Andrew's Last Day of School!

Andrew's last day of Optometry school was Wednesday May 8th! It was supposed to be Thursday but lucky him the office he interned at is closed Thursdays so he got done a day early! He was really excited for his last day! It was a little bittersweet he has put so much time into school but was happy that it was his last day of working without pay! I have had a few people ask me what he is doing now. We just spent 10 days in Memphis for Graduation and now we are playing the waiting game. He got his license paperwork and fees paid before we went to graduation and so he just had to wait on his transcripts and board scores to be sent in. They told us it usually takes a few weeks and once they get them it takes about 10 days to issue it. Well he called them last Friday, one week after graduation and bugged them and by 3:30 that afternoon he had an email saying his license was approved and giving him his number! He honestly never thought it would go so fast! Now he is waiting to get on insurance panels and then he can work! He worked really hard to find a job and we honestly thought we would not end up in Utah. He talked to probably over 50 optometrists here from Logan to Provo and put his ad up on the Utah optometry website. He really was started to get worried and had a lot of "call me in the summer I'll know then if I am ready to hire" and it was getting frustrating. We finally decided to look elsewhere so he set up the two interviews the end of March in Las Vegas. He did those on a Friday and by Monday morning he had two interviews in Utah for that week! My dad had given him a blessing saying he would know if something was right and Vegas really didn't feel right almost immediately. He basically was offered both jobs right away and accepted. He is going to be at a private practice 2-3 days a week in Ogden, which is about 40 min from where we live and then 2 days a week here in Sandy about 3 minutes from our house, he will be working for an opthamologist! He is really excited for both opportunities and they both have potential in a year or so to be more full time so he is excited to see which he prefers. He might also do some fill in work at Costco for the summer. He is so excited to get started and start paying off our debt! I am so proud of him and really so amazed that he was able to go to school and still be such a great husband! We always say when we moved to Memphis we were kid less and now we have two toddlers! It is amazing all that has happened in our lives since he started school! I am so proud of him and love him so much for all he does for us!