Anesthesia School comes to an end

Hey Everyone-
Well, we finally finished anesthesia school. We drove five hours (from Duluth to Chanhassen) this past Saturday in a horrible snow storm to make graduation just in the "nick of time." Emily actually drove the whole trip and I just sat back and relaxed. Just kidding, if I would have drove she probably would have "lost her cookies" several times along the way (and then we wouldn't have made it on time). Praise the Lord we made it. It was a little dangerous at times. Graduation was a nice time, a time to celebrate this long journey and close the last page of the book in this phase in our life. We feel so blessed to have made it through this challenging time and are looking forward to moving on. We headed back to Duluth that same night and made it as far as Hinckley. The roads were so bad and we decided to stay in a hotel. The next day we drove to Duluth and when we arrived at our house we couldn't get in our driveway. There was an estimated 14 inches of snow in which the minivan would have only got stuck, So......we had to walk up our 300 ft driveway in 14 inches of snow. See the pics on the side that demonstrate how bad it was. Anyways, one of our new neighbors, Lud, came to the rescue. He plowed us out and now the minivan can make it up the driveway. Not to worry, we purchased a four wheel drive truck this past week so that at least I can make it to work on time. Only three more weeks and one more hurdle before I can refer to myself as a "certified" registered nurse anesthetist. My certification exam will be on the 21st and what a relief it will be to have that exam over with