Next Year

So I just wanted to let everyone know how excited we are about next year. Steve is interviewing right now and he has to do interviews for two separate residencies because radiology requires you to do a preliminary year in something. We chose Internal Medicine. Anyway Steve's first interview was a couple weeks ago and he pre-matched to do a residency with them. Its down in Gross Pointe. Which is on the southern section of Detroit on the Eastern side. So it hugs Lake Huron. Its supposed to be a really nice area. Which is nice cause it means we won't be in a scary area, but we're hoping it doesn't mean expensive housing. 

For Halloween I was a gypsy and Steve is Mayhem from Allstate.

For those of you who don't know what it means to Pre-match I'll explain as best I can. Most residencies you'll interview with afterwards you rate them and they rate you and then in March they match up who liked who best and thats where you go for residency. To Pre-match its like you only rating them and them only rating you so that there's no guess work. Except you also sign a contract so neither of you can duck out and give them the shaft. So thats what we've done! 


Anyway its nice knowing where we will live next year and that we don't have to move far, plus we can still visit all the people we love in Saginaw! Now Steve is just interviewing for the four years after that in Radiology. He has a couple interviews in Detroit in January and one in Syracuse NY. Out of those options I think NY would be awesome. I really want to live in New England so we can travel on his time off and see all the amazing things there are. I'm still hoping he'll interview in Connecticut cause I so want to be a Gilmore Girl. (Yes I know how silly that is. You should see peoples faces when I say that to them. They don't know whether to laugh or call the therapist.) Anyway I just want to see the east coast. 

This is Mayhem Steve with our friend Jessica aka Flo from Progressive.

That's where we are right now. We'd also like to thank everyone who supports us during the Medical School ups and downs. We have the greatest families ever! 

Yay For Pumpkin Season

So we did our yearly trip to Johnson's Giant Pumpkin patch for the 2nd time. Such a great ancient tradition for us. I invited everyone I know in Saginaw to come so that we could share the fun. Mmmm if you haven't had apple cider donuts on a cool crisp day than you haven't lived. Of course this wasn't a cool crisp day. This was our indian summer day that we all got sunburned on.

         

 

We also got to see the launching of pumpkins with the trebuchet. I know that everyone is wondering where I learned that word. And no nobody had to tell me that this launching machine was called that. Everytime I say trebuchet I remind myself that I'm a bit of a fantasy geek. But seriously this macine is awesome it launches a pumpkin which hits the ground so hard that its shrapnel looks like it would hurt. We saw it at least 3 times that day. (We kept coming back to watch with our friends cause they kept showing up.)

 I particularly enjoy the wood carvings that a man does with his chain saw. Such a random skill. I wonder if its on his resume?

 I ♥ the Mystery Machine. Maybe someday I'll have one of my own!

 This year the walk through the christmas tree bird walk was free so we got to see some cool birds. The duck in a wig cracked me up. My mind keeps getting fried trying to sort out all the dumb movie quotes that would make fun of this. All I can say is I keep coming back to the phrase pig in a wig which doesn't fit at all but still funny! See if you can come to something better.