MCG Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Graduation Dinner

On June 12th, the MCG Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department hosted Stephen's graduation dinner.

What an awesome night! To hear all the wonderful things said about Stephen confirmed my faith in him as a person and a physician. I will not go into detail on this blog because his super modest self would kill me, but I will say that I am so proud of him! He has worked so hard for the past 9 years to achieve his dream. To sum it up, his Program Director said "Madison, Mississippi is very lucky to be getting Stephen.". I second that! CONGRATULATIONS HONEY!!!!!!

Stephen receiving his graduation chair from Dr. Ferguson, Program Director

Stephen's second family!!!! L to R: Daniel (1st year), Martin (3rd year), Stephen, Chung (intern), Kyle (2nd year), & Leana (intern). not pictured: Joe (intern)

Stephen's second Mamas! L to R: Nancy, Julie, Stephen, Selenda, Soo, & Susan

Dr. Mark Stevens (Chairman), Dr. Tom Osborne (part-time attending), & Dr. Solon Kao (attending)

Stephen and Chung making Dr. Getter (attending) feel short!

One more meeting of the minds!

My mom and Stephen's parents came into town to join us for the celebration!

End of the Year Pool Party

On June 8th, our friends Ashley & Grant, hosted the Auxiliary end of the year pool party!

One, Two, Three........

Jumping in with Daddy!

Not a happy camper!!!!!

Me, Ashley, & Britt

Row, Row, Row Your Boat! And of course, Alli is the paddler!

BEST FRIENDS!!!!

Ring Around The Rosie......

"AT"shes, "AT"shes We All Fall Down!

Our Last Supper Club

For those of you who frequent our blog you know how much we LOVE supper club. These are scenes from our last night together. With graduation dinners and call schedules, not everyone could join us this night..... we missed you Doug, Melissa, Rich, and the Ansleys!

THE GUYS

Brad, Jason, Stephen, Tal & Grant

THE GIRLS

Ashley, Britt, me, Sue Anne, Jennifer & Leah

THE CREW

The Bucklers, Greers, Wilkins, Bells & Lewis'

MCG School of Dentistry Graduation Dinner

On June 4th the MCG School of Dentistry hosted their annual graduation dinner. This night honors all graduates of dental residencies.

Stephen receiving his certificate from the dental school.

Back to Augusta

For the few of you that read this, I know you'll think I'm crazy. I'm putting the dates in a next few posts because this blog serves as our family journal. I want to be able to look back in 10 years and see all that we did in such a short period of time when were "young"..... we will think of ourselves as crazy!

On June 1st we arrived back in Augusta from the beach to a house with only a sofa, mattress & box spring, a TV on a moving box, & Maddox's blow up bed. Thankfully we had our beach chairs so we could concoct some sort of dining furniture!

Yes... those are two moving boxes as our table accompanied by our beach chairs! The best is... we lived like this for two weeks and had company come stay!

Beach Trip 2008 (in pictures)

We had a great time at the beach with my family! I won't bombard you with the 9 thousand pictures I took so I just posted a few of my favorites!

Note: feet in sand WITHOUT shoes. For those of you that don't know Maddox.... this is a huge deal. He doesn't like sand!!!

Gram, Rett and Maddox

Chilling in the pool with Daddy, Brad, & Rett

Cool Dude!

Sweet Footprints

Rett being silly!

Maddox, me, Olivia, Rett, Katie, & Brady

"Crabby" Hunting!

Maddox, Rett, Olivia, & Brady

Our sweet boy!

Move To Mississippi

After 5 years of being away we have finally made our move back to Mississippi!

Steve and Becky came to Augusta on Monday the 19th to help us get loaded up and make the move. We had 2 LARGE trailers and 1 LARGE truck so we could not have done it without their help. Thank you so much!

We bought a house in Cypress Lake in Madison and LOVE it!!!!! I didn't get any pictures of the unload or the inside of the house with our stuff, but here is a picture of it when we put the contract on it in March. It's the nicest house Stephen and I have ever lived in together! We finally got our "grown-up house"!

Here are some pictures of the loading!

Steve loading one of two trailers!!!

We put all of Maddox's yard toys in the back of Steve's truck because it didn't matter if they got wet. All we needed was a rocker and Granny on top and we would have officially been the Clampets!!!!!!

Maddox and his Grin!

Lots Going On!!!!!

We have been MIA from the blogging world for a month now! YIKES! It is not because there is a lack of things to blog on it's because there has been too much going on to stop and blog! I am going to attempt to blog in chronological order.

***Warning: Several Posts****

On April 21st two very big prayers were answered for us. We got a contract on our house and we found out we were pregnant with Baby #2. We were overjoyed, but I had a feeling like all of this was too good to be true. These were two HUGE things that Lord blessed us with and I just couldn't get over it. Being a Christian, I know that there really is no such thing, but I couldn't help feeling that way. I was having major pregnancy symptoms and already taking Zofran and Nexium. I blew up like a giant balloon in 2 short weeks and already was uncomfortable in my regular clothes. I was only 4 weeks along at this point.

I had already started packing our house a couple of weeks before so I turned it up a notch and really got to packing. We were going to close on May 21st. Let me back track by saying we also found a house in Madison and were closing on it on May 22nd. We were having a great time packing up, spending lots of time with friends, and enjoying life. Mother's Day weekend rolled around and my sweet friend Britt had given me a gift certificate for a half a day at the spa and she would join me. We did that on Saturday. That night Stephen and I were watching TV and I told him that I felt like something wasn't right with this baby. On Mother's Day I told the say thing to Britt. My first ultrasound and doctors appointment was scheduled for Wednesday so thankfully I wasn't having to wait too long.

Wednesday rolls around and it's time for my ultrasound. I should be 6 weeks and 6 days at this point. When the tech does the ultrasound she begins questioning my timing. She says I am measuring 5 weeks with a sack but nothing in it (which is normal at only 5 weeks). I knew right then that I had miscarried because I knew EXACTLY how far along I should have been. I asked her is that what that meant and she said not always. Well... she was just being nice. I then went to see my OB and she confirmed that I had miscarried and we scheduled my D&C for Friday.

We were heartbroken, but it's amazing to me how God works. I never had any doubts while pregnant with Maddox, but I never felt right about this pregnancy. As hard as it was, I was almost prepared for the bad news. What also amazes me is God's timing. There is a season for everything and one of those is mourning. I did my mourning between Wednesday and Friday and by Friday night I had to get back to packing. I had so much to distract me that I really didn't have time to sit around and be sad. Even though this was hard for us, the situation could have been a lot worse and we're thankful for how things did happen. We are now praying that I can have another successful pregnancy and another sweet child like Maddox.

Now with the fun stuff!! While were packing Maddox found Stephen's bike under the house and became obsessed with it. Stephen had to take packing breaks to ride Maddox up and down the street. Please don't call DFACS on us (no helmet and riding on the middle bar)!

GYN Cancer Support Group Wine Tasting

Saturday night our supper club (minus a few) went to the GYN Cancer Support Group Fundraiser. It was a wine tasting and sit down dinner. It was fun for us all to get dressed up and actually go out on the town. Needless to say.... much laughing took place and fun was had by all!

To give you a little background on our supper club: It all began in October of 2004 (we moved to Augusta June 2004). I signed up for a supper club through the MCG Housestaff Auxiliary (a support group for students, residents, and fellows wives). We got randomly placed in a supper cub and we met for the first time in October. It began with 6 couples. Over time people have moved and we've added new people, but there are four couples that are the original group: the Bells, Bucklers, Ansleys, and us. Out of the these four, three of us are moving on to the next phase of our lives in a month. We have had dinner together every month for 3.5 years now. It has become part of our monthly schedule... how different it will be not seeing these people every month. We have made many, many memories together and held each others hands through deaths, births, and our husbands crazy schedules. To say that these people are "friends" is an understatement... they are our "Augusta family".

The Bucklers and Greers taking a "prom picture". At one point the kids wanted to get in the picture with us (I didn't get this one). We said we probably weren't the first couple to have prom pictures made with our children!

We actually got a picture together!!!!!

Caterpillar

Maddox had is first experience with a caterpillar. I kept telling him it was just like The Very Hungry Caterpillar in his book, but he only wanted to watch from a distance (3 inches away)! He wasn't real sure about it's fuzzy body.

Maybe I'll pick it up..... Maybe not!!!!

First Bubble Bath

As I have said before... I have forfeited my Mother Of The Year Award from Maddox so many times in just 2 short years that I decided I would have to try again with the subsequent Greer children. With all of that being said... Maddox took his FIRST (so sad) bubble bath! He wasn't real sure about it at first, but as you can see from the expression on his face he had a blast!

First Date

Alli and Maddox went on their first date in the Jeep. Maddox was such a gentleman and drove... very cautiously I might add!

(they were sweet enough to let baby Elizabeth go along also)

Adding a little SPICE to life!

Last week I was on a business call and Maddox came in trying to scrape something out of his mouth. When I got close to him I smelled a really strong spice smell. He was fine and went on about his business. When I got off the phone I went to go check on him. As I walked into the den I was taken over by the same spice smell. About that time I look over and this is what I see.....

Yes... that is an empty tupperware containter that used to house the pile of spice for shimp boiling. And.. yes... it is dumped on my carpet!!!!!

Wild Hair at the Park

Since the weather has finally decided to stay beautiful, most of our afternoons are spent at the park. When Maddox goes down the slide he gets so much static in his hair it stand straight up. Maddox... I am so sorry that you got your mommy's hair!!!!