After having been graduated from Wellesley in 2007, Laura van der Pol began her 3 year commitment with the Coast Guard.



Her training vessel Cutter Eagle docked in NYC.



Couldn't resist looking at old photos of Laura...

Rekha Kurati and Srinivas Kolla had a baby boy 8 lbs 7 oz on July 5, 2007. Donna and Kevin McCaffrey had a baby boy Liam 8 lbs on June 6, 2007. Auntie Heather is happy to have more babies around!

Top 10 2006 Christmas gifts, in no particular order

Christmas cards with baby pictures
Emma sleepover and the Nutcracker at New York City Ballet: 25 years for Heather, 17 years for Zack, 2 years for Emma, 1 year for Janet
Cooking 5 gourmet meals in 2 days for Janet, Zack, Tod, Holly, and Morgan, who diapered and made a race track from her banana and peel.
Having a houseful for Christmas weekend
Printer from Lucinda and Davinder ( I guess they got tired of me printing my HLD at their house)
A fixed shutter door in the laundry, thanks to Tod
A new kitchen faucet, which has been taped since Mark's emergency fix 2 years ago, thanks to Tod.
Zack's Christmas present
Janet's hand-knitted jacket
This book

On my third trip to India, I attended the wedding of Padma Kurati. Above, at Rekha's Pooja.

Above is the bride Padma

Above are Rekha and her Mom Vijaya

Above, Kishore's friends Sudha and Shantha

Above, blessing the bride and groom at their wedding.

Above, the family: Vijaya, Durma, Kishore, Jagadeesh, Padma, Uthay, Rekha, Pavan, Jayaram.

Above, Kishore, Pavan, and Rekha
To see the rest, click on the following link August 2006 Photos

2006 Summer Solstice party in North Creek, NY

See the rest at http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/famousfamily/archive?ID=68168

Heather and Emma went to see Cirque du Soleil's production of Corteo at Randalls Island in New York. The performance was amazing. At least as interesting as the performance was the VIP tent which during admission served make-your-own sundaes from a chocolate fountain.
Emma preferred the simple approach: Chocolate straight up.

After a sleepover and exercise morning we had our nails done before returning to the rents.

Austen Rodey was baptised on May 12, 2006 at Emory Methodist Church in Street Maryland.

There's more snow here than I've ever seen in one fall: 26" overnight. I wish I had been on a mountain somewhere instead of at home waiting for a flight to Chicago to be rescheduled.

Look what Janet sent me for my birthday!

'Am on a project with accelerated delivery schedule, which means you work day and night in lockdown sessions until a. you figure it all out or b. you die and are replaced by the next drone. Sometimes we're off site in lockdown, and sometimes on site in the local office. Even on site days consist of non-stop conference calls day and night.
Since in either location there is no free time, one multitasks during conference calls.

Top ten things I have done while on conference calls:

10 Pack for next offsite
9 Lift weights while on speaker phone (on mute)
8 Sit in Dentist's chair (Drilling interfered with audio intermittently)
7 Change Erin's diaper
6 Rock Erin while coloring with Emma
5 Cook breakfast at 2PM (Good wireless signal in the kitchen, thankfully)
4 Drive the car
3 Run on treadmill
2 Take bubble bath (Have a heart: My hot water heater had been down for 3 days.)
1 Work with personal fitter in lingerie department of major department store. (Ok, it was 7PM and a great sale.)

Don't know how I'll manage when calls move from audio to video.