Cleveland ROCKS!

Well, most people know by now, but for those of you who don't know....

we're staying in Cleveland!

It was a huge shocker to us, but we I quickly got over it and am actually really happy.

Matt matched at the Cleveland Clinic/Metro Health program. It's a really great program and ranked number 6 in the nation for gynecology, which is great. We made our rank list according to location mainly, because we knew Matt would get great training anywhere. If we hadn't spent the past 4 years here we would have ranked Cleveland probably in our top three, but we were just looking for a new adventure-outside of Cleveland. And from what we have heard today, it sounds like OB/Gyn was pretty darn competitive this year, especially in the west.

I have to say that today has been the weirdest day of our lives! We were completely shocked when we opened our letter. In fact we got out of there pretty quickly...because I was just a tad upset. :) Frosty and fries do wonders for me when I am sad! haha. After the frosty and after taking it all in for about an hour we decided to make some calls. Our family and friends seemed a little shocked, but overall very happy for us (and thankful we didn't match in Hawaii)-which was so nice to hear.

After we got over the fact that we're committed to Cleveland for the next four years, we starting noticing all the great things about it here. I think the winter just really got to me this year and made me feel super trunky to get out of here-as you could tell by several of my recent posts. 

Enough said, here are the positive things about staying:

• We're going to buy a house! Yippee!
• We won't be a one car family! Yay for me again! 
• We'll be close to Meg & Dave (in DC).
• Doug & Katie (Matt's bro & wife) might move to NY!
• And close to other friends all over the East. 
• We have a great network of friends, that we didn't want to leave behind-and now we don't have to!
• We have a great ward, we don't want to move out of. 
• We know and are comfortable with the area here. 
• We love all the seasons of the year (except winter of course!) here. 
• I'll have plenty of help after our baby comes from friends, since Matt will be extremely busy for pretty much the rest of the time here. I am so thankful for this one!
• We don't have to move across country & start everything all over again.
• This will give my family more chances to come to Cleveland (no more excuses you guys!)...haha.

That's all I can think of now, but I feel like this is where we are suppose to be. 

So, I guess this is what I get for trashing on Cleveland the past few months, but we're happy anyway!