Dear
Family and Friends,
Well, usually most of you
are on our email list and know what’s going on with us. But this has been a busy year and Bret hasn’t updated the
web page or sent out mass emails as often as usual. So we'll go ahead and sum up our year for you.
Terri and her best friend, Angela, still have their faux finishing
and decorative painting business “Faux du Jour”.
Although Terri misses teaching, she enjoys the flexible schedule and
shorter hours of painting. Bret still works for the Air Force at
Ellington Field Air National Guard Base.
In January, Terri went
with her parents to visit relatives in New Jersey.
In February, Terri acted in a murder mystery play with her mother Liz
and Aunt Carol. It ran for 5
weekends. Terri’s brother
Scott asked his girlfriend Lucy to marry him on Valentine’s
Day. In May, Terri and Angela spent a week in Amsterdam and
Belgium. They highly recommend
seeing the little town of Brugge in Belgium.
Sadly, Terri’s grandfather in New Jersey passed away at the age of
88 years old. Thank you for all
your prayers you gave surrounding this time.
Terri joined her grandmother for a week upon return from Europe.
In June, Terri became
involved in another play, Charlotte’s Web.
She also started taking karate classes.
She is now an orange belt. Watch
out! In July, Terri went with
her father, brothers and their significant others to Reno, Lake Tahoe, and
Yosemite. At the same time,
Bret went to Las Vegas to be a “Man of Honor” for his friend Meredith
who married Stan. Mary,
Bret’s mother, came to visit in the end of July.
In August, Bret left for San Angelo again for another training
course. Fortunately, it was for
only 2 months this time. Terri
was able to visit Bret for a few days for his 33rd birthday
before going with her parents to New Jersey again. Terri got a call while in
NJ from Angela letting her know that she and Rick are expected their first
child. Congratulations!
In September, Terri met up with Mary in Bangkok, Thailand for a week.
They slept on a jungle raft on the River Kwai, rode an elephant,
experienced Thai culture, and got tailor-made clothes.
Mary continued on to Cambodia, Vietnam, and Europe while Terri went
back to Texas to welcome Bret home from San Angelo.
On October 12th, Scott
and Lucy got married. We had
aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins from all over the U.S. come for the
big event. It was the best
family reunion in years. A
couple weeks later, Bret left for another month long training
deployment.
This time it was in boring, uneventful Las Vegas.
Mary stopped in Texas again on her way home from Europe.
Terri and Angela went to San Francisco to visit Judy, Angela’s
sister-in-law, and celebrate their 28th birthdays.
Unfortunately, our 3rd anniversary happened during
Bret’s stay in Vegas. So Terri visited him for a few days and brought him back to
Houston with her at the end of his course.
For Thanksgiving, we visited Andre and Glenda, Bret’s parents in
Mt. Pleasant. They have their
own family reunion with 25+ people every Thanksgiving with the head of the
family, Bret’s grandmother, Bea (who just turned 96 last month). In December, we both were able to go to New
Jersey.
This time we are also spent a night in New York City and saw “The
Producers” and “Les Miserables.”
Our hobbies still include
going to the movies, eating out, napping, and being very involved with the
young adult ministry at church. Bret
designed the website for the group (www.sugaryams.com).
We joined a bowling league with Scott, Lucy, Robert, and Rachel.
We even have our own bowling balls, yet our average never really
improved. Bret was also on an
indoor soccer league with Rachel and Robert.
Our daughter, Abby (the tortoise-shell calico cat) is also doing
well. She will turn 6 in a
couple months.
We hope this letter finds you in good health and happiness, and we hope
you have a great holiday season and Happy New Year!
Love,
Terri
and
Bret
Brogoitti
