Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Rachel's wonderful Winterguard performance


















This past Saturday we got to see Rachel and Carli perform as part of 11th Annual Winterguard Show. Having gone to school in NYC I had no idea what to expect-we had nothing like this at my school. It was pretty amazing:each school's presentation had a distinctly different feel to it. Some were very Martha Graham, others could have been part of an opening/closing ceremony of the Olympics while others seemed to be influenced by the art of ice dancing. The piece that Rachel & Carli did was very balletic & graceful , done to moving music and spoken word & they had this wonderful transition where their costumes (& flags ) went from brown to green to signify change: the way leaves change from green to brown.
I was very impressed and would love to go see it again.I was also very proud of my cousin Rachel (!) & am so glad to see she did not inherit the family "shy gene" that I had in spades when I was her age.
The best part was-there was this wonderful uplifting vibe in the gymnasium. While it was a competition of sorts-you had the feeling everyone was cheering each other on and enjoying being together. It was really cool and if you get the chance be sure to check out one of their performances.
(You can see more photos of this night on Maria's & my (new) facebook page.)
And we got to spend some time with Maggie-good dog!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Christmas morn-A.K.A. Cousin Helen's 80th birthday surprise gathering


Jean is making omelette's! Yum!
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
Bob surrounded by 3 of his favorite women.

family gathered together





Some of our family, gathered together, besides the Christmas tree in honor of Cousin Helen's 80th birthday!
We missed those of you that were not able to make it to Joanne & Peter's annual Christmas eve celebration & hope to see you there this coming Christmas for an even bigger and better family photo.
*Thanks to Mrs. Jones (Carli's mom) for the wonderful photography ! She does darn good work & you know we are not the easiest of portrait subjects to capture ...

Christmas/Christmas eve 2010




























Christmas brought a visit from some guy dressed up as Santa. Something tells me this guy had very little association with the real Chris Cringle since that Santa would never do things like this while wearing the venerable red suit. (Did you know that Chris Cringle has his own facebook page?)