Pictures and a Party

So, the first picture is of me and one of my favorite students. She'll remain nameless, since this is blogger and I don't want anyone to stalk her. Or me for that matter.

We had Kendall's graudation ceremony on Saturday. We had the biggest crowd by far. Two tables of people. My mom, Kendall's parents, his grandparents (all the way from South Dakota), Dathan, Natalie, Annaliese, and our friends Jessica and Aaron. It was a great brunch and a relatively short ceremony. Here's a picture in contrast: Fat and Skinny. I feel so chunky next to Jessica's skinny frame! PS- I had to wear that sweater because my dress didn't exactly work out the way I thought it would with a strapless bra. Yeah, I was totally boobing out and had no time to change!

Here is my SEXY husband with his award of the afternoon. He won the H.R. Bath Family Physician Award. His name is on the plaque and he got a 500 dollar check! Bascially he won it for being the most caring, compassionate physician of his year. He also won a similar award in medical school. I am EXTREMELY proud of my husband. His colleage had this to say about him, "Kendall is the perfect doctor." I almost cried! All of the faculty gushed over him and talked about how he challeneged them to be better doctors. Even his handwriting (his one weakness according to his evaluations) made him a perfect doctor! I was puffed up with pride. (And psyched that we got a 500 dollar check!)

I had to get in one shot of the two of us rom that day. While I think my own hair looks icky, and I definitely need to whiten my teeth, I think my husband looks amazing and I'm so proud of him! I just had to add one last shot of that day!

This is a picture of the cupcakes that my coworker Noreen brought to Kendall's party on Sunday. Her daughter made them and Kendall and I thought they were so clever!!!! The "pills" are actually Good-n-Plenty (sp?) and there are also gummy Lifesavers. Plus, they were DELICIOUS! We should have had her make the sheet cake too! This girl needs to start a cake business! They were made from scratch. If you were there and didn't have one, you missed out!
My dear, sweet husband allowed me to take the picture of him with the plastic hat that came off his cake. LOL! We had about 60 people over to the house yesterday. We made way too much food, but I think everyone left full. We begged people to eat seconds, thirds and fourths! We were even able to pawn off some "doggie bags" on the few friends that stuck it through to the end. We had people from all walks of our lives in attendance. High school, college, medical school, residency, church, new job, new neighbors, old neighbors. It was awesome! And I didn't get to eat anything but a hotdog because I was so busy talking to people for 5 hours! I think I managed to chat with everyone for at least a moment. It was great. I felt bad we didn't get to spend more time with people individually, but we promised everyone that we would have smaller gathering sometime soon so we could all have more fun. Everyone loved our house and said it was very beautiful. It was extremely flattering and it made all of the hard work feel worth it.

What do our friends think of us? This is the booze that we got as both graduation and housewarming gifts! We can't wait to try each of them, and hopefully invite the people back who gave them to us! We also got some other really fun gifts including a candle set, a "chicken chucker" (you have to see it, it's so cool!), a gift certificate to the Fraze pavilion from our realtor, a certificate for dinner and games at the Williams's (which we can't wait to redeem!), and a Wii game from Karen and Jim! We almost want to wait to crack it open until they can play it with us! We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends, especially since we didn't really expect anything!

And here we are at 10pm that night. Exhausted but happy. We really had a great time and I wish I had more pictures of our friends to share with you! I'm hoping that other people took pictures that I can get copies of. It was a great time and totally worth the effort. I'd love to do it again....but maybe not for a long time! And maybe someone else can plan it and make all the food!