last week.

we had a busy, fun, emotional, quick final week in boston. i have to say that after four years of waiting to be done with dental school and living in boston, i am really missing beantown. it still feels like we are just on vacation and we'll be going back in a week. and calvin really misses his friends! BUT, we are done with school and on to our new post-school lives! and i have to say, i'm really excited! we moved to oregon during the beautiful season and we have so much family close by to hang out with all the time. see what i mean about emotional?

so, last week was full, full, full so get ready...we spent the beginning of the week stuck inside getting everything packed and the apartment clean so that we could have as much done before graduation as possible. wednesday night was my last basketball night with the girls from the ward who i've played with every wednesday night for 1 1/2 years. (minus the month before and 2 months after miles was born) i love these girls and always looked forward to our wednesday nights together...even if sometimes we crocheted instead of playing or chatted for an hour after playing. i will definitely miss my wednesday nights!

and, in true fashion, we opted to eat instead of play on our last wednesday night together!
and these girls have been all over my blog for the last few years. we had one final girls night with just the four of us. this is how i survived dental school. i love these 3 girls and i know that we will keep in touch forever. and i know kristen will hate this pic but she is 8 months pregnant! you look great kristen. {kristen, liz, jennie, jamie}
we kind of got into giving each other candy bar cards for different occasions so they made this one for me. click on it to read it better.
by thursday we had the truck loaded up with just the cleaning left to do and our parents' to arrive for graduation. we loved having both sets of parents around for the weekend. calvin got lots of special time with grandma and grandpa/nana and papa. friday morning we took our last walk to our beach and the park. here is calvin enjoying some special grandpa/papa time.

with my dad

with trav's dad.

dental school graduation:

on to the big event! travis graduated from dental school. there's so much i could say about travis and how hard he worked, etc. but overall i am so, so proud of him. we did it! (yes, we.)

trav's supporters at graduation. we thought calvin would have more fun playing with friends instead of going to graduation.

it's official! dr. travis evans.

trav's dad, "ok. you can work with me now."

saturday morning we finished cleaning our place and saying some final good-byes and then drove away from quincy for the last time to travis' awards ceremony. we were all so proud when travis received a couple great awards. then, my parents and trav and rick dropped kari, me and the boys off at the airport for the last 6 hour flight home.

we are all now here in oregon living with travis' family for a little while until we find a place to live. after one new battery, one new carburetor, little sleep, and a quick 3 1/2 days, travis and his dad made it home last night. we're glad to be here all together now and to begin our new life! to all our boston friends: we miss you! thanks for a great, yet hard, four years! we will always have special memories of our time there!