2000/2001 in the Muncy Family
November 2000 through December 2001
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What happened in 2002
What happened in 2003
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| November 7, 2000 |
Paige celebrated her 6th
birthday. |
| December 27, 2000 |
Todd hits deer with car.
Score is now Cathie 2 - Todd 1. See Cathie's
"Craic" page for details on her deer adventures. |
| January 7, 2001 |
Erica celebrated her 10th
birthday. |
| February 15, 2001 |
Todd and Darlene celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary. |
| March 25, 2001 |
Cathie's permanent resident
status was finally approved by the INS. The original application was
filed in December 1992! Amazing how fast the government works. |
| April 6, 2001 |
Erica scored straight A's in
the third marking period. Promotion to the fifth grade seems assured. |
| May 1, 2001 |
 Todd completed an elaborate web
site for a business he owns, see it at GetCleaned.com. |
| May 21, 2001 |
This website was completely
rewritten, updated and expanded. |
| May 23, 2001 |
 Paige lost her other front
tooth. Looks like a two car garage with both doors open. Here
is the picture taken five minutes after it happened (click on picture to
enlarge it), |
| May 29, 2001 |
Erica purchased a clarinet on
eBay, and starts lessons next week at school. This will be her third instrument having already
studied guitar and piano. |
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May 30, 2001
Big News! |
McNeil Nutritionals, an operating company of Johnson & Johnson, has
just appointed Darlene to be their new Vice-President of Product
Development, reporting directly to the president of the company. In
her new capacity, she will head up the product development efforts for
Benecol®, Lactaid®, Sucralose® and
other, still unannounced, nutraceutical products. |
| June 5, 2001 |
Paige completes her first
song on the piano. More details on Paige's
page. |
| June 9, 2001 |
 Attended wedding of Todd's
college roommate Guy Williams in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here
are some of the snapshots Todd took and here
are some video clips of the wedding. |
| June 10, 2001 |
Erica performed Sonata No.
1 by Jean T. Latour at her piano recital. Click on the song
name to hear her play it. |
| June 19, 2001 |
Darlene celebrated her ??th
birthday. Paige got straight A's in kindergarten and will begin
1st grade in the fall. Erica also got straight A's and will start
5th grade in September. |
| July 3-15, 2001 |
 Entire
family spent two weeks in London and visited Cathie's home town of
Nottingham. Took many pictures. Huge photo slideshow of
pictures from London, Greenwich, Reading, Nottingham, Morton-on-Marsh and
the Cotswold's is right here. |
| September 1, 2001 |
 Attended Todd &
Darlene's goddaughter's wedding in Bristol, CT. Colleen Smith
(Todd's niece) wed Brian Horan. A great time was had by all. |
| October 13, 2001 |
Todd celebrated the 19th
anniversary of his 29th birthday. Mom and the kids threw him a
great party with his favorite dinner and wonderful gifts. |
October 28, 2001
and
November 7, 2001 |
 Paige
turned 7 on 11/7, but had the party on 10/28 so she could make it a
Halloween party as well as a birthday party. Here's a picture of Paige
and Mom at the family party on her real birthday. |
| November 13, 2001 |
 We
may not get DSL service or two-way cable modems out here in cow country,
but we now have high-speed two-way internet service via satellite from DirecWay.
The same dish also provides our DirecTV
service. Bye bye cable guy. |
| November 21-23, 2001 |
 Todd
& Darlene took the kids into NYC for two nights to see the Christmas
Spectacular at Radio
City and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We were joined by
Darlene's mom, her two brothers,
 their
wives, and a relative from Canada now living in Manhattan. After
the parade we had a lovely dinner at the Sea
Grill alongside
the skating rink at Rockefeller
Center. Finally on Friday, we took the kids to the Children's
Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), where they got to produce and star in
their own TV game show. |
| November 26, 2001 |
 Cathie
celebrated her 35th birthday, with her American family and her mum, who
is visiting from the UK. Her boyfriend Rob, Sarah (see the nanny
reunion), her husband and their four year old son Jake shared a
fancy dinner to celebrate the occasion. Here's a picture of Rob
getting a hug from Cathie's "mum". |
| December 8, 2001 |
 The
Christmas tree is officially up. Since we added a lot of furniture
to the family room this year, the tree moved to the foyer. This
allowed us to go cut down a large 10 footer at a local tree farm about a
mile down the road. Click on the tree for an enlarged aerial view. |
| December 22, 2001 |
Our 2001
Holiday Card was added to the site last week. The background
music was performed by Kendell Healy
and recorded on our piano after a lesson.
A whole collection of carols and other music that Ken recorded for us
can be found on Erica's Page. Paige, who
has only had a few lessons, also plays carols for you on her updated Paige's
Page. |
| Christmas 2001 &
New Years |
We did a lot of traveling over
the holidays, to Grandma Hardie's in central PA, and to Grandma Muncy's
on Long Island. Everyone stayed close to home for the New
Years celebration. |
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