Graduation, NYC, and now OV

Cassie has officially chastised me twice for my lack of blogging. I deserved it, so I thought I would quickly try and make it better.

Family was in town to visit us for my graduation on Friday last week. It seems like a long time ago and I am still not sure that I feel the closure. I feel like in a week, after visiting family, I will go back to school. Please tell me that isn't a sign that I should go back for a PhD?! Maybe I am just not quite sure what life as an "adult" really is like.

THE beautiful shoes. :)

We had a great time with our families in town. My parents both came out and Sky's mom and Chandler came. We were able to show them around upstate New York. I am working hard to convince my family that they should come to NY; it isn't hard to convince Mom, but Dad might never leave the evergreen trees of Washington. We were able to do lots of fun things with everyone and I think everyone had a fun time...then we took them to the city...

Graduation dinner...Thank you Mom and Dad

We moved into our apartment in NYC on Saturday. It is a great studio. I really love it. The block that we live on is gorgeous and I feel like a "real" New Yorker. We took our family around NYC. We wore them out quickly and they probably felt like NYC was a little too crazy. We tried to cram in as much as we could because we know that it will be hard for them to come out frequently.

At the Statue of Liberty.

Now we are in Orangeville with Skyler's family. We have been doing various things around the house and trying to help get things in order for this weekend activities. I spent the day on a field trip with Brinler (4th grade). We went to a place called "Goblin Valley." It was very neat. And needless to say, I wanted to step right into teacher mode. I restrained myself--my shyness won the internal conflict. Goblin Valley was very neat. Definitely nothing I have seen before. It was fun to watch Brinler and his friends act like explorers.