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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." ***

Sabrina L. Savage

Physics Ph.D. Student
Montana State University

Last Updated:   11/16/08

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." ***

Current Events

I'm going to bet that I don't keep this very up to date. If the pictures at the top are from the current season...we're doing good...



Bold underlined phrases are links to pictures so go ahead and click on 'em!



- 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...

32 weeks 5 days!    (30 weeks 3 days)    (23 weeks 2 days)    (22 weeks 2 days)    (18 weeks 4 days)    (5 weeks 5 days)   

- 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!



- 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!



- 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!



- 10/23/08: C-section scheduled for 12/17/08!

- 10/21/08: What a difference 7 weeks makes!...

30 weeks 3 days!    (23 weeks 2 days)    (22 weeks 2 days)    (18 weeks 4 days)    (5 weeks 5 days)   

ETA = 12/27/08

Compare 30.5 weeks with X to 37.5 weeks with Quinn!!!



- 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!

Emerald Lake Pictures


- 10/03/08: Denver zoo!

Denver Zoo Pictures


- 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...

Vedauwoo Pictures


- 09/20/08: Hiked up to 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.   :)    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: I feel much bigger than this pic shows!... 22 weeks 2 days!    (18 weeks 4 days)    (5 weeks 5 days)    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...

- 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



- 08/10/08: Tyson, Kobelski, and new-guy Pete pedal up Beartooth Pass while Quinn and I hang out with Belle and the camera.

Beartooth Pass Pictures


- 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 weeks 5 days)

Sierra and I had a sushi dinner date.    :)

- 07/29/08: 2 year anniversary! Going back to where we got married... awwww...



- 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...



- 07/19/08: Hike up to Lava Lake. The girls are becoming excellent hikers! That's only taken 5 years of grooming.    :)



- 07/12 - 07/13/08: Sierra, Alydah, and Mom spent the weekend at Lewis & Clark Caverns. Wow!

Lewis & Clark Caverns Pictures


- 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. :-( ]



- 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.)



- 06/29/08: Congratulations Claire! Class of '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.

Niagara Falls Pictures


- 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!



- 06/09/08: Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile

Bellingrath Gardens Pictures


- 06/08/08: 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.



- 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!



- 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!

Kalaloch Pictures


- 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.



- 01/21/08: Walked to school in -23 degree weather. My eyelashes were icicles.

- 12/21 - 12/29/07: 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!



- 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 ...

Southern Utah Pictures


- 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.

- Summer 2007!

- 05/27 - 06/05/07: Wasting away in Hawai'i at the Spring AAS/SPD meeting... ;-P

Hawaii Pictures


- 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.

Japan Pictures


- 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." ***

*** Most of the quotes on this site are attributed to Douglas Adams. If you haven't read Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I highly recommend doing so for its brilliantly comedic dry wit. Magrathea!