After CHS, I went to Temple......after graduation I moved to South Street and worked in the city. During this time, I met my husband (Chris) at a bar in Philly (shocking, I know). After that I moved to the 'burbs. Got married in October of 1995 up at Elk Mountain. Lew and Mary may remember the torrential rains that came down on my reception tent. In fact, if there is good luck for rain on a wedding day- then I have enough good luck for many lifetimes.
Now we live in Lansdale (just about 2 minutes off the NE extension exit). We have a 5 year old daughter named Meredith who keeps us on our toes. I work 3 days a week at a nearby hospital and also do some teaching at Gwynedd Mercy College. I like to think I have the best of all worlds and feel quite blessed.
Many of you know my parents and I am happy to say that they are both happy and healthy as well and still in Catty.
- Kim Kerstetter
Hello Kim and Family! It's great to wake up to your smiling faces! Meredith is gorgeous! Kim, what work to you do at the hospital and what do you teach?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful family Kimmy. Looking forward to seeing you after all these years.
ReplyDeleteHospital huh? Kim, are you a brain surgeon?
Meredith is a precious little girl. It was nice to see a recent photo of her!
ReplyDeleteKim, great family photo! Your daughter is beautiful. It is so nice to hear that all is going well for you. What I want to know is, what is everyone doing up at 5:30 am!
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember that Kim wanted to be a pharmacist. I second Vicki's question - what are you doing?
ReplyDeletekim beautiful little girl, that jet black hair, wow! i cant believe all the daughters in our class, and believe it or not, i dont think any of the kids have the same name, hard to believe, although i dont recall seeing vicki's daughters name??
ReplyDeleteKim-Great to hear you're doing well. Meredith is a cutie !
ReplyDeleteKristen, my daughter's name is Georgia.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for all your kind words. I do believe my daughter looks like my husband though. Sonya- good memory- I did start out in Pharmacy school but someone said "do you want to count pills all day and on the weekends too?". So obviously- I went a different way. Not quite a brain surgeon LongE....but I am a coding supervisor here. IN other words- when something is wrong with you in the hospital- there are #'s assigned to them. I try to make some money for the hospital by doing audits. I also teach the same thing that I do every day- coding stuff. I have to say, I really love what I do. So if you have any problems with medical bills- let me know.
ReplyDeletegood morning Kim....it is so cool to see you and your family. beautiful! amazing at all of the directions our lives have taken us in. happy to see you are doing great and can't wait to see you all in person!
ReplyDeleteLew-
ReplyDeleteGlad you remember the fun!!!! That's all that mattered to me. Hey- did anyone notice that Freeman has a 'minnie me'? "Sway" from American Idol- it's hilarious!
There she is! I love that picture. I don't think there are any bigger Crest smiles in any family. Sorry I'm working so I had to give a p&g plug.
ReplyDeleteI did watch Idol and saw Sway. You've got a good point there. Freeman- you're cuter!
ReplyDeletei thought the same about sway and freeman last night....and lew if anyone should talk about a "minnie me" is you and Nate!!!
ReplyDeleteand I got calls and emails saying I looked like the older guy with grey hair. For those of you who havn't seen me lately, i'm a grey S.O.B.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Sway looks like Freeman.
ReplyDeleteTodd, where's the picture and bio so we can all check you out?
Yes yes picture and bio. I am still a procrastinator. I will do it tonight.
ReplyDeleteWe'll be waiting...... Do you have a harmonica?
ReplyDeleteMy wife loves Sway and me. I think he looks like Duce Staley - but some people at Eagles tailgating say I reminded them of Duce too.
ReplyDeleteSway is OK
I can see that you look like both! THat's pretty funny. SO were you heartbroken about the Eagles this year? My husband was- big time. DId you go to all the home games? (saw you were a season ticket holder)
ReplyDeleteI was not heartbroken. I was defiled and dejected. I have a TO sucks hat that I wear constantly. I blamed the entire season on him (eveyone needs a scapegoat).
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until next year - by the end of free agency we should be okay.
Let's hope so, or there will be many broken ankles from people jumping off the superbowl bandwagon from last year. Love the 'TO sucks' hat
ReplyDeleteoh, every year its the same old hype, the eagle will win the super bowl this year...can we get there 1st please....then the season sucks and its we'll be there next year, i cant stand it anymore
ReplyDeleteDon't make me break into the fight song. Oh, now you went and did it, you are going to make me type the theme song. I will sing it as I type:
ReplyDeleteFly Eagles Fly, on the road to victory (fight, fight, fight), Fight Eagles Fight, score a touchdown, 1, 2, 3. (1,2,3). Hit 'em Low, Hit 'em High, and watch our Eagles fly. Fly, Eagles, Fly, on the road to victory. E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles.
my kids like to sing die eagles die...
ReplyDeleteKristen & Steve (And anyone else who might be interested)--Check out my bio post again. I'm added a rather long comment - it's somethign I wrote a few days after the Super Bowl. I was going to use it as my "introductory bio" but never got around to actually posting it, then it was too old.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I didn't because the one I went with works better as a brief bio. This one gives a little snapshot of my life by recounting what I did on Super Bowl sunday - hopefully y'all will enjoy it.
Sniff.....Mullen- you made me cry at work with that Superbowl story.
ReplyDeleteLew- why does American Idol give you the creeps?
Colin- Sorry I pulled out the chair from you in Mrs Dehaven's class.......I hope you never suffered any permanent damage.
Steve - ????Eagles?????? I forget who they are again?????Oh yeah....they're that Semi-Pro team who thinks they are some great team and should be in the Super bowl just because of their name.....now I remember them.
ReplyDeleteKim--A good cry right? Not like, "Oh my god, this writing is so bad, I think I'm going to cry," right?
ReplyDeleteAnd I hate to admit it, but my wife and I watch American Idol, not sure when we started one or two seasons ago, but we're hooked now. I like (in no particular order) the guy that looks like Todd Long (Travis?), the young black girl (Paris?), the incredibly naive blonde (Pickler?), the heavier black chick (Marisa? Evita? Crap I don't know), and the bald rocker guy (no clue). I also like the basketball chick.
To be honest, once again, top to bottom, I think the girls are so much better than the guys. The guys show can hardly hold my interest. Most of them are just, well, boring. I may not have as good a voice as those guys, but I think I'd give a better performance than at least half of them.
As for Colin - he's working for the football team at Virginia Tech, so draw your own conclusions...
Todd- I just read the story too, very sweet.
ReplyDeleteAs for American Idol, it's becoming obvious who the final 12 will be. You didn't mention Ace or Bucky. I think Bucky said "learnt" when they interviewed him, but hey he can sing.
HOw appropriate that Bucky's name is Bucky- you check out those teeth?
ReplyDeleteCan Ace even sing? Frankly, I don't care, not why I like him. Although he did said his favorite 'album' was Faith by George Michaels????- now I am afraid he's playing for the other team!
Yes Todd- a good cry....although to be honest- the writing could be better.
Why can't we have someone from our high school that looks like Ace for cryin out loud.
ReplyDeletekimbie - you at you!
ReplyDeletehey, remember running into each other at the core states bike race in manayunk somwhere, forever ago?
K--Ouch. Good thing, I don't write for a living. Oh wait...
ReplyDeleteOh my God!!! Good memory Jude! That was a long time ago since "Core States" is no more....
ReplyDeleteThanks for jogging that part of my brain.
Just kidding Mullen!
can you guys believe that not only do i NOT have a cell phone, but i don't have cable either. by choice. i can't even relate to the am. idol. stuff.
ReplyDeleteum, kim, you said you were goign to call me. t the core states. thanks alot.
ReplyDeletejust jivin'. hey, how about me. debelak's b-ball team?
what potienial my freshman year, and then i just startd to suck. got worse every year.
Jude- you crack me up......
ReplyDeleteMay I ask what your dreams are usually about? Are Mary, Julie and I all in mohawks or something?(Or maybe I just don't want to know).
Ace is hot- you'd dig him.
i'll tell you who's hot. eric bana. he was in munich? mmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteno, my dreams are usally like we're all swimming or something, or in the cafe. remeber my eating contests with rodney heckman?
raisin crumble, pizza, apple pies. i tell ya, sometimes i dream of double lunches.
Jude- I did try calling- your phone broke, I think.
ReplyDeleteDebelak- I do remember. We all had potential we missed out on. Too busy havin' fun.......
Dreamin' of double lunches and raisin crumble? OKay- you're scaring me a little.
ReplyDeleteyou used to always ask Mary if she was going to eat her lunch too.....
All right, now that leads me back to the comment Kim made somewhere when you would always ask, "Are you going to eat that?" at the beginning of every lunch.
ReplyDeleteContests with Rod - who won?
YEAH!!!!! We're all on- I'm workin' late tonight!
ReplyDeletehey, forgive my retarded sentences. i get so excited and my brain, as always, works faster than my body. just like on my softball team, i'll be hammering around the bases, thinking i'm really fast. and then someone will point out how slow i am. bitter pill to swallow.
ReplyDeletethis blog cracks me up. i'm laughing out loud. people are wondering why my projects are so funny.
Corn, I'm thinking corn. That was the item you always wanted.
ReplyDeletei think we gave each other a run for our money. sorry mare for always horking on your food.
ReplyDeleteI think I just peed my pants......laughing so hard. Dammit that child of mine!
ReplyDeletedo you 2 see each other a lot?
ReplyDeletewaht is julie kollar up to? can you even believe that i was 2nd to her homecoming? or on the court at all? how in the hell did that happen?
what do you think matt pale is up to?
ReplyDeleteWe see each other a lot. Probably more than Mary would choose to. I just force myself into her life.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, our daughters are a year apart and just love each other. It's pretty cool.
Matt Pail??? You were in love with him, weren't you Jude? Are you smokin something that has your memory on overload or something? Hilarious!
ReplyDelete2 generations of best friends. that's excellent.
ReplyDeleteKim - It might have been the other way around. We hang out at Elk as much as we can.
ReplyDeleteJude- will the next time you're in be the reunion? What were you doing in Chicago? Work stuff?
he was cute. even when i was 7 inches taller than him. he's probably gay. i think i heard that somewhere.
ReplyDeletemy brother tony is getting married in july, but that's i ohio. my boyfreind jeff (i'll post a picture soon) had some conference in chicogo, so i'm going out to ring up on his company tab for a few days. i was ther in june for a design conference. it is an awesome city.
ReplyDeletedo any of you guys come out west? have you ver been to seattle?
But Matt Pail never cut his sleeves though.....only downside.
ReplyDeleteman, i need spell check.
ReplyDeleteLast time was LA about two year's ago. Ohio's not that far though....how long are hanging there?
ReplyDeleteplease add you in that previous sentence....I need grammar check
ReplyDeleteNever Seattle but my cousin Louis lived out there for a few years and really loved it.
ReplyDeleteDo I hear road trip to Ohio, Mare?
i'm not sure. i'l let you know. it's an 8 hour drive to catty. i wish i could come back this weekend. i'm dying to see you all.
ReplyDeletewhat is the story with joe jackson? is he a blogaphobe?
ReplyDeletecrap. i have to get back to work. it's only 2 out here.
ReplyDeletei'll check in later.
No, you stay in Ohio, we'll come get you...Kim - Longaberger
ReplyDeleteMare- I like the way you think.....
ReplyDeleteI gotta run too- time to go home!
Jude- Give us details later about when exactly you'll be in Ohio. Love to see you!
I saw Matt two years ago. I actually interviewed him for a Job Opening. He was living in Allentown at the time, but thats all I know.
ReplyDeleteRobb - sounds like he wasn't the guy for the job.
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