Berkshire Bound

Hey Everyone--hope you're all doing well. I wanted to let you know that Mike, Max and I will be heading to the Berkshires on Sunday. We'll be in town until Tuesday, then we're heading to Portland, ME--Mike has a conference there. We'll be in Portland until Friday and then we're heading back to the Berkshires until Sunday (Mother's Day). If anyone is around and would like to get together let me know.

Hope to see some of you while we're in the area.
Amy

3 days left

with 3 days left in our poll summer is winning. Thanks to the 10 of you who have voted. Right now we have 8 people voting for summer and 3 for fall--if not one else votes, I'm going to go ahead and start planning a summer reunion. The next poll would be for when during the summer we have it.

I hope a few more of you vote--if anyone has suggestions on where they would like to have our reunion leave me a post.

If you have any news to share let me know! It's been really great chatting and "catching up" with so many of you on Facebook!

Amy

Vote

You have just about a week left to vote for when you'd like to have our next reunion--right now summer is winning (thanks to the 4 of you that have voted) so if nothing else changes--it looks like we'll start planning for a summer reunion. If anyone would like to help plan this one please let me know--I would love your help!

Baby News!

Bridget Avery Krans, her husband Jake, and daughter Sophia welcomed twins to their family on March 19th. Ainsley Ann and London Elisabeth! They are healthy and growing like crazy.

It's Time to Plan!

Hello! As I was getting ready for work this morning, I realized that our 15 year reunion is just around the corner! Since so many people were able to come to our 10 year reunion (what a FUN time that was) I figured we should do it again for our 15. Since we have some time to plan, I was wondering what all of you were thinking of doing. Do we want to do what we did in 2005 or do we want to try something different. I know lots of us have little ones and since we're spread out all over the country and world I want to know what time of year would be best for you.

Some ideas I've thought of:
1. weekend reunion--happy hour of sorts one night, family day another day
2. a family day only (pot-luck picnic in a park, bowling, cookout/pot-luck at someone's house in the Berkshires)
3. happy hour only--like we did last time

Let me know your thoughts--I'm hoping we can get just as many people to our 15 as we did to our 10--would having our reunion over a holiday week/end be best?

I'll be posting a survey on the blog, so be sure to vote! I'll go with the majority again.

Hello from Heather Hirsch (née Good)

Kudos to Amy for setting up this blog.  Since I last wrote to y'all, I've started a new job as a hydrogeologist with ENSR in Bellingham, WA.  I'm working on some great projects now.  Mostly remediation investigations of contaminated industrial sites.  I'm involved in the redevelopment of the waterfront in Bellingham and the clean-up of Gas Works Park in Seattle. 

We're really enjoying our new house, which is only 5 minutes from day care and then another 5 minutes to work.  No traffic here, but I do have the occasional commute to Seattle.  Sawyer's almost 6 months (and huge) and Laurel is coming up on 2 years old.  They both have their own web sites if you want to check out their pics (www.laurelhirsch.com and www.sawyerhirsch.com).  

I mostly spend my free time, what little of it there is these days, knitting, running, reading, and enjoying snow-sports.  I get the occasional night off from being a mom to spend with friends, which is usually spent catching up over a glass of wine, walking the waterfront, or taking in an improv show (Ryan Stiles is a local celebrity).  My husband David and I will celebrate our 8-year anniversary tomorrow!

Life is exponentially busier with 2 kids and  a full-time job, so I probably won't make it back to the NE any time soon.  It's already warming and lightening up here though, so there'll soon be more daylight hours for play.  I'd love to hear from the rest of you, so send me an email, or set up your own account!  My best to all.

We have a new author!

Welcome Heather Good Hirsch, our newest blog author! If anyone else would like to be an author to have access to posting, please let me know. This blog can have 100 authors, so there is plenty of room!

Have a great night!
Amy