An Overdue Update

Wow. Look at that. It's been exactly three years since we've had an update on the James & Jess Family. And boy have a ton of things happened in that time. I'm pretty sure most of the family already knows this, but heck, I'll write it down for posterity anyways. If you'd like more details, you can read my personal blog (that one is private so send me your email for an invite to read it).

During the past three years:
After living in Los Alamos we visited Alaska and my family for a month.
Then James, Katie and I moved to Springville while James did his Masters degree at BYU.
I started up a Videography business in June 2011 specializing in weddings, especially LDS weddings.
James graduated with a Masters in Physics in June 2012.
We have a son named Lynn Alexander; he was born on May 25, 2012.

We lived in La Spezia Italy with our children (Lynn was two weeks old when we got there) from June to August 2012. James was doing an internship with NATO there. It was awesome. Hard, but worthwhile. We saw many amazing cities, such as Rome, Florence, Pisa, Naples, Venice and many small cities around La Spezia. And we ate a ton of yummy food, like gelato, prosciutto, pancetta, pizza, pasta, cheeses, and pesto.

We moved across the country right after living in Italy and are living in Pennsylvania now while James is working on his PhD in Acoustics at Penn State University.
We visited Washington DC a week ago. James had a conference and we tagged along. We're looking forward to being able to visit many more places on the East Coast while we're living here for the next three to four years.
I am currently building a Photography business, Larkspur Photo. James is helping me build my new website here. But until it's all finished my portfolio is on my Videography blog here.
The kids are growing lots and lots. We love to go to the park and Katie loves Nursery.

State College is a nice area: it's very green, a little humid, and not too hot. The winter was mostly mild. I do miss the West Coast mountains though - there are only lots of rolling hills over here. But the valley we live in protects us from most of the rotten weather that has hit the East coast in the last year, such as Hurricane Sandy. It only rained and was a little windy when it hit our area.
Well, that's about it for the major points of our last three years. Hopefully it won't be another three years before I post about our little family again, but I guess we'll see.