Sharks Teeth

Jolene Perkins, shark tooth expert extraordinaire, treated us to a delightful day at the beach to her special shark tooth finding location this weekend. Bailey and Calvin were ecstatic to find over 20 shark teeth each!

Little Beauty

As Bailey nears her 8th birthday, and her baptism date, May 2, the excitement is hardly containable! I took her to the beach yesterday to take some pictures in her white dress. She is so excited! It was a windy day but the lighting was great! We are so excited to see all our family next week!

Philadelphia Here We come!

Here is a picture of our HOUSE TO BE, come June. We are thrilled it is not a "fixer-upper" even though it is Two hundred and nine years old! Pretty good updates huh? We are taking suggestions for a new color scheme on the exterior paint.


I love that this house has 4 bedrooms and a lot of basement storage. The Lord really prepared it for us. It was on the market all last year, and the owners just dropped the price into our price range the week we were in Philly house hunting. The neighborhood is amazingly organized and community centered. We are looking forward to joining in the annual neighborhood traditions: Christmas time Luminaries, Fall Block Party with pony rides and hay rides, Summer 4th of July parade for kids, Spring Yard Sale and Neighborhood Playgroups. I feel right about where we will be raising our kids.

Here is a little tour of the house. When you come in the front door the staircase is on front of you. The Living Room is to your left and the Dining Room is to your right.

Behind the Dining Room is this cute little kitchen. We will be adding a pantry as those are the only cupboards. Nice stainless steel countertops and appliances!

This is the family room off the kitchen. Larry loves the wood burning stove. I love that we will not freeze if the power goes out! This room will be multi-purpose: Azalea's playroom and Daddy's office.

Another view of the kitchen, with me getting friendly with Paula the owner. You can see this stone wall is the original exterior wall of the house before this kitchen and family room were added on. The cute door behind me exits to the side of the house facing the street. A cute little side entrance to the kitchen.
French doors lead to the backyard, where the cute stone patio set will stay. I love it!



The big backyard where Calvin will probably catch 1000 bugs before all is said and done in 2012!

Up the first staircase:You find a nursury ( I am so excited to plan this one out! Azalea will have her own room!)
Our room:
And the family bathroom (: !
Up the 2nd full stircase:

You find Bailey 's Room: (which will paint of course... but I love the windows!)This will be ya'll's guest room when you come visit! We love guest!


And Calvin's Room, which was used as their office, but is the same layout as the other room.

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!