... you all seriously do not want to hear the details about all the hoops and crazy I had to jump through at work to get our big merger to happen on December 31, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. as advertised. But it did! And now we roll up our sleeves and begin the work of truly integrating these two companies... I predict more months of crazy ahead...
... what happened since I was last here? Hmmm... Thanksgiving, Jay's Birthday, Christmas, New Years, ...
While the world was busy falling apart with shocking political votes, immigration crises, wars, the Zika virus, etc., the Andrews family was busy having a fantastic year!
We had a graduation ceremony...
A couple of quick trips to the shore...
which always involve Manco pizza... mmmm....
...An amazing family trip to London to see the Harry Potter play...
... my FIT feat for the year! Between the royal mile, Edinburgh castle, and Arthur's Seat, I clocked over 25,000 steps that day!...
...Sarah moved back home from D.C. at the end of August. Inside of three weeks she got a new job (Program Manager at Lehigh University's Executive Education department), quit the old one, bought a car, found an apartment in Bethlehem, and moved back out... a LOT of adulting happening there! I love having her so much closer to home. And during that 3 weeks of madness, she also managed to accompany me on a trip to visit my mother ...
...where we snuck in a brief meetup with Melissa!
I like this length so much better! My family doesn't, but then they don't have to wear it, wash it, style it....
...Rachel accepted a job as Administrative/Marketing Manager for a Real Estate team, doing their website work, brochures, flyers, etc. and inputting data on listings to the multiple listing service. They are both still at home and saving money to move out... maybe next summer... and I've told them both repeatedly I'd be happy to have them stay here IF they would just clean up after themselves! Really, it's ridiculous...
...We had a great Christmas - here's the photo of Jay and the girls that will go in his Birthday book...
and the photo of all of us at the Golden Pheasant Inn for Christmas Eve dinner...
...the extra is Becca's boyfriend Kyle. We had a lot of fun with the christmas crackers... first time!
...On December 27th we moved into our new shop space at the Black Rose in Phillipsburg, N.J....
Other than the furniture pieces, the vast majority of the "stuff" you see here came out of my living room and to say I'm glad to have it moved out would be a gross understatement! So we are now running two shop sites, this one and one in Quakertown... but I never told you all about that, so I'll have to catch you up in a future post.
