Family Weddings

Ali and Shelby decided to get married on the most popular date for quite some time- July 7 (or 07/07/07). We are all excited to have Shelby as a brother-in-law. Liz and Thomas were married a few months later on September 18. Some how I don't have any pictures of Thomas.....but he was there! I love this one with Liz and Hailey.

Moving

With John graduating, we will be leaving MIT housing and Boston. We decided to try to buy a home near his new job. This is still inprocess, but we have appreciated the enthusiasm from those who have seen the pictures with comments such as "Are you sure this is all you can afford?" and "why would you buy this when you could buy... something else?". We think the place has a lot of potential. We have a meeting with the board, and hope to close in the next month or so.

Graduation

John graduated from MIT in the beginning of May. His parents flew across the country to spend a few days with us and go to the graduation ceremony. We were a little surprised that everyone in the entire school graduated in the same ceremony- from undergrads to Post-docs. The weather was perfect, so the 6 hours we spent out in Killian Court were pretty nice. Here is the $100,000 photo- its a picture of the Jumbo-tron, so the quality isn't the best.. but it really is John!

John with his parents (and tons of other MIT grads with family and friends). John is thrilled that his mother owns her very own Zorro hat. We were happy that they'd come to visit us for a few days. Here we are at the class social after graduation with our friends Mona & Bryant. They have been great fun to spend time with over the past two years, though, try as I might, I will never out-cook Mona. John and Bryant are quite the mischievous pair. Bryant has explained to John that there is no need to do work around the house... mysterious elves will eventually take care of everything.

This is what we look like when we know we will finally stop shelling out those tuition bucks!

Sum up

So I've decied to start this blog to keep everyone updated with what is happening with us. For the past few years Edna has worked and John and been in school. We've been on a few trips, but there hasn't been much of interest, unless you want to talk accounting or finance, but even then..... We are very excited about some new things we have been doing , so we wanted to share some of this.