Thursday, June 13, 2013

Comparisons!

I noticed some similar pictures in my stash, and thought it would be fun to compare what 4 years can do!

For the white coat ceremony at the start of dental school, we were childless and me about 2 weeks away from delivering our first child.


Here we are at the end of dental school with #3 in the oven!


Harker party of 2


Harker party of 4


Class pic 2009


Class pic 2013


The LDS guys...


and 4 years later!


 The LDS wives, with all of our children (except for Christin's 3)


The LDS wives, see below for a pic of the kids, they sure have grown in numbers!


(missing Andrew!)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Friends!

Dental school would have been miserable if it wasn't for such fabulous friends.  Nick and I agree that we couldn't have made it through without our family away from our family!











Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Commencing....dental school!

Sunday was commencement with the entire school.  It was held in the huge Bradley Center and we were up in the nose bleed section.  I don't have great pictures, but the celebrations by the dental students were awesome, and it was fun to hear Bill Cosby as their speaker.  

Where's Waldo?!  Dental class entering, Nick is 5-6 people in after the flag.  



It was long for children, luckily Camille entertained herself well while Eleanor caught up on some beauty sleep.



Next we headed to a park on Lake Michigan to have a picnic party and stretch our legs.








Lastly was the diploma ceremony at the Pfitzer Hotel.  It was lovely, even with the alcoholic sparkling cider they served us when we asked for sparkling cider instead of wine.  Who knew there was such a thing? ;)




As you can tell, the kids were thrilled at this point.  Honestly I was so proud of them for doing so well this weekend (along with the weeks prior and following graduation)!  They survived on little sleep, little entertainment and little supervision and were great sports about it.  So many changes in their little lives!



Coming up next, we took loads of pictures will all of our dental school friends whom we dearly miss already!!

Schoooooool's out for-EVER!!!



No more pencils
No more books

No more teacher's dirty looks



Out for summer

Out till fall

We (won't) go back at all




School's out forever

School's out for summer

School's out with fever
School's out completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 


It's been a loooong time coming!  Nick is finally a dentist!  Graduation weekend was packed full of fun and over in a flash.  Oh and packed up and moved out of our apartment all at the same time.  Phew, what a weekend!  We were so grateful for all of our family that made the trip to attend with us, and are equally as grateful for the love and support of those not able to attend.  Saturday was the hooding ceremony for the dental school.  It was held in a gorgeous church with beautiful (but loud!) organ music playing the whole time.  Eleanor kept saying "too loud!" and covering her ears.  





Anxiously awaiting the procession




Nick's brothers entering the chapel




Nick himself!


Nick's turn next to be hooded.








Class picture time








This little family grew from 2, to 4 and soon to be 5 over the course of dental school!




All 3 brothers, all officially dentists!




Dentists and their wives




Harker family represents!












Baby on the way!


Love this man, couldn't have picked a better person to share eternity with!  What an exciting adventure school was, I can't wait to see what is in store for us next!








Stay tuned for day 2 of the celebrations!