Belated Congrats!

Congrats to Jenn Putnam Fojo and her husband Robert on the birth of their daughter Sydney Kate. She was born January 5th at 8:55am, weighing 6lbs 12 oz. She joins older sister Samantha.

Welcome Danielle Leighann!

A warm welcome to Danielle Leighann Babcack (AKA Dani), daughter of Adrienne Gross Babcock and her husband. Dani arrived on April 4, 2007, at 6:07 AM. She weighed 9 pounds 4 oz and was 22.5” long.

From Adrienne: "A little over a month has passed, and Dani is doing very well. She changes daily and is just so much fun to watch. She is now closer to 11 pounds and growing fast!" (Sorry, Adrienne did send this back on May 10th and I just haven't checked my Yahoo account...)

Adrienne has posted more pictures on her Picasa site:
*weeks 1 to 3 here
*week 4
*week 5
*week 7

Congrats to the whole family on the newest addition!!

Update from Adrienne

Adrienne (Gross) Babcock sends greetings and a photo:

"Well, it appears that Jim found me on the Babies R Us site. How’s that for the power of the Internet?? I am due around April 19th with a little girl. We are very, very excited as are her two older brothers, Shaun and Dylan (ages 7 and 5).

I am still working from home as an AVP for Countrywide Home Loans. I design statement layouts and write/edit borrower communications. Telecommuting is the best! Great schedule flexibility to make it to events for the little guys.

It looks like I will get to see Clancey in April when she comes out to visit family – I will try to send pictures. So many things too look forward to this spring!

Attached is the most recent 3-D ultrasound pic I have of our little one at about 30 weeks…technology is such a cool thing."



Thanks for the update Adrienne--and congrats to you on your new joy!!

Baby watch

Things have been a little slow on the blog of late (as they have been at work for me). So I thought I'd put some old classmates' names in the Babies-R-Us registry finder and see what came up (sounds strange, I know, but it's not *so* different from Googling people, is it?) All it shows is the names and due dates - if anybody has any info (or maybe even some pictures!) please share! Here's what I found:

Babies already born:
Betsy (Eisen) & Mark Porada, July 2005
Dave & Kim Yager, January 2006
Clancey (Jackson) & Jon Paul, July 2006
Stacy (Kukura) & David Wyent, October 2006

Babies on the way:
Jennifer (Brown) & Erik Jernberg, March 2007
Adrienne (Gross) & Rob Babcock, April 2007
Brian & Tia Bartis, April 2007

Things are great on our end - we're digging out from a snowstorm (four inches - the Seattle area grinds to a halt with this much snow; back in New England we can handle four inches in our sleep!). I've started a side business on eBay buying and selling classical music recordings, and Simone is now 14 months old! She can talk up a storm (she knows about 40 words), and while she's still primarily a crawler, she's taken a few steps here and there. Mostly, she's just a happy, active little girl! Here's a pic from October:

Hope everyone out there is doing well and having a wonderful holiday season. Take care!,

Another blast from the past!!

Another one of our classmates from junior high has contacted me: Amy Brinn! It was great to hear from her. Here's her message:
"I just recently found your site..as well as the High School reunion site. I attended the Jr. High..but unfortunatly had to move just before High School. I have some pictures from Jr. High that I would love to send to you..as well as some recent pics of me and my family.
I still talk to Beckie Gilmour..but that's about it..I loved seeing all the pics of the people I grew up with."

She has just sent along some pix of the fam:

Amy and her husband Chris Bourget


Amy's children: Angeline (13), Johnathan (5), Hailey (3), and Christopher (11mos)

Can't wait to see the oldies from junior high!!
Thanks for the update Amy!

PS: Amy joined the yahoo group, if anyone would like to contact her.

David Goodchild and, well, child

Or, I guess I should say children. But the title seemed amusing that way.
Dave and his wife now have triplets! Well, they are actually almost a year old now. They were born on 4/9/05 and they are called Arden, Owen, and Morgan.
He has posted some pix on the HBHS '93 yahoo group site. In case you haven't glimpsed them, here's a peek:


SOOO CUTE!

Jenn (Brown) Jernberg / Ann (Burgher) Lowne

Aww, I'll give the ol' blog some love.

I've found a couple of things by googling spouses' names. Here is a photo blog run by Jenn's husband Erik - there are some pictures of Jenn if you go back a couple of pages. Lots of pics of their cats, too.

I had found a picture in a newsletter of Ann, her husband Joel, and their two kids, but the link is broken now. He's a family physician in the Concord, NH area. I also found this transcript of a radio interview he did with NH Public Radio - if you scroll about 2/3 of the way down, it says "Lowne's wife is pregnant..." - looks like they're expecting (or have had) baby no. 3! (the interview is from December 2005)

Lastly, a little plug for me: I've started a blog of my own. Nothing, really... just some random musings and tracking the progress of my latest weight loss routine. And I'm updating my website fairly regularly - check for the last pics of Simone (she's 5 months old today - how time flies!)

It's a girl!

We're delighted to announce the arrival of our beautiful new daughter, Simone Graciela Springborn Brannigan! Simone was born on Tuesday, September 13, at 5:54 AM - she weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches in length. She has dark blue eyes (though most babies tend to have blue eyes to start, so we'll see how they turn out), a fair amount of brown hair, and is generally a happy, healthy baby! Labor lasted just under 9 hours and went very smoothly, with no interventions - our midwife, doula, and labor nurse were a pleasure to work with.

We're slowly adjusting to the challenges of first-time parenthood - it really is a lot of work, and sleep is at a premium! But we're loving every minute of it, and we're enjoying watching Simone grow every day :) These are a couple of our favorite photos, and while our website is currently not updated (as of 9/27), we're hoping to get more pictures of her up there in the next few weeks.

-Jim

David Goodchild

From over on the Yahoo board, here's some news from Mr. Goodchild:

April 9th my wife gave birth to triplets! I'll put photos up on a website somewhere when I get a chance between feedings for anybody who is interested. Our son, Owen Donald was born at 3 lbs 4 ounces. Daughter #1, Arden Marie, was 3 lbs 8 ounces, and daughter #2, Morgan Olivia, was 2 lbs 13 ounces. They all showed up for the party a bit early, but everybody is healthy. My yahoo address tends to bounce a lot, because I pretty much never check it. I can be reached at nest@..., or david.goodchild@... I'd love to stay in touch with all of you guys. I'm super dorky like that

Congratulations, Dave and Lynne! Glad to hear the babies are all happy and healthy. Three at once must be quite a handful! We hope to hear more about them (and see pictures!) in the future.

Tina Frankin-Dumont Update

Had a few updates now...
Tina was the first to reply with this lovely photo of her beautiful baby!! How cute!!

Here's what Tina herself has to say:

Hi, Gail!
I guess it has been a while... There has been a lot that has happened in our lives since the reunion! We now own our own house (or the small percentage of it that isn't mortgaged...) and bigger yet, we have a daughter! I've attached a photo of her from mid-May in one of her many Red Sox outfits (since she was born right after they won the World Series, we got quite a few of them as gifts). Her name is Emma. I took a long, 6 mo maternity leave and have been back in lab for about 2 months now. Hope to finish my thesis work by the end of next summer... I heard about your move to FL from Tamra when she came to visit back in September. I heard from her briefly after they moved to their new house, but that was several months ago. Got an email from Adrienne that she is now engaged. I think that's all the news I have from others.-- Tina

First off, CONGRATS TINA & RYAN! She is a cutie-pie! If anyone else has any recent (or old, for that matter!) photos they can send them over to me to post.

Jim Brannigan Update

Jim, ever computer-saavy, found this blog before I even told ANYONE about it!! I wasn't sure if it would be a good idea or not...but I digress. If you'll notice, on the first post he gave a comment with updates. Here it is now:

Hi Gail - fabulous idea, hope this catches on! Maybe send an e-mail to the old hbhs1993 yahoo group? I’ve been really curious how everyone’s doing. Guess I'll be the first to try out the blog. Brief synopsis of the time since the reunion: we’ve been hard at work tweaking and remodeling our house. My parents moved out here to WA in June 2004 – they’re really enjoying it and it’s been nice having them close. I’m back in the technology field, doing software testing – a big step up careerwise. And last but certainly not least, we’re expecting our first child in September – the 8th to be exact. We’re super excited and we can’t wait – time has already gone so fast! I’ll keep checking back here and updating my website regularly. Hope all’s going well with you. Take care! Jim

CONGRATS JIM & GLADYS!! That's great!

If anyone else has something to add, you can comment or send me an e-mail (gailany@yahoo.com) and I'll add it...or of course, just use the Yahoo Group.