"We're pleased to inform you..."

Pinch me, I must be dreaming! I got accepted to nursing school!! 
Getting accepted into nursing school has been something I've been working towards for a long time. The crazy prerequisite classes and working in the best ICU for going on six years now has finally paid off. 


Here's how it happened:
We'd just gotten back from camping all weekend & we were unloading the car. I noticed the mail sticking out of the mailbox on our house but it wasn't until my second trip out to the car that I decided to check it out. Mic was inside the house. In the box was just one envelope & I immediately recognized the return address stamp & my heart sunk. I'd had such a good weekend & I didn't want it to be ruined by a rejection letter. I ripped open the envelope like ripping off a bandaid- get the pain over with as quickly as possible. 
I don't think I even read past the "we're pleased to inform you.." part, all I knew was that it didn't say "we regret to inform you.." 
I placed the letter back in its hacked envelope & came in the house (I'd been standing in the driveway in shock for a good solid minute). I wanted to come up with some great way to announce to Mic our great news but I couldn't form words. So I handed him the envelope and said "do you want to open this?" and he looked at me puzzled because clearly it had already been opened, but he humored me anyway & pulled the letter out. I can still see his face change from confusion at my odd request, to concentration as he read, to surprise/elation. He said " Are you serious?! Congratulations!" and gave me a huge hug. 


Having him there for the good news was so perfect because he's been with me every step of the way, and knows how hard I've tried for this. Cheering me on and having more confidence in my abilities than I had in myself. And tutoring me in all my math courses since he's a math genius. I will always remember being in the basement of the University of Utah's library and crying to him before my statistics exam. I'd made him come with me to help me study before the test, and he was waiting for me when I finally finished. He hadn't even taken the class & was still able to teach me the whole thing and remember what he'd taught me at the beginning of the semester and I was the one going to class and I still didn't know what I was doing. But I got an A somehow. 


But back to my story.. 
We went over to my mom's house to tell her of my acceptance. She cried when I told her. It was cute. 
To tell my dad, I decided we'd have a celebratory bbq and invite my grandma over (Laura & Alex were still at the campground, and Mace is on some crazy roadtrip with his friends). Sophie and I went to my dad's house and Mic went to the store to get the food. When he got to my dad's he'd assumed I'd already told them my news and said something about this being a celebratory bbq and my dad said "what are we celebrating?" and I said "oh ya I got into nursing school.." like it was no big deal. LOL. They were way excited. As he says, "his cutest, smartest, blondest daughter" is going to be a nurse. After I make it through the rough 4 semesters of nursing school that is. 


And just like that, my dream came true!

I don't care that it's too dark outside for the picture, or that we'd just gotten home from 2 nights of camping, I still love this picture.