The Blog of Jana & Andy

Last night we visited with Uncle Jack and Aunt Nancy. Heather wanted to fish off the dock in their back yard and I don't need an excuse to put a hook in the water so we trotted down to the lake with the ass end slice of bread and a couple of rods. I got one fish on but when I handed the Rod to Heather to reel in it had got off the hook. Still a bad days fishing beats a good day at work and pretty soon we were called in for Dinner. Heather had left a little earlier when a big spider skiming on the surface made landfall on her float. We had a nice time chatting and an excellent meal, we also watched a video of my wife's 22nd and her cousin, Kelly's (Jack and Nancy's daughter) 20th Birthday party, back in 1990. Brittani was 3, Rebecca was transfixed to see Brittani as a toddler. There was also some good footage of Nanny and Miss Margaret, who have sadly both passed on since then. We took the tape to make a copy and made plans to visit again next tuesday.

Well that was successful! Arwen is now almost a 18 months old! Here we go again......
Welcome to the Family, We are:-

• Andy, aka Dad, Idiot, **expletive deleted**. 36, born in St Andrews Hospital, Billericay, Essex, England, in April 1969. I work with Computers most recently in account administration. Immigrated to the US in 2000 and have never looked back.
  
  
• Jana, aka Mum, Baby, Lover of mine..... 36, born in Texas in December 1968, raised in New Mexico. We married in 1998, then went to live in England until we came back to the states to raise 3 of out 4 girls.
  
  
• Brittani, aka B. 18 also from Texas in 1987. Raised until we married by her mother (Jana) and her Grandparents she has since gotten married and moved out of the home in the spring, she and her Husband Miguel are still frequent visitors to the Janandy world.
  
  
• Emily, aka EC. my first born, who still lives in the UK with her mother. I try to call her every week, but don't get to see her as much as I wish. She was born in 1993 and has just turned 12 and has just finished her first year at senior school (UK equiv. to High school) .
  
  
• Heather, aka H, Heather the Feather, feather, foo, Fooster, Heathery fethery foo, Foodle.... you get the message. Fooey is 6, born in St. Johns hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, England in May 1999. She is the first child of our marriage and is the uber reader.
  
  
• Rebecca, aka Becca, Becca Boo, Dr. Becca Boo, Booey, Boodle, Switch. Born in October 2001 in sunny sunny Florida. Becca has "character" plenty of character. She is also a charmer.
  
  
• Riley, aka Roo, our 110lb German Shepherd. He is Black all over with a white triangle on his chest and brown markings on his shins and between his toes. He looks mean but is a real wimp, crying out a pitiful whimper if you so much as touch his collar. We got him as a stray because we were the only ones in the neighborhood with a fenced in yard. By the time the GSD rescue could get to us we had already decided to keep him. He is epileptic, which we control with medication.
  
  
• Arwen, aka well despite what I said in the first post Winnie and Woo have never really stuck, so it is just Arwen. She now weighs about 80 lbs and has been full of beans since we got her. She is very clever and obedient.