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Are you
really sure you want to meet us? Really really sure?
There's no turning back now. Well, here we are:
This is one of the few I have where the kids still living
at home, my husband and I are all in the same photo. I'm
almost always the one behind the camera. It's about 5 or
6 years back as you'll be able to tell from the other photos
below.
Here's Mum and my youngest granddaughter Sage who was born
in January 2006. Such a sweetie! Dad passed on in 1984.
Hardly a day goes by that I don't still miss him. I'm
very fortunate to have parents like mine are and were. I
have an older sister Valerie who was recently widowed and an
older brother John, married to a beautiful gal named Mary
Jane.
I guess we'll go from the oldest kid on down. Meet my
daughter Revere (a number of the patterns on this site are her
designs) and her husband Jason. Vere is a graphic artist
by profession and a graduate of the Art Institute of
Pittsburgh. Jason is a pilot for Southwest. As I'm
writing this, they still live here in the Pittsburgh area but
they recently sold their home here and will be moving closer
to Baltimore where Jason will be stationed. Their
children are Coulson, Delaney and Dannah.
My older son Garrick and one of his favorite pastimes.
Garrick went to Pitt and currently does the IT stuff for The Institute for Transfusion
Medicine; they're the folks who run the blood banks here in
Pittsburgh and the Chicago area. Until I added this
page, I didn't realize that I was so short on photos of
grandkids and that I didn't have one at all of Garrick's wife
Debi. Garrick's and Debi's children are Caulin, Braeden,
Corra and Sage. Debi is a crafter too.
ROFL! I just had to put this one in here. These
are the little girls with whom I watched Daragh grow up.
This is a recent photo on the day of the prom. My
daughter Daragh is the slinky one second from left. Her
friends are Rhiannon on the left, Ashley in the light blue to
the right and Theresa on the far right. Yes, that is
Theresa's real hair. Check out Theresa's shoes in the
photo below.
Theresa managed to make it all the way through prom night
without breaking her ankle.
Here's my middle child Daragh. She'll be heading to
Community College this year for business management.
Daragh went out shopping for a prom dress and when she came
home that night, she told me she found a dress. I asked
if we had to go pick it up and she answered no, it was in the
bag on the kitchen table. Well, the only bag on the
kitchen table was a small plastic grocery-type bag. This
dress was in the bottom of it. The only thing I can say
is -- let her wear that stuff while she can still get away
with it. She'll find out the effects of gravity on a
woman's body soon enough, lol!
This is Taya on prom night with her date Dan. She and
Daragh are 13 months apart but you've never met two sisters
more different in personality (and tastes in clothing.) Taya is what they call a
"band geek" and proud of it. She plays many different
instruments but is particularly good with the flute and French
horn. Taya will be leading the Fox Chapel marching band
for the 06-07 season as their drum major. Taya hasn't
decided where she'd like to go to school but she's at least
narrowed her fields of study down to meteorology and geology.
On the left in the "seriously cheesy" Cheetos shirt is my
youngest child Devon. This was taken a few months
ago at Universal Studios in Orlando. Devon will soon be
14. Dev's interests are typical for this age --
skateboarding and video games. There's little interest
in girls yet. I expect that to happen any day. (Taya
doesn't know it yet but she is about to be eaten by a
dinosaur.)
Sober as a judge? If you don't think judges can be
fun, think again! (I swear to you that I did not Photoshop
this hat onto his head, although if he knew this photo was on
the web, that's what he'd probably tell everyone.)
These last couple of photos describe me best. The
first is how I decorated the shelf in front of my fax machine.
The second is the desktop on my laptop. I waited since
the 70's to find out why Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader.
At midnight the day Episode III came out Taya and I were there
waiting in line. Now I know. I can now sleep
soundly.
Thanks for stopping by! Remember, Elvis in 2008!!!!!
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