Welcome! We will using this site to update family and friends about the happenings in our lives! 2011 has proven to be a pretty crazy time with lots of transitions and new adventures -so we decided to start a blog about our lives together! We will try and update everyone regularly, and keep it interesting with pictures 🙂 Thanks for visiting!

May started with Erin’s graduation from the Department of Defense police academy in San Diego. The academy was nine weeks long, and Erin was basically re-trained to do the same job as a civilian as she had when she was in the Navy. I flew down from Monterey for the graduation. We spend the rest of the day with Erin’s parents at a resort and then drove up the coast to get back home, stopping at a winery of course!

Wine tasting at Roblar near Santa Barbara. They have really tasty (although expensive) Spanish style wines!

At the end of May I graduated from the Monterey Institute – officially ending my long and painful grad school life! The Peace Corps director was the commencement speaker, and our beloved congressman Sam Farr was also in attendance!