Andrew, Katherine, Edward and Aaron: November 2014

Monday, November 24, 2014

Running For The Finish Line...

Edward participated in the Cross Country Coaches National Youth Championships this past weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. He finished in the top half for the nine and ten years old boys' age group. It was a challenging course, abundant with upward slopes. What a gorgeous day for the meet in such picturesque surroundings. We are very proud of him.

Our Family's Highlights From 2014

Here is Andrew with Edward and Aaron and Nana and Grandad (Valerie and David) visiting West Lafayette this November 2014 for about a week.

They are pictured here at Lincoln Park, West Lafayette.

Visiting with Uncle Ian, Aunt Jannah, Cousins Emma and Julie and Grandparents' Toms (Valerie and David) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in July for a week. This is all of us on the Boardwalk on Ian's birthday.

Visiting the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Edward and Aaron were especially impressed with the dinosaur skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex.

Edward attended a summer tennis camp at the Thornhill Tennis club while staying at his grandparents' home. Aaron was there to give him moral support.

Father's Day at the Lee Residence in Thornhill. We spent a month in Toronto this past summer and enjoyed some time with the boys' grandparents (Agnes and John) and Uncle Stan, Aunt Margaret and Cousin Audrey.

Edward celebrated his tenth birthday this year with a basketball party at the Purdue Recreational centre in one of their main gyms. Good times for him and his friends.

Can't believe he's already ten and Aaron is four!

Our Background

Hi! I'm Katherine and I will be doing most of the posts on this blog. I'm from the Greater Toronto Area, primarily growing up in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. My husband Andrew, was born in Montreal, however grew up in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, also in Canada. Andrew and I met in Kingston in 1996 while both studying at Queen's University. During a trip the following year to the Greek Islands, we happily got engaged underneath a lovely full moon on Santorini. In Canada, Andrew continued his studies, finishing with a Ph.D. in pure math, upon which we got married in Toronto on Canada Day in 2001 at Vaughan Estate at Sunnybrook. We then travelled and spent a postdoctoral year in Copenhagen, Denmark, and immediately upon our return to Toronto, were happy to announce the arrival of our first son, Edward, in February of 2004. We then moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick for two years where Andrew was an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. Then we moved to Toronto for four years where Andrew later became an associate professor at York University. During this time, our second son, Aaron, was born in December of 2009 while we lived in Markham, Ontario. Finally, our family moved to West Lafayette, Indiana where we've now been for about eight years with Andrew as a full professor in the Purdue math department. Edward is thirteen years old attending ninth grade in the fall and Aaron is eight years old now in grade three.