Greg's Swearing In

You may have noticed the contemplative tone on life and the future in my last blog.  Those thoughts are mainly thanks to this past weekend.  

Greg was sworn into the US Army Dental Corps as a Second Lieutenant.  This means that he'll be attending dental school in Memphis, TN for the next 4 years.  After that, he'll apply for a residency on an army base in the US where he will learn how to be an Oral Surgeon (he's interested in facial reconstruction, but he also learns how to do wisdom teeth surgeries and things like that.)  The residency will take another 4 years, and my fingers are crossed for the Hawaii location ;)  After that, he owes the military 4 years as an oral surgeon- Although he can request particular locations, nothing is promised.  So he could be put anywhere, but again, my fingers are crossed- Germany for that one.  After that (a total of 12 years down the road) he will decide whether to stay in the military or to go back to civilian life as a private practice doctor.  

Now that's quite a few super big decisions- but most of them are pretty far down the road.  

Although it really is an awesome deal for Greg, I am so super proud of him.  He's worked super hard to get into dental school, and just as hard to get accepted into the Dental Corps- He's one of only 40 in the entire country to be chosen.  So of course, I made the trip home this weekend to watch the swearing in and to celebrate afterwards.

Elephant Leg Pants (4 of 30)

Jeans: Old Navy, $4

Top: J. Crew, Thifted, $2

Belt: Mom's

Clutch: Thrifted, $2

Necklace: Mom's

Shoes: Forever 21, $15

I call these my elephant leg pants because the bottoms are seriously so large.  But who passes up $4 cute and comfy clothes?  Certainly not me.  My entire outfit cost barely over $20, and 3/4 of it was on these sandals.  I feel like I've been wearing some awesome bargains lately!  I was going to wear this outfit with a navy, red, and white printed headscarf and possibly red lipstick- but it came out so nautical in a costumey way, and what I was aiming for was definitely not costumey.  So I went with some brown and gold accents instead and liked the way it came out.

See this poor kid?  This is all he's been doing for over a month straight- I'm not kidding.  All day AND a large chunk of the night studying.  For what?  The DAT.  It's apparently this pretty hard test that determines whether or not all of those dentist wannabees get into dental school.  Greg wants to be an oral surgeon, so this test is pretty important to him.  It's important to me too, because as of Monday night I have my companion and photographer back!  Yay!  

The calm before the storm.

{Top: H&M, $12}

{Jeans: T.J. Maxx, $20}

{Cardigan: Old Navy, $20}

{Scarf: Francesca's, $15}

{Flats: Target, $15}

{Belt: J. Crew, $14}

{Hair Pin: Aerie, $5}

So this is it- the last day before my 30 for 30. Ironically, these pictures were actually from a few weeks ago, but I never got around to posting them. They were from my birthday weekend, which was the last time Greg came up to visit. We had planned on our next visit being the weekend I come home in February, but he texted me on Friday morning informing me that he was on his way to come spend the weekend with me! I was pretty excited, because it is such a long drive (8.5 hours one way....) Since it was a pretty sporadic visit we didn't do anything too exciting, just went to eat and played in the snow, which was a blast. See our snow-woman? Her name is Cheryl.