Cha-cha-cha-changes...

 

 See these faces? This is what finishing five years of residency, packing a moving van, emptying our first home of all it's furniture and memories, having to get pretty for a graduation dinner, preparing to leave town in 24 hours for a new city having just paid $4,000 for rent and security deposit ON TOP OF our current mortgage, concurrently packing for a trip to Northern Minnesota to be the physician at YoungLife camp only five days after moving, and knowing that your two year-old and three week-old are under the care of any combination of your 14 family members that came to town for said graduation and the next day's baptism of you baby will do to you. These aren't really looks of joy. These, ladies and gentlemen, are the faces of insanity.

So here we are at the end of our stay in Augusta. For your viewing pleasure: a photo history. 

Dr. Terris presenting Danny with proof that he is actually graduating! I am not quite sure who is happier that it is over. We are truly grateful for all that MCG (or GHSU or Georgia-Augusta-HealthSciences-State-University or whatever it is called) has done for us and specifically Danny. He has learned and grown so much during his stay and we are proud to be associated with you.

The very cool painting Marina and Danny commissioned for the Department. It is a cut down of the GU system with a variety of complications (stones, tumors, etc.).

Miriam Ruth Linn, child of the covenant! What a sweet baptism!  

 And most of the family was there to see it. 

(We missed you, Uncle Jordan, Aunt Kelly and Uncle Dan and Uncle Sam!)

After the baptism, we finished packing the cars...

while dear Aunt E kept MR happy...

said goodbye to our wonderful home (thank you Mom, Dad and E for sticking around until the bitter end. It wasn't pretty but it would have been down-right ugly without your help),

found a way to nap Nathan (his bed was no more), and started on our way...

to Fayetteville, NC, where we stayed the night after Nathan had a midnight puking episode in the car Elsah was driving (way to handle it, E!). Here we are the next day. Most of us got a little sleep.

Nathan took the only picture we have of us moving in...

Also present were my cousin, Chris, a college friend, Phillip, and my very tired family. The truck was unpacked within hours filling our new home with cardboard mountains and mattresses.

Nathan's NEW BIG BED! He was so ready for it after weeks of researching the topic. We then had to study a new subject.

First meal alone in our new place. We are looking pretty rough, aren't we?

That weekend we went to see my Uncle Joe, Aunt Carol and cousin Chris (who had helped us move in). He spent some time cuddling Miriam between naps. Please note that Miriam was named after my amazing Gramma Goose, Uncle Joe's Mother, who was a strong and graceful woman just like the Miriam of Old.

The next day we left for Minnesota where Danny would play doctor for a week while I kept Nathan from drowning in the lake and tried to teach Miriam to sleep at night. But we will save that for another post.