Happy "6th" Birthday (3/4) Miss Natalie

Our Miss Natalie celebrated her sixth birthday on Friday, March 4th. Grandpa and I went to school and had lunch with her. The parochial school serves lunch in the church basement. This is as much fun for us as it is (we hope) for Natalie. She looked like a princess - they were having a "qu" party at school. Natalie loves school and reading books. She is our special princess.

Happy Birthday Natalie! Love you, Grandpa and Grandma

South Caribbean Cruise

Shortly before Christmas Jeff and I decided that we were sort of overwhelmed with all the decisions that we were making that thinking of a gift for each other was just not happening - so Jeff said on Christmas he wanted us to have a trip planned that would be our gift to each other and be able to share our plans with our family. (For our 25th anniversary we cruised the Hawaiian Islands and so enjoyed being able to unpack and then explore all the islands we decided that another cruise would be our best choice.) Well with the patience of our special travel agent friend Karen - we were able to plan this cruise to St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Maarten. When we came back to San Juan we took a tour of "Old San Juan." We could have spent a day just there. We did schedule an excursion on each island stop. Here are some of the highlights. I realized that each time I posted a picture there are two others that I could have added but since it is only a highlight we will share the others with all of you when we visit. We cruised with the Carnival Cruise Line on their ship the Victory. Our table mates were couples from Allentown, PA and southern Michigan. A great time - we will cruise again!

A church by the sea in St. Kitt's. We toured Harrison's cave in Barbado's and this is St. Martin of Tours Church in St. Maartin's.

Found this pic of some tourists - who took that one???

Sugar Train tour in St. Lucia, Blackbeard's Castle in St. Thomas, Rain Forest Aerial Tram in St. Lucia - some photos from our excursions.

Catamaran that Jeff was able to navigate in St. Maarten's, Magen's Bay St. Thomas, and the beach on St. Maarten's.

Happpy Birthday Paul!

Paul is celebrating his birthday on Feb.5th! Paul is our oldest daughter Danielle's husband and the Dad of two very special children, Natalie and John! He is a busy guy. This is him with John during our cookie baking day. Special Daddy that brings the cut out cookies and helps all the kids decorate:)

Wishing you a great year filled with all kinds of adventures!

Celebrating 39 1/2 years at Fabcon!

On Friday January 14th Jeff and I gathered with our "Fabcon Family". Jeff was presented with a variety of gifts. We shared many stories, fun experiences, and did a lot of reflecting of what had been. Along with current fellow employees the person who originally asked Jeff to join the sales team April of 1976 also attended. Jeff started at Fabcon in August of 1971. He worked in different phases of Fabcon before becoming a sales engineer. Through the years Jeff has sold underground homes, (ironically someone who was later to become a dear friend of mine, continues to live there), warehouses, apartment buildings, churches, schools, & hockey arenas. There are more but I just can't remember them all:) Some that he has taken special pride in is the Mills Fleet Farms, Cabelas, 47th Battalion Brigade Headquarters located at Fort Carson, CO; not only the buildings but the relationships he established along the way. These are some photos of the MN salesman that he has worked with the longest; Dick, Dave, Jeff, and Don.