Life As We Know It

Wow...

Our whole life as we know it has been completely changed today.

I'm honestly still in shock and can't believe what is happening to us...

Travis has finally been accepted to medical school!

This has been such a long and extremely trying experience for us.

Even as I'm writing this, fresh tears are falling down my face.

(I just can't stop crying!!! Don't worry, these are good tears)

We thought for sure that Travis wasn't going to be getting in this year.

So sure in fact that we dropped $800 dollars just last week to start applying again.

(Oh well, life goes on...)

Travis interviewed at 3 schools last fall:

University of Texas Medical Branch (in Galveston, TX), St. Louis University, and University of Colorado.

We really, really wanted CU in order to be closer to both of our families but they told us no a while ago which was extremely difficult for us and completely puzzled us.

In fact, it took me quite a while to accept the fact that we wouldn't be going to medical school here in CO and it definitely wasn't an easy  process.

And then both UTMB and St. Louis put him on their waiting list.

Great...

When we heard this news from UTMB they said in their email that their wait list consisted of about 200 students and they generally accepted about 15 off the list each year.

Ok, well that pretty much ruled out UTMB because what were the odds that we would be one of those 15???

So that left St. Louis.

Long story short, Travis has done a lot of sucking up to SLU for several months and we still had gotten no reply.

Therefore, we felt that we needed to go ahead and start the application process again for next year because it was looking like we weren't going to be getting accepted this year at all.

Well, Heavenly Father must work in mysterious ways because Travis got a short little email today congratulating him on his acceptance into medical school!

So where are we going???

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX!

Yep, that's right.

We were one of the lucky 15 out of 200 students waiting.

Like I said, we still can't believe this is happening.

It's crazy how you can wake up one morning with your life one way and by that afternoon your entire life has 100% completely changed and everything is completely different.

(This is a very good kind of different though!)

So yeah, looks like we're heading to Texas!

Crazy....

Here's what our home for at least the next 4 years is going to look like:

For those who don't know, Galveston is about an hour outside Houston on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

(Yay for a beach!)

And here's a picture of part of UTMB's campus and where Travis will be spending a lot of his time:

Not too bad, eh?

We're so excited for this journey to begin.

We're so thankful and especially grateful to our Heavenly Father for 

looking out for us and for giving us this opportunity.

We both know that this is where we're suppose to be and what we're suppose to be doing.

Yay, yay, yay!!!