Avery slept through Christmas. In January, she was baptized in Rochester, NY. The godparents were Jan-Luc, her favorite uncle, and Kathleen’s sister Christine. |
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In February we all traveled to Michigan for the wedding of Mike &
Kate Vollmayer (Mike is the son of MM’s sister Diana Mary and her
husband John). |
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The boys had a good time wrasslin' after the wedding. | |
Avery got to meet her Great Grandpa VD! |
We got a nice new metal roof on the house, which will outlast us. We told the kids it was going to be blue, just to mess with their minds. |
In October, we had a short vacation to a wedding on Long Island NY. We met up with Marieke to tour Rhode Island to scope it out for the 2008 VH Family Reunion. Here we are at a scenic spot in Providence. | |
We went to Mystic Seaport, where they have a lot of cool old stuff like this. More than us, even. Then we went on to the wedding (Jan-Luc was a groomsman, and Marieke knew the bride), and then drove Marieke home so we could see her museum. |
Leo and his wife Katie still reside in Rochester with their two cats, two dogs, various fish, and one year old who is going to be a big sister soon. Avery accompanied her parents on a cruise to the Caribbean last summer and a wedding in North Carolina in October, so she’s quite a traveler. Occasionally, someone will come to babysit. |
Jan-Luc adhered this year to Video On Demand and expanded into the
Youtube realm. (Search there on iknowsolutions and see Jim and Kateri also,
in Luke Miller‘s advert.) He continues to romp around New York City
gleefully and capture the sights and sounds in the form of
documentaries and social commentary film pieces. A recent vacation to
CA has left him wanting more vacation- CORRECTION- wanting more CA.
janlucvd (at) tmail.com. nullsetfilms.com is his place on the web. It works sometimes. |
Marieke happily resides on Boston's North Shore. She is finishing her Master's in Museum Studies at Harvard and working as Curator of the George Peabody House Museum, a small historic house museum in Peabody, Massachusetts. Her highlights of 2006 included swimming off the Cape, breathing in Michigan air in February, going on boyfriend Michael's band's road trip to Brooklyn, explaining the complexity of museum exhibitions to Avery, eating at the top of the Prudential with godmomma Judy, knitting with Kateri and decoding the state of Rhode Island with Mom and Dad. And there was so much more; email her at mariekevd (at) yahoo.com for the evidence! |
Kateri finished her junior year at LeMoyne without incident. She then
spent the summer working at RadioShack, subbing for remainder of the
school year, working at summer school and volunteering at Fort Stanwix
National Monument. She is now finishing up all of her classes at
LeMoyne and will be student teaching in the spring. Her hamster is
still doing very well. She also performed in a comedy play at Cazenovia College. It was just plain hilarious! |
Mary Margaret still puts on many miles as "part-time" Director of the
Diocesan Deaf Ministry including conferences in Albuquerque and Las
Vegas, a youth retreat in Canada, and meetings "on the Hudson".
Luckily, her free- lance interpreting has slowed down a bit. She had
time to putter with her flowers and go "sluggin’" twice a day The
roses loved all the rain but the vegetables didn’t. Here she's showing Avery the "Big Water" at the end of the road. Soon we'll be catching tadpoles and frogs. |
MC the cat eats, sleeps, and lays around the house. She’s getting old;
we don‘t send her out all night in the winter, and she‘s almost deaf.
Jim still works at the Air Force Research Lab. The lab is going to move within a couple years, though, and is winding down now, so maybe a real retirement is getting closer. He might take up bier drinking as a hobby. |