Dr. Christopher Fowler!

Our ENTIRE marriage has been leading up to this day!!!

When I first started dating Chris he knew that he wanted to be a doctor... although at that time he thought he wanted to do something with oncology.  The day before we left on our honeymoon he took the MCAT.  Shortly after we started the application process for med school.  Not really having understood the process and being dumb... we only applied to I believe 3 schools.  When Chris didn't get in we then spent a year with Chris working on his application and working at the U while I taught high school for another year.  We were able to have McKenna and at the same time as applying and interviewing to schools for a second time.  Chris was immediately accepted to a school in Des Moines, Iowa and we were thrilled to know we'd be going somewhere.  Chris was waitlisted at several other schools and when Midwestern called just 1 week before we left Chris laughed.  I remember when he told me he said "I mean obviously we aren't going to go there."  I was like "WAH??  Lets!"  I remembered feeling so good about Arizona when he was out there for an interview.  Only hours after getting the news from Midwestern we had housing and everything started perfectly falling into place which was a huge difference from how things were going with Iowa.  

Wow... what a blessing!!!!  The next 4 years Chris worked soo hard.  Not only did he work so hard in school but as a dad, husband, and priesthood holder.  He always put the Lord and our family first and I know because of that he was blessed!

Chris was able to finish in the top 10% of his class of 250 students... so to say I was a proud wife on this AWESOME day was a huge understatement!!!  

Chris and I are both also soooo grateful for both of our families.  Supporting me when Chris was gone and busy and Chris through tests and struggles.  We are SOOO blessed!!!

Dr. Christopher Wade Fowler...

 Dr. Derek Kestila...

Dr. Kristina Bruns...

Dr. Trevor Day...

My 2 besties Kristina and Angel... oh how I will miss these two :(

After the ceremony we went to the apartment Chris's grandparents were renting and ate a little brunch and relaxed until dinner.  We then went to dinner at Yard House!!!

Thank you to both our families for coming from so fart to be with us!!!!!  

Dr. Fowler I love you so much!!!  CONGRATS!!!!!

Party Time!

 We packed our entire house prior to our final week in AZ so we could thoroughly enjoy all the celebrations and really get to say goodbye without worrying and stressing!  Angel and I have wanted to do this dessert table for 2 years now and the day finally came that we got to!!!

On Monday we had a potluck get together with a big group of friends!

The Doctors...

The Wives... and Parker... he's such a good sport :)

 Tuesday night we had a big Graduation banquet for Midwestern.  It was so great to get dressed up and go to celebrate their 4 years of hard work with a nice dinner, awards, and getting together with all our friends!!!

One of the doctors shared this in his presentation... pretty funny!

Kristina got the family medicine award!!!  So proud of her!!! 

Chris got an award for being in the top 15% of his class!

Wednesday they did white coat paint balling... Med students wear short white coats where as doctors where long white coats.  Chris's coat has always been a complete joke!  His sleeves were way too short and the coat was way to wide.  It looked ridiculous on him!  So he was thrilled to go paint balling in it!  That night they had a bonfire to burn the coats but we didn't make it because we were packing up the truck.

The whole week was really such a whirlwind filled with so many emotions.  I'm glad we got to celebrate all of Chris's hard work!!!!!!

Peter Piper

 The girls had free pizzas to peter piper pizza so we took a morning from packing and went!  They had a blast!