Busy Month of May

This May has so far (and will continue to be) the busiest month we have had since being married.

Jase's birthday was May 3rd and the week before the kids went to Michigan to spend the week with Heather's parents. The kids loved it and the parents were quite busy with meetings and errands, that we didn't get to do any of the house things we had planned. but did get to have 2 dinners out which was quite heavenly since we didn't have the kids (and we never get a sitter, so we never do things just the two of us).

Then the weekend of Jase's birthday, Joe and I went up to Michigan to spend the weekend with Heather's parents and the kids and have a small party for Jase with the kid's Great-Gramma and 2 of their second cousins. The kids had a blast and the weather was nice, so we spent time outside with water guns and the garden hose. We saw goslings and the parent geese in the river, along with an albino mallard duck. Lots of squirrels and rabbits and the kids got to see the deer too. I even found some morel mushrooms by the wood piles. the only down fall of living in the woods and by a river is the mosquitoes - they are horrible, even in the sun and on the hot days. The big present from Heather's parents was for both the kid's birthdays this year and is a 13ft trampoline and enclosure...now to figure out were to put it. I guess it is a good thing we finally got all the concrete from the foundation tore up. Now we just need some fill dirt and to plant grass...or maybe we will get sod - haven't thought that far ahead yet.

Joe graduates from Purdue on May 15 and we will be having some family come into town on Friday and stay for the weekend. We are quite excited about his graduation!

We have things planned for the last half of the month as well (more to come on that in a future post w/ pictures).

And to make the month just slightly more hectic, I received a call on Tuesday for an interview in Cleveland for Monday, as in this coming Monday, not even a full week away. I'm guessing they are very interested in me, which makes me feel great and nervous and crazy out of mind trying to get a presentation together before then on the research I do here at Purdue and why I would be a good fit there. Oh and in case you were wondering where there is, it is Case Western Reserve University. They are looking for a person to be the Director of their Cryo-EM facility that they are building. This is a position that I think I would greatly enjoy, so here goes! Wish me luck!

And I need to be at the airport Sunday by noon and come back Monday night at 11p. Anybody wanna come and hang out at my house Monday night while the kids sleep and Joe comes and gets me. Or anybody wanna pick me up at the airport?