White Coat Ceremony

My best dental school friends in the order of pictures: Armando, Ami, and Keely. Another Keely...I know it is confusing and crazy.

Zach the photographer catching all the great moments.....(unfortunately this meant that I didn't get any photos with Zach)

Our pledge...

Receiving my white coat...

A candid shot of me with the University sign...

A photo of me and my mom before the ceremony. She flew out for the weekend to come to the ceremony. We had so much fun and she spoiled me as usual. It is so fun to spend time with someone you like so much.

While we were away, the dogs played!

We found an amazing dog sitter that is also a pet photographer. These are just a few of the 150 pictures he gave us of the dogs.

The dog sitter taking a nap with the dogs. They must have had a long day!

Spring Break-New Orleans Louisiana

We visited Zach's college roommate and his wife, Gary and Andrea, for our spring break. Here we are eating brunch at Le Pavillion. Very delicious New Orleans food and a gorgeous old hotel. Crawfish, "mud bugs", a New Orleans favorite. You rip off the head and squeeze and suck it and peel and eat the tail. Zach was pretty disgusted at first, but after some encouragement tried them. Gary ended up eating 9 lbs.

A picture of the night life in the French Quarter.

Zach and Krista on the river walk.

Gary, Krista, and Zach in the French Quarter.

The street performers, the guy is spinning on his head without his hands or feet touching the ground for a good minute.

The Cathedral in the French Quarter at sunset.

Mardi Gras World

We are wearing masks that they wear on the floats; they are made of styrofoam and covered in paper mache and paint. If you ride on the float you must never have your face be seen, so everyone wears masks the entire ride. You also have to be part of that floats' "crew" to ride their float, which costs between $600-1500, which covers the cost of making the floats. You also have to provide your own beads, moon pies, coins, etc. that you will be throwing.

Zach is in full costume, minus a mask, next to a camel made of styrofoam and paper mache used to decorate the floats.

Zach in his gorgeous queen attire.

We are sitting on bench with a king that was also used to decorate the floats.

The front of one of the floats from this year.

Zach and the giant shrek that was used to decorate the floats.

The most photographed float, and I think one of the scariest. The arms move the two smaller heads back and forth.

The trojan horse float.

We are posed with King and Queen Kong that are in the parade every year. They are gigantic!!!

Dental Prom

We had 9 of our friends over for a delicious dinner (stuffed chicken, scalloped potates, and a spinach salad with Zach's applecider vingerette dressing) that Zach made before the dance. It was a blast!

Zach's Car Wreck

On Sunday night we were going to run and grab a bit to eat and it was snowing and icy and a SUV turned left into our lane and we could not stop. It turns out the driver is uninsured, gave us a fake number (hit and run), has a suspended license, and was driving an unregistered vehicle. The next day my car wouldn't start, so we had to carpool in Zach's beat up car the next couple days until we could get my car towed and fixed. As our neighbor said, "if you guys don't have bad luck, you don't have any luck at all."

Max's Emergency Vet Visit

Last weekend the amazing bread maker my mom got me for Christmas fell off the counter (because I left it too close to the edge). The dough landed on the ground, so we threw the dough in the garbage. We put the dogs in the kennel and went shopping. We got back to find the dogs had gotten out of their kennel for the first time ever and had gotten into the garbage and ate the dough. We didn't think much about it until Max didn't sleep all night, was stumbling all over, couldn't stand up, and had diarrhea all over the rug. It was Sunday and 6 am when we looked up online what happens (the yeast ferments in their stomach into alcohol and rises which can cause blockage and cause them to get drunk) when they eat dough and read that they could die, so we called an emergency vet clinic and they told us to get him in right away because he could indeed die. He was on an IV and had activated coal to detox. It ended up costing us $1000!