Congratulations Chase!!!

For those of you that we haven't already told, Chase has been accepted into the JD/LLM program at the University of Georgetown!!! He applied and we hoped but weren't too optimistic at the possibility of getting in. Then we received the acceptance letter and freaked out!! I am so proud of Chase. We all know how sweet, patient and fun he is but who knew he was a genius too:-) So this means we will have to leave our beloved San Diego and stay in our other beloved Washington D.C. for another year. However, we aren't giving California beaches up with out a fight. All of our belongings are still there so when this next spring semester is over in May we plan on heading out there to gather everything up and play for three months seeing it's Chase's last summer as a student. We plan on going to the beach every day, Disneyland every week, the zoo all the time, and sea world almost as much. Sadie won't know what hit her she'll be having so much fun. San Diego is a much better place to have fun with a toddler so if any of you have advice for me on how to entertain a toddler indoors, please pass it along. I'm a little worried about being cooped up for the next four months with Sadie saying "outside please" every second.

Merry Christmas everyone

For those of you I didn't have addresses for, I thought I would post our Christmas card picture for you. We had some family pictures taken and ended up using a picture that Jonathon Linton casually took of us before we made tinfoil dinners in Shenandoah Valley. It was the only picture we had of Sadie smiling so we used this one instead of all the other ones we posed for. Silly Sadie. I miss our friends a ton in San Diego but I missed Tommi even more this year because she takes such great pictures and chooses the best scenery. Luckily we had Jonathon around to save the day.

Check out this tree

Have you ever seen leaves this bright before? Absolutely gorgeous!!

Harper's Ferry

We traveled up to Harper's Ferry with the Mechams to see the last of the beautiful fall leaves that we covet so much in San Diego. We weren't expecting it to be so cold and I ended up having to wear Chase's coat and he wore my little puffy vest. Very "metro." Doesn't he look just fabulous? Sadie had fun running all over the place and ended up with a very red nose. What a beautiful place!! I love all the little towns on the East coast. They have a great deal of "old town" charm and everyone is so friendly.

Post office problems

We have heard from some of you that your Christmas cards have been sent back due to a faulty address. We have left a forwarding address with the post office but are still having problems. If you are planning on sending us a card, please send it to my parents home in SLC. We will be there for the next month and will be able to receive it much better there. We look forward to hearing from you.
1016 Douglas Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
84105

My new favorite movie

I just watched this movie and loved every minute of it. It could be that my college hero "Felicity" (Keri Russel) is the main character but even if she wasn't I still would have devoured it. I am not a film critic but I must say that the combination of delicious pies and excellent directing was just what my taste buds needed. I really enjoyed this film and had to dedicate a blog post to it.