Greetings from Pennsylvania!

The last few months have been busy yet again!  Rachel found out that she was accepted to Penn State, her top choice program, and we made the decision to move to the East Coast! This Spring Rachel was busy finishing up seeing clients as well as her final class.  She also finished her thesis and passed her defense in May! She graduated with her Master's degree on May 17th and a week later we loaded up the moving truck and Rachel's parents made the trip out to Pennsylvania with us.  Everything went well and we moved into our new townhome in Bellefonte on May 25th.  We are all settled in and enjoying our new surroundings.  We have already been on a hike in the mountains, and we have several more planned for this summer.  Rachel is working at the school this summer doing research for her new advisor, and Jonathan is busy looking for a job.  We are also only about 4 and a half hours away from Jonathan's family in New York now, and have already been able to visit them.  Overall, we are very excited to be out here and we're looking forward to everything that's ahead of us!

This picture is form Rachel's graduation. Her parents and Grandma and Grandpa Tysseling were able to come for the ceremony.

And Rachel and Jon:

Before we moved, Rachel was able to go home to Iowa for a short visit.  This picture is with her parents, Grandma Jane, Aunt Becky, and her brother, Ben, and his girlfriend, Michelle.  Ben and Michelle are moving to Arizona this summer for school, so this might be the last family photo for a while!

 

We loaded up the truck in Kansas, then traveled to Des Moines to stay with Rachel's parents for the first night:

The next day we drove from Des Moines, Iowa to Streetsboro, Ohio (a 13 hour drive with the time change). We of course were bringing our 2 cats, Sawyer and Hurley, and it was an experience moving with 2 cats!  This is Hurley making himself comfortable in our hotel room that night:

This is a picture of the view from the bike trail next to our townhome:

And here are a few pictures of our town home:

We were able to bring Rachel's piano, and she has enjoyed being able to play again after not having a piano for the past 3 years!

Jon built his own computer desk, which you can see in the picture below:

Sawyer and Hurley have also been enjoying our new place! It has more windows for them to look out and more birds to watch:

Here are a few pictures from our first hike on the Allegheny Front Trail:

Last weekend we had Jonathan's brother, Timothy, stay with us for the night (they enjoyed playing video games together!), and the next day we made the trip to New York to visit Jon's family.  Jon's sister, Sarah, graduated from Lake Erie College in May and will be going to vet school, and the get-together was part her graduation/birthday part, and part birthday party for Jon's sister, Rachel.