Wednesday, April 8, 2009

School.

We have just finalized a very big decision for us. After much consideration, we decided that Notre Dame is where we're gonna be for the next couple years (can you call 6-8 years "a couple"?) They have a great PhD program that we think Dallin will enjoy, and a great funding package accompanied by very inexpensive real estate that we all know Janelle will enjoy.

Here are some of the perks.

Dorothy likes her Notre Dame T-shirt.


They sent Dallin home from his campus visit with a Notre Dame pizza cutter...


...and deck of cards. What more could we want? That was the tipping point.


Look at this campus!!!!






And, most importantly, Touchdown Jesus. (For those of you unfamiliar with Notre Dame football, this is on the face of their library, which is in a direct line from the endzone of the football stadium. So, when games are on TV, they'll often pan over to Touchdown Jesus to make it official. What better authority could you have?)

6 comments:

Meredith Williams said...

Congrats Dallin and Janelle!! We are so excited for you (but also secretly sad because that means we will be in the Provo area by ourselves.) You can't leave us!! If you want I'll even buy you a BYU t-shirt for Dorothy, a BYU pizza slicer and a BYU deck of cards!!!

Rebe said...

Horray! What a big step. That will be so much fun for you. I think we are only about 7 hours away from you so we'll definitely come visit you sometime!

Alice-Anne said...

Congratulations!! We're excited for you! But we will miss you as part of the UT clan!

Vivienne said...

Congrats Dallin and Janelle!! How exciting! We will surely miss you.

seth said...

Congrats, you guys! Who knows, maybe we'll end up a Midwestern university not far away. Good luck!

Kelsey Ann said...

Congratulations! That is so wonderful and exciting! I am happy for you and that you know where you will be going so the planning can begin!