Five Golden Rings

I need to give you a little background to these rings. Tyler was accepted to a dental school in Phoenix in November or December of last year. We were so proud of him and excited. We started getting used to the idea of living in Phoenix. Meanwhile we got formally engaged and planned our wedding. Late winter, in January or February, Ty flew to Pittsburgh to interview at Pitt. We immediately LOVED the idea of moving to the east. We found out a little while later that he was placed on the waiting list there.

So I started working on getting a teaching certificate and job in Phoenix, as well as organizing my transfer for grad school. Tyler looked for housing and worked on his Navy scholarship application. Meanwhile, we got married and simply told everyone we'd be moving to Phoenix (although we secretly hoped he would be accepted to Pitt). In May I was offered a job teaching third grade and scheduled a flight to go see the school and officially accept the offer. All the while Tyler regularly called Rose at Pitt Admissions and they became quite close. :)

Then suddenly, 36 hours before my plane departure, Tyler heard a noise in his pocket: FIVE GOLDEN RINGS. (Okay, maybe it was only two or three.) It was Rose from Pitt accepting Tyler to dental school there!!! He called me so fast, and there were some more golden rings and shouts for joy. Our dream come true.

In July we flew to Pitt to find a house. We stayed with the very gracious DJ and Libby, and I saw the school for the first time.

This is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning. It's a beautiful baroque-styled building.

The main floor is has huge stone-arched doorways with wooden tables for studying - very Harry Potter-esque.

Sight-seeing was the easy part; house shopping was the hard part. I will spare you even a snap-shot of the HUNDREDS of pictures we took while looking at houses and save pictures of the one we chose for a later post.