Last weekend Alyson, Joshua, and I went to a barbecue at Jackie's house in Columbia. Jackie is my step-sister, for those of you don't know, and she just received her doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins in a field I am not smart enough to discuss. She has a job at NIH for her post-doc research work. I'd say she's come a long way from when she used to sit in the back of my car talking to her pretend "students," but really, we all knew she'd end up being hugely successful.
Congratulations, Jackie!
Monday my dad and the rest of the family, who were in town for the graduation celebration, came down and spent the day with us. It was great catching up with everyone. Gabe is working hard counseling troubled youth and it was neat to hear the passion in his voice about what he does. Adrianna and Ethan are both enjoying college (i think for different reasons.....) and Adri will be graduating next year and moving on to her graduate work, too. It was a fun day seeing everyone!
This weekend our friend Jana came to stay with us. She is working in New York for a few weeks and we were excited to get to see her and hear all about her wedding this summer and her honeymoon to South Africa! Most of you remember that Jana was one of Alyson's gymnastics coaches in Germany and we've loved that we get to stay in touch with her. We are hoping that she and her new husband, Markus, will be able to visit us in the spring on a layover during their vacation.
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| enjoying the great weather and working off some of the chocolate treats Jana brought! (I should be on there, too...) |
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