Intro

Welcome to our new blog! In this first post we'll introduce you to our family and fill you in on what we've been doing this summer.

John and I still live in the same house we've been in for almost 30 years now. That will be changing soon, but for now we are still here.

Mark (with John and me in the picture) just had his 21st birthday earlier this year and attends college in Boston, so he isn't here much any more, but we do visit back and forth several times a year. No telling where he'll be this time next year. We'll let you know when we do. He gets home about 3 times a year and we get out there once or twice to see him, so it works out OK for us.

Mark is our traveller. He worked on building an orphanage in Thailand the summer before graduating high school. He trekked through Iceland after high school graduation and just recently completed a 3-week, 700+mile bicycle trip in Japan. There have been other trips, but those stand out most.

Drew married his college sweetheart, Sarah, shortly after graduating and has started his own family.

They blessed us with our first grandson - John Andrew Reed V - who quickly became known to everyone as "JJ". Three years later little Hannah came along, so now we finally have a little girl in the family.

Note: I'm tempted to fill the entire blog with adorable pictures of our grands, but will spare you that - for now, although I couldn't resist just one more..........

We know everyone says their grandchildren are the best, but ours really are.

That's it for now. This blogging thing is really time consuming, especially since we are trying to learn as we go, but we'll be back with an overview of how this summer is going.