Greetings from Sunny Florida!

Victory!!!! We are online at last, and happy to join the blogging world. Slowly but surely I am finding my way around technology! What a thrill to successfully upload my first little video!!(after multiple painstaking tries)

Life in Florida has been better than we could have ever imagined. Larry is enjoying his intern year at the Mayo Clinic, learning lots and working nice normal 8-5 hours. That has givien us lots of family time to spend at the neighborhood pool and taking 4-block walks to the beach with Zipper.

I have stretched myself and taken on the new role of piano teacher and am blessed with 7 students ranging in age from 4-64.

Bailey has thrived at Seabreeze Elementary and improved her skills during her first competitive season of gymnastics.

Calvin spent the summer swimming and the fall playing soccer. He has a cute preschool class with 6 boys and 3 girls, and is so proud to have just turned 5! To see him finally grow tall enough to get to ride the "big kid" roller coasters at SeaWorld was a milestone day in his life!

And teeny tiny Azalea, at 11 months, 17 pounds and four new teeth has melted all our hearts with the first words "da-da, da-da!!!". Of course.

The Day It All Began-"Match Day"

? Where will we go for residency?
"We're going to Jacksonville Florida!"
This was Match Day, March 15, 2006. We had applied to all the residency's in the country for Radiation Oncology and after months of interviews had assembled the "top 10 list". On this day we received the news announcing which program we had "matched" at and where we would be spending the next 5 years of our life. The surprise was in the "split decision": 1 year for the internship in Florida and the following 4 years of residency in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. A little unexpected but thrilling at the same time! Florida was our first choice but was such a long shot we never thought we'd get it. Philadelphia was the program Larry was the most sure about... and now we got the best of both worlds! Mayo Jacksonville, we love you!