Sweet you guys. Hope everything works for you in Reno. I will make note of the addresses and numbers.

Nothing new on the reunion or the Salmon river trip. I haven't heard. I will let you all know when I find anything out.

I finally graduated, graduation is tomorrow, but I wont be attending. Just send me the diploma, that's all I want. Julie and the kids are doing fine, the boys and I are going camping tonight for the fathers and sons thing. Should be interesting.

So what is up with the Salmon reunion? I haven't heard anything about it till now... Ben????

Here is our new address:
1295 Grand Summit Dr.
Apt. #D228
Reno, Nevada 89523
Juliette cell 208-520-6825
chris cell 208-520-6819
These numbers are only temporary, we will post the new ones when we get to Reno. We will be there on May 22.

We are so excited to see you guys at the end of the month! Let us know how everything goes and make sure to give me your new address and phone numbers.
We hope everyone is doing well.
Ben I heard about the possible reunion in Salmon Let me know how that is evolving. I think Salmon is a great idea I really need to get to Salmon and see Grandma as you all do probubly.
Andy is probubly going to move over to Engineering sometime this month he will be their new dispatch engineer.We will probubly take a pay cut but it should wiegh out in the long run.
We are all doing well.
Polly and family

Hello??? Anybody come here anymore?

Well, Chris recieved the "official" offer yesterday!!! We are going to Reno for sure now. I am excited! I had a garage sale today, after "dejunking" and made $250! Not too bad eh? That will help with u-haul costs for sure. Anyway, Chris got into U of Idaho too, but turned them down because Reno has a better offer.

Sounds great we are excited to have family move closer!

It looks like we are heading to Reno for graduate school. It is not official yet, but Dr. Nowak made me an offer over the phone and I accepted. It still has to be approved by the department head and the graduate school. We are pretty excited about this. Kansas State was our first choice but I was placed on an alternate list there and the prospects of me getting in did not look good. UNR was our second choice with U of I being the third choice. I will be awarded a research assistantship (full tuition waiver and $15,000 stipend) in Dr. Bob Nowaks lab. Bob is a nationally recognized plant ecologist and a "big hitter" according to my advisor here at ISU. I will be working at the Mojave Global Change Facility near Las Vegas studying the effects of predicted global change models on desert plants (ie. increased precipitation, increased nitrogen deposition, and increased CO2). I am excited to work in a lab that actually has some money and nice equipment. We will be moving towards the end of May. That is about all for now I guess. Take care, Chris.

Thanks for the tip Polly, I have been wondering where that site is!

Well, Reno was awesome- we really like most of the town. If we can manage to keep our gambling urges in check- it will be nice. :) Just kidding, the strip is kind of trashy with all sorts of strip joints and such, but that is very avoidable- in the center of the town. We would never have to go there if we didn't want to. Otherwise, the interveiw went well. Chris is pretty impressed with Dr. Nowak, and hopefully he was just as impressed with Chris! We should hear by the end of this week. They would want him there as soon as he graduates, so we have alot to do in one month!!

Hey eveyone Joey let me know an easier way to write him. It is called Dear Elder.com They will print off and deliver your letter for the cost of a stamp. It is cool. They also have packages they can mail him freshly baked cookies. Everyone needs to support him and write their missionary.
We are doing OK Brock has herpies. He has cankers all over his mouth and hasn't ben sleeping or eating. It has been a long week.
Congrats to Ben! She is beautiful. I love her name! what fun!
Well I better go!
Polly

Polly, so I deleted your e-mail address before I added it to my book...um could you send it again??? Thanks! So did you figure out if you are going to be able to meet me in Reno or not? Call me, or e-mail in the next couple of days so we can solidify some plans if you can.

Congrats on the boy Angela! Did you get my e-mail??

Where is everyone? Do you ever check this anymore???

Hey Ben, you will be glad to hear Chris just applied to Colorado State! Just covering our bases per say...it would be fun to live near you though.

Ben, CONGRATULATIONS!!! She is a cutie! So glad all is well.

pictures of Cassidy are up HERE

Hi all. I'm getting ready to post some pictures of our latest addition, Cassidy. Julie and Cassidy came home from the hospital Tuesday, she was born Monday morning at 4:30. I'm still recovering from it all...Julie's fine. I got to take the week off and work sent a big beautiful bouquet of flowers, far nicer than what I had gotten Julie.

I'm trying to start my final project for graduation. I'm procrastinating it big time. When I finish the project I'm done forever, so you might think I'd be more motivated to get it out of the way, but you'd be wrong.

Juliette and Chris, if you move to Kansas we will come out and see you. We also need to get over to see Julie's sister and husband out in Missouri. That would be quite a trip, but it would be fun. Of course if you move to Nevada, well, that would be great for Polly.

Hope everyone is happy and healthy and all that.

Polly,
Hey, I got your message about not coming up here- shame on you! :) Just kidding, I understand. It is hard to have so many people that you know in one area, pretty impossible to visit them all. I do have some good news though, Chris and I are coming to Reno! I decided that if I was going to live there, I wanted to see it first. We are coming in on Sunday April 13, and will be there until Tuesday. We fly out at like 1:30 Tuesday afternoon though, so not much time that day. We will be staying in the University Inn, and are renting a car. I guess Chris has a bunch of stuff to do on campus Monday so maybe you could come and show me the town? I am just bringing Bryce along, so we could have some fun! Let me know if you want to come, it would be fun to see you!
Love, Juliette


Polly I tried to e-mail you this and it was rejected. Can you e-mail me your new address? I tried the andnpolly@desert-express.com?

We are still torn as to go North or South after Andy's house. I think that we will probubly end up going to Mom's because she has my portacrib. I accidently left it in our hotel room and she went and got it for me. So I really need that. We will see though. It all depends on Andy. I will call you though and let you know.

Hi Polly, I wish I could go to Reno too, but alas the extreme lack of money stands in the way. Oh well! It would be nice to see you. I would love to have you come here and see us! Just let me know and I can arrange a dinner or something. The dentist sounds awful! Sounds like Abbey inherited my teeth, they are bad! Fortunately my boys haven't had any cavities yet, and they love the dentist, they are due for their cleanings pretty soon. Well, I guess that's it, let me know when you are coming!
Juliette

Juliette and Chris taht is really exciting. We hope you get to go where you want to. Let us know the exact dates you are going to Reno maybe we could meet you there. Let us know.
I just got back from Reno on Friday. I took Abby to the dentist. It looks like I am going to pay to put her under to get her two cavities drilled. She had two last year and she screamed the whole time. So this time they are going to sedate her. I can not believe it.
Well nothing else is really going on here. We are going to Andy's parents house this weekend. We will probubly stop by Lisa's and I am going to call Angela and tell her maybe we will meet at your house Juliette?
Polly

The trip to Kansas was very nice. K-State has a whole bunch of money and very unique research opotunities. The eastern part of Kansas where the campus is located is not the stereotypical Kansas. There were lots of rolling hills and lots of trees. I am still wating for an official offer from the school, which should be coming in the next week. I was also contacted recently by the University of Nevada Reno and I will be heading there for a visit in about two weeks. This is another well respected school in my field, but I don't think they have quite as many resources as K-State. We are trying to keep an open mind about all of our options. We should know by the middle of April where we are going.
Chris

Julie, I am excited for you and Chris. What a neat adventure! I finished my Thesis presentation and my big certification exam and I am plugging along. I am telling everyone via email that I am planning a big graduation party on May 2-3. I am not going to go through the big grad ceremony, just the hooding ceremony for my Masters but I am glad to be almost there! I have a job and life is not so bad. Dan is in Detroit this week and I am moving bedrooms around, working and feeling glad that spring weather is here even though we need snow so badly. Ben, as far as the reunion is concerned I could help you if you want me to. Let me know. It was really good to see most everyone and Joeys address at the MTC is: Elder Joseph Ammon Whitehead, MTC Mailbox #40, FRA-TOU 0429, 2005 N. 900 E., Provo, UT 84604-1739. I challenge you all to write at least once! He is estimated to leave April 29. Lets see if we can make his day and let him know he does have some brothers and sisters who are thinking about him!

Ben, we will have a better idea of whether or not we are going to Kansas after this upcoming week. Chris is flying out there March 13th through the 16th for an informal interview/tour the campus/meet everyone. His prospective professor is paying for everything so we took that as a good sign that he will be accepted. When Chris made the travel arrangements with the K-State travel agent, she told him that there was only one other student that Dr. Knapp was doing this for. If we do go to Kansas, we will be moving probably the last week in May. That is all for now, we will update everyone when we know for sure.