March 18th

This past Thursday was a big, big day. Match day and my birthday! We were lucky to have Mike's mom, sister and our 2 favorite nieces here to help us celebrate both events!

We already knew that Mike would be doing his ophthalmology residency here at Wake Forest, and we were happy to find out that he will be doing his internal medicine internship at Moses Cone in Greensboro. This means no moving and no stress! The most exciting part of the day was finding out where all of our friends matched. Congrats everyone!

After all the excitement of the match, we somehow found energy to have a birthday celebration.

Carys informed me that a birthday party can not just involve cake. There must be a game or activity. Of course she was right, so I chose a dance party. I loved seeing these girls shake it! Thanks for a fun birthday!

Hike

It was nice out this weekend, so we decided to go for a hike. We went to Hanging Rock with Sumeet, Snow, Matt and baby Wilder.

Sadie's AZ Photoshoot

My very talented sister Rachel took some pictures of Miss Sadie Pearl. Since I haven't been good about updated my blog, I'll just send you to hers:

http://rachelbuttonphoto.blogspot.com/

My Valentine

Last week at play group Sadie decorated sugar cookies for the first time ever. She loved it, especially eating all the sprinkles off the cookies. Yum, yum!

I Need A Snow Day!

We got about 6 to 8 inches of snow this weekend and we had 2 days of family fun in the snow. The video is a little long, but if you can't spare a couple minutes, then skip to the last 30 seconds or so for Sadie's wipeout while sledding. Mike got a little too enthusiastic with his pushing (don't worry - it's not too bad - no injuries, just a tipped sled).

Sadie & Abby

A few weeks ago, Sadie had one of her best friends, Abby, over to play. They had way too much fun playing together and I was able to get some video of them in action. It's just under 2.5 minutes if you have the time.

Update: For some reason the video has been unavailable the past few days. I've tried to fix it - hopefully it's working now...

Match Party!

The much anticipated results are in... Mike will be staying at Wake Forest for an Ophthalmology residency! We are so excited that he matched and that it is a place that we love.

We had an eye ball party in his honor. Thanks to all the friends who came and humored us by really getting into it:

Stacey came all the way from AZ. Now that is true support! (So maybe she just happened to be here for work... )

Matt & Baby Wilder

Laurie, Randy and baby on the way. (Yes, he is wearing glasses in the womb!)

John Adam and Melanie with Oliver and Finn (they are studs, glasses or not!)

Liesl & Brett

Suzi & Emma

Emerson, Luke & Elena

Sadie sneaked a taste of the cake while we were taking this picture.

We won't find out about intern year until March, but as for July 2011 - June 2014 we'll be here in NC!