I can't believe that it has already been 1 year here in AZ.  We are about to enter yet another year of school!  It wasn't that long ago that I was applying to get in to school and doing a lot of praying and then, Ta-Freakin-Da I am in my second year of PT school!  It has been such a wonderful year not only in school but life here in AZ.  This new school year brings a whole new list of challenges for Mel and I.  This picture is my campus in Mesa, but it only shows the main building.  This is where I will be spending countless hours of studying, practicing and learning how to be a Physical Therapist.  This summer I completed my first rotation as an intern, and it was such a neat experience.  I was finally able to use all the things I learned about for a year on real people!  This next quarter is a busy one filled classes like neuroscience, spinal conditions, integumentary, neuro conditions and a couple of rehab classes.  Its a good thing I have such a wonderful wife that brings me dinner when we have long nights at the library. 

This is where Mel is going to be spending a lot of her time for the next few months again.  She didn't get much of a break having to take summer school to finish more quickly.  She is going to be staying busy taking classes in pursuit of her Psychology degree.  She is taking a number of different classes including a couple of classes dealing with the environment, a personality psych class, calculus :( all on top of being research assistant in the psych department, and making sure our house doesn't fall apart.  She is however grateful to have the opportunity to finally finish what she has worked so hard for; a very expensive piece of paper, aka a Diploma.  I would also like to add that since Mel has been attending ASU she averaged over a 4.0 in all her classes!!  She is going to kill me for putting that in here but I love her so much and am very proud of her and her accomplishments.  I just wish I was able to scan in her letters from the Dean on making the Dean's List each semester.