First Day of School

School started again and Kelsie is in 1st grade! She really likes her new teacher, Mrs. Tubbs. What a fun and exciting year we have ahead of us!!

It's Official!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
WE LOVE YOU!

More Pictures

Paul Revere's House

















Boston's Cow Art

















Cape Cod

















The Mayflower

















Plymouth Rock

New England Trip

Riding on the ferry across Lake Champlain from VT to NY
















Wally and Kelsie at Thunderhole (Acadia National Park, Maine)
















Brandon enjoying the only Sand Beach in Maine





















Brandon wasn't so sure about the lobster...
















On our way to the Ben and Jerry Ice Cream Factory Tour (Waterbury, VT)
















Ben and Jerry?
















We had a great time! : )

1928....

Wally threw me an **AWESOME** birthday party last night. It was so fun to dress up and play Bunco with a bunch of friends!






















My friend did my hair 20's style and it looked really cool...






















the back...






















Wally, the Gangsta...























The Group Photo...

Piled Higher and Deeper!

Ahhh! I just defended my PhD thesis and my 5-year headache immediately started to go away.

Thanks to everyone who helped out and made the journey enjoyable, easier, or more interesting: Matt "get's things done" Dirmyer, Dave "of course I have time to talk about something besides science" Newsham, Shakuntala "Shak Attack" Sundararajan, Megan Nagel, Rong "not Right" Luo, and a bunch of other people who will probably never read this blog.

Thanks especially to the love of my life, Ronni!

Happy Happy Birthday To You!!

You had a birthday; shout "Hooray"!
We want to sing to you today.
One year older and wiser, too,
Happy Birthday TO YOU!

Happy 6th Birthday Kelsie!