D-Day

Today was Nathan's "D-Day" (aka Defense Day)!

That's right. Nathan defended his dissertation and he is now officially a Doctor of Philosophy!

Here are some pictures that I took today.  (FYI, something weird happened with our memory stick in our camera and it wouldn't let me take any new pictures.  So, I had to take them with my phone, which is why some are slightly blurry.  Bummer...I know!)

This is the room where Nathan had his defense.

My favorite part of this room is the "window picture."  I thought it was funny and clever.  It could be 30 degrees below zero outside, and yet it can still look like this.

When a member of Nathan's committee walked in the room and saw the food that we brought they said "WOW!  This is impressive!"  I guess some PhD candidates are not as creative with bringing refreshments.  While Nathan defended, we all ate yummy grapes, delicious poppy seed muffins (that were homemade and were to die for!), bagels with cream cheese, and some tasty juice.

I knew I couldn't take any pictures of Nathan during his defense, so while I was in the room all by myself before it started I snapped a picture of his first slide.  I thought it was clever (the IT is supposed to stand for Instructional Technology, which is what Nathan's study population was).

This is a picture of Nathan and his committee.  I was SO IMPRESSED with this group.  They all came prepared for this defense and read the entire dissertation (which was about 200 pages long).  They were very helpful, and were all dazzled by Nathan's writing and presentation.

I have been more excited about this than Nathan has, as you can tell by this picture.  I feel like the only thing I have wanted to do all day is jump up and click my heels!

 After the defense we went and picked up Hannah.  I need to give a HUGE thank you to our awesome home teacher Lael for watching Hannah while Nathan defended.  Lael was kind enough to take a few pictures of Hannah and her silly-faced friend Sage.

After we came home and unloaded, I went on a walk with Hannah because the weather was perfect!  Later, I headed off to a doctors appointment (don't worry--it was just a regular check up) and when I got home we ordered pizza and watched some Home Improvement, courtesy of Netfilx.  And after dinner Nathan put Hannah to bed while I headed off to my sewing class.

That, Ladies and Gentleman, were the events of our D-Day!  Congratulations Nathan!  I'm so proud of you.