The Walker Family: April 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Earth Day 5K Fun Run

So, my mom says that the term "fun run" is an oxymoron, but I really did have a good time! I even got a free t-shirt out of it, what more could you want? My friends Amy and Brooke, who are hard-core runners, told me about the Earth Day 5K at Forest Hills Park, and since I am training with my sister Shelby to run a 12K in June, I thought this would be very appropriate. Even though it was pretty cold outside, it didn't rain, so that was a plus.

Here are Jeanie, me, Brooke, Fiona, and Amy before the race started. Amy and Brooke totally kicked our little patooties, but I was so proud of my time of 29.40! That's the fastest 5K I have ever ran. I must say, I have to thank Tony Horton and P90X (or rather P60X), for getting my legs into great shape!

My wonderful hubby and kiddies came to watch me and cheer me on. Dean picked flowers the whole time and had fun running through the flags that were at the end of the race while they waited for me.

And here is a very unflattering picture of me approaching the finish line! It was so fun to see my family at the end cheering me on, and Dean running up to me yelling my name. Thanks for the support Jonny, I love you!

Senior Dinner

The Senior Dinner for the dental school was a couple weekends ago, and we had a lot of fun (minus the migraine that increased throughout the night). It was held at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens and we were able to walk through the Desert and Rainforest and see a few fun creatures and plants before the dinner began.

We sat at a table with "The Gang" as I like to call ourselves: The Whites, Arnows, Wildes, and Melanie West (Chauncey was gone doing his boards). Our 5 families have really stuck together during these last 4 years and we've had so much fun with all of them.

Here's a picture of what happens when there are unlimited drinks!

I had to get a picture of all my favorite girls (and Dave) from Jonathan's class: Fiona, Jeanie, Margaret, and Katya.

This is Dr. Baden, or better know as "Iron Baden" to the 4th-year students. She got that nickname from her "I don't take any bull from anybody" attitude but has been one of Jonathan's favorite instructors in school.

And finally, here is a picture of Jonathan with his most favorite clinic instructor, Dr. Potts. This was the lady that had him converted to Obama for a while. Needless to say, they had MANY political discussions and have ended up as great friends.

Monday, April 20, 2009

IX Indoor Amusement Park!

So after much begging, Jonathan finally took an afternoon off last week so we could go have some fun. We left the kiddies with Krystal White and went to an indoor amusement park that is put on every year. We thought riding the rides would be really fun, but we didn't realize that we're kind of getting old for rides and Jonathan gets SO sick on spinning rides. He only lasted through 3 of them. What a wuss!

There was one more ride I wanted to go on after Jonathan got too sick, so I had the pleasure of sitting in between two 7-year-old boys. It was awesome, kind of. This is my "oh ya!" face.

Our real motivation for going was to meet David Archuleta who was there signing autographs, but we ended up getting out of line because it was taking too long, so we just got some shots of him.

Here is a video of the ride that put Jonathan over the top. It was called Freak Out. I had never even seen this ride before at other amusement parks, and it was so awesome!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Quiet time ... and fun pictures

So, Dean has been having fun looking at and smelling the beautiful flowers Jonathan brought home to me the other day. (what a great hubby!) Anyway, yesterday I was in the living room while Dean was in the kitchen eating lunch. Then he got very quiet, but I thought he was just playing with some of Dawson's toys, which he was, kind of. Later I came in and found all of Dawson's toys in the vase with the flowers. Never a dull moment!

Dawson was just so cute sleeping in his crib the other night that we had to take a picture of his little bum up in the air.

Dean loves to wear his daddy's hats. This is how I found him after his nap.

And this is Dawson after his nap! I love my boys.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Easter Weekend

We had such a fun weekend in Detroit with Dan, Jolyn, and Sadie for Easter weekend. Jolyn, being the awesome aunt that she is, got Easter baskets for both kids and put together a little egg hunt. It was so much fun to watch Dean, since this is the first year he knew what he was doing (kind of). He ran around saying "Egg! Egg!" And now he carries his "bag" around all day with his cars in it.

Dawson was great, as always. He sat all day watching all the commotion and had a great time.

Dawson loved his Uncle Dan

I had so much fun playing the drums on their Guitar Hero World Tour, and so did Dean! He also liked to play the guitar, with Daddy's help. I love that he loves music so much, I wonder what he'll end up playing!

Dan and Jolyn took us to a little park by their house and Dan spent the whole time pushing the kiddies in the swings.

Man, who are those hot chicks?

This was so cool! It's a swing for those wheelchair-bound folks (is that politically correct?)

We had to use a burp cloth to keep the sun out of Dawson's eyes, and look, still smiling!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Dental School Formal

Well, I know it's been forever since I've blogged. A couple reasons: we're pretty busy these days as any 4th year dental student can tell you, and due to the busyness, we haven't taken many pictures. But last Saturday we went to the dental formal that the school has every year. It was awesome! We had a great time and we're glad that so many of our friends came!

It was held at the Terrace Club at Progressive Field, formerly known as Jacob's Field, where the Cleveland Indians play. It was an absolutely beautiful night and we had a great view of the field from our dinner seats.

For dinner I ordered the Spinach stuffed Chicken and Jonathan had the sirloin. Then we had an awesome Vanilla Bean Cheesecake. Thank you to the Chaffees for sitting with us at dinner, we had a great time with you guys!

Here are some of our favorite 4th-year friends that have helped us through our dental school life: Justin and Anna Rhodes, Rochelle and Jeremy Wilde, Melanie and Chauncey West, Krystal and Bryce White, Brittani and Brandon Arnow.

And of course, here are my girls! Tia, Brittani, Anna, Rochelle, Kendra, Krystal, Carissa, and Melanie

Well, we danced the night away, well until about 11:30 until my feet about fell off. We all got pretty crazy, and our friends probably didn't think we'd post pictures of them, but here they are in all their glory!