Dr. Stephen Finley

On Friday, May 20, 2011 Stephen graduated from MUSC and became Dr. Stephen Finley. The ceremony was outside in the horseshoe and it was a wonderful program. The guest speaker was Darius Rucker, a Charleston native. Afterward, we went to lunch at Fuel to continue the celebration.

Stephen has worked very hard and I am so proud of him. I know he will make a wonderful doctor!

The Oath Ceremony

Thursday night Stephen was officially "hooded" and took the Hippocratic Oath. MUSC put on a very classy ceremony at the Charleston Performing Arts Center complete with graduation gowns and bagpipes. The speakers all did a great job, including class president David Bowen. It was a wonderful night to honor Stephen and celebrate with family as he took one more step to becoming a licensed physician.

Award Ceremony

Wednesday morning we attended the MUSC college of medicine awards ceremony. Stephen was recognized as a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and a Alpha Omega Alpha member. He was also given the President's Clinical Sciences Award which he was nominated for by his peers. Stephen has done so well and I am so proud of all his hard work!

Home Owners

It is official. On Tuesday we drove up to Greenville to close on our house. It was a very exciting day. We met with the lawyer and poor Stephen had to sign literally over 100 pages. I couldn't believe how much paperwork there was. Afterward, we went back to the house and just hung out together. We won't move in for a while but we did leave a few things there to make it our own. 

On a humorous note, as we were leaving we couldn't get the garage door to go down on its own. We were only home owners for a few hours and already having issues. We actually had to go knock on the neighbor's door to get some help. At least we already met someone in the neighborhood : )

 

Becca's Wedding Shower

The weekend before last, our small group hosted a wedding shower for Craig and Becca at the Caldwell's.  We had a wonderful time honoring this special couple. Less than two weeks until the big day!

The hostesses cooking in the kitchen

Massive amounts of pimento cheese

Stephen talking to Buster about Thailand!!

Reading out questions for the shoe game

Becca's Bachelorette Weekend

I am quite late with this post, but better late than never. A few weeks ago we did a girls weekend in Edisto to celebrate Becca and her future marriage. Her parents were kind enough to let a ton of girls all take over their beach house. We had a great weekend walking on the beach, laying out on the deck, swinging on the porch and just being together. It was a wonderful weekend of fellowship and honoring Becca. We love you girl!