Thursday, November 3, 2011

Welcome to Oz


Trunk or Treat  . . . Happy Halloween!

This lion smells food.

Come ON Tin Man, I've got my fork.  

I'm a lion, hear me ROAR!!

Mr. Lion takes a dinner break.  His main dish was pumpkin pie.

Check out those ruby red slippers :-)  

I spent about 25 frantic minutes and 100 safety pins wrapping Chad up in Christmas tinsel fabric before trunk or treat. On our way to the church Chad sat down in the driver's seat of the car and yelped OUCH!!!!  A safety pin was poking him right in the behind!  Chad lasted all of about 5 minutes before tearing his "tin" off.


After all of that effort, I made sure to get lots of pics :-)

Welcome to the Emerald City!

There were some pretty cool decorations outside.


Two Lion Buds :-)  That is one of James's good friends.

Lion on the Loose!!!

He's been caught :-)


Bye, bye!

James and his friend the Scarecrow

For Halloween dinner I made a calzone, salad, and . . .

Fat sticks!  Yum.

I held a Halloween Recital a few days before Halloween at one of my student's houses.  I have 6 piano students and one little violinist.


I thought the recital was a great success!

I am lucky to have found students so quickly.  I have really enjoyed getting back into music.

Chad and I performed a duet as well:  "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

That weekend we attempted a hike in Mt. Charleston . . . but we didn't get very far.  The Boss decided he'd rather throw rocks :-)


I was disappointed there were no colored leaves this time, but still glad to be out in nature :-)


Chad, not quite as thrilled to be out in nature, but putting on a party face :-)  

 What could be more fun than throwing rocks??  Yippee!

Introducing . . . Dr. Chad Frandsen!

Let's start at the very beginning . . .

Chad begins Palmer

Chad came to Palmer single and ready for anything.


This is before he could name any of those bones :-)


Wow.  These guys need help!

Three years, a wife, a little boy later, Dr. Frandsen is out of here!!

 An awards ceremony before graduation.



Yay daddy!

The Vogt leadership banquet that we have gone to every trimester.  It's the society that gave him his scholarship.

This time it was Chad's turn to say goodbye.

Grandma helped keep James entertained during dinner.


Chad's farewell speech :-)

                                He walked on the stage a student, and off a doctor of chiropractic.

At the end, all of the graduates threw up their left over business cards from working in the Palmer clinic.

I took James on a walk before graduation to calm him down.  Luckily fell asleep and slept in this stroller the entire graduation!  

Chad's parents came to cheer him on.





Yay!! No more studying!!



James was looking pretty dapper I must say :-)


 
A fountain on campus.

This is the student clinic Chad worked in.

The Founding Fathers of Chiropractic





There is even a founding mother.





Chad hiking down Brady street for the last time.


Time for a little reminiscing . . .

I can fix that!



And now . . . time for presents.

Chad got a pretty high tech graduation present from his parents.  An i pad!  James thought he knew just how to work it.

Now James, you have to let daddy have a turn!

Fat chance dad.  It's all mine :-)

Goodbye Iowa

Goodbye cornfields.


One last trip to Nauvoo