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Congratulations to my brother-in-law, Mark Carter, on his graduation from ***Asbury Theological Seminary|http://www.ats.wilmore.ky.us/***. Mark is taking a church job back home in Ohio, so he and Kirsten will be moving back there soon. Good luck!

May is replete with anniversaries, birthdays, and other annual commemorations, some of which we’ve blogged:

Peter and Becky Stuff
Five Years: Peter’s first day working at ***Christianbook.com|http://www.christianbook.com/*** (May 15, 2000)
Four Years: Peter and Becky’s graduation from ***Gordon College|http://www.gordon.edu/*** (May 19, 2001)
Four Years: Peter’s first day as a salaried employee at ***Christianbook.com|http://www.christianbook.com/*** (May 21, 2001)
Three Years: Peter and Becky’s engagement (May 14, 2002)
One Year: ***Becky offered a job at the Otis House|http://prwdot.org/archives/001797.html*** (May 21, 2004)

Family Stuff
10 Years: Cole’s birthday (Becky’s cousin)
15 Years: Richie and Julie’s wedding anniversary (Becky’s uncle and aunt)
58 Years: Nana and Pop-Pop’s wedding anniversary (Peter’s grandmother and grandfather)

Other Stuff
***Apple releases third generation iPod|http://prwdot.org/archives/000786.html*** (May 2, 2003)
***Peter got his current cell phone (whoop-de-doo!)|http://prwdot.org/archives/000792.html*** (May 8, 2003)
***Movable Type licensing fiasco|http://prwdot.org/archives/001780.html*** (May 13, 2004)

Happy everything!

Happy 58th Anniversary to my grandparents, Nana (Frances) and Pop-Pop (Clark)!

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Wow… only two more years and it will be number 60!

Family Footnote: Nana and Pop-Pop are my mom’s parents, and they live in Schuylkill Haven, PA. Haven is about an hour’s drive northeast of Harrisburg.

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Crater Lake
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In celebration of Earth Day, I’d like to highlight some of our photo galleries that showcase the Earth’s natural beauty.

***Niagara Falls, Canada|http://gallery.prwdot.org/niagara_falls_trip***
***Multnomah Falls, Oregon|http://gallery.prwdot.org/multnomah***
***Crater Lake, Oregon|http://gallery.prwdot.org/craterlake***
***Mount Hood, Oregon|http://gallery.prwdot.org/mount_hood***
***Oregon coast|http://gallery.prwdot.org/oregon_coast***
***Muir Woods and Old Faithful, California|http://gallery.prwdot.org/sfo_day5***
***Mount Greylock, Massachusetts|http://gallery.prwdot.org/mount_greylock***
***Imp Face Trail/Presidential Range, New Hampshire|http://gallery.prwdot.org/imp_face_trail***
***World’s End, Massachusetts|http://gallery.prwdot.org/worlds_end***
***Blue Hills, Massachusetts|http://gallery.prwdot.org/blue_hills***
***Bradley-Palmer State Park, Massachusetts|http://gallery.prwdot.org/bradley_palmer***
***Whales of Stellwagen Bank|http://gallery.prwdot.org/captain_bills***

Enjoy!

Update
***James|http://drjames.blogspot.com/*** has a ***nice Earth Day post|http://drjames.blogspot.com/2005/04/some-frivolous-friday-musings.html*** with some great observations and suggestions on how to help out our planet. You can also read some of our ***previous|http://prwdot.org/archives/001795.html*** ***posts|http://prwdot.org/archives/002210.html*** on ***environmentalism|http://prwdot.org/archives/002263.html***.

Happy 24th birthday to my one and only sister, Kirsten!

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Wow, 24… almost halfway to 50! Hope you have a good day!

Happy 21st Birthday, Johanna!

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Biographical Note: Johanna is one of my cousins on my mom’s side of the family – the daughter of my mother’s sister Christine and her husband John.

Happy birthday to my cousin Mark!

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This shot was taken in the Glamour Shots studio we set up at our recent ***Napoleon Dynamite Party|http://gallery.prwdot.org/nd_party***. What a great pose!

Biographical Note: Mark is one of my cousins on my dad’s side of the family – the son of my dad’s sister Joan and her husband Errol. He is a fellow lover of Taco Bell, and has recently started using an Apple laptop. He lives in Cambridge, MA and works there as well, with his company ***iZotope|http://www.izotope.com/***. Mark’s sister is none other than The Kimster, who we will soon be visiting in Russia! And, as long as I’m dropping family names, Mark’s brother is ***Scott|http://www.scottethier.com/***, a composer living in NYC.

I’m constantly in shock that I am actually related to these outstanding people!

To my lovely Grandma, Virginia Elinor Quitadamo!

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Here she is with Papa at our wedding. Don’t they look cute!?!

Gram makes wonderful Macaroni and Meatballs and Italian Christmas Cookies! Everyone should have a Grandma as beautiful and sweet and fun as she is!

Happy, happy birthday to miss Bethany!

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Enjoy the day!

So, is a baby born on Valentine’s day known as a love child?

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Happy Birthday to Auntie Susie!