Wednesday, May 27, 2009

It's Offiical: Meet Dr. Leila Peterson!!!

Saturday May 23rd 2009, was one of the biggest days of our married life. My beautiful wife is now officially a DOCTOR!!! I am so proud of her. She has spent many sleepless nights and countless hours studying for tests, being on call and preparing for board exams. We both wondered if this day would ever come. What an amazing accomplishment. Dr. Peterson will start residency at St. Marks in July. I love you babe, CONGRATS!




Getting hooded






Opening the diploma for the first time





Opening graduation presents




Trying out the new engraved stethoscope



Deans reception at the stadium




Graduation day with the family at Leila's school building


21 comments:

Karlee said...

Woo Hoo!!! I was so excited to see pictures of your big day, I have just been hoping that some would be posted-Thanks Nick! I am so proud of you Leila, what an amazing accomplishment and what a special day! I really never thought that the time would go by so quickly-you are done! Congratulations Dr. Peterson!

Karlee said...

P.S. I forgot to say that I loved Nick's shirt, I just had to laugh when I read that. Also, it is good to see Nick looking like Nick again-now Maizee will recognize him! Congrats again!

OurHappyFamily said...

YAY!!! Way to go Leila (aka Dr. Peterson)... what a HUGE accomplishment! I loved all the photes! The one of Nicks shirt was my fave. You look SO beautiful and what a bright future you have ahead of you. Congrats!!!

Mindy said...

Leila! Congratulations! I cannot even comprehend all the work that it must have taken!! Such an accomplishment!! Now I am going to ask you all my crazy medical questions ... like, why does my Achilles always hurt? :)

Bre said...

WOW That is SO awesome Leila!!! I cant comprehend all the work you have gone through! CONGRATS CONGRATS!!!! I love NIcks shirt btw!!!

Suz said...

I am so proud of you Lei!!!! You are one amazing women! Can't wait 'til you can be our family Doc.

Britt,Ben,Baby BentLee and our dog Mack! said...

Congrats to you! That is so neat!

Abbie said...

Congratulations!!! You did it!

Becky said...

Yay! You made it! Wow, you put in so much time and hard work, I cannot even imagine. The feeling of graduating must be surreal. Keep up the good work doc! (and be kind to nurses!)

Mauri said...

oh my gosh...i am so emotional! what a HUGE accomplishment! i am so proud of you! i completely understand the road you have been on and you should be feeling good girl! i love nick's shirt. what a cute and supportive hubby. rick graduates next week...can't believe it is already here!! CONGRATULATIONS!

AnneMarie said...

YOU DID IT!!! I am so proud to know you Dr. Peterson! You go girl! I adore the picture where Nick opens his shirt with the "Real Men Marry Dr." You need to have that pic up in your house somewhere. You can really see the excitment and love in both of your eyes. I love you! Congrats DR!

Katie and Co. said...

Wow, congratulations! Good job digging in and getting it done.

BreAna said...

Leila, I am so so so proud of you. That is so wonderful, I started to cry looking at this. You are such an amazing women. Congrats again.

The Wood Family said...

Wow! That is truly amazing Leila! Congratulations!!

and peanut makes three... said...

Leila.... I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! I seriously feel so lame...I totally started crying when I read this post. I am just so excited to see how far you have come. Yeah for Dr. Peterson. Love Nicks shirt...glad to see he is Nick again. I never posted pictures but this last semester nearly killed John..he was looking a little different. Love you guys!

Nells-Bells said...

yeah!!!!! congrats, leila!! how cool. i'm so excited for you and all that you have to look forward to. what does nick's t-shirt say?

Jenn said...

Wow Leila! What an amazing accomplishment! Way to go! Very exciting! I'm sure you are glad that a lot of the really hard work and studying is done!

Jess said...

Hey I found your blog on Suz's blog. It was fun having a night off with book club. Next month we need to go out somewhere! Cute pics! Congrats again on finishing school!!! JESS

Blog said...

You did it, yeah! I'm excited for you to be able to move on and be done with school. What a wonderful feeling! You had this goal for as long as I can remember and you did what you said you would do, yeah!

Brittany said...

Leila we feel bad we never told you congrats on graduating at Matt's wedding. We are so excited for you and you are amazing! Hope we see you soon!

Naté said...

Leila,
Congratulations! I am so proud of you. It's been quite the journey and it was great to see you with your diploma, and hoods, and everything. I'm also glad you got to take a little break...the Pacific Northwest is so beautiful. You never cease to amaze me...