DC Trip: State College, PA

A real highlight for us on this trip was visiting my brother Ben's family and getting to meet our niece/cousin Elizabeth. She is such a cutie and our boys really enjoyed getting to play with her. We had a really good time taking the kids to the park with Cami and getting to talk with her. I'm so glad the kids had some time to get to know each other, if even just a lil' bit :)

I'm also so glad we were able to snag my brother long enough to come out to dinner with us. He is a very busy grad student right now in an intense program, so the odds weren't in our favor. But we beat the odds and had a great time learning more about his research and getting to catch up after what has been far too long a time.

Overlapping PhD programs with young families are just not conducive to cross country travel, but now that Jake is out of grad school and Ben will be finishing up his program in the next year or so it really should not be so long before we'll get to see each other again.