Amy's In California!

Yea, so, um, there's snow outside. And what does she send me, the picture below.

In all seriousness, congrats to Amy for successfully making the trip out there and for getting a job. She'll be working for the same company that my brother worked at and we're excited that she starts Monday.

Sounds like Chris and Stacy are also doing well out there! All three of them are living together in an apartment in Santa Monica.

Spain Christmas 2007- Round 2

This year Christmas was spent with my family out in good ol' Wynantskill! Thanks to my Mom and Dad for a great time. Below are more pics from the time we were there.

Big Al getting his new Notre Dame sweatshirt!

The newest member of the Spain family, Nicholas Franchi (my cousin Sarah's son).

Spain Christmas Pics 2007- Round 1

For the directionally challenged member of the Spain family. Say some prayers for her road trip out to Los Angeles.

The hit of Christmas was a game called Rock Band. It's a game that has a drum set, guitar, and microphone. Buddy Holly (aka Chris Spain) is rocking out on the guitar and Amy is playing the drums.

Merry Christmas!

A very Merry Christmas to everyone! I wish you all safe travels, lots of smiles, and good times with family and friends this Christmas. Thanks to all those who have touched my life in some way.

Updates

A few updates:

- Congrats to Lisa and Mike Garvey who added another bundle of joy to their family. We wish them lots of happiness and sleepFULL nights! A lot of awesome pictures can be found here: http://royaltoybox.blogspot.com/

- I got an interim promotion! The past two years I've been managing the RAs in one of RIT's residence halls. Well, about two weeks ago, I was asked to move over to the apartment area and start supervising graduate students. In addition, the number of students that I will be helping with has increased a lot and the living situations they are in are more apartment style communities. I also will start overseeing students living in the RIT Inn and Conference Center and get to learn more about college students living in private housing. We'll still be living in the dorms and won't have to switch apartments.

I will definitely miss the RAs that I've supervised so far but as I've said a few times, I'll still be around. I look forward to this great opportunity and to working with the talented new staff.

Upcoming posts should include pictures of the apartment with all the decorations, pictures of the holiday visits, and other updates from the craziness :-) Hope you all are doing well!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I sent this picture to my brother with a nice message that wouldn't be appropriate to share in a public space but the point is, WINTER IS HERE! The neon (with 104,000 miles on it) has been parked in the RIT parking lot overnight and thanks to mother nature finally figuring out which season it was, the lake effect snow piled up. So to Chris, Stacy, and soon, Amy, enjoy the *?&%!@! warm weather in California.

Stay tuned for more frequent updates to the blog and an update about the new position that I've been asked to step into:-)

UPDATE 12/5 @4pm- It's still snowing...

Other old pictures...

More old pictures and some running commentary...


Rocking the drums at St. Jude's. That white suit is sweet!

Every year, my family heads out to Seabrook, NH for a little R & R. I don't exactly know what's wrong with me in the picture but those were some awesome times.

Thatcher Park in Albany. Channeling my inner karate kid? What the heck am I doing?

Yep, that's me to the left! Also in the picture are my cousin Annie and my grandmother from my mom's side.

Old Golfing Pics

Thanks to my dad, my brother and I got bit by the golfing bug early. Here are some pictures from Oakland Hills in Michigan.

Two notes about the picture above: 1) That hat would still rock on the golf course. I know you're jealous. 2) I think the bottom part of my glasses go past my nose. Them lenses are huge! But they were stylish back then:-)

New Apartment

Congrats on the new apartment to Chris, Stacy, and Amy! Below are some pictures from it. Hopefully their balcony has a better view than the one shown in the second pic! Looks awesome otherwise:-)