Friday, June 24, 2011

Almost There



Mike often mentions how nice it will be to have finally arrived.

We have been on a journey since getting married.
(I'm not talking about THE everyday journey
that parents raising kids are on.)
This journey has led to 7 moves in 8 years.
It has taken us to Eugene, Portland, Provo, Chino, and Pomona.

He often mentions how nice it will be to have a home.  A home that is ours.
A home where we can make permanent changes...if we so wish.
A home where we can "let the grass grow under our feet",
where we can settle and let our kids make uninterrupted memories.
A place where our someday grown children can return to,
to reminisce and rest from their own hectic future lives.

We are closer than we have ever been.

Mike has 5 weeks left of rotations.

Yet it doesn't look like we will be arriving...
at least not yet...not in the next year.

Mike has interviewed and been accepted to the
Orthopaedic Surgery PA Residency Program at ARMC.

He starts in the fall. 

Keeping true with our nomadic record
we will be moving closer to the hospital,
making this our 8th move in 9 years of marriage.

And though this means postponing our end destination
for one. more. year.

we couldn't be happier.

 It is going to be rigorous and intense,
but the experience obtained will be invaluable.

So here goes to "almost there".



*Pictures taken last month during his urgent care rotation at the facility where I work.


 

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Beating the Odds


Did you know that in the U.S. the odds of having a boy
are higher than those of having a girl?

Roughly 105 boys are born for every 100 girls.

So when it comes to having kids in a row of the same gender,
A streak of girls are rarer than those of boys.

The odds of having 4 girls in a row is
1 in 17.56--to be exact.

And so it looks that come November...


we will beat the odds
when baby GIRL #4 makes her debut.


Speaking of birth-days, we celebrated this man's birthday this month.


Lucky ladies we are indeed to have him in our lives.



And before you start feeling sorry for him
because he will soon be the only male in a sea of females,

these girls (myself included) adore him,

and will always take care of him.

Plus having another girl appeals to his sense of thriftiness. ;)