Accepted!!!

This handsome man got accepted to medical school!!!

We are so thrilled and excited!  I am so so so proud of him. He has been working so hard for so long for this. We seriously can't stop thinking about it. So often, during the process of studying for the MCAT, getting in volunteer hours, shadowing doctors, studying for tests to get good grades, filling out medical school primary applications, then secondary applications, going to interviews, etc... the list could go on forever. But so often it has crossed both our minds, what if after writing countless essays, paying hundreds of dollars for applications fees, etc, all this hard work, time, and energy, to the point of pure exhaustion, and he doesn't get in to medical school this year? We have talked about that multiple times and just wondered and waited. 

Well, November 7 Rick got a very exciting phone call. The lady on the other line asked, "Is this Michael Stone?" Rick said, yes, of course. She then asked something like, "So are you ready to hear some good news?" And she then proceeded to tell him that he had been accepted to medical school at A.T. Still in Mesa Arizona!!!! 

I think that conversation will forever be etched into Rick's mind. What a huge happy feeling of excitement! He called me right after he found out and I couldn't contain my joy and excitement! 

Wow. We feel so blessed and are so excited for the adventures that medical school will bring us. 

I am so happy and proud of Rick and all his hard work. All along, he has not only been dedicated to school, work and preparing so well for medical school, but he has been an amazing father, and husband to Kimbri and I... and to baby Garrett who is still on his way! I am the luckiest to be able to call him my husband and my best friend.

I LOVE YOU, RICK!!!