so here's the run down:
shayla (our neice) smoked the competition in her 3 events at the vermont division iii track meet on saturday and got a picture on the front page (lower right) as well as 2 in the sports section of the valley news the next day, plus most of the coverage is written about her. now she's onto the meet of champions (all of vermont, all divisions) this wedensday. she's got a really good chance of winning the 300 hurdles and moving on to the all new england meet on saturday. (her fastest time is the 2nd fastest for anyone in the state in any division). she also graduated from high school sunday-it was a lovely ceremony and a beautiful day. she ended up being co-valedictorian (with her boyfriend).

brian's mom, barb and bob arrive tomorrow for a week of visiting before the whole lot of us go off to italy for 2 weeks. (we'll make up a big cheering section for shayla at her track meets before we go) while they are here, we hope to get lots of free decorating advice from barbara, a former interior decorator. we've been saving up our questions... plus we'll be celebrating laurie's birthday and doing lots of other fun stuff.

we received our new glasses in the mail. we got them while we were in california and we have been counting the days. my previous pair had broken , so i was using a pair with an old prescription and it was tough! anyway, now we can see and we're ultra fashionable to boot-i got some DKNY retro plastic specs and brian got a tag-huer titanium and rubber number.