New Vice President

Your new vice president driving the car with Aunt Marie and Congressman Mike McNulty.

Uncle Bill

here is Ron Ladouceur at his graduation from SUNY Albany receiving his Masters.






here is the latest picture of ron children Guy, Emma and George.

Happy Birthday, March Babies

Tom here. Here's an idea to try to get some folks to participate on the blog and most importantly to get some pictures posted. Here are the folks with birthdays in March.

5 Suzy March *
7 Damien Ponton
8 George Ladouceur
6 Rita Bigelow
12 Wilfred Daoust
13 Bernard Daoust Jr.
20 Jon Keville Jr.
22 Jessica Bigelow
23 Frank DiMartino *
30 Judith Darling
30 Melissa Ponton

(Key: * = picture has appeared this month)

Let's see a picture of each person at least once during the month. This would be a nice way to celebrate family, both living and passed on. I am probably missing some birthdays, so feel free to post any I missed.

BTW, if anyone objects to having their name or birthday posted here, please let me know. I will remove it.

Maybe we will do this in April, then May, then June...

Just in time for Thanksgiving... Welcome Gabriel

So the latest Daoust family arrival is home on time for Thanksgiving... Please enjoy this picture of Gabriel Aidan Ponton of Marie's gang...

Ponton on line...

Since I'm sitting at Lisa's house in North Carolina, I don't exactly have all my stuff to post pictures that are stored on my own computer, etc. Once the baby here is born I'll be sure to share a picture through this machine, but until then, you've got text from me...

So what's going on with us, you ask?

In October 2004, we lost Bob's Mom to complications of recovery from heart surgery. Since Bob is an only child and so is his dad, this set up a real desire to be back east again. A small piece of property with the requisite 4 car garage came up for sale near his dad in Machias, NY. We bought it as a place to head when lots of company goes there - has a three bedroom mobile home on site. Also, we anticipate getting old out there and Bob can't exist without more garage space than the two car attached at his dad's.

In January 2006, a glassblowing job came available for Bob in Ohio at the University of Akron. Akron happens to be halfway between Lime Lake (Machias) and Cincinnati where Rick lives with his family (3 grandsons). So we've spent the last two years Mon-Fri living in a rented townhouse in Stow, OH and Sat and Sun either in NY or Cinci.

Now, Lisa is in North Carolina as a faculty member at Elon University. This year, she decided that since age 35 is coming pretty quick (Dec. 1) she wanted to start a family regardless of having a spouse. She has spent the last nine months growing the fourth of our grandsons (after visits to a fertility clinic). Due any day, as I've said.