White Coat Ceremony

Scott is officially a medical student!!!!! Wooo hooooo!!!!:) He had his White Coat Ceremony this last Saturday. The ceremony was looong and the kids had a hard time but thankfully my mom and my brother were kind enough to watch them for most of the ceremony, so I was able to sit and listen to the speakers and share this special moment with Scott. It was quite inspirational and it made us very grateful that Scott is going into this profession. We are proud of Scott and this huge accomplishment! Now, he will get to work for the next 4 years and we will hardly ever see him!!! (then 3 more of residency and 2 more if he wants to specialize!!) We have a loooooong road ahead of us. But we are so happy to be here and grateful for so many blessings!!! He started orientation last Wednesday and today is his last day. Tomorrow he will officially start with classes. The hard work and long hours of study are here again!!! Everyone he has talked to has told him that the first year is very hard. I guess he will have to get into the routine and it will definitely make us grateful for the few hours a day we will have together. The kids had gotten used to seeing their daddy all day this last month. Brielle told me this morning in a very concerned voice, "mommy, I miss my daddy". I told her that her daddy is studying to be a doctor so he can help people. She responded with a frustrated tone, "I don't want daddy be a doctor" I told her, "doctors help people", she said, "oh, they help people, oh". It is so cute that she misses Scott and is so concerned all the time about where her daddy is.

I had the chance to meet a few of Scott's classmates, everyone is very nice and friendly. There are 177 students this year, 110 of that total are women, that leaves only 67 men in the class. Most everyone is single or dating. Scott is among the few students who is married with children, which I think is neat and makes him unique. His class is so diverse, there are students from so many different backgrounds. It is so neat!!! There are 2 other guys from BYU. He is the only BYU-Idaho student. While they were taking this picture we were there with the kids...Brielle wanted her daddy soooo bad. I kept telling her, "Brielle, you can't go right now, your daddy has to smile for the picture." Then, in a VERY loud voice she says in front of everyone, "SMIIILLEEE!!" All of the students started laughing...Scott had this huge smile on his face and turned bright red!!! It was a cute moment!

After the picture, the kids ran to their daddy and they both wanted to be held. In this picture Brielle is VERY upset that Scott is also holding Braden...

We attempted to get a picture of the 4 of us, but it didn't happen...Only the 3 of us ended up in the picture!

By the end of the whole thing, the kids had had it!!! They were hungry, hot and tired!!! You can tell in this picture that Brielle wasn't a happy camper!!! (By the way, my brother Kem took all of these pictures, he always catches the perfect moments!!!)

I am proud of this man!!!:)

There are statues of George Washington all over campus. Funny Brielle story:

When we first got here we went on campus to drop off some financial aid papers. The kids and I decided to wait for Scott outside. We were walking around and Brielle looked at the statue and pointing at it asked, "Mommy, who's that?" I told her that his name was George Washington and that he was the first president of the United States. She kept repeating his name for a while. A few days later, we were having a little FHE with the kids and I was telling them about prophets and I was showing them a picture of Joseph Smith and then I showed them a picture of President Monson and asked them who it was. Brielle said, "that's George Washington!" It was one of the funniest things I've ever heard her say!!!! I was laughing so hard!!! I had to explain to her that he wasn't George Washington and that President Monson is another kind of president!!!:)

Walking on campus to the metro station. Scott has to take the metro to go into DC. I drive him to the metro station from our house, which is about a 10 minute drive, then he has a 25-30 minute ride to GWU. The stop is right in the university though, he walks about 100 feet to his building.

It is quite the experience to ride the metro with kids...it's fun for the most part and sometimes it is just a lot easier to drive to the metro, park our car there and take the metro when we go to DC. Parking can be crazy there, they have meters for up to 3 hour parking but you are always worried that you have to get back to your car before it expires...anyway, the metro tends to just be a lot easier!!!

Brielle is covering her ears from the noise the train makes when it goes under the tunnels. She likes riding the train though and both Brielle and Braden say choo-choo and they get excited when the train starts moving!

After the nice ceremony, we went to my mom's and had the best food in the world! Peruvian food of course!!! I'm so lucky that Scott LOVES Peruvian food!!! We had a feast! We were all exhausted by the end of the day!!! (I will post pictures of our house soon...we still have to paint the dining room, we ran out of paint...the kids broke our camera on Saturday (I have NO IDEA how it happened...I can't keep up with them!!!!!!!) I took some pictures of the house but they are in the memory card and I can't upload them into the computer because the camera is broken!!!!!! I was soooooooooo mad....I keep telling myself that it's just a material thing and it's not worth getting mad at my kids about it! I went online last night and ordered a new one (like we have all this extra money laying around...YEAH RIGHT!!!! but I can't live without a camera!!! as soon as we get the new one I will post them.)