So here is a synopsis of the past 3 months- hang on there is a lot that has happened!!!
Brett was able to come and visit me in Grand Forks in the beginning of October- we had such a great time. It was so warm and beautiful out that weekend- we were able to walk around campus and reminisce about when we met and just enjoy the campus together for the last time (we will be back for my graduation- but will probably be crunched for time). We were also able to go down to Moorhead and meet up with my sister and go to Extreme Makeover Home Edition which was building a house for a family in the area and we were able to be a part of the crowd screaming "move that bus". It was a fun time!
At the end of October I was able to attend a national physical therapy conference for students in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. There were 20 of my classmates that went and 2 students from the first year class- we had a fun time and learned a lot. It is definitely different out east and we were ready to come home! We had a good time seeing all of the historic sights in Philadelphia and took a trip to Atlantic City as well! I had my first ever philly cheese steak sandwich in Philadelphia so that was pretty neat.
While I was on my trip in NJ we found out that my mom has breast cancer. I was able to go home for a couple of days and be with her when she had a lumpectomy. She is doing well and the cancer is stage I and her recurrence rate is low so she doesn' t have to have chemo. She will be starting radiation in January sometime. Keep her in your prayers- it is never a good situation but God has blessed us with much good news with things that could have been worse.
I was able to come out to California for Thanksgiving and we had a nice time. We had Thanksgiving with a couple that Brett knew from ROTC at UND, Kristy is a nurse out here and in the Air Force and her husband Randy works at a golf course .They are fun and we really enjoyed spending the holiday with them and a few other of their friends and some other pilots who didn't go anywhere for the holiday. It is nice to have familiar faces out here and people who have similar values of living in the midwest. We decorated the house for Christmas and Brett put up lights outside with his new ladder!
I finished out my last semester of PT school classes and I am excited to get back into the clinic and see patients. I am doing my first clinical in Stillwater, MN at the Courage Center and will be staying with Brett's parents. Then after 9 weeks at the beginning of March I will be driving out to CA with my mom and sister and then I will be living here full time! School went by so fast and it was sad to leave GF and all of the amazing friends I have made there- but I am ready to live with my husband and it will be so great to finally get settled in together and not have a long distance relationship. It has been way too long! Before I left GF we had a class banquet and we had a nice dinner with all of our professors and the students and it was very nice. It was a nice ending to a great semester and great couple of years!
Brett has been busy doing simulator training. He is finishing his last sim today and then will start to fly sometime after Christmas break. He has really enjoyed his instructor and the guys that he is training with. It will be nice once he gets in the plane and can start flying- he is excited to keep going. He will be done with training sometime in late February- early March. he is scheduled to deploy at the end of May- so he should be able to be at my graduation and be back for his brothers wedding in the middle of August!
We are heading back to MN tomorrow to have Christmas with our families and are excited to see family and friends. Several of our good friends have had babies in the past couple of months and other friends that we haven't seen for awhile are in town so we are excited to have a week of celebrating Christmas and spending quality time with family and friends.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Love,
Brett and Emily
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