We finally did it. Elijah got his first haircut this weekend. He was great! ANd he looks fantastic. Not to be outdone Caeley got her haircut too. And she looks great too! The only thing is that Elijah does not look like a baby anymore with his new do. He looks like a little man now. Christie is a little torn. She thinks he's so handsome but misses the baby locks. Anyway, here are some highlights!
The before shot AKA the "man cub" look...
I'm not sure how I fell about this...
But give me a lollipop and I'll be cool...
Elijah looking like a little man
The back view
The side view
Happy Boy!!
Not to be outdone, Caeley got her haircut too!
Judging by the smiles, I'd say she is pretty happy with the result!
Last night I was talking to my lovely wife about her first day of residency, when all of the sudden I hear a THUD!! I look down in the direction of the sound and see a GIANT beetle!!! It fell out of the light in the kitchen. Check it out! YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IT!!!
You know that you are living in a severe weather region when there is a tv channel devoted just for weather in your state!!! Last week there were three crazy storms and two tornado warnings! But nothing was like yesterday. I had come home from a great morning with the kids. It was sunny and hot and we came home for lunch and a nap. As I was cleaning up after lunch while the kids were napping I took a glance outside. It was so dark it looked like it was dusk outside! I ran out to the deck to get the cushions off the patio furniture. When I got out there, I saw the most ominous clouds I have seen since I watched Hurricane Gloria roll in. It wasn't that they were dark, it was that the sky was light, except for these dark clouds that were moving super fast. The other thing is that the clouds also looked like clouds of smoke look like when there is an implosion, they change form and swirl around. It's kind of hard to explain. There was also crazy wind. Branches were littering the driveway and deck and a neighbors tree started cracking and part of it fell down. I ran into the house and out of the rain, and turned on the Nashville Weather channel. And sure enough, we were under a tornado warning. The other night they got everyone who came to see Brooks and Dunn and Reba McIntyre at the local football stadium off the field due to crazy lightning and wind! That's the bad news. The good news is that most of the weather down here is beautiful. Unlike the northeast, the storms here come through super quick and then they are over. So for example yesterday, the morning was beautiful, then there was this crazy crazy storm, then a few hours later it was beautiful again! Just so you guys don't think I am being a little silly, check out these pics from yesterday courtesy of the local tv station websites.
Crazy Ghostbusters clouds!!!
This picture was taken at the Green Hills Mall which is about a mile from our house!
So it has finally happened. The Sullivan household now how an animal in it. Last Saturday, after much discussion and thought, we adopted a cat named Thumper. And though all my friends won't believe it, I kind of like him! Here is a video intro to our family's newest addition.....
Last week, we headed back up to our old stomping grounds for Christie's commencement. It was 2003 when Christie started Harvard. We had just got engaged, and so there was a big sense of how far our lives have progressed since then. A big thank you to our friends who picked us up from the airport, let us stay in their house for two nights, picked up Christie's cap and gown and returned it for her, and of course the friend who rescheduled her family's whole morning to drive us back to the airport a little earlier than previously thought! :) Though I am super proud of all the hard work Christie put in to get her to this moment, I am more in awe of how she did all of it and never made her kids or me feel second place. She truly could not have done this any better than she did. She worked super hard, she put in long hours, but no matter what it would cost her, how behind she would feel, she would always be there FULLY with the kids when she got home. When it would be more advantageous to stay later or to go to functions to make her stock rise with the people who would be grading her, she instead came home as quickly as she could to get every minute she could with them. THAT is what made me the most proud of her as I watched her go up on the podium, our kids in her arms with their little teddy bears, accepting her degree. Knowing she got where she did and never compromised our family in the slightest makes me so very grateful for her and proud of her. I love you babe! Congratulations!!!
Me and my hot doctor wife! It's still really weird to think that! The doctor part I mean....
showing off the kids to the faculty
Elijah is definitely his Momma's boy!
Inside the big tent where it all went down.
Laine and Pop and the kids
Christie and her proud parents
No matter how old you are, Mom is there to help!
Doesn't this remind you of a Sister Christian video? Or St. Elmo's Fire or something like that??
Proud Caeley with her mom
The future doctors of america?
I believe this is what they call getting "hooded".
My favorite thing about this graduation is that they celebrated the families not just the individual. It was a great moment when Christie was called a doctor for the first time, and she walked proudly up there with the two kids she had during the time she worked so hard. It really gave the complete picture.
Video courtesy of my great mother in law. Found out an hour before this giant moment in our life that the video camera that I thought was charged was completely dead!! Elaine captured the moment with her regular camera! Go Elaine!!!
5 years and it's over just like that!
playing with Mommy after a VERY long commencement ceremony
A great doctor in the making, a perfect mother already.
Look mom!! I got a stuffed animal!!!
WE MADE IT!!!!!
with Christie's folks..
2003 White Coat Ceremony
A family shot on the steps where we took a picture in 2003 when it all started. Things have changed a bit since then, but not how proud I am of my beautiful wife.
