It feels a little unreal making this post. There has been so much work and anticipation leading up to this point in our lives...and here we are!! DAVE GRADUATED MEDICAL SCHOOL!!! YAY!!!
I can not express enough gratitude to all of our family and wonderful friends for all of the love and support that you have given us through this process.
I am so very very proud of my sweetheart. For those of you that have been through medical school or supported a spouse through medical school you can appreciate how hard he worked to get to this point. It certainly did not come easy for him. But he did it! I am especially grateful that with all the work and stress he had he was able to always make time for me and his kids....we will hang on to those memories, since it is unlikely we will get that same kind of time together through residency!
While I am beyond excited to be to this point it is very bitter sweet to move on from this stage in our lives. We have loved our last four years in Arizona. Dave and I made many wonderful friends and we will sincerely miss each of you. It was extremely hard saying good bye to our ward family, my sweet friends and colleagues at work, our neighbors and all the wonderful friends from Midwestern. We will deeply miss our Home, our neighborhood, my job, and so many things we fell in love with in Arizona. However we are so excited for this next chapter! Dr. Dave can't wait to get going on his new job as a pediatric resident at University of Nevada Medical Center and Sunrise Children's Hospital. And I am so looking forward to being home with my sweet babies!!
Dave on his way up to be hooded...
For the very first time
Dr. David James Freestone!
Happy dad and mom!! Tired, bored and hungry babies....one day they will be proud too.
Dr & Dr Freestone. Dave was hooded by his Dad.
Hiding in the shade waiting for daddy after the ceremony.
Grandpa and Maddie also hiding in the shade waiting for daddy.
A little more waiting...The graduation was (relatively) quick and well done. Fortunately I had lots of help from the grandparents with entertaining and juggling the little ones so I could enjoy watching my sweetheart receive his degree.
My wonderful parents. They have been such a HUGE support and help to us. I am so grateful they came down to celebrate this exciting day with us!!
Dave and his amazing parents. They too have been very kind and supportive. We feel so blessed to have such wonderful family!!!!
We didn't waste anytime after graduation. That evening with a LOT of help from our incredible parents and our awesome ward we were able to finish up our packing and get our truck loaded. James was in 7th heaven seeing the BIG TRUCK with all our belongings.
Last few pictures of James playing in our driveway and in front of our 'blue door'. I can not think too much about the house we just left behind. It was our first house. Dave and I loved everything about it. I have so many fond memories there. Especially bringing our sweet babies home to it. It helps knowing we have great renters living there...but I will still miss it dearly! Hopefully we can make our new home in Las Vegas just as sweet and memorable.
Stuff, stuff and more stuff. We left Saturday morning after getting our renters squared away. And with the help of our AMAZING parents (have I mentioned how great our parents are??) we were able to have everything moved in to our new place in Las Vegas by the afternoon! So far we are really enjoying our new place. And we are all out of boxes so visitors are welcome!!!!
