Ange & Marie

This has been a busy summer with visits from the Savano's, (Marla Sue, Devin, Karen, Nicklaus and Sam) and Collin and Nikki.  Next two months are also going to be busy.  We fly on Sept. 7th to San Francisco, then commuter bus to Santa Rosa to spend a week with Marla Sue.  The reason for our visit is Kenny is getting married on 9/10/11.  The ceremony will be at Kenny's home land at the top of the pasture with cocktails on the deck, reception in the barn which was a famous chicken barn in years gone by.  They have been busy fixing it up by power washing, installing windows and generally fixing it up.  There will be dancing outside.  A  well known florist and party planner, (relative) is coming from Hawaii to decorate.  Kenny is a sergeant in the Petaluma police department so has lots of friends to help with the fixing.  Carolyn and Dale are driving up.  The rest of the family down here can't make it.  Our next adventure is October 4th when we leave for New York to spend a night, then get on the Crystal Symphony cruise ship and end up in Montreal.  We are hoping to see the fall colors.  We also spent a week at Mammoth earlier in August.

We are very happy for Brianna as she finally got a teaching job at Canalino School after working there for 3 years doing intervention.  She is teaching a first and second combination.  Casey helped her a lot fixing up her class room.  She had a week after she found out she got the job before school started.  The two grandmothers were a big help to.  Callie is now 14 months and is walking all over.  She is in the early child hood learning center at Cate School.  She is able to go there because of Carolyn's job at the school.

This last week we were very concerned about Danielle living near Boston with the hurricane Irene.  She kept us posted by email.  They had heavy rain for over 24 hours but no flooding where she was.  We will be anxious to hear how her school and farm survived.  On Saturday, October 8th we will be in Boston harbor for the day.  Danielle plans to rent a car and spend the day with us.  It will be so good to see her as it seems like ages since she went east.  She has signed up to continue classes and working for another year but says she will come home at Christmas.

It will be good to hear about everyone so we hope you all contribute to the Sentinel.  Fall and winter is around the corner so hope you all had a good summer.

Lots of love to all,

Ange & Marie