weekend update

This past weekend Brad's parents came to town for Brad's White Coat Ceremony. Basically Brad received his white coat and took the Hippocratic oath - so now he's a dental student with morals. It also means he can start performing on actual patients, which I hear is where the real fun begins.

Here we are in front of the school sign, if you look closely you can see our house in the background - we still love being so close.



Diane was generous enough to bring Brad and I some food storage. Now I don't have to feel like a hypocrite having just given a talk in church on emergency preparedness with out actually being prepared myself. The truth is we have already started to dive into the food; the apple sauce was just too tempting! We also have peaches, jam, apple pie filling, pears and 25 pounds of oatmeal. Good-ness we cleaned up. In this picture you can also see the "vintage" 70's contact paper on the pantry shelves. I'm never taking it off, it's so awesome.

They were also kind enough to schlep down our dining room table that was generously gifted to us by Brad's brother and sister-in-law. This is now my favorite thing in our apartment. It's an old farm house table that has two pieces that slide out from each end and then lock in to place to make the table longer. You can see that they store underneath when not in use. It's a dark mahogany color that cleaned up well with Howard's Restore-A-Finish (plus Ross and Brad's elbow work). We are guessing it could easily be 100 years old, and I am a huge fan! Thank you Ken and Cristie, we will love it as our own.

Aren't the end chairs fantastic? There are benches for each side, but we are using them in our living room as a coffee table.

Here is Brad getting his white coat, so studly!

We also got a tour of the campus, so Brad got to show off the teeth he's been working on in the lab over the last few months.

We'll have to take one like this on graduation day, but maybe without my hand looking so weird.