March was a mad month

March seemed to fly by for the Hoods in Chicago - mostly because we have been counting down to our upcoming trip to Cozumel, Mexico. As we waited for warm weather, Megan watched the Chicago river turn green on St. Patty's day and we enjoyed watching KU and ND win a few March Madness games (too few games, but it was fun while it lasted). Ryan is loving his new technology toy (the ipad 2!) and happy to be nearing the end of his month working on the ICU, which included two weeks of working nights. Megan is similarly pleased to have recently submitted a grant application and have 3 journal articles accepted for publication. Ryan's applications for fellowship should be out in the mail soon - keep your fingers crossed for us!

Our families are making us proud yet again. Jeff found out the exciting news that he will be living in San Francisco for the next 5 years, after he matched to his top choice, the very competitive UCSF for ENT residency. And Laura recently published an article in the KU law journal! Writing is apparently in the family, watch out for that Markey family tell-all book coming out soon. On the Hood side, we were very excited to find out that Ryan's cousin Ali Buersmeyer will be heading to Notre Dame in the fall! We look forward to becoming Ali's "old cousins that are trying to relive college" for the next four years.

In other Markey news, the family trip to Hawaii in June is now in the planning stages! Should be a fun spring/summer for us. We'll keep ya posted :)