PARTY WEEKEND

Just a heads up.....Claire will be celebrating her first birthday in West Spfld on June 20th and Amy her graduation from AIC on Sunday June 21st at 1:00p.m. in Spfld. Invites to follow. Anyone reading this is welcome.

Greggory Myers Graduates

Congratulations to Greggory Myers.

 He will graduate from Edward Little High School on June 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Job Greg

Pats Season Tickets?

Happy Wednesday!

A guy I work with is on the waiting list for Pat's Seasons Tickets. He asked me today if I was interested in standing room only season tickets for $450. While I do love the Pat's, driving up there every weekend isn't that exciting of a thought but I said I would check if anyone else was interested. You have to have a seasons ticket account to get the tickets but I'm pretty sure he can get them in anyone's name. Let me know if you are interested!

Obama in Ghana

One of the other volunteers in my group for Ghana posted this on our facebook group wall and I thought you all might find it interesting. Obama's first visit to Africa will be to Accra, Ghana, the capital. And, it will be while I'm there, though I'm sure I won't get to see him. If Ghana is good enough for Obama it should be good enough for us, right? Anyway, here's a link to a short article about it.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/obama-chooses-ghana-for-first-africa-trip/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Plans this weekend?

What is everyone up to this weekend? Will anyone be around? Mere, Dan, Claire and I will be heading North tomorrow and wanted to know who is around.

What are your plans?

Here is a shout out to Sarah Puffer Caron spuffer@bathpath.edu for getting her Master's Degree in Occuaptional Therapy this Sunday, May 18th and.... Amy Elizabeth Caron amybeth9051@hotmail.com for getting her Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education this Monday, May 19th

Compose Email: kmrousseau@aol.com

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Finally....

Sorry it took so long! Here are all the pictures from family weekend. And a few for you to enjoy if you don't feel like looking through them all.

Julie's Ghana Blog

I created a blog to keep everyone updated on my adventures in Ghana. The address for it is juliebordua.blogspot.com. Check it out and keep checking it while I am gone. The first post is intimidatingly long, but don't worry, you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to, but at least read the first part that I wrote. The majority of it is letters from the peace corps to family and friends that you don't necessarily have to read. My address is also there, so make sure you save it and send me lots of letters and packages because I will miss you all a lot! I'm also putting a link to my blog in the side panel here so you can always get there easily.

Uh-Oh!

Watch out - Claire is mobile! How things change in a short amount of time. She has discovered scooting as a mode of transportation. I added a few videos to her webpage if you want to check them out.

Enjoy!

Vermont Schedule

Let us know when you will be visiting our favorite Summer getaway. There is a link added under favorites on the right hand side so you can always check back.

Let's try our best to keep this up to date, it will help out everyone!

Andrea has set up a calendar so you can see who will be in Vermont when - it will stay in the post and also on the bottom of the blog - just let Meredith or Andrea know and they can add when you are going to be there and it will show up below. If you want access to be able to add stuff to the calendar you need a google e-mail account - let us know and we can help you get set up!

Congratulations Gail!

For winning the Valley Advocates award for best birthing center.
"The staff at Wesson Women and Infants Unit regularly win in this category, and they attribute their success to their love for their work and their teamwork. They strive to provide whatever birthing experience a couple is looking for, while keeping everything as safe as possible. Being a teaching hospital keeps them on the cutting edge of technology and new techniques, and also provides their patients with a safety network of checks and balances. They are the only neo-natal intensive care unit in the area, and they can handle a wide variety of situations arising during pregnancy.

This weekend while the girls were at the house we made some plans for family weekend... Let me know what you think.
 
Friday night:  We really have nothing planned for the night but we were thinking maybe a fire in our backyard or something of the sort.  But Maryellen wants anyone who is going to be drinking to stay the night.  We have plenty of room.
 
Saturday morning Paula would like to make fried dough for everyone!  We thought we would do this here as an incentive to stay the night.
Lunch at noonish at Gail's. 
Wiffle ball game at 2ish?  Don't know if this works for the Peter Robillards.  I know you are having your grandfather over for brunch.  And Erin is taking the teachers test, but I think she will be done by then. So if that time doesn't work it can be changed.
 
Saturday night we are having dinner catered by Christian.  Chicken parm, ziti, salad, and bread.  If anyone would like to bring an appetizer or dessert feel free.  I will be making a peanut butter pie. It is quite tasty!
 
Sunday we will be having a Mother's Day brunch on Gails new deck!
 
Unfortunately they are predicting rain so these plans may have to be changed.  We were thinking maybe bowling...
 
Let me know if you have any ideas!

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Celebrations of the week...

Happy Birthday to Sarah (it was on Sunday!)
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Sarah,
Happy Birthday to you!

And can you believe this handsome couple has been married for 25 years?? Congratulations and you are still as cute as ever (I don't care what the others say...)

Everyone raise a glass to them this Family Weekend! My guess is there will be no shortage of drinks to do so with.

Let's talk Family Weekend....

Family weekend will be taking place in 3 short weeks. Would anyone care to share the plans that are in place?

Make Tuesday a good day....

Stop by Dunkin Donuts for a $.50 small iced coffee
and don't forget Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

Happy Easter!

I hear we missed a nice Easter brunch at Auntie Cindy's. We had a great time in Cleveland and wanted to share some Easter pictures. (Now I think everyone else should share their Easter pictures with me!)

Happy Birthdays!!

Just because you live in Vermont doesn't mean we would ever forget your birthdays

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Tina & Teddy,
Happy Birthday to you!

Have a fabulous day - we love you both very much!

Support me in Relay for Life!

It's everyone's favorite time of the year - well, at least my favorite part of the year! Relay for Life 2009 is coming and I need your support. I am hoping to raise at least $700 this year and would appreciate any support you may be able to offer. Here is a link to my page:

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/andrearobillard

Now, if you don't remember my Relay efforts last year, let me remind you. Mere was about 8 1/2 months pregnant but her doctor was assuring her she would not go in to labor that week so I decided to go. Basically as soon as I got to the Cape Mere called and I turned around the next day and came back - and I missed actually walking in Relay. So, while my friends understood while I left, there were consequences to missing Relay...

Here are my friends, about to extinguish my torch from Survivor Island


The quote on this one was 'The tribe has spoken Andrea, it's time for you to go'

And finally, my extinguished torch the next morning at the end of Relay - BUT notice we got a Gold award last year because we raised so much $$$.

So in order to not get voted off this year, I need any help I can get...I'll keep you posted on my progress! :)

Let's go Red Sox!

I might not be around to dress Claire in the morning, but I do pick her clothes out. This one's for you Uncle David!
While I was taking her picture, Dan walked in from work and Claires expression immediately changed to this - I love it! :-)

Mom - I don't think this scale is very accurateI think she's ready for Easter

Camels don't so much like me...

So I'm working on putting some pictures together for everyone but I wanted to share this hysterical video. When we finished the sand dune rides we had the opportunity to ride camels during our safari. Kate and I were the first to volunteer and as you can see AND hear, my camel was NOT a fan of giving camel rides. I was trying to tell the guy that I would get off but he just kept trying to get the camel up. Our friend Carly is taping, we think it's pretty hysterical. More details to come...

Enjoy!!!!