MIKE PASSED HIS BOARDS!!!!!

We have very exciting news!!!! On Friday, we found out that Mike passed all the sections on part 1 of his medical boards!!! This is such an answer to prayer! Thank you to everyone who joined in praying for him! Now only 3 more sets of boards to go and then he'll finally be "Dr. Vennell"! He also just finished up tri 5 in school, so starting in the middle of May he'll finally get to start clinic hours and begin actually adjusting people. (This is the part he's been really looking forward to. He's such a 'hands on' type.) Also, beginning in September, if you're in the area you can come and sign up to be his patient at the clinic. The last full year of school he'll have patients through the school's clinic to care for. We need at least 10 new people, so if you're interested, let us know!

Other news: I've been such a bad blogger lately!

We decided on a name for our baby girl! We're going to name her Karis Brionne. (You say it like Paris, but with a 'k'.) It has a biblical meaning of graceful & mighty. We've actually had this name in mind for quite some time (before we started trying to get pregnant) but only decided on it for sure a few weeks ago. She's been very active lately. This last week we've been able to see her move, which at first was little freaky, but is just so neat!! We were watching tv one night and I could feel her moving all over the place, I looked down and my stomach was moving like crazy! You should have seen Mike's face! I wish I had a camera in my hand at the time! We've also been able to hear her heartbeat with Mike's stethoscope.

Everything else lately has been pretty normal. Mike's been studying hard, and I've been working. I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I'm trying to get all the reading and research done before Karis gets here. I know. I know. I sound like a big nerd, but I do like to prepare as much as possible!