2014 was a year of ups and downs — a year of passages.  On the up side, Matt got married to Stephanie and we did some enjoyable travelling.  John’s parents also finally moved out of their house and into assisted living.  On the down side, John’s Mom passed away in September.

You can see more details in the posts below.

This was a good year.  We did quite a bit of travelling to interesting places.  We also had some new experiences and many visitors to Florida during the year.  Our kids are doing well.  Some of the highlights in pictures:

Stand Up Paddleboarding on Lake Virginia

During our visit to Boston in May we stayed at the world-famous Irish Village on Cape Cod with Paula’s mother and had a visit from Laura, Jeremy and Camden.

While on Cape Cod we had lunch with Stephanie’s parents.

Bill and Lee came for their 42nd visit to Mickey

We had several visits with Tak, Hisuk, Jay and Cato.
We celebrated Stephen’s Birthday.

We celebrated Paula’s Birthday.
Our friend Yui was in Orlando on a 4 month assignment.

Matt and Stephanie flew kites at the Mall in DC.

Matt met the Dalai Lama.

Matt hosted the reunion of Fort Drum buddies at the Beach

Danielle visited Ireland (and France).

Everybody celebrated Danielle’s birthday.

There was more, including visits from Teddy, Linda and Lindy, Geri and Bob and others as well as trips to Savannah, Connecticut and Boston for Fall foliage.  A good year.

Welcome to John and Paula’s Blog.

We began experimenting with a new communication medium in 2010.  We often heard that our family website was hopelessly 20th Century, and not especially up-to-date at that.  The last straw was Microsoft obsoleting our web publishing software. But John didn’t feel quite ready for the visibility associated with some of the newer communication methods.  So here we are, starting our blog.

We started by documenting our recent travels and other milestones.  After that, we backloaded a few things that never made it to the old website.

Please enjoy.

John and Paula

2025 Update: Now, 15 years later, we are even less comfortable with the then-new social media platforms. So we have continued with this format.