdom!) planned on experiencing during this trying time apart! God was definitely with us every step of the way and His help is the only way we could have ever gotten through it! And thank God it's over!

Here are some pictures from the White Coat Ceremony:

So what's up next for our crew??? Mark began his clerkship rotations this morning. He will spend six weeks at a time working in eight different fields of medicine here in Lubbock. He started today with psychiatry. Exactly one year from now he will have another White Coat Ceremony and get his long coat (that signifies that he's not a student any more) and will finally be DONE! Kolbe, Reagan, and I will continue on with our crazy life at home...just with Daddy home EVERY night!!! Yea!!! Here is Mark off for his first day! (Yes, I'm already turning in to the mom who has to take a million pictures on the first day of school!)