Final Fall Plans

The offer for admission has been accepted - Jenny will be heading to Schreyer Honors College at Penn State in the fall.

She's still trying to decide whether or not to audition for the Penn State Blue Band. She was very fortunate to receive a good bit of scholarship money that is dependent on her GPA and she doesn't want her committment to the band to interfer with her academics. So ... that's still up in the air.

As for Sarah's plans - the deposit has been paid for her study abroad semester in Egypt so she'll be heading there for 4 months beginning in August sometime.

Update on college happenings

Jenny and I have traveled to Penn State University today so that she can participate in the Society of Women Engineers Stay Over.  They invited accepted female students for the fall 2009 semester to come to the college and stay tonight and tomorrow night and experience the  college first hand. I understand that there are 120 female engineering students here this weekend. They have events planned out for them over the next two days including going to a women's basketball game, attending a freshman engineering class and some type of social event tomorrow night.  The weekend will conclude Saturday morning with a breakfast at the Atherton Hotel (which is where I'm staying) and then open house activities the remainder of the day for all of the accepted engineering students and their families.

The next big piece of news is that Sarah has been accepted to the American University of Cairo, in Egypt, for the fall 2009 semester.  How exciting.  Now we just need to figure out how to get her there and most importantly how to pay for it.   You can check out the college at the website below.  You'll probably need to copy and past the link into your browser, it doesn't look clickable.

 

http://www.aucegypt.edu/intstudents/pages/default.aspx

The Superbowl

Wow, what an exciting game. I wasn't happy with the outcome, I really wanted to see Arizona win. Usually I'm only interested in the commercials, which by the way, I loved the ones for Doritos and of course Budwiser but this year I actually was getting into the game itself. It was kind of nice for a change. We all had our 3-D glasses ready to watch the trailer for the monsters and aliens new movie. I thought it was pretty cool although nobody seems to do 3-D like the Disney theme parks.

One More Jenny and the Wisom Teeth Update

Just a little update on Jenny and her wisdom teeth ordeal. I think she truly is on the mend now but unfortunately she ended up with a black eye (as a result of the oral surgery) and an infection in one of the tooth sockets. She had a very painful visit to the oral surgeon 1 week after the initial surgery to clean up the socket with the infection. Poor thing she ended up on a different antibiotic and more pain meds. But all is definitely better now.

Back to school

Well it's back to school time for Sarah.  She's anxious to get back with all of her friends but I don't think she's looking forward to the work.  I'll miss her .... again.  I love you Sarah!

Update on Jenny

Jenny, the evening after her visit to the oral surgeon. Not feeling well at all!!

Jenny - today.  Things are much better.  She's ready for some pudding.

Jenny's Teeth

Well today was the day.  Jenny had her wisdom teeth removed and she's feeling pretty poorly. Maybe one of these days they'll develop some sort of laser kind of thing that they can just zap the little wisdom teeth buds before they turn in to trouble making teeth since we don't really seem to need them anyway.  I have a picture but I'm have trouble getting it uploaded.  I'll try to get one up tomorrow.