It's been a busy summer with many events and many changes. After three years of call nights, sick babies, learning, laughing, and crying we have finally finished residency. Of course we are excited to have these years of training behind us but at the same time we now face many new challenges and will miss so many parts of the last three years. We will cherish the memories we have made and will miss our friends that are leaving Nashville behind. Luckily, like us, many of our friends are staying here in Nashville for fellowships or jobs but sadly not all of them. It's amazing how the past three years seem to have flown by but at the same time so much has happened in the past three years: we became parents, we learned how to be pediatricians, and we made it through the first years of homeownership. It's been an incredible three years and we thank everyone in their love and support to get us through it.
End of Residency Party
A more formal and more complete picture of our graduating class.
We had an especially hard time saying good-bye to our friends Kathleen and David who are moving on to NC for practice and fellowship. In there short years we have gotten to be very close to them and I think Lucas has seen them as his second set of parents. We'll miss our impromptu dinner and Cece's dates. And we're not sure when Lucas will stop asking about KK and David when we are headed to get ice cream. In April we also took a wonderful trip together to San Fran, Sonoma, and Napa and I have absolutely not gotten around to posting some of our great pictures. Here are a few:
An amazing tip from a friend: biking across Golden Gate. We had amazing views!
So many monkeys!
At the top of Lombard Avenue
We had a wonderful (but sad) breakfast at Copper Kettle with Kathleen, David, Emily, and Mercer right before the Barry's hit the road to NC.
With the heat of the summer, we also spent a lot of time grilling and getting together with our friends every opportunity we could get.
Content with the pink stroller. Pink is L's new favorite color.
Hug from Anna
Cuddles from the newest addition to our friend group: Molly
The girls: Kim, Emily, Steph, Molly, and Kathleen
The boys were off playing... of course.
More sweet Baby Molly
[Lucas: "Baby Molly little; don't touch Molly" - he had to learn fast that the first 2 month of life and toddler germs do not mix well ]
We also had a great visit with our friend Kim who came all the way from Australia. I'm so thankful that she still stops by to see us on her few weeks back in the States every year. We can't wait to plan our Australia trip even though that will probably have to wait until after Matt's fellowship. Second year in a row we took her to Star Bagel. We have a weakness who can blame us.
On one of the rainy Saturdays, we went to the Nashville Library. They have the cutest puppet shows. Luca loves them! This particular day we had lots of company to see “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” – based on the short story by Mark Twain.
I think we took up half the space in the room.
Lucas and Ella
Anna
And finally, rounded the corner the other day to see this traffic jam in our hallway:
Good thing we're not lacking in cars, trucks, and bikes around here
