Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hogwarts in Loma Linda CA? Seth T Purcell, M.D.

There is no one word that can adequately explain the past 4 years, but "BitterSweet" comes close. It's been the most trying, and lonely, yet sometimes fun and exciting times of our lives so far.  Now we're done, and moving on. And "bittersweet" comes to mind once more. I'm so glad we're growing up and moving on to the next stage in our life! But I will certainly miss the best friends we've made, the little house we brought our baby girl home to, and living near family that is always there to help out or talk to or to just hang out with on nights when Seth's gone and we're home alone...

But guess what?!
We graduated!!! 
I'll post the video of Seth's yell later, it was awesome! 
Anyway, we're finished with Medical School; YAY!!!


Our happy family. So glad we're done!




I think it kinda looks like he's saying "Yeah, that's right; I'm the man!"  Hahaha! He says it looks more like "Why are you taking pictures of me, I haven't even graduated yet?!"


Little Miss Makenna Chamberlin has been Zeegan's BFF for the past two years. I sure hope we can continue this friendship for many years to come...


I'm so happy we attended school somewhere close to family. I think it would have been much harder without having Seth's family there as a constant support system. Graduation day was FANTASTIC! We were so grateful to have our families there supporting and cheering Seth on,  and celebrating this moment we've all been working toward. 





It looked like a Harry Potter Convention at Loma Linda University. It was kind of funny seeing all these grown people walking around in long black robes with Green and Gold colored hood collars (Apparently Med students are Slytherins {sp?}....)







Rocco was looking everywhere for his Daddy. He had to use his "Binocufingers" to find him. When Rocco did find him, Seth did Binocufingers back at him. Rocco was super excited. It was super cute!

At one point Zeegan (who was wearing a fresh diaper, mind you), peed so much it came out of her diaper and pooled in the little dip in her chair. she was drenched. So I grabbed her and ran (through soft grass in very spiky heels!) to the bathroom to change her and hopefully get back in time to actually see Seth get his diploma. I barely made it back on time. Thank Heavens! That really would've been sad if I'd missed the moment we''d been working toward for the past 4 years...



We LOVE you Seth, we are so proud of you and happy for you! Thanks for working so hard toward our goals and for setting such a great example for our kids.



Seth's Aunties and Sisters, and cousins made his about a gazillion leis. He could barely see anything. It was kind of funny. Winning lei idea of the day? The one with Mini First-aid kits, band-aid boxes, life savers and mentholatum! That was AWESOME!
Fred and Kylene; so proud of their Sethers!


My parents (and their kids still living at home) drove out from Utah to be there for Seth on this great day... Thanks Mom and Dad!

Seth had family come from near and far! This isn't even all of them. I think we had the largest group at the graduation by far! Seth's Grandparents, Dad, Brother and Sisters went at 4 in the morning to reserve our seats. And it's a good thing they did too because we had FABULOUS seats!, and because there were whole groups of people having to stand for the graduation. 
This is the part of our group that was group able to stay for pictures after the graduation. We had family fly and/or drive all the way from Utah, Hawaii, and Samoa!



I tried kissing my New Doctor of a Husband, but their were too many leis in the way...

Our family's latest accomplishment! 
(oops! Rocco's head was cut off in all the pictures! LOL. I had my favorite lens on my big camera, it's a bit hard to use, and everyone was having troubles figuring out how to get good shots with it. Sorry Jade, Grandma, and Aunties!)



Through the past 4 years we've had lots of late/all night study sessions, game nights, dinners, park days, swim days, Disney Days, Birthdays, Movie/ favorite TV show nights, etc... with the Chamberlin Family. They are our best friends. Josh graduated with Seth. It was a great day for all of us! Josh and Lauren are going to there residency in Urology at UC-Irvine. They've got a long road before them too. One day hopefully we'll all end up by each other again!





Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Seth graduated!!!
Seth Ta'agamanusina Purcell, M.D; Congratulations Baby!

1 comment:

Katie E said...

Such an exciting day!! And that's some impressive "lei"ing and an impressive crowd cheering Seth on...oh sorry, Dr. Seth. ha ha! I can't believe you are off in Texas. I hope everything is larger than life there! And yes, it would be way fun to come out and visit one of these days! If you guys ever find yourself in St. George, you will have to stay with us! We would love it.