Before Graduation (continuation part 3)

Even though graduation and moving to Texas were happening on the same day, we managed to put aside the stress and anxiety we were feeling (mainly Had), and have a little fun.

CAMPING

The week before Hadley graduated, a bunch of us 4th years decided we should go up to the lovely

John Johnson Farm (church history site where Joseph Smith was pulled out of bed, and tarred and feathered) to go camping. It had been raining every day, so we knew it was gonna be muddy, and rainy, but decided that it would be a fun little adventure anyway.

Notice the mud around the fire pit. It's not just wet, hard, packed-in dirt. It was the kind that was gooey and sloshy, where you sink an inch with every step. Yeah, we had a few (or a lot) of kids get stuck and fall in it.

We roasted hot dogs, and the kids ate them up like a champ. Jeter never usually eats his hot dog with a bun, but he tried it that night, and loved it.

Jerzi, wow, have I mentioned before how this girl can eat?!!

She ate her entire hot dog with the bun, half of my hot dog, chips, watermelon and drink.

This is her, opening up for more, cuz I can't get it tore up fast enough. (She didn't have any molars at the time, so she ate all this with mainly just her gums.)

Let the note burning begin!

(If you want to see how excited these guys are to burn their notes, just go ahead and double click on this pic. A little happy I'd say!)




Jete thought roastin marshmallows was pretty cool.

Then he tried smores and he hasn't stopped asking for them since that night. He was pretty excited to try these after watching Sandlot. He totally told us how to make them from watching that show. HAHA

"First you take the gram...."

One of the main reasons we decided to have a camp out...

to burn their white coats!

When they first started podiatry school, they got a short white coat. They have been wearing these coats for the past 4 years. Now that they are officially doctors, they get to wear a long white coat, so they were super excited to burn these, and all that they represent.

It took the flames all but about 5 seconds to catch hold of all those nasty chemicals that have been caking on them for all of this time, and the flames were huge!

They loved every second of it!

Jeter and his buddy Gabe.

They were inseperable that weekend, and wow, oh so muddy!

(They are both wearing shoes, the mud just blends into the ground)

While those two were doing boy things like playing in the mud and catching frogs.....

we caught Gabe's little brother trying to put the moves on Jerzi back behind the cars.
When I went back there, he was trying to hold her hand. This better not be a sign of things to come!

We put the kids to bed and went out by the fire and hung out and talked till like 2 in the morning. When we went back in the tent, Jerzi woke up from the zippers opening and stands up and says, "Hi Daddy". Well, Had's a sucker for that, so instead of laying her back down, he decides to have a little conversation with her. So then she's up and fully awake, and wants to play. Finally I put the pillows over our heads so she couldn't see us, so she continued to have a conversation with herself. Then an owl started hooting, and she mimicked him for awhile. It was super cute, and super hard to not laugh at her and let her know that we were awake and listening to her. Anyway, the next morning, she was a little wiped out. So while Had and the others went and cooked us breakfast, I was on Jerzi duty, just relaxing, listening to the sound of rain hit the tent.

Crazy kids!

DINNER CRUISE

We got to go on a little dinner cruise on Lake Erie with Had's graduating class a few days before graduation. Most of us LDS peeps referred to it as the Booze Cruise, cuz it was free alcohol for everyone. For us though, it was one last night out together in Cleveland, without kids, with some of our really good friends.

Here's most of our group of guys that all started this podiatry journey together.

And the wives that survived it!

Aww, we're gonna miss everyone so much!

Great night out on the lake.

We even won a giftcard to Starbucks! Wohoo!!!

The class of 2011!