October!!!

October has been a very busy month! We started it off with conference weekend! Conference was wonderful! To make it feel more like home we made the traditional Sunday morning breakfast of sausage fondue, fruit, and chocolate milk! Saturday during both sessions we made applesauce! It turned out very pink but it smelled and tasted so good! We got twenty two pints in all and between batches of applesauce we made strawberry and raspberry jam! We got 14 jars of raspberry and 4 of strawberry! It was a lot of work but it is worth it now and in the months to come!





Last weekend we did the vision walk which SCO is one the biggest donors for. They let any of the students that want to do it and one of the teachers offers an incentive for the students to do it. It was a three mile walk which I (Heather) accomplished but was sore from later! It was good to get out, a little chilly but Andrew gets one of his quizzes dropped for doing it so it is all worth it in the end!






As part of the Homecoming weekend at SCO the day after the White Coat Ceremony they have a big barbecue catered by one of the local barbecue restaurants! They have blow up toys, silent auction, bean bags, mini golf, rock wall, and of course the most popular there the all you can drink beer stations which is why most people really came. The food was good (especially our all you can drink water) and the weather was perfect!

White Coat Ceremony

Last Thursday was Andrew's official white coat ceremony where they receive their white coats.He is now officially a student doctor! It is a two hour long ceremony where they give awards and scholarships out to all the students in the school. They also do lifetime achievement awards to past alumni. The President of the school also chooses a couple people from the staff at the school to receive some sort of Employee of the year award (can't remember exactly what it is but something to that effect) and this year the maintenance guy got one of the awards! He was shocked! They then read all the names of the first year students and they have to walk across the stage and shake the presidents hand and get their picture taken, just like a graduation ceremony is what it summed up to be. After your name is read they have to go back to their seat and stand until everyones has been read and they recite the optometric oath. Andrew was 17 of the 124 to be read so he stood pretty much the entire time. The best part of the ceremony was the lady behind me before it started and after Andrew had walked away from me asked if my son or daughter was receiving their white coat! Do I look that old and if I did have a child receiving it I probably wouldn't be pregnant with another!?! The best part was she was dead serious and then she said nothing else after that I think she was a little embarassed! He is still doing great in school and studies very hard!

Shaking the President's Hand



Walking in

Walking out after it was over

Us

Us again I don't remember what was so funny


The day was just to good that something had to go wrong! This is our windsheild now after a lovely rock hit it! We just got a new windsheild in JUNE!!!