Residency Graduation

Last Friday night, Jon & I and my parents were lucky enough to attend a graduation dinner for Jon's graduating residency class. Kirsten & Ammon watched the kids (after a long, exhausting day of helping a friend pack and work - thank you so, so much!), so that we could go. They had it at a country club and the food was pretty good. It was great to celebrate all of Jon's hard work in completing residency and being a chief resident this last year.

His fellow residents and residency directors gave him the "Pento-Dad" award at the end of the year. Jon's done an amazing job of balancing both work and family and has continued to be such a great dad and husband through it all.

We've learned a lot and grown a lot in the last seven years of medical school & residency and it's been a great journey! I would do it again in a heartbeat! We are sad to think of this part of our lives coming to a close, but we're also excited about the next phase of life and the adventures that lie ahead. We have fallen in love with Ohio (although for me - since I served an LDS mission here - I was already in love with it!). We will miss it tremendously - and never forget the experiences we've had! (Another post to follow about the amazing friends we've made!).

Jon - you are amazing and we're all so proud of you!

This was a slide about Jon - I love under the "comments" that someone described him as "the Bomb - duh! and a clinical monster."

Jon and his fellow 3rd year residents