It’s been almost a year since I celebrated a certain unspecified milestone birthday. I chose to mark the occasion with travel. Those who know me at all know that I love to travel so you can imagine how easily I could turn this letter into a travelogue. I will do my best to NOT do that to you. But I will at least mention that some of last year’s adventures included trips to Colorado, Japan, Toronto, Nashville, Collegedale, Daytona Beach, Scotland, Raleigh & Chicago.
Dwight and I are up to the same old things - he’s still writing code and I’m still organizing data. We’re still playing games (video, card, board) with our family and friends. We still enjoy ski getaways in the Colorado Rockies. But we do have a big change coming up because it’s the year our youngest kiddo heads off to college. Boo! (Who says education is a good thing?!)
Oskar is home from Japan and wrapping up his final semester at West Virginia University. He would love to move back to Japan after he graduates so we’ll see where he lands. If you know of an employer who needs a Japanese-speaking software engineer - let us know! (And he’s probably open to hearing about any jobs for a smart software engineer, to be honest.) He’s already been back to Tokyo twice since he left last summer (once for just 23 hours!).
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| L to R: Annika, Kardynn, Oskar and Kiersten |
Annika is a junior at Old Dominion University but doing it online and living in Daytona Beach with her two cats (Tigger & Winnie) , puppy (Roo) and boyfriend (Colby). They’re both studying mechanical engineering.
Kiersten is home until May for a work term and that’s amazing. We’re so delighted to have her around. She’ll be back in Ontario for the summer and from here on out, she’ll have a co-op every other term. She’s missing her boyfriend Pez (who’s at home with his family in Montreal for the co-op term) but she’s not sad to be missing the worst of winter in Ontario.
She and Pez just spent a week in Tokyo (and spoiler alert, they got to meet up with Oskar who also happened to be there visiting). They’re both studying Honors Software Engineering at Waterloo University.
Kardynn is doing all the things: work, teacher cadet, educators rising, NHS, et cetera. She’s leaning towards studying nursing in college but she’s not 100% sure, nor has she decided where she’ll be going (she’s fortunate to have a few to choose from).
They say a picture's worth a 1000 words so feel free to click through these six pages of photos from last year (when you hover over the photos you'll see a little arrow that comes up - you click anywhere on the photo collage to advance or go back).
2025 Photo Collage by Heather Engen
