Oh, and I forgot to tell you...

I got to spend some quality time with the kids. Here are some photos of the time I spent with my niece and nephew (Sydney and Tyler).

Here's a little candid silly shot...

Vanderbilt Here I come

Okay, so I visited Nashville this week for a couple of days. I visited the Vanderbilt campus for the first time...and it's ginormous! The college of education has its own campus--about the size of the university where i did my undergrad work. It is a beautiful campus though. Everything is working out quite well. My advisor is really cool, and the grant is going to even pay for health insurance...phew! I will be doing some research on testing students for special services...ways to determine whether or not they should be in special ed. Its pretty cool. AND I get to work with 1st-graders!!! That's super-exciting! I love the little guys ;0)

I also met with my future roomie, Reid. He's a really cool guy--also very laid back, and easy to talk to. All in all, I'm pretty stoked about moving out there. He also is friends with a very successful song writer (his name is Humming), who has written 10 #1's, and also wrote most of one of the Dixie Chicks albums...WOW. The apartment is pretty cool too. It's very close to campus AND to downtown, so that's awesome. Its really safe too. Guests have to be buzzed in and check in at the front desk...and you have to be expected by the resident to go up.

Other than that, I just hung out with my dad. We ate at a resturant that had an aquarium inside...whoa. I had the biggest friggin salad on the face of the planet there. [Someone please tell me why they leave the shrimp tails on the shrimp when you get 'em in things like salads...or perhaps pasta...really.]

That's all I got for now,

Peace