Howdy strangers! (We live in Dallas, I couldn't resist...) I've so enjoyed getting to see tidbits of people's lives through their blogs and myspace pages, so I figured it was time for me to share. I'm touched that others have already shared the news of my daughter's birth. Hannah is now a 14-month-old toddler and an amazing little person. Her latest "achievement" - as of yesterday - is saying "dadooo". That's thank you for those of you who don't speak Hannah. I'm staying home with her for now. I was ready for a break from teaching elementary music. I teach a baby/parent music class at our house for some friends, which is a fun way to pretend that I have a paying job! My wonderful husband works as a consultant, so he's on the road a lot, but you know it can't be that bad since Hannah says Daddy, but not Mama yet.

I got to see Marsha, Andrew, Patrick and Lilly this summer when they came to Ft. Worth for a family reunion. It was great to see them all! (Though I haven't seen the photos yet - hint, hint.)

Enough prose, here are some more photos!

Easter at the Dallas Arboretum. I made her outfit - can you believe it?

Real life...

Hey everyone,

Sorry I got lost for awhile. Like Cheryl I got married as well! But it was in 2006, October. :-) I seem to have lost my account so I had to have Amy log me back in. (Thus there are now two Chrissy's posting on this site- both embodied in one person, he he he.)

Anyway, he's a great guy. He's something of an older man (but really doesn't look his age), who graduated from Penn State. Fortunately for him- Lucky for me, he joined a hockey team at work that was populated by many of my W&M guy friends. We finally started dating after everyone stopped trying to get us together.

We're now in Falls Church, VA and have had a lovely year of adventures.

The picture above is from my cousin's wedding in Ithaca. All the fun wedding photos are too big. But you can see them at our website: http://chrissyanded.spaces.live.com/ All of the adventures we have (at least the ones I think to post) are up there so you'll have to go back for wedding pictures.

As far as work, I just passed my licensing exam for Social work! So I'm an LICSW in DC- but i work with older adults through a non-profit home care aide agency. I get to move around all day long and hear stories! What more could I want! (Okay, there are parts I dislike regarding supervising aides, but the benefits out weigh that.

So what about you all? How has 2008 been thus far? Anyone have any updated pictures of the little ones? :-)

~Chrissy

Hi Everyone! Glad to hear everyone's doing so well. Guess what, I have big news... last month I got MARRIED!!! Yippee! It was seriously like the most fun weekend of my life. We got married locally, at the Audubon Society in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and definitely won the weather lottery. Here's a slideshow of the oh-so glorious and perfect day (turn up the volume on your monitor): http://www.jaypremack.com/content/popup/mackay

Hi girls!

Karen, your baby is just gorgeous - congratulations! Glad to hear you all are doing well. I am sitting here waiting on some pies. I'm only bringing 3 things to Thanksgiving, but I feel like I've been cooking all day! Amy, I looked at the blog - maybe it's Thao! How funny. Did she play guitar? I think I kinda remember that....

we missed you all at our 10th! I did not see anyone from the Hall, but thought I saw Becky walk in. Then never saw her again to say hi. We had a great time - spent a lot of time with Brad and Lola. We went to Paul's and were, by far, the oldest people in there. It was SOOOOO depressing! Next year we plan to bring the girls and do all the family stuff.

I have nothing new to report, really. We are all doing great! Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!!

Leigh

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that this is Thao from our freshmen hall.

http://www.myspace.com/thaomusic

Amy

For those of you who don't know, I had another baby boy. He is 7 months old now and named Eli (photo). Life has been pretty stressful with the 2 boys, little sleep and Dan overworked and in law school. Eli is generally a happy baby, which is great. Aaron is now 3 years old and of course I think he is a genius.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to check in. Is anyone planning on going to the reunion this year? I've been terrible about attendance in the past, but I think I might just bother for this one. ;)

We had a rough spring. Not only did the Virginia Tech shootings affect us so much (living a mile away) but our darling newborn nephew died (full-term but braindead). These two events came two days apart for us, and really threw us for a loop. We're slowly recovering.

Peter and I have switched roles again; I've quit my job again and am now the stay-at-home mom while Peter works on a startup. He's enjoying it but he's really busy. Mia started kindergarten this year! I think it's just as much of a transition for me as it is for her. She's loving it so far, though.

Hope to see some of you soon!
Molly