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Date

04 JUL 10 | 8:55PM

Summary

Enjoying the fireworks in Rome on a Sunday evening.

While in Rome, Jill and I decided to take a quick break from house hunting and decided to check out the town’s local fireworks display. Jill and I had an excellent time resting in a field around several other locals that that gathered to ooh and ahh over the bright colors and loud explosions.

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In contrast to last year’s attempt to photography the fireworks in Kyle, this year’s turned out quite a bit better thanks to my new 55-200mm lens.

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Date

04 JUL 10 | 6:46PM

Summary

Taking a tour around Jill's new stomping grounds.

If any you reading this haven’t heard already, Jill and I are moving to Rome. Now that Jill has finished her PhD, she has accepted a prestigious position at Berry College as a mathematics education professor. In anticipation of the move, we decided to fly over and scout out some places to live. While there we decided to swing by the enormous campus and take a few photos that I could use for Jill’s graduation announcement.

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The campus is enormous (we’re told it’s the largest in the world) and the scenery and architecture were stunning. We’re really looking forward to this next chapter in our lives!

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Date

23 JUN 10 | 10:49AM

Summary

Three years of work culminate in one final hour.

Today was an exciting day for Jill as three years of work culminated into a grueling multi-hour defense. The morning started with a public presentation where Jill spoke broadly about her dissertation to a varied audience of professors, students, administrators and me. Afterward, she met privately with her committee for a few hours to complete her oral defense.



In the end, Jill was able to successfully defend her thesis and was pleasantly surprised when all of her committee members began addressing her as Dr. Cochran.

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Date

20 JUN 10 | 10:09AM

Summary

A fun scene from Father's Day.

What better image to have on Father’s Day than this photo of our manchild growing up and taking care of himself.

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It seems like it was just yesterday that he couldn’t even brush his teeth without creating a colossal mess. Oh wait. That was yesterday.

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Date

19 JUN 10 | 3:34PM

Summary

Spending time with Tiffani in San Antonio.

This weekend, Tiffani was in San Antonio for one of her various water board meetings. Because she ended up going alone, she invited us along with Brig and company to join her for an afternoon on the Riverwalk. Since it had been years since Jill and I have been, we jumped on the chance to head down and have some fun.

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In addition to swimming in the 5th story pool at Tiffani’s hotel, we also ate dinner at the Rainforest Café on the river where Asher was absolutely terrified of the ten-foot animatronic boa constrictor that popped out of the ceiling and came within inches of his face! We finally calmed him down when we explained that the loud noises and strobing lights during their simulated rainstorms was just part of one of our techno dance parties. There’s something inherently backward about that.

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