Brent's Graduation Dinner

This week we had Brent's graduation dinner for completing his residency here at Yale.  I can't believe it has been a year since attending the dinner for last years graduates.  It was fun to experience living in New England, but I am so ready to move on to Denver.  Brent has been super busy with his program and I never imagined he would be away from home so much.  Between being on-call and all of the extra evening lectures and visits to a local dentist's office, he has been gone late into the evening many nights.  Between being pregnant and having a wild child to look after, it has been a little rough the past few months trying to survive until the end.  Well, our time is almost up, and I couldn't be happier.  I'm really excited to live close to family and start this new phase of life!

Before the dinner.  We never take a family picture, so I figured this was a good opportunity.  Sadly, this is about as good as it gets.

This is Julie 26 weeks pregnant and feeling rather large.  I'm hoping this isn't going to be a 10lb baby!

At the dinner.  Clementine was such a good girl.  The whole things lasted about 4 hours between the presentations and dinner.  I think I was more antsy then Clemie.

Doing what we have to do to keep Clementine entertained.  A little sprite never hurt anyone.

Brent showing Clemie off to everyone.  Clementine is pretending she's a shy girl.  

Brent going up to get his certificate.  They introduced him as the "hot shot" of the group.  Not sure if that is an insult or compliment, but I guess we'll take it.

Cape Cod

A couple of weekends ago we were lucky enough to have my Aunt and Uncle come up from Key West for a weekend visit.  This gave us a good excuse to make a road trip to Cape Cod.  None of us had been there before, so it was a new experience for all of us.  Not really knowing where to go in Cape Cod, we headed all the way to the end of the Cape to Provincetown.   It was beautiful and the weather couldn't have been more perfect, but lets just say it was not at all the yuppy town we all expected.  We were definitely the minority when it came to heterosexual couples. Let's just say our next visit to Cape Cod will probably not include Provincetown.  We discovered on our way home some nicer small towns with beautiful beaches that we would love to visit again.  Overall, we enjoyed the day eating lunch on the waterfront, walking the town, and exploring some beaches.  

These were our views while eating lunch.

Clementine enjoying eating lunch with her great Aunt Louanna and Uncle David.

Clementine trying out a boa at a local toystore.

Downtown Provincetown

This was the beach we discovered on the way home.  I can't remember the name of it, but it was beautiful.

We had to go test out the water.  It was so freezing!  The only people crazy enough to get in were the surfers with wetsuits.  Clementine loved the waves and even stuck her toes in.

More pictures of our darling Clementine....

Clementine and I went to Las Vegas about a month ago to visit my family.  My sister Wendie is a photographer and took some pictures of her while we were there.  Here a just a few that she took.  Enjoy!

When did she turn into such a big girl?

Our little Ballerina

Clementine playing at the park.  She loves the slide! 

My sister had a really fun park that has all sorts of shooting water.  I thought Clementine would hate it because she hates getting water in her face, but she had a great time.  She loved putting her fingers in the little water spouts shooting out of the ground.