The medical marriage

There is a wonderful book coming out written by the wife of a doctor in St. Cloud. She has been through a lot in her life and has written a book for spouses of physicians. This is a first, if you look on Amazon for books for physicians, there are plenty, but if you look for spouses there is one, this book that Kris wrote. There is a teaser on the website and you can read the first 11 pages. I am so excited to get this book because it is great insight to the world we live in. Not glamorous, or exciting, but real and poor and struggling for time together. If you're interested in this book at all, or know any spouse of a med student, resident or physician, this would be a great book for them! It is not an easy road and not how it is portrayed. We are right in the middle of the calm before the storm. Bryan graduates in a couple months, then we move and he starts his 80+ hour work weeks. So, if you're interested please read some of the teaser and if you're really interested buy it or buy if for someone who might need it! I was thinking it would be a great book to have MY family and friends read, because it describes my point of view perfectly!

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-48701-7

And with all this studying, test taking, stress, lack of time, lack of money, call nights, med school, residency, fellowships and beyond, here is my little doctor... in all his glory!

Okay, so I guess it's worth it!

Our Diaper Bag Drive was a success!!

A while ago I talked about an important fundraiser that I was a part of at work. This was called a Diaper Drive for the HIV Perinatal Program. This program provides many services to women who are pregnant and HIV Positive.

Our employee based group decided to try and help this program provide diaper bags to these new mom's because most of the are struggling financially. We tried to find a group that would sponsor the bags so that we can have employee's fill them. I talked to the AMA Alliance, which is a group I am in. It is made up of spouses of med students, residents and physicians. I brought up the idea and they approved it, by giving us a $500 donation to purchase the bags. This was an amazing gift and it made our drive very successful. We had so much support from the hospital staff that we not only filled all of the purchased bags but had money to buy more as well as provide over $300 in Target gift cards! It was amazing to see and I was very proud to be part of this amazing, successful Diaper Bag Drive!!

This is a picture we took when we handed all the bags over to the nurse who heads up this program, she was very overwhelmed and said that for some women, this will be the only thing they get for their baby.

That alone, was worth all the thanks in the world!

Wedding Prints

So it has almost been three years since we have been married and I finally decided that I wanted a nice album instead of the 900+ pictures in a album. The photographer put a few of the pages up on her blog so that I could approve. They are awesome!

Take a look: http://wwwargentephoto.blogspot.com/

Sold!

Well, we have rented for three years, we were caretakers and cleaned up after other people, but now... all we have to do is clean up after ourselves!

This is our new home in Rochester! We close on May 30th!

Yay!

Sarah's wedding pictures!

Miss and I with our tongues!

Bride and groom
My sister and Hailey (Beth's little one)

Sarah's Wedding

On March 22 Sarah and Charles were married! It was a fun day, even though it snowed! Here are some pictures from the wedding!

Right before the wedding...

Bryan and I- matchy matchy!

Mom and I with her fancy shoes!

Alisha and I

Beth, Sarah and I

My donation

Since there has been a big change in my life, the next step for me is usually a hair change. This time I had 9 extra inches to give away so my donation of 9 inches of hair is on it's way to Pantene Beautiful Lengths... it's just like Locks for Love... my hair stylist Briana, said we had to take pictures- I love her!

Before... holding my hair

After...

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