New Issue

The new issue of the "Brown & White" is out. There is an article about Mr. Haines retiring if anyone is interested....
http://www.cattysd.org/web2/chsnew/Brown%20and%20White%20Archives/2007-08/08%20May%20Issue.pdf

Wedding

As promised, here are some pictures from my wedding day on Saturday. These are all from the cameras left on the tables at the reception. The reception was at a Middle Eastern restaurant.

My husband is John and he's in the tux. :-)

IRON PIGS

Has anyone been to the Iron Pigs yet? We went last friday. Rained the whole game.
Fireworks were cancelled and the Pigs lost. We did have a good time though. It is a very nice park. Hopefully next time we will be in the Diamond club or the Suite my work has. If you get a chance go and check out the park it is definetly a good thing for the Lehigh valley. They just need to start winning!!

New family member

I still miss Lou, but this past Saturday, the Freeman family welcomed a new family member. His name is Donovan, and he is an 8 week old French Bulldog. He is already spoiled and will remain being that way while he is with us.

The Ardèche

I just got back from seven days in the south of France. My Head of Year (kind of like Head of House - think Harry Potter) decided last year that he wanted to do an adventure trip and very kindly invited me along. We took 28 kids and 4 staff, and we stayed at an adventure centre which was staffed by some of the most amazing people I've ever met. They took us climbing, spelunking, mountain biking, and taught us archery and how to maneuver a high ropes course. It was so much fun! We also spent three days on the Ardeche river; one day kayaking, and then two days canoeing and camping for a night. Okay, pictures. The first is the Ardèche from the top of the gorge. It was some of the most breathtaking scenery I've ever seen. Picture two is Pont d'Arc, which is a natural rock formation. You can't see it in the picture but on the other side are some killer rapids which knocked me straight out of my kayak! Picture three is Rob, my Head of Year, climbing the cliff. There were three courses on the cliff, and he did all three of them (he climbs twice a week!). Some of the kids did all three too. I managed one. If we go next year, I'm going to try all three. The last picture is the full view of the rock face that we climbed. The whole experience was amazing, and I am so tired and so sore and covered in bruises and bumps and scrapes. My butt is still numb from the 22 hour bus ride.

Google Contest

Has anyone checked out the drawings from Google's contest? They had kids design some drawings based on a "What if..." and had thousands of entrants. They narrowed it down to 40 that you can vote for. Just go to google.com and click on "vote for the one" to see one. There are some pretty amazing young artists out there.

American Idol

I really didn't like last night's show.... I have found other shows much more exciting. I will just get to my critique:

David A: The boy can sing, but has the personality of a cockroach. He had the best song choices of the evening and he did pretty well.

Syesha: She also can sing, looks great (ever man I know loves her), and has a great personality. I feel she had some poor song choices last night, which I am afraid will cost her.

David C: This is probably the least that I have liked him to this point. Before last night, I would have bet money that he was the next American Idol. He needs to step up his performance if he wants to win.

My pick for the final two are David A and David C. I just don't think Syesha did well enough last night to make it. What do others think?

Cinco De Mayo

Personally, I don't celebrate Mexico's war wins, but I did enjoy a nice party at Lew's home in Egypt/Whitehall. I refrained from photography that night, but Kristen may have some photos.

The Walker's set it up nicely, even down to the fresh made guacamole. Classmates that attended. Kristen, Robb, Sands and even Tim Cunningham sighting!(Rusty/Rock missing from the fishing contest)
Other Catty people most of us know, Jeff Gerhard, Mick Firestone, Brian Deutsch, Karin Lathrop, Dave Troxell, that Brad Bloszinsky guy.

The Jello shots, in syringes,that Cathy Walker created, were a very big hit!
For anyone who has ever seen the brass ring game(on string), (need to loop it onto a wall hook), I did beat Kristen's but! ;)

For further gossip on this party, let Kristen post about it.

Another 40th!

Tomorrow is Carol Hahn's 40th Birthday. Welcome to the 40 Club and have a Happy, Happy Birthday!

Thought I would share pictures of my little pirate and princess from Disney. The last picture is of Brian standing for the first time at just 7 months. At this rate he will be walking in a week!

ONTELAUNEE CONTEST

This is the best picture I had of the Ontelaunee fishing contest. Ryan and I joined Rusty, his daughter Taylor,Rusty's dad Al, Rusty's brother Gregg and his son Garrett in the contest. Ryan must have rubbed a rabbits foot before he started fishing because the fish seemed to like his hook?? He ended up with a 15 1/4" 1 pounder. Along with about a dozen catches. Had a good time!