New Hampshire Winter '09

So I got in trouble for putting a picture up of the new car before a picture of Shawn with his snowboard gear. For spring break we took a trip up north to see dad and his new house. Shawn decided that it is now or never if he were ever to try and learn to snowboard. Had a beautiful day at Wells Beach too. Looks a whole lot warmer in the picture than it actually was.

New Car!!!

I am happy and sad at the same time. Like every vehicle I have ever owned I LOVED my 4 Runner. A couple weeks ago my hours got cut in half at work and the 4 Runner had to go. Now I have this little gem, A 2005 "Salsa Red" Toyota Camry. For those that know me well, I am not a car person, but this is one heck of a car. I will morn the 4 Runner, along with the Tacoma, Shadow and my first love......the Olds Cutlass Supreme. Yep, that is Mac chilling in the background.

Tennessee Norwich Alumni Club

All six of us! We plan on meeting up a few more times this year and I am in charge of hosting the group towards the end of the year. Eldest graduate was Class of '71, followed by '90, '92, '01,'05 and most recent grad in '08. We had a great time at Sam's Sports Bar in Nashville!

Winter in Knoxville!

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow and the snow started flying here in Tennessee! I am actually surprised to see the snow stick. Started out as rain around 8 this morning and by 10 am this is what it looked like outside! What I would give to have it amount to at least 6 inches of snow to play in!
Here is the parking lot 15 minutes later! I can only imagine how folks are freaking out. Schools have already started sending kids home!

Happy New Year

Good picture of Marcy, Dad and me at the Knoxville Zoo, got up to 70 so Dad was loving it!
Dad was able to come down for Christmas. Since he is in the middle of building ANOTHER house we were not sure he would be bale to swing it. Luckily they arrived just in time for Christmas dinner and presents. I was able to take an entire two weeks off that coincided with Shawn's vacation. That ruined his plans of doing nothing......he had to spend it with me instead. We had a great vacation, did not get into too much, mostly relaxed and enjoyed the holidays and a slower pace for a while. I have not had such a long vacation since college and the first day back to work was a tough one. It took both Shawn and I the whole week to adjust back to reality.

Fantasy of Trees 2008

Here is my little tree I decorated on my own this year to donate to Fantasy of Trees which benefits Children's Hospital. In years past I have lead a group effort at my office to donate trees but this year I was able to do one on my own. The theme was "Fly Away Christmas" and I had a blast putting it all together! With a red and gold theme the tree is covered in butterflies, dragonflies, birds, planes and helicopters.

Thanks Bridgette

Okay, so I was checking up on our friends' blogs and saw that I had been "tagged". Not one to let others down I will do as the instructions say.

1. Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer.

2. Choose the 4th picture in that folder.

3. Explain the picture.

4. Tag 4 people to do the same.

So the picture above was taken while we were on a Duck tour in Boston back in June. I guess you can tell that I took it since it is focused on architectural "things". In a historic part of Boston the street lamps are real gas lamps. I thought that to be a pretty cool fact, and the building in the back was neat as well. Shawn and I were in Boston on our way up north to Vermont for Pa's memorial service.

I can not complete the last task. Do not know 4 other bloggers to 'tag' and carry this on any further.