Graduation Day - Ann Arbor!

Official Graduation Day for Katie!  While she "walked" with her graduation class during the Spring Commencement, yesterday was her official graduation from the University of Michigan! We are so incredibly proud of her accomplishment!

Greetings from Ann Arbor - Senior Year!

Greetings from Ann Arbor!  Another summer winds down with a drive to Ann Arbor... and another year kicks off for Katie.  This time it's her senior year!

Hard to believe it's been 3 summers worth of packing up the car/unpacking the car (not to mention the spring trips to bring her home)!  The only difference this time around is that we left on Sunday, going back on Tuesday.  Normally it's a Saturday-Monday trip.  It'll be interesting if the drive back is any different, time-wise, on a Tuesday.  Probably not - but there's always hope :D

Here's to a great Senior Year for Katie!!

Greetings from Ann Arbor - Junior Year :D

Another summer comes to a close with a drive to Ann Arbor to deposit Katie back at school.  This time it's for the start of her Junior year.  It's a cliché, I know, but it's amazing how time flies.  I can remember like it was yesterday, driving up here to check out the campus before she formally accepted.  Similarly, the trip here for her first year - and moving Katie into her freshman dorm hardly seems that long ago!  The list visits here can go on, and on...

Well I guess at this point Ann Arbor has become our adopted second home - Go Blue! :D

greetings from ann arbor - sophomore year :D

greetings from ann arbor!  after i ran the summer series 11 miler yesterday, we finished packing the car and drove - with a 45+ minute traffic jam inching through the delaware water gap and getting pulled over in ohio for speeding (but the officer let us off w/just a warning) - katie to ann arbor for the start of her sophomore year at michigan!  the big difference this time around is moving into her sorority house instead of the freshman dorm last year.

not sure how much sightseeing i'll get in this time around - but hopefully at least on visit to a brewpub :D

stay tuned!

our newly minted college freshman!

well, it's official now - katie is a college freshman!  pat and i drove home yesterday, after 2+ days of helping her settle in to the dorm and her new surroundings at the university of michigan, ann arbor. it's hard to believe how fast the time flew by.  forget middle school and high school, and even elementary school - i can still picture katie in pre-school, as if was only yesterday!  it's going to take me a while to realize this isn't like dropping her off at summer camp and then picking her up 6 weeks later! 

as is obvious - we're very proud of her :D