The results are in!!

Well, after four long years of school...we are just about finished.  Sean passed his step 2 board in January, which was a huge sigh of relief and kept a smile on my face for a week.  This week we got the next step finished, which is where we will go after graduation in May.  We were not picked up with the military like we had hoped for a residency, instead Sean will do a transitional year in a civilian program.   The transitional year will be spent rotating through the more common areas of medicine.  ie. ER and internal med.  Then next fall we will find out if we are going to spend the rest of residence in a civilian or military program...depending on what the military wants.   Hopefully that explains everything well enough.  So with no further adue, we will be spending the next year in....  CALIFORNIA! 

Sean will be working at Downey Reginal Medical Center, in a city called Downey, of course.  It is outside of LA and nice and close to Disneyland.  The girls are excited because we told them we'll be living really really close to Disneyland.  Of course we're going to try and get the season passes, shoot living that close I think we'll use it up. 

Now the next challenge is making sure we find good and as inexpensive housing as possible.  We won't be moving till the end of May, so we have time. 

We are really excited to be moving on the next step of this journey.  I started thinking it would never end...but look, the light at the end of the tunnel is finally showing.  : ) 

P.S. The picture is off the hospital website so I assume that is what it looks like.  ha ha

Dear big sister...Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday JoRene! We love ya "Grandma"!  Yes, for those of you that know my family...JoRene is now Grandma Dalley!  Guess what else....that makes ME, GREAT Aunt Cara.  How crazy is that???  As soon as I can get some, I'll post pictures of my niece Stephanie's baby boy, cause he's a cutie and I have to show off too!  lol

Give away!

Not sure how many people read this thing, but incase YOU do...lol  My friend has a give away on her blog.  Shelly is giving away a $25 gift certificate for CSN store, which is an online store.  So if your interested, go check her blog out at  http://merrillfamilydeepthoughts.blogspot.com/  Good luck...but really I want to win!  lol

Also I've found a couple new blogs in addition to Shelly's that have been fun to see.  http://www.makeit-loveit.com/ has some really cute tutorials for everything in your home from home decor, to repurposing old clothes to cute hair "accents".    I've even made some of the hair stuff.  If I can get the girls to pose, I'll post it too.


The other one is http://www.ourbestbites.com/ They have some good lookin food on there.  The first one I'm trying, because my cousin said it was very yummy is Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos.  I have a list of staple dinners my family will eat...problem is I'm getting really tired of this list and ready for a few new items on it.  Maybe ourbestbites can help me out!  lol

Picture day for Savannah and Evelynn

We've been having fun with our camera!  I decided I didn't want to pay for a bunch of pictures no one wants (except Grandma) when all I need is some 8x10's and 5x7's.  So I did it myself.  Oh and can I put a little plug in here for Walgreens?  I liked the way my photo's turnd out better with them than Walmart.  Walmart's seems like they come out too dark...which is probably my fault.  Since I don't know how to fix it...I may have to stick with Walgreens.

Besides playing around with the camera, we enjoyed a beautiful Martin L. King day yesterday.  The weather here is GORGEOUS!  I can't believe how nice it is.  It'll change quick so we'll enjoy it while we can.  We spent yesterday morning and the park where it was rather crowded with everyone being out of school. 

Sean got to drive down to Chino, CA on Monday for an interview this morning, so his day wasn't as much fun as the girls and mine.  We just found out he's got another interview on Thursday in Riverside.  Those sound like fun places to live.... so keep your fingers crossed for us! aka Pray like crazy!

Have a great day everyone!

Birthday Party, Christmas Party, Parades, all done!

Wow...here's to 24 hours I'm glad are behind me.  lol  Today is my little Savannah's birthday.  She is finaly a 4 year old.  She was hoping to be 5 like her sister, but at the end of the day she settled with 4.  Thank heavens!!  Well, we knew today was going to be very hectic so we started of the whirlwind with Savannah's birthday party yesterday.  We kept this pretty low key and just invited a couple friends over for a "play date"  So glad they could come and I think everyone had a great time.  Oh and can I just say that Betty Crocker's birthday cake tutorials are awesome!!  If you ever need a fun little cake check there, but beware that they can be time consuming. 
After the fun birthday party we raced off to the church to get ready for our ward Christmas party, which also was a lot of fun.  The best part was when Santa came to visit.  My girls were ready for him this year and with their letters in hand they marched up to see Santa. By his look, I think Santa was a little surprised at the length of Genevieve's list!  We even got a picture with all three girls with Santa before Evelynn realized she was sitting on a very strange jolly old man's lap.  We got two pictures in, and then the jig was up. 
After setting up and cleaning up at the church we went home for some much needed sleep.  
Then the race started off bright and early this morning.  We were off to the parade route on Water St. in downtown Henderson.  Fortunatly we don't live to far away!  I got the girls off with their teacher and then ran(I'm to lazy to run, I really drove) to the opposite end of the parade route and waited till my two little tutu wearing girls got to me.  Of course Savannah was on the opposite side of the street so I raced around till I got pictures of them both dancing down the street.  Once that was over we raced home, changed into their real costumes and headed back to Water St. for the performance.  We made it there with a few minutes to spare, thanks to the awesome band that took a little longer than they should have.  I needed those few moments, because I was one nervous mamma and didn't have things as put together as they should have been.  Finally the girls were ready to go and I found a seat and tried recording and taking pictures of them all  while pretending to keep an eye on Evelynn too....uggg Sean had to work and missed out on this fun, so I had to make sure and take plenty of pictures.  : )  Some how we made it through the day, but gosh I don't remember feeling this tired in a long time!  Lots of fun in these last 24 hours...glad it's all done, at least till next year!
PS  The last picture is the end result of a tantrum my now 4 year old had, because she wanted to wear a rainbow costume like her sisters.  Wow, it went on and on.  Did I mention I'm kind of glad this day is over?

My big girl!

So here is Genevieve's Kindergarten picture....I wish she would have been smiling a little more, but other than that it turned out pretty well.  Yipe!!  Thank you Mom, you did a great job on her hair.  I was visiting Sean in Florida when it was picture time and so Grandma went above the call of duty to get Genevieve ready for pictures too.

Since I'm finally updating my blog, I have to include some Halloween pictures.  The girls have started dance classes and have had a few shows.  They are such hams, but they eat this dance stuff up!!  Savannah seems like a little natural and has the other kids watching her for a few of the moves.  Go Savannah!  So if I can be smarter than the computer I'll figure out how to up load a little clip or two of their dances.

Awe my sweet baby girls...when they aren't being naughty!!

Wow a lot happend in the last 9 years!