Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Yays.

Adam and I have been travelling a lot lately - in fact, we just got back from a long weekend in San Fran (more on that later). But so many good things have been happening to some of our favorite people. Here's a list of the good new I can think of right now:

Kelly Davis (Davio) passed the CSET, which is this test she had to take to become a teacher in California.
This website explains what it is better - I'm sure I'm butchering its purpose! She was all worried about not passing, but, of course, she aced it on the first try!

Sarah Marks had a baby! His name is Jacob William Marks! Of course, I'm talking about my old friend Sarah Marks who was Sarah Jacobs - not my 2+1/2 year old niece with the same name. That said - Danielle, Sarah, Molly and Rebecca Marks (our perfect nieces): Remember - family comes first, so don't fight over Jake, even though he's a looker.

Shelley Jackson (Horn) is having another girl! That makes 3 girls in a row - good luck with that,
John!

Candice Scott (Burke) and her husband, Jason, found out that they get to stay put in Middle, GA for the next 13 years or so! Believe it or not, this is actually good news! The alternative would have meant that Jason would spend the remainder of his time in the Georgia National Guard getting stationed in random locations every 3 or 4 years, so this is fantastic. Plus, it will be good for Candice's career in government to get to know people and establish some roots in the city.

Dan & Stacey Jenkins had their baby girl on Valentine's Day. Awww. Anyone know her name yet? I'm out of the loop!

I THINK that's everything, but I'll undoubtedly remember 6 more things later tonight. Anyone else notice all of the babiness happening with our friends? This is insane.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Long Time, No Blog.

Well, hello. It's been a while! I am nervous that my laziness has finally picked off the last of our loyal readers. Come back! Here's what's been happening:

First of all, I fully accept the criticism that I post way more pics of Teddy than Jack. In my defense, I fee really guilty about how much more face time Ted gets with us, in general. But, in all fairness, Teddy really does ham it up for the camera. Here's that pic of Jack B "in HD" I promised...although CNN doesn't actually broadcast in HD, so I guess I'm a favor-er and a liar. Oh well. In any case, here's Jackie with an iPod, a DVD cord, and some of Solidad O'Brien's hair. *Notice that he is downstairs! Jack feels a lot safer now that he has a "safe room" which Adam made him using this.

In the category of weird coincidences - our neighbors, Chuck, Becky, Thatch & Ellie Kotuby are apparently long lost-ish friends of "the Gaithersburg Golds" neighbors. Strange. Becky said a friend of hers that she never sees called her to tell her that (this is going to be a really long sentence) she was on her neighbors' kids' blog, when she linked to their brother's kid's blog based in Florida. From there, they linked here (to JT&U), and on to the Kotubys' blog. Is that 3 degrees of separation or do you count the connected parties, making it 5? Let's chalk it up to "it's a small world."

Speaking of Golds, if you're one of the several people I know who have never met the Golds or the Kotubys, but love them because you read their blog via JT&U, then you probably know that a faction (ha.) of the Florida Golds visited the capital of America a couple of weeks ago. As the story goes, Tayler and Jaime planned on bringing Mason up to hang out and meet his new cousin, Riley. At the last minute, Adam bailed on the weekend, forgoing a reunion with the spawn of his bff for beer, Miami sunshine, Peyton Manning's hiney, fun time with my biggest brother, and oh yeah - the Superbowl. He had to go - it was a work thing.

Also, the infamous Florida Golds met the infamous Kotubys, so that was cool. Check out Mason Gold's blog for photos! I just noticed that we only took pictures of the kids the whole weekend! Since there are no pics of adults, just know is that I looked hot.

Below: 1- Marin (top), Mason (L), & Riley (R). 2- Mason yanking out Marin's hair (the theme of the evening). He's feisty. 3- Cutie Patutie Mason on his daddy's shoulders.











Jaime and Tayler (and The Husk, believe it or not) also met Teddy for the first time that weekend. Jaime says he's way bigger in person than you can tell from the pictures we post here. So I'm trying to figure out how to convey his whopping 104 lbs. (as of last week). I'll figure out how and post more tomorrow.