Born and Found

The last of our potential wedding guests was born yesterday, May 21. Welcome Gavin Shea, my new cousin (once removed? is that what your relationship is to your cousins' children?)! Congrats to Rob and Jen on your new son. I can't wait to meet him and hope you will all feel up to the trip in five weeks. If not, I completely understand!!

There are several other guests who are pregnant, but they're not due until fall (unless I'm forgetting about someone). So this should be the last baby born who could attend.

Also, yesterday, we finally found the person responsible for us meeting each other! I don't know that I have gone into our meeting on the blog. We met at a graduation party for a mutual friend named Carol. Being as she was graduating, she moved out of town fairly soon after that (though she did give John her unneeded microwave, so we have a souvenir of Carol!) We kept in touch with her somewhat infrequently. We'd had plans to visit with her when we went to California in late 2004, but they fell through at the last minute because she had a family matter come up.

The last contact we'd had was about a year ago when she sent John an updated email address. Well, we went to email her to get her mailing address and never heard back, so we figured she wasn't using that email account anymore.

Google to the rescue, and I found a person I thought was her based on the job title on her employer's web site. I emailed and she wrote back saying I had the right person, and she sent her address. So off in the mail today went her invitation, the last one we had that was missing an address.

I'm glad we found her! I was beginning to think it could mean bad luck if we couldn't track down the person responsible for our meeting. We obviously owe her a huge debt, and the least we should do is invite her to witness our marriage.

Thanks Carol! (And also thanks to the other person we give credit to for our meeting, Carla, who hosted that graduation party! But we already knew where she was.)