Memorial Day Weekend

I missed Collin's slam dunk--but you can see Brian coming from the left intent on making one, too.
With Uncle Brendan...
Collin
Brian & Collin (L-R)
Brian

Congratulations Uncle Tom

Our Uncle Tom Gabriel was awarded "the Merchant Marine Medal for Outstanding Achievement for the crucial recovery support they and their ships provided following the costliest hurricane [Katrina] in U.S. history."

Read the story HERE.

Uncle Father John on National Review

Today on National Review Online ("NRO" for the cool crowd), Uncle Father John does his own talmudic reading-between-the-lines to decode the Da Vinci Code, and finds some (hopefully) intentional self-deprecation by author Dan Brown. Here's Fr. John's closing paragraph, and a representative sample of his mercilessly punny writing style.

Brown is clearly a good sport who knows perfectly well what he’s up to, and he can’t resist tipping his hand to let us in on the joke. So hats off to an author who’s not ashamed of coming across as a “pop schlockmeister looking for a quick buck”—and, as we now know, finding it with a vengeance… literally.

If this whets your appetite, check out his Da Vinci blog here.

Congrats to Suzanne who came in 3rd place in the mile this Saturday. Suzanne ran it in 5 min 18 seconds. A new record for her. Congrats Suzi!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!! We had the Beglises and the Hanssens over for a potluck dinner. There were lots of babies!

Babysitting the Little Girls

I should be jealous of Tim & Sarah, but they are just so darn cute together. These are a couple pictures from when we babysat the girls this weekend.

Suzanne goes to Prom

Suzanne went to the Heights Prom on Friday night with Bobby Kilner. Suzanne, you look beautiful!

There is a BEAUTIFUL picture of little Damien Beglis over at http://babybeglis.blogspot.com/ Go take a look!!

Little Bit Of News

1.) Monica has completed her first year of college! Bravo, and she did very well. She is back at home and begins her summer internship today. Good luck Moni!

2.) Suzanne has just a little bit more of a month left in her high school career. She will be running track for UMBC this fall.

3.) Katie is 12 weeks pregnant and beginning to show a little. Morning sickness seems to be gone ... FINALLY!

4.) Claire spent the weekend in Atlanta visiting friends, her first time away from the boys. Kevin held down the fort while she was gone.

5.) Tom has acquired a salt water aquarium, his 2nd he has set up in his apartment. I haven't seen it yet but the reports are that it is very cool. Maybe Tom can take some photos of it so we can post them on the blog.

Welcome Damien!!!

Damien George Beglis has arrived. Weighing 9 lbs 2oz and is 21 inches long. Congratulations Laura & Jim.



little bit of trivia: Damien is the 15th Wauck great-grandchild to be born.

Tim and I drove up to New Jersey on Friday night and spent the night with the Bolers. We got to spend some play time with the little Boler Bears before we headed off for Pelham. We spent the rest of the weekend with Tim's parents and attended their annual Kentucky Dearby Party.