It's official!! I am a PA-C!

Shawn and me with our beautiful nieces!Two of my sisters

Proud parents

Nannie and Grampy, so glad they made it to TX for my graduation!

Momo and me

My boys!

Friends from PA school

The mean girls!

Great friends I made along the way!

Family picture at the graduation party

Thank you to all of you that gave your love and support while I was in PA school, I couldn't have done it without you. I am so blessed to have all of you in my life. It's finally done and I can go back to being the wife, sister, daughter, friend, etc. that I was before school. I know that I have missed and forgotten birthdays, sent cards WAY too late but now I can focus on all of that again.

I have graduated from PA school and passed my PANCE test (the national boards which allows you to be certified as a Physician Assistant)!! School is done!

Shawn and I are living in Kentucky and getting accustom to living in the same home again. I am so happy to be with him again. We are waiting for military orders to find out our next adventure and will let everyone know as soon as we find out. When we move to our next location I will be looking for a job as a PA. As for now, I am just enjoying being home and trying to find a little part-time job.

Love and prayers!!

Catch-up

I need to do a little work and catch-up on posting here, and I will. I am about to finish PA school and then will try better to keep it up-to-date.

Love and prayers
Tiffany Queeney

Webber's Visit Kentucky 2009

Shawn and I arrived back from San Antonio Saturday December 26th and my parents arrived in KY on Sunday. We were very lucky and happy to get to spend time with both of our families around the holidays. The visit was short but sweet. It is always good to get to spend time with the people that you love. Our visit was full of walks down memory lane as we went through old picture boxes, GREAT food and most of all...good company!

Christmas Break 2009

Christmas 2009 was GREAT!! Shawn and myself were lucky enough to get to spend Christmas and the week prior with our family in San Antonio. Needless to say our week was jam-packed with visiting old friends and family. We had a blast. We were sad that we didn't get to see everyone, but happy that we got to see the ones we did see. I arrived the Friday before Christmas and Shawn was there the next day!! Here are some of the pictures from our visit


Christmas night at Momo's house. There sure were a lot of presents....

Christmas lunch/dinner with the family. Patti Jo and Glenn were wonderful host/hostesses as usual. The food was great and the company was even better. I think one head count was 52 people. We are so blessed to have eachother!!

Dinner with Jimmie and Nancy at Salsalito's. We even got a little smile from Jimbo!

My lovely Lily and me

Roger and his family. (girlfriend Meghan and daugher Lily). Shawn and I got to spend Christmas Eve with Meghan and her family. The food was good and watching Lily open her presents was great...pure excitement and innocence

The surprise visit of Bruce, Shawn's fishing buddy. They really were happy to spend some time together Christmas Eve, even though it was at Mama's and not the coast :(

We got a chance to watch Kylie, our superstar, play basketball. So funny to watch 4 year olds run around trying to play basketball.

Saturday night dinner with family and friends at Mama's

The boys Christmas night 2009

Christmas night with the girls!

Shawn and I with Momo. Thanks so much for letting us stay at your house.

Love and best wishes for the new year

Christmas Letter 2009

Hi all! Another year has come and gone. This is my first Christmas letter- a tradition I hope to continue. There is so much that happens in a year, and I will try to hit the highlights of 2009.

2009 was for sure an amazing, crazy, hard, rewarding year. I began the year with my family as we brought in the New Year. There was good food, family and dancing. The countdown to the New Year reminds me each year that there are better things to come in the next year. I had the opportunity to spend this time with my family, a thing that I don’t take lightly. Being away at school has been hard and I cherish every moment that I get to spend with the family.

In April Shawn made a big decision that has changed the course of our life. Shawn called me at school and told me that he was unhappy at his job and felt like he needed to do more. He wanted a job that would make him proud and happy. This broke my heart to hear how unfulfilled he felt, so when he told me he had found a solution I was ecstatic. Shawn made the decision to join the United States Coast Guard and was set to go to boot camp. On July 31^st he graduated from boot camp. I couldn’t have been more proud!! I got to share this proud moment with Shawn’s family: Tabitha, Garrett, Terri and Jimmie. Shawn was gone for eight weeks for training and it was the hardest eight weeks of my adult life, but we made it through and am stronger for it. Shawn and I kept in touch via handwritten letters that sparked a new romance in our relationship. It was a relationship building experience, who would have thought?

In August I moved to El Paso for the last part of my program to be a Physician Assistant. I have had some ups and downs here in El Paso…from great rotations to emergency appendectomy surgery. To say the least, it has been an adventure. I can also say that I have learned a lot and am looking forward to next year and graduating to practice medicine, a dream that I have had for such a long time.

Throughout this year we have grown as a couple and as individuals. I believe that everything the two of us has gone through will only make our relationship with each other stronger and better when we finally get to share our lives more than just every six weeks. Shawn has a job that he is excited about and that gives us opportunities that we may not have had otherwise. He has met new people and is proud to be a part of the USCG. I continue to learn medicine from preceptors to become the physician assistant I have wanted to be. I have also grown in my relationship with God and myself. There was a time when I was easily frustrated, hurt and may not have been the best person I could be. I have always been a generally happy person, but this happiness that I have found within myself and with God is something that I cannot even put into words.

Shawn and I look forward to all of the amazing things that are on our path for the coming year. 2010 is going to be better than this year!!

Kentucky Fall Photo Shoot

I was lucky enough to spend a little extra time with the hubby before grand rounds last month. I was off the first few days of the week before having to fly to Midland to take an exam and thought that there was no better place to be then in Kentucky with my husband!! We had a great five days, something we have not had since the spring break week.

Kentucky is a beautiful state full of high-growing trees, green grass, leaves changing colors with the seasons...things that I have not seen in so long living in West Texas. Shawn took me to a beautiful park to scope out the area early in the morning. We were surprised to see that there were several other families and photographers there doing the same thing we were planning on doing. We went back into town, got some cute clothes and returned with a friend to take pictures. I just wanted to share some with you.

A Little Time for Reflection

All I can say is WOW!! So many things have happened over the last few months and there is so much for Shawn and I to be grateful for and to celebrate.

On July 31st, 2009, Shawn graduated from USCG bootcamp in Cape May, New Jersey. It was one of the proudest moments in my life. Shawn did so well while he was there and looked so good the day that we picked him up. While his being in bootcamp was probably the hardest thing I have gone through, it was also one of the best things that we went through. Shawn making the decision to go into the Coast Guard was a big step in our lives. He had told me that he was so miserable in his job and wanted his life to have purpose and meaning and we wanted to see if the Coast Guard would give him those things. Shawn stood proud at attention during a wonderful graduation ceremony and recieved the Seamanship award. This award is given to "Coastie" men and/or women that know a lot about boats. Shawn knows a lot about boats and won the award!!! He is so amazing to me! We now begin our new adventure with him moving to Kentucky.
Being apart for another year or so will be hard, but we are up for the challenge. We are focusing on the tasks at hand and all the rewards that him being in the Coast Guard will bring us in the future. The Coast Guard gives us an opportunity to see new places and experience new things. I traveled a lot as a child and lived in many different places, but for Shawn this is new. While I would have loved to stay in San Antonio or at least Texas for many years, I am excited that there is a chance for us to live in other places. Some people don't understand it, so I figured I would explain....
Shawn and I have been given an opportunity to travel to places that we may have otherwise not been able to see, so we are going to take it for all its worth. I hope that we go to a few great places and see a lot of things. We will report here often and keep a picture diary!!

Another reason to celebrate, I graduated from the didactic year and three months of Physician Assistant school!! Now I am moving on to clinicals for the next twelve months and I will be done.

I can't wait for all that is coming in the future for us!!! We are truly blessed.
Thank you to all of our family and friends that we love so so much for supporting us throughout this time. We couldn't have done it without you