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Tankless water heater is in; YAY! Neil did all the hard stuff, but I made a bunch of Lowe's runs, held pipes while he soldered them and helped unscrew stuff, so I'm saying I helped!

Lots going on again. Here's my update. Sorry for the lack of photos.

June 26-28

Nana Billie turned 80! Woohoo! We went down to DC to celebrate with family and congratulate her. Everyone came in for it, including our MA crew and the uncle, aunt, and cousins from Utah. It was a good time. We ate way too much, hung out by the pool, and went to see Transformers of course. :-) For those of you that don't know, Billie is my maternal grandmother.

July 2-5

Happy Birthday Neil! With all our traveling all Neil really wanted to do for his b-day was rest and work on the car. We also went to see The Hangover and Up. Both good flicks.

July 10-12

Happy 5th Anniversary to us! Yup, Neil and I are officially old. We've been married a full 5 years now, putting the time we've known each other at over a decade. Yikes! To celebrate we saw Cirque du Soleil's Alegria on Friday night; it was terrific! I always walk away from Cirque shows stunned. Saturday we went down to Boston to see the Tall Ships and have dinner near the water. They were pretty impressive sailing vessels. Sunday was an auto-cross and Kathy (Neil's mom) came up for it. Throughout the weekend Neil worked on the engine and now has the short block built. It was also Chris' & Faith's birthday this weekend; Happy Birthday to them!

This year Mike & Kris's wedding will preclude me from walking in the breast cancer walk, but they are going to let me fund raise anyway. I guess charities don't turn away fund raisers. :-) This will be my sixth year participating in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer; holy cow I'm getting old! There is no pressure to donate (half of the point is awareness), but if you are interested in donating please use the link below or go to http://main.acsevents.org/goto/jenschelly.

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Volunteering

Okay, so to start with on the volunteer front I worked at Easter Seals helping paint their doors at one of their schools for kids with lots of problems. Pictures are posted here. I also helped pack gift bags for Moore Mart and we packed our 20,000th box! How awesome is that?! Pictures are posted here.

Traveling

We've been all over the place. June 12-14th we were in Seneca Falls, NY for a National Tour auto-cross. We were a bit too busy and didn't get any pictures except videos of Penny in the car. :-) June 19-21 we were in DC for a ProSolo auto cross. I also visited with tons of friends, including a nice dinner with Quang & HV and seeing Yvonne, Kari and Liberty and Liberty's horse, Livita. Kari, Liberty & I went to the barn and brunch in the city.

Fun Stuff

Faith works at BAE! Woohoo! Check out our matching badges. We also went Strawberry Picking at Parlee Farms recently with a number of our friends. Pictures are posted here. I also got a great silouette of Faith's cats Pirate and Marble and a new photo of Ariya.