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Sabrina L. Savage, Ph.D.Last Updated: 04/26/2011 |
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." ***
Current Events
Bold underlined phrases are links to pictures so go ahead and click on 'em!
High resolution photos are not uploaded to the slideshows. If you want one in high resolution, just lemme know.
- 04/26/11: Turns out it's easier to update Facebook than a website.... Lemme just say it's been anything but dull around here.
- 10/20/10: Dissertation Defense = Pass!!!!!!!!!!!! Introducing Doc Savage...
- 04/26/10: Haven't updated in months due this pesky little thesis...... Doesn't mean nothing's happening. :)
- 11/28 - 12/05/09: Hinode 3 meeting in Tokyo, Japan!
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| Japan '09 |
- 11/25 - 11/27/09: Thanksgiving in North Tonawanda, NY!
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| Thanksgiving '09 |
- 11/02 - 11/07/09: In Mobile for Sierra's 12th Birthday! And I even got to be there for her beauty pageant too. (Note the one
day I was actually in the new place...)
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| Sierra's 12th Birthday |
- 10/28 - 10/31/09: Instead of trick-or-treating this year, we up and moved to Crofton, MD -- a journey of 3.5 days, 2 cars, and 2
small children. And now I have to get all my research finalized and decide on my next phase of research
before actually defending. Oy.
- 10/24/09: Early Halloween par-tay!
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| Halloween '09 |
- 09/26/09: Taking pictures with the telescope.
- 09/05 - 09/10/09: Mom comes to Bozeman!!! And she would not come unless we spent 3 days in the car first!!!!
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| Mom's Visit to Bozeman |
- 08/29/09: Went boating and tubing with Mom and Dad and the girls on Mobile Bay and Dog River. :)
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| Boating August '09 |
Meanwhile, the 'In-Bozeman' half of the family floated the Madison for 'Geeks in the Creek'.
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| Geeks in the Creek '09 |
- 08/27 - 09/04/09: In Mobile to see my favorite ladies.
- 08/23/09: Flew over some perfectly fluffy clouds
on the way to DC.
- 08/21/09: Hiked up Mt. Washburn, the central peak in Yellowstone overlooking the entire Park. Then meandered through some
hot springs.
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| Mt. Washburn & Yellowstone Hot Springs |
- 08/15/09: Caught a fish in Gallatin Gateway. :)
- 08/10/09: Summer pics - Part II
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| Summer 09 II |
- 08/01 - 08/09: In Nova Scotia for the SHINE conference! Tyson, Quinn, and Milo are in New York for his
liddle brudder's wedding and then to visit Grandma. :) Quinn's been ready to get on the plane for weeks!
"We'll get on the plane in 2 weeks. O.K.? And then we'll go see Grandma and the little dog and get presents
and Milo will get presents. O.K.?"
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| Nova Scotia - SHINE |
- 07/29/09: 3 years and counting! Tyson and I had a date ... by ourselves! We went to Headwaters (where we got
hitched). I fished in a beautiful part of the river while Tyson played with the camera. The trout
I caught was so huge it snapped my line. :) And then I fished without a hook for a while without
realizing it. D'oh!
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| 2009 Anniversary |
- 07/26/09: Tyson after a half-ironman... :)
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| Half-Ironman |
- 07/24 - 07/27/09: Kristen & Pete & Anthony came to visit us for a few days. :)
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| Kristen & Pete & Anthony |
- 07/19/09: Eaglehead Mountain & Golden Trout Lakes hike...
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| Eaglehead |
- 07/09/09: Whitewater rafting down the Gallatin River!
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| Whitewater Rafting |
- 06/24/09: Summer pics - Part I
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| Summer 09 |
- 06/23/09: Camp-out in the front yard including a pit fire with S'mores. :)
- 06/19/09: Saw Up with all three of my girls. Great flick!
- 06/09/09: Got my remaining three wisdom teeth pulled...
- 06/06/09: The unveiling of the Meade LX90!
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| Telescope! |
- 05/30/09: The girls are here!!!!
- 05/21 - 05/27/09: Capitol Reef National Park! Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain!
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| Capitol Reef |
- 05/18/09: Is it really 80 degrees outside!?
- 05/14/09: Goodbye Bill. You made me feel welcome here from the very very beginning. Thank you.
Announcement
- 05/09/09: Happy 3rd birthday Quinn-doe-lynn!
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| Quinn's 3rd Bday |
- 05/08 - 05/09/09: Tyson's graduation weekend.
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| Tyson's Graduation |
- 05/05/09: Got my toenails done! It must be Spring! ... It must. It must.
- 05/04/09: Some pics of Quinn & Milo. :)
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| Les petits enfants |
- 04/22 - 04/24/09: Owen & Hope visit for a few days. :) Land o' Magic wins! Light-saber battle to be uploaded soon!
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| Owen & Hope Visit |
- 04/18/09: Milo's 1st cereal. :)
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| Milo's 1st cereal |
- 04/13/09: Passover! Because chocolate Easter eggs go so well with Manischewitz.
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| Passover '09 |
- 04/12/09: Easter! Brunch and an egg hunt with the Keys and Camas' family. Happy 3rd Birthday Carter!
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| Easter '09 |
- 04/10/09: I am now married to a doctor. Well, a Ph.D. that is. :)
- 02/19 - 03/01/09: In Bama with the girlies for Alydah's 9th birthday. Not taking the computer. :) We got to spend a few days at Dauphin Island. (Thank you Mr. Dees! ...and Mom & Dad)
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| Alydah's 9th Bday (Dauphin Island) |
- 02/12/09: Photoshoot with Milo (8 weeks). :)
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| Milo in green |
- 02/10 - 02/12/09: Limb flares! ... oh, we're looking at quiet sun.
- 02/08/09: Walking around Headwaters in the sunshine. :)
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| Headwaters' Hotel |
- 02/05/09: Cheetarah is back up and running!
- 02/02/09: Apple grey screen of death!
- 01/31 - 02/06/09: Verifying some data.
- 01/29/09: Stupid tooth is out after 1.5 years of fighting with it. Root canals can apparently fail... :-(
- 01/18/09: Went for a bike ride!
- 01/17/09: Stood ON the Hyalite reservoir.
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| Hyalite Reservoir |
- 01/08 - 01/12/09: Grandma's here!
- 12/24/08 - 01/04/09: Christmas break with the girls & Eli!
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| Christmas '08 |
- 12/17/08: Welcome Milo Coleman Littenberg!
(a.k.a. Baby X)
Got to the hospital on Wednesday morning and was hooked up to an IV, gave some blood, and answered a million questions...
often the same ones more than once or even twice. It was so surreal being in the Labor and Delivery without being in labor.
I had a few hard contractions while I was there as I had for weeks, but not labor. :-( I got really sad looking
at the little newborn bed they have in there knowing that we wouldn't be using it, but then I made myself perk up and got
excited that I'd be meeting my little one soon. I could tell that Tyson was really nervous as we had to hurry up and wait.
I had to look past it or I would have become nervous too.
I think nurses are trained to talk very calmly. I can't count the number of times I was asked why I was having a repeat
c-section and everyone's response was how sorry they were that the hospital didn't support VBACs and that "I" was the reason
they were trying to get the procedure reinstated. Even the doctor came in and said that same thing again and expressed how
he wished I had come in ready to push. I know they were trying to be nice and supportive, but it was making me really upset
seeing as I really did not want the c-section. It was making me want to run out of there. A nurse told me afterward that I
could have refused the c-section, but I would not have had any VBAC support. Oh well...
Then I was escorted over to the OR which was the same OR in which I had my previous emergency c/s and had been wheeled into
bloody, half-naked, and screaming. I was immediately overtaken with a sense of panic which I had to sequester. But all of
the nurses were extremely cheery. I was the 3rd c/s of the morning so all the births had put everyone in good spirits. They
were all very calming and excited that we did not know the gender. Tyson was quite proud that it was his call to not know
the gender. I was still very sure that it was a boy.
The lady performed the spinal tap which hurt like heck and took a long time to set.
When I finally got numb they began to prep me. So awkward for several people to be messing with you everywhere and chatting
with you at the same time. I was so uncomfortable and wishing Tyson was in there. They were joking with the assisting doctor
that he couldn't announce the gender because I requested that Tyson announce it first. It seemed that the doc had spoiled
the surprise before.
Finally after forever, they put up the screen and Tyson came in. There was a lot more pushing and tugging and pulling than
I remembered from before. Turns out that they had to use the vacuum to pull out the baby because of its size. Tyson wasn't
even looking at me the whole time. I kept trying to catch his eyes but he was looking at something past me. He was rubbing
my hair though which was comforting. The surgery was getting to him and he was trying not to pass out.
Then the moment came when the baby was out (at 11:21 am) and Tyson looked over to see the gender. I could hear the little one
yelling. :-) Everyone was cheering. He nodded and then he came over to me and quietly said, "You made a son."
:-D + :'-)
The nurses commented on how big the baby boy was... 8 pounds 5 ounces and 20.25 inches at 1.5 weeks early! So exciting. I
could see his feet just a-kicking in the baby bed and I noticed his long toes spread apart. His lungs had to be suctioned out
before he was brought over to me to admire for a few moments. Tyson stood over by the baby while I was getting stitched up
and then he and the baby left. I fell asleep on the table after they gave me some other anesthetic with morphine and woke up
as I was being wheeled to recovery where I slept some more.
Tyson came in there with the baby and a lactation consultant. The LC was extremely pushy. I was still completely numb and
had all sorts of things strapped to me, yet she was trying to make me nurse in extremely inconducive positions. I couldn't
even sit up at all. Sheesh. It was making me mad and eventually I stopped because the baby was only taking 3 sucks at a time
anyway and everyone was getting frustrated. He just wasn't ready considering how he was born. So I pulled him away from the
LC and just held him and looked at how beautiful he was and smelled him and felt his hair with my cheek. And then they had
to go back to the nursery for the baby to be bathed.
And that's how Milo Coleman entered the world. He is so perfect. We have a little boy!
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| Welcome Milo |
- 12/06 - 12/12/08: XRT Data Verifier duty ...
- 12/06/08: SEC Championship ... I don't wanna talk about it ...
Christmas stroll. (choo choo!) :-)
- 11/29/08: 36 weeks! ROLL TIDE!!! (12-0)
23 - 36 weeks!
5 - 22 weeks
18 days left!
- 11/27/08: Happy Thanksgiving!
- 11/26/08: Happy Thanksgivemeabeer! Woop woop! Quinn stayed up way too late,
Mexican Train dominos rapped on the
table, 3 pies were made, and there was a sleep-over.
No traditions broken. :)
- 11/21/08: Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Catrina Jahnke!!!!!!!!!!! (Tear)
- 11/16/08: Diaper shower! We have good friends (and bosses) :-)
- 11/06/08: 32 weeks 5 days! I think the massive growing has slowed down a wee bit finally...
23 ~ 33 weeks!
5 - 22 weeks
- 11/04/08: History was made ... Obama was elected AND Trae winter defended his thesis!
- 11/03/08: Sierra's 11th birthday!
Got a 'Bama throw blanket (among lots of other things) (ROLL TIDE!),
ate some sushi, and watched The Spiderwick Chronicles (even though I wanted to watch Wall-E).
- 11/02 - 11/11/08: In Mobile with the girlies!
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| Sierra's 11th Bday |
- 11/01/08: Got my toenails did!
- 10/31/08: Happy Halloween! ... No pics of me as an oven for the kids' downtown trick or treating. :-) Quinn was dressed in a Fairy costume but insisted she was a Butterfly. Cayle waddled like a Walrus. Rohan pretended to be a Bear, but we all discovered that he was Rocket Scientist underneath it all. Silvina came unquestionably as Dan the Man. The Office paraded around as the Village People. And Tyson, Joey, and I made the "Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll" trio for the after-hours party!
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| Halloween '08 |
- 10/30/08: Farewell dinner for Ravindra ... :-( + :-)
I do not know if I'd recognize your name in a paper seeing as I only know you by your first name. ;-)
Good luck at the Astrophysical Institute!
- 10/27/08: Leaves!
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| Fall '08 |
- 10/23/08: C-section scheduled for 12/17/08!
- 10/21/08: 30 weeks 3 days! What a difference 7 weeks makes!...
23 - 30 weeks
5 - 22 weeks
ETA = 12/27/08
Compare 37.5 weeks with
Quinn to 30.5 weeks with X!!!
- 10/19/08: Happy 21st Regina!!!!
- 10/18 - 10/24/08: XRT Data Verifier duty ... seeing if someone else has crashed the telescope
- 10/10 - 10/13/08: Snow snow snow ... ugh ...
- 10/09 - 10/16/08: XRT Chief Observer duty ... trying not to crash the telescope
- 10/04/08: Very short trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Hiked up to Emerald Lake and caught the Fall colors
just in time!
- 10/03/08: Denver zoo!
- 09/29 - 10/03/08: In Boulder, CO for the Hinode 2 science meeting presenting a poster and taking in the area. Even
visited with some of Tyson's long lost cousins.
Cousins
Aunt Grandma Sharon
- 09/27 - 09/28/08: Finally made it back to Vedauwoo... sigh...
- 09/20/08: Hiked up to Windy Pass.
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| Windy Pass |
- 09/17/08: I caught a ~16 inch cutthroat trout in the Hyalite Reservoir on my 3rd cast and on my 1st time
alone fly fishing! Woo hooooo! A Bald eagle flew in to watch the fish's tail flapping out of my
lunch box from a tree branch above me.
Big Fish 1!
Big Fish 2!
... Yum ...
- 09/01/08: Quinn loves the baby. :)
5 - 23 weeks
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Don't mind the stretch marks ... Alydah was a biggun' ... :)
- 08/29/08: All moved out! (Not all moved in!)
- 08/25/08: 22 weeks 2 days! I feel much bigger than this pic shows!...
5 - 22 weeks
ETA = 12/27/08
- 08/19 - 08/21/08: Driving 18 hours and camping in cold, rainy Mt. Rainier National Park all to see
Radiohead!!!!!!!!! ... Best band on the planet! Now I gotta see Elbow...
Set List: 15 Step, Reckoner, Optimistic, There There, All I Need, Pyramid Song, Talk Show Host, The National Anthem,
The Gloaming, Videotape (I cried), Lucky, Faust Arp, Jigsaw Falling into Place, Climbing Up the Walls, Dollars and Cents,
Nude, Bodysnatchers, How to Disappear Completely, Arpeggi/Weird Fishes, Idioteque, In Limbo, Street Spirit, You and Whose
Army (haunting!), No Surprises, Everything in Its Right Place
Damn!
- 08/12 - 08/16/08: In Cambridge, MA for a workshop on a particularly interesting flare. Small spinning CME with a
fabulous current sheet (not to mention downflows!!!) caught by several instruments. Stay tuned
for gripping reading material.
- 08/12/08: Ultrasound! We didn't find out ... but I really think it's a boy!!! (The following slideshow are pictures
taken of the ultrasound pictures, so the quality isn't perfect, but it's the best I could do... )
ETA = 12/27/08 :-0
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| Ultrasound 08/12/08 |
- 08/10/08: Tyson, Kobelski, and new-guy Pete pedal up Beartooth Pass while Quinn and I hang out with Belle and the camera.
- 08/02/08: Run,
Run,
Run at Sweet Pea '08!
- 07/31/08: Alydah and I had a Chinese dinner date. :)
- 07/30/08: 18 weeks 4 days!
5 - 18 weeks
Sierra and I had a sushi dinner date. :)
- 07/29/08: 2 year anniversary! Going back to where we got married... awwww...
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| Headwaters Anniversary '08 |
- 07/26 - 07/27/08: Camping along Squaw Creek near Rat Lake. If only we had known how popular the area was to 4-wheelers...
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| Squaw Creek |
- 07/19/08: Hike up to Lava Lake. The girls are becoming excellent hikers! That's only taken 5 years of grooming. :)
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| Lava Lake |
- 07/12 - 07/13/08: Sierra, Alydah, and Mom spent the weekend at Lewis & Clark Caverns. Wow!
- 07/05 - 07/12/08: Len (Tyson's dad) and Janice come out to visit, and we get invited to stay in a cabin at Tower Junction in Yellowstone. Sweet! So, of course, we all go for a hike... and run into a recent bear kill. [That bear was later put down due to its complete lack of fear of humans. :-( ]
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| Garnet Loop Trail |
- 07/02/08: 4th of July Rodeo! (Yep, I know the rodeo was on the 2nd... for the actual 4th, we shot off our own fireworks and hung out with da Keys.)
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| Rodeo '08 |
- 06/29/08: Congratulations Claire! Class of '08!
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| Claire's Graduation '08 |
- 06/28/08: Congratulations to the gorgeous brides, Kellie and Kristen. What lucky grooms!
- 06/25/08: Niagara Falls. First trip for the girls! We walked through the Cave of the Winds where we actualy touched the
Falls (no pics) and rode the Maid of the Mist boat.
- 06/22 - 06/30/08: Up North... (North Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, Buffalo)
- 06/22/08: Got my girls with me and all is right with the world again...
- 06/21/08: Ate dinner with 2 alligators, 3 storks, and a pelican at Maher Park as I waited to pick up my girls.
Gator 1 &
Gator 2
- 06/19 - 06/22/08: Tyson and Quinn head to Vermont for his dad's wedding!
- 06/16 - 06/18/08: Had a wee vacation at Pensacola Beach.
Pic 1,
Pic 2,
Pic 3,
Pic 4
- 06/15/08: Happy Father's Day! We went boating with my dad in the Gulf of Mexico. Oh and we all ate almost 60 pounds of mud bugs!
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| Crawfish & Boating |
- 06/09/08: Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile
- 06/08/08: Recital '08!
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| Recital '08 |
- 06/07 - 06/22/08: Down South... (Mobile, Fairhope, & Pensacola).
- 06/05/08: Yep...Still snowing in Yellowstone when we stopped in for Tyson to give a SPOT presentation on our way to Salt Lake City.
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| Yellowstone SPOT trip |
- 05/01/08: 5 weeks 5 days!
- 04/01 - 04/05/08: Tyson's 27th birthday week! Scotch, scotch, and more scotch and a glow in the light jersey. 04/03 = sushi night.
- 03/24 - 04/02/08: On Japan time for Remote Chief Observer duties... aren't you supposed to be able to observe
the Sun during the day?
- 03/23/08: Easter!
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| Easter '08 |
- 03/09 - 03/14/08: Spring Break
on Whidbey Island
- 03/09/08: Happy 28th Birthday to me! Great dinner at Kalaloch Lodge and I got a polarizing lens and a wee tripod for hiking.
- 03/05 - 03/14/08: In Washington for work and play with Da Keys. Mini-honeymoon Act II in Kalaloch!
- 02/17 - 02/25/08: Happy 8th Birthday Alydah!!!
Birthdate spent getting a Build-a-Bear (for Quinn too) and IHOP's funny face.. Movie of the week was Happy Feet.
Props to the second grade PTA program and to
Sierra's Reflections award for literature.
Strolling along Fairhope beach at sunset: Pic 1
Pic 2.
- 02/03/08: Super SuperBowl!!!!!!!
- 01/30/08: Blue Man Group! Rock Movement #8. "Wave your hands in the air, like you just don't care..." :-D
- 01/27/08: Got a new camera! Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3.
- 01/26/08: Cross-country skiing in Yellowstone. Camera pretty unreliable.
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| Fawn Pass Skiing |
- 01/21/08: Walked to school in -23 degree weather. My eyelashes were icicles.
- 12/21 - 12/29/07: Christmas in Bozeman!!!!!!
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| Christmas in Bozeman! |
- 12/09 - 12/15/07: Showing off SADs at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in
San Francisco.
And on the side ... Chinese food in China town (fried rice ... mmmm), view of the
Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, YUGE oysters on Fisherman's
Wharf, and a party on top of a hotel (woop woop).
- 11/02 - 11/10/07: Happy 10th Birthday Sierra!!! One decade! Unbelievable. Birthdate spent getting a Build-a-Bear and lunch sushi... mmmmm. Movie of the week was Night at the Museum. Caught 45 fish with Mamaw & Pappy!
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| Fishing! |
- 10/31/07: Halloween!
- 10/02 - 10/08/07: De-stressing in southern Utah with some
camping, back-packing, biking and hiking ... our idea of a vacation ...
- 09/25/07: Oral Comprehensive Exam: "The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"
Download the PowerPoint See the RESULTS!
- 08/24/07: PASS!!!!!
- 08/20 - 08/22/07: Answering 15 hours worth of physics questions for the comprehensive exams.
- 05/27 - 06/05/07: Wasting away in Hawai'i at the Spring AAS/SPD meeting... ;-P
- 05/13 - 05/27/07: In Oswego,
Vermont, the Adirondacks, and
Buffalo.
We even flew down to Manhattan and Philly for 1(+) days ... zzzzzzz
- 04/18 - 05/07/07: In Japan(!!!) learning how to operate
XRT.
- 04/08/07:
Easter! Baskets for the Sierra & Alydah ... they better hurry
up and get here or I'm gonna eat their goodies. (chomp!)
- 04/03/07: Happy Birthday Ty!! ... mmm Scotch and Italian
- 04/02/07: Quinn's 1st passover.
- Aren't these the two cutest friends?!
- 03/09/07: Happy Birthday Me!! ... mmm B & B and Sushi
- 02/21/07: Happy 7th Birthday Alydah!!! What a great time we had playing at the
beach and introducing Quinn to
sand! Birthdate movie and lunch were Cooper T's and Bridge to Teribithia.
- 01/20/07: Cross-country skiing in Bear Canyon: Lovely trail;
Ty with Quinn
- Winter Break 2006!:
Christmas & Family ...I need pics of Mamaw :) &
Vacation! in Perdido Key, FL.
- 11/03/06: Happy 9th Birthday Sierra!!! I loved being 9...that's
when I realized that I wanted to be an astronomer. :) Birthdate lunch and movie were Olive Garden and Flushed Away.
- 10/16/06: First snow!
- 9/25/06: Solar-B named Hinode (hee-no-deh)
- 9/22/06: Solar-B launches!!!
- Prehistoric Earth: "...then I decided that I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic... (Where, did you...?) ... Find a gin and tonic? I found a small lake that thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least, I think it thought it was a gin and tonic. I may...have been imagining it." ***