Oh Where Oh Where Has Our Dad Gone?!

Brett is in his 4th year of dental school so he gets the opportunity to work in Community Health clinics providing dental care to the under-served for the rest of this year. So for his first rotation he is currently living in provided dental housing in Flagstaff and then commuting to Winslow and Leupp to various dental clinics. My first question to Brett was "Leupp? Where is that?" He said "google it" and well let me tell ya there is not much to google. Luepp has a population of 970, one ATM machine, one gas station which is the only place in the entire town to spend money. Across from the gas station there is the occasional vendor that sells tamales, tires or turquoise. Brett said that the nicest building in the town is a small LDS chapel which has the only paved parking lot and grass lawn! Because it has the only grass in town the church has a fence around it with cattle guards at the entrances to keep the local cows out...crazy!

Anyways, Brett selected this particular rotation as an opportunity to work amongst the Navajo people to learn more about Raylee's heritage. While working there he is always asking how to say things in Navajo. He had told some of the assistants there about Raylee, so he asked how to say "Ray" or ray of light and they taught him the word "Shaundeen". Brett said he got goose bumps as he was in disbelief because this was the name of Raylee's birth mom. I guess our little girl's name was inspired. Not only has Brett had some great dental experiences these last two weeks, he's had some great personal ones as well.

Brett has been toying with the idea of working for a public health clinic once he graduates, but as you can see from the pics below, I put my foot down on Leupp...no way Jose!

This last week has been a crazy one for us as well. Both Bradock and Raylee have been sick with fevers, my brother-in-law Chance's dad passed away, and I helped do some major food prep for a wedding my mother-in-law was doing. Let's just say both the kids and I were excited for Brett to come home this weekend so we could enjoy his fun smile and extra hands. With 2 weeks down Brett has only 4 more for this rotation and then he is back to some local clinics here in the valley. We can't wait to have our dad and hubby back full-time. Hopefully, with all the fun bow hunting, Cardinals game and outdoors stuff he's gotten to do after work he isn't enjoying his bachelor time too much!