New Skills

Since moving to NH (I can't believe it has already been 6 months), Maisy has acquired many new skills:

Camping,

Hot Dog Roasting and Fire Building (a skill she now uses every night to assist her Dad with on our wood-burning stove),

spider, worm, frog and salamander collecting (poor creatures never seem to last too long),

Shaving (?),

Chopsticks (I still haven't mastered that skill!!),

Soccer...this is actually the end of year party (not a new skill, but I just wanted to document it :)

Scooter Riding,

Lobster cooking and eating (Maisy will literally eat an entire Lobster herself!).

Okay, so really that was my pathetic attempt at trying to sum of 6 months worth of Maisy shots.

Happy (Happiest) 6 Years, Honey!

Dear Shaun,
I love you so much that I just did 5 blog posts in a row! Happy Anniversary! It's been the best 6 years of my life.

New Hampshire

The lake, about a mile from our house. One of our favorite things to do here.


We REALLY Love it here!!

I couldn't choose just one...

It breaks our heart that we no longer live an hour+ from Dan, Marissa, and Eliza.

Goodbye Chicago

Goodbye cheap(er) baseball games

Goodbye Downtown Tourista's

Goodbye Museums

Goodbye Botanical Gardens

Goodbye 3D Sponge Bob Movies.
(Shaun's Parents and Grandparents came out for our last week in Chicago and Graduation. It was a great way to see all of our favorites one last time.)

We packed up our house...

and two days later we were in New Hampshire! (thanks to Shaun's Dad who flew out to Chicago so Shaun could pick him up at the airport (in the moving truck) where they drove straight to New Hampshire (18 hours, without stopping), unpacked the Van (with the help of some very generous ward members), and drove to the airport. Shaun's Dad flew out again to Chicago 5 days later for graduation.

Is there a Doctor in the House?

I LOVE the Doctor in our House. Congratulations Shaun! I am SO proud of you.

Shaun's parents, not far from where they lived as students early in their marriage

A Shot of the Odell Medical Men (from left to right: Shaun's Dad, Shaun, Shaun's Brother Dan, Shaun's Grandfather) Three Generations of Doctors. The ceremony was very cool...Shaun's Dad was able to hood him, and Shaun's Grandfather was also recognized as they are both UofC Alumni.

We are so grateful to everyone who traveled so far to make this such a special day for us. It goes down as one of the most memorable days of our lives.

University of Chicago

Since we'll be leaving University of Chicago soon, we went up to campus today and wandered around a little bit. It's a pretty striking place, so a few pictures of our farewell tour seemed to be in order.

Botany Pond

Gargolye at Cobb Gate

Culver Hall

Roughly 9.5 seconds after this picture was taken Maisy trampled most of those flowers...

Maisy's new mode of transportation

New Englandness....

Life seems pretty much the same as last time we posted, but here are a few pictures from our trip to Dartmouth house hunting a few weeks ago.

Wild turkeys. Apparently they are to our new neighborhood what squirrels are to the dumpster behind our condo in Chicago.

The inaugural Chucky Cheese voyage.

I guess that makes for a pretty lame entry, but it's Dianna's turn to post, so hopefully we'll get some better pictures of the area and house up soon...