The Iron Man

     He Did It!!!!  After 6 long months, starting in January, studying every day while also studying for school and spending close to 14 hours a day these last 5 weeks of nothing but studying to consume a day, Ryan has taken the MD and DO national board exams!  He is so AWESOME.  It takes so much will power to make yourself study that much and put in some LONG days, pretty much not leaving the house a few days in a row can make a guy go a little crazy.... But now this guy is a 3rd year DO student! (Im a proud 3rd year DO Wife)

     The night before his first board exam we had to take some pictures with the MAIN book that helped get him through all of this.... As you will see, this is only Step 1 of these crazy boards, Step 2 will come next year and then there is a Step 3 that he will take after his first year of residency.

     While Ryan has been studying his life away I was doing my first pharmacy rotation for the summer. I was at Cigna, which is a HMO healthcare where the nurses, doctors, and pharmacists are all in one building. I really liked it!  It is considered retail but it is SO much better then Walmart or Walgreens retail.  You get to do one on one with the doctors a lot to figure the best care for the patient.  I had great pharmacists, but the only bad thing was I had a lot of down time, so I started to practice my artistic abilities... thank you 5th grade art class

     To celebrate with Ryan taking boards and my last few days at Cigna, I decided to try out a new recipe and made some Oreo Buttercream cupcakes and they were delicious!

     On Friday the 22nd, Ryan took the DO boards and that was my last day, so it was time to celebrate! We hit up the White Chocolate Grill!  OMG (brad) this place was PHENOMENAL!!!!  Since we were celebrating we pretty much had a 4 course meal.  This place LOVED Idaho.  Their "special" fish was Idaho Trout and they used only the "best" Idaho potatoes for their fries and mashed potatoes.... doesn't 3 hours seems like a long time to prepare fries???

   
  We rang up a pretty sweet bill for the 2 of us but the food was all worth it, I had Mahi fish with crab and Ryan had probably one of the most tender filets ever along with some banana white chocolate cream pie and white chocolate raspberry cheesecake.

     It was such an awesome night of amazing food and just being able to relax, no word of school, and drank as much Diet Coke and fresh squeezed lemonade as we could.  Ryan was so excited to get out of the house, he went with a few buddies golfing, even in the 110 degrees he was ready to be outside again.

     It has been a long couple of months, but totally worth all of the hard work.  Thanks family and friends who kept Ryan in their thoughts, prayers, and fasts to get through these national boards, we definitely felt their presence.