And the letter said...

Dan will be doing his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk!
Now we just have to sell our house, choose a city to live in (Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Chesapeake), buy or rent a house there, and go! We are definitely bummed to leave this area, our friends here, our house, our neighborhood, the Spanish branch where we attend church, etc, but it will be fun to experience new things and meet new people (and live within 30 minutes of my parents). Dan is very excited about the hospital there (CHKD) and the program. EVMS was in his top 3, so we feel very blessed today.

Here is some documentation of the day's events:

Looking at the letters sitting on a table until noon was torture!

Emily was sweet to offer to take a family picture of us - all in green for St Patrick's Day.

Dan let Elena open the letter, and I was dying of impatience!

After dropping the kids off with Melissa (THANKS!), we went to a fancy luncheon and each student got to announce where they were going and put a pin on a map of the US.

Blueberries

Recently we had waffles for breakfast with blueberries on top (a favorite of both kids). Kevin got a little bit of blue on his lips, and I mentioned that it was cute. I left the room for a minute and when I came back this is what I found. Kevin loves to do everything his big sister does. She, of course, wanted to be "cute" too.
As a side note, Kevin started to call Elena "Nay-nuh" instead of "Da" last week. Despite the fact that he says hundreds of words, he never once called her anything but "Da" until Wednesday. :)

Big news for Dan: Today we found out that he officially matched! We'll know where on Thursday at noon.

Sporty Little Girl

We are so lucky! The university field hockey team here does a free 8 week field hockey program in February and March for 4-11 year olds. Elena started 3 weeks ago. It's adorable, and she has so much fun. She loves to say, "Field hockey is my first sport." She's on a little team of other 4 year olds. Each week they stretch, do drills, and scrimmage. The first two pictures are from week 1 and the rest are from yesterday.

Warming up:

Taking a shot:

Showing good ball control. :)

Her #1 fan:

Bookin' it:

Per Shelby's request, here's the a picture of my high school team that I scanned in from the yearbook (sorry, Shelby, I didn't go into the attic to get a real pic). I'm second from the left in the back row - kind of bent over. This was such a great team! We were a close group!