A 5 month old and a almost 3 year old

These guys are just too cute not to share. Abigail is 5 months now and is weighing in at 17 pounds and is 25 1/2 inches long. Which puts her in the 75% for both height and weight. She is quite cute and pudgy. She also has the sweetest personality. She is always laughing, giggling, and cooing. She is way more vocal than Joshua was.

Joshua is doing great. He is getting to really big. He loves to make bread and pizza with daddy, and play with Abigail. He starting to get into the lots of questions and lots of talking stage. We have been working on praying for a long time now and he is finally catching on. Most nights Caleb and I have to bite our lips to keep from laughingat what he chooses to talk about in his prayers. They cover the normal "Bless Abigail to not have a runny nose..." to "bless my race cars and my choo choo train as it goes up the hill saying 'I think I can I think I can...." It is very fun to see him learn and discover.

The pictures in the slide are Abigail's five month pictures, our last big snow fall, making bread and pizza with daddy, the St Patricks's Day cement mixer parade, the model train expo, and playing around the house. Now we are off to house hunt and spend some time with family. We will keep you updated.

Match Day and Dinner Pictures

Our friends from the Match dinner the night before.

Here's Joshua with his little friends, all waiting for noon to find out where they're headed...

...or maybe they were just there for the rocks.

It's kind of a stampede to get to the mailboxes once people see the deans start placing the envelopes

Joshua was helping assuage the anticipation before we actually opened it.

And the verdict you already know by now...

As part of the post-match festivities everyone placed a pin on their new location. The city of Loma Linda itself wasn't actually on their map, so we had to guess a bit.

Match Result by the numbers

The match was today, so we just found out where we're going. Instead of just jumping to the important part, I thought I'd try to put it in context first:

It has taken:
8 years of higher education
2 kids
$200k+ of education debt,
2 months waiting for interview invitations,
12 interviews spanning about 2 months and 7 states,
4 rental cars,
17 nights at hotels, family/friends/stranger's houses, and even in one of the above rental cars,
3,133+ miles driving to interviews,
16,900 frequent flyer miles for the same interviews,
way too much money towards those travel expenses,

6 weeks deciding how to rank them,
5 more weeks waiting to find out,

That I'll be doing 3 years of Emergency Medicine residency at

Loma Linda University Medical Center