Andrew, Katherine, Edward and Aaron: May 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Aaron Earns His Tae Kwon Do Yellow Belt May 2016

Here is Aaron at his Tae Kwon Do Belt Ceremony, receiving his Yellow Belt from Master Chai (8th Dan of the Black Belt). We are very proud of his efforts, especially breaking the wooden board on his first kick! Congratulations Aaron!

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Aaron's U6 Soccer League Spring 2016

Aaron's team started out with a strong lead, winning 3 of the first four games. The latter part of the season is proving to be somewhat more difficult but still good fun. Here is Aaron trying to score a goal at one of the games.

Coach Andrew sharing a few words with some of the team.

Kentucky Derby 2016

Here we are attending a Kentucky Derby party this past Saturday as part of a fundraiser for the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra. Lovely day for it with even the sun shining for awhile. But we had to make an early departure, missing the race on the big screen, to help get Edward to a screening of the latest Avengers movie with neighborhood friends. It was getting chilly anyways.

Congratulations to the winning horse, Nyquist!

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.