Where we are now

Before I catch you up on where we are today, here are a few extra thoughts:
1. I have set a goal to update my blog as often as possible, but no guarentees! Some weeks will be better than others. I have so many different ways of sending out info (text, email, myspace, facebook, twitter, snail mail!) that I'm having a hard time keeping up! Plus not everyone is interested in those methods of communication so if you're waiting for pictures and updates, wait no more! It is now up to you to check our blog for updates!
2. Luckily, this thing has spellcheck. But that's it. Please excuse grammatical errors. There will be many!
3. I'll make this thing as flashy and pretty as I can when I figure out how. Hopefully soon!

Moving on!
Carey: Poor guy is sick of traveling! He has been across the country and back several times for General Surgery Residency interviews and is exhausted. He's also missing his little girl quite a bit! This is his 4th and final year of medical school and he will start his intern year this summer. We won't know where he will do his residency until March 18th. That's Match Day, a HUGE day in our lives! This semester he is focusing on finishing up the last few blocks (classes) so that he can graduate in May. Then he will actually be a doctor! His interviews have all gone very well and he will have a really hard time deciding how to rank the programs. The match works like this: we rank all of  the programs that we applied to, the programs rank all of the students who applied there and you match accordingly. That was a very simplified explaination, but that's how it works in a nutshel. February 14th is the day that we submit our list and we will know nothing until March. Ideally, we will immediately start our real estate hunt and be able to move to our home for the next 7-9 years by May. We'll see if that happens! Carey has just a few more places to interview but we have started narrowing down our list. Here is a RANDOM list: Houston, Dallas, Charleston, Birmingham, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Little Rock, Chapel Hill. I'll send out our final list when he decides more about each program and we rank them. So exciting!

Aisley Grace: This girl is a wild child! She is 17 months old starting to develop a strong personality. I love it! She is very verbal and communicates well. Books, baby dolls, and race cars are on her list of favorites. We read every day at breakfast and lunch and have "special time" built in throughout the day for reading. Her interest in reading has made that part of my job easy! Aisley is also very much an outdoors girl. I'm so grateful for that! We make sure to play outside as much as possible and you can see a difference in her mood when we do!

Me: I'm loving staying home with AGW! I think it's helped Carey a lot too because he's so busy lately. It's really nice to be home during the day when he is. After Christmas I began decluttering. This is the 1st step to packing. I'm suppose to be thinning out, but those of you who know me well, know better than that! It's a long process with a toddler as a helper! Very soon we will move out excess furniture and only keep the daily essentials. Then the real work begins: cleaning, repairing, painting, and staging. We will be very busy over the next few months! Exciting months!!!