Flashback Friday

It's still basketball season so I thought I'd post a basketball picture. This is from January of 2007, which was Peter's senior year of high school. He was 18 in this picture and now he's 36, which means he's lived twice the number of years old he was in this picture. I wish I had a more exciting photo but I was a terrible sports photographer, so any action pictures I ever took were mostly terrible. 

 

Baltimore and Beyond

We've spent the last two weeks at our new Baltimore house. It's my first time here and I really like it. The house is great and we're a ten minute walk to Mary and Andy's house. Restaurants and grocery shopping are a short walk away. We leave tomorrow but we're returning in April to meet the new baby.

We came here to celebrate these two as they wait for the baby, who's due in three weeks. Last weekend the grandparents hosted a baby shower.

The shower was at a restaurant down the street from Mary and Andy's house. All four grandparents are in agreement that we're very excited for the arrival of this baby! It'll be our fourth grandchild in four years, and Mark and Eileen's first grandchild.

Eileen procured a cake that's more than blog-worthy. It was both beautiful and delicious.

Last weekend we went out to brunch. The weather was quite cold the first week we were here with lows in the teens and 20s. But it warmed up a lot in the second week with highs in the 60s.

I'm training for a 10k that I'm running next weekend, so I had non-negotiable running days. Even on the cold days it was clear and, best of all, dry. 

We played trivia the other night and took first place in a field of over 10 teams. And yep, I was very excited about this. Everybody else took it in stride.

But enough about us. Lloyd has a soccer shirt and he likes to play soccer with his daycare friends.

Freddie doesn't have a soccer shirt (yet) but he has this sweet face and toys galore.

Rosie and Peter and Jessa went on a trip this week, as it was  February break. First they took an overnight train to Vienna.

Then they took another overnight train to Florence and spent a few days there. All reports are they had a great time. They got home today.

Flashback Friday

 In 2012, this early iteration of the expanded Harrison family met up in New York City. It was in March. We were still living in Connecticut. Mary was in college so she must have been on spring break. John was a senior at Tufts, and this was the year Troy was living in New York. Peter would have trained up from DC.  Thirteen short years later, the family is a lot bigger and growing by the year.

Flashback Friday

We're in Baltimore for Mary and Andy's baby shower tomorrow. I'm reminded of Mary when she was a baby. This is her at age three weeks, already excited about life.

The Valentines

The grandkids got into the spirit of Valentine's Day. Rosie and a daycare friend were very festive.

Freddie turned seven months old a couple of days before Valentine's.

And Lloyd got to hold a great big guitar.

Reminds me of his dad.

Flashback Friday

It was on this day in 2001 that the whole family arrived in Warsaw for our two year stay. Brad had already been here for a couple of months but Valentine's Day was when the kids and I joined. I don't have any photos of people during that time. So the best I can do is share a photo of our house.

Flashback Friday

In the summer of 2003, the kids and I were at Aunt Joyce and Uncle Kelly's house in Rancho Bernardo. Earlier this week, Joyce passed away. She had lived in memory care here in Tucson for the past three years. Even though Alzheimer's took Joyce's memory, it didn't take her spirit. She was like a ray of sunshine: happy and loving and positive every week when I saw her. I'm going to miss her a lot.