White Coat Faux Pas

Sorry that I haven't written in awhile we have had a crazy last couple of weeks! Now for a couple of updates: 

• Jon got a new calling at church. He will be the 11 and 12 year old scout master. He's pretty excited about the calling and will do a great job.  
• We spoke last week in church, I spoke on Ruth and Jon spoke on Love at Home. We were pretty relieved when that was behind us only to find out that I needed to teach in YW this week. Although it turned out to be totally fine and thanks to the four year old primary class I taught in our last ward I think I'm finally getting more comfortable with teaching. It's always been a weakness of mine not so much speaking or talking in front of people because that doesn't bother me.It has more been an issue of being able to convey what I'm feeling while teaching and being able to take the lesson wherever it needs to go I felt like I've really grown which is such a relief! 
• We drove up to North Carolina and Virginia two weekends ago to visit Jon's grandparents. We spent Saturday and then went to church Sunday with them and it was good for Jon to get to see them. It's been raining like crazy down here and that weekend was no exception so unfortunately I didn't get a chance to take any pictures. 

Now on to the big news of the week, JON STARTED PHARMACY SCHOOL!!! This has been SO long in the making and has taken years to get here so he was so excited to finally get into it. 

Jon on his first day of Pharmacy School. 

On Wednesday they held a White Coat Ceremony for Jon's class of 2017. I got off work early at we headed into Charleston. The whole thing was really nice they started out by listening to the Dean and the president of the Pharmacy School and the speeches really weren't that bad. What was painful was the next hour of watching every single member of his class. 80 in all. Walk up on stage one by one as their names were called, sign the honor code, and then get their coat ceremonially put on by the president of the Pharmacy School, as well as get a picture taken with him. Only one person was on stage at a time....It was a total snooze fest. But it was worth getting to see Jon on stage I was probably more excited than he was. Here are the photos of Jon's moment to shine. 

 They will wear these coats as well as dress clothes one day a week while they do their labs for the next four years. So Jon had his coat since Monday, and he had tried it on and it just never looked right to me. Jon has really broad shoulders, and his coat cut in quite a bit and the sleeves and bottom just seemed really short to me. He insisted that it wast just how lab coats fit but as I was watching every. single. person. get their coats put on them I was noticing that their coats seemed to fit a lot better. While I was making this observation, Jon and another boy in line made the connection. Jon's buttons were on the opposite side of his coat... while turning around and comparing to a girls coat he realized right before he went on stage that he was in fact given a women's coat accidentally. Whoops! He still looked great but got his coat swapped out later on in the week for the appropriate gender. We had a good laugh about it afterwards. Here are some photos from the event:

I am so proud of him for getting to this point! He is going to do a great job and is looking forward to getting started. We are further convinced every day that we spend in SC that it is where we are supposed to be and are loving every minute!