The Senior Dinner Dance

The week before Michael’s graduation there was a Senior Dinner Dance. It was fun to get dressed up for something fancy and do my hair up nice (even though I had to borrow a curling iron because we had already packed mine). That night we had fun talking with friends and the dinner was very good. After dinner we danced a little. It was fun to dance and to see our friends dance too. Oh, our camera has been giving us problems and taking really dark pictures, did anyone happen to get any better pictures of the group than we did?

(Well, I did it – I stayed up to a ridiculous hour, but I got caught up with posting our photos. Now I just need to add the ones from this weekend with our family in town and Michael’s graduation, once I have a chance to go through those ones).

Four Things

I got this e-mail from two of my friends, Jill and Christina, and thought I’d post my answers here. For any of my friends who happen to read this, you are all now tagged and you can answer these questions about yourself now.

Four things about me that you may or may not have known in any particular order:

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. File Clerk at a law firm
2. Caller at a telephone interview call center
3. Collections Aid at the Museum of Peoples and Culture
4. Sales Associate at a scrapbook store

Four movies I've watched more than once:
1. The Princess Bride
2. The Client
3. Frequency
4. The Fugative

Four Places I have lived:
1. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2. Provo, Utah
3. Nauvoo, Illinois
4. San Diego, California

Four T. V. shows that I watch:
1. Extreme Makeover Home Edition
2. The Big Give
3. (nothing else, regularly)
4.

Four places I have visited
1. Chicago, Illinois
2. Hawaii
3. Palmyra, New York
4. Washington D.C.

Four People who e-mail me (regularly):
1. Michael, my husband
2. my Grandma Faun
3. (most of my friends leave comments on our blog instead of e-mailing)
4.

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Pasta
2. Homemade Whole Wheat Bread
3. Pastries
4. Cookies with Milk

Four Places I would like to visit:
1. Israel
2. Hawaii
3. The Czech Republic
4. Africa

Things I am looking forward to in the coming year:
1. our first real paycheck
2. finishing a move across the country (not really looking forward to the actual packing or moving process)
3. visiting with family
4. hopefully visiting with some of our Milwaukee friends again after we move

Before and After

So, when I was pregnant with Camden, there were also seven other wives of medical students in Michael’s class who were also all pregnant at the same time. We had this photo taken of all of us at Katie Irion’s baby shower in April 2006, and we were all in order by our due dates.

Stephanie Bradshaw, Christina Nielsen, Jill Craven, Leslie Tyson,

Melissa Jay, Kim Morrison, Heather Vernon, and Katie Irion

Christina Nielsen has been trying since then to get everyone back together again to take a photo of all of us with the babies. A couple people weren’t able to make it when we took these photos again at Ian Nielsen’s birthday party so we’re going to have to try again when everyone is around, but it was still fun. I was feeling a little bit down, being the only one who is obviously pregnant again in the second photo, but I guess it's only fair since I was the least far along (least pregnant-looking) in the original photo.

Camden and Stephanie Bradshaw, Eden and Jill Craven, Ian and Christina Nielsen,

Ella and Leslie Tyson, Isaac and Heather Vernon, & Grace and Katie Irion