2003 News

January 2nd, 2010
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Yes, the Anderson’s are sending out their annual update… of course we only tell you the good stuff. Our house gets quieter and quieter and then all the girls show up and it’s noisy again! We are thankful to report relatively good health all around. A few bumps and scrapes, but nothing we can’t handle with God’s help. Jim and Jeanie celebrated 25 years of Wedded Bliss… Well it was mostly good and at least we are still speaking to one another!

Jim is still at Wachovia. Most days he still takes the bus to the office uptown. If he could just learn not to ride the bus home on days that he drives in (there’s a story in there). Jim mentors a little boy named Darius in a program called Faith Hope and Love that helps at risk children in Charlotte. He has joined Toastmasters where he can finally speak without interruption and has completed 6 of 10 speeches towards his Certified Toastmaster award. After 19 years out of the nursing field, Jeanie has begun a refresher course after which she will be able to work as an RN again. She’s over half done with the book work, and then comes the clinical. It’s challenging, but we are cheering her on to the finish.

Jim and Jeanie took a vacation alone this past summer. It has been a long time since that happened. We drove from Charlotte to San Marcos, Texas to visit Jeanie’s sister’s family. They really showed us a good time, and oh, what a beautiful part of the country they live in!

One year in the life of our daughters…

Melody Grace

Melody has fallen in love with the human brain! She is a senior at UNCC and plans to start her MD-PhD Neuroscience education fall 2005. This girl has been chompin’ at the bit to move to California from the ripe old age of 12, so we sadly expect our cowgirl will leave us in her dust trail as she ventures out thousands of miles westward for her medical education. Fall grades just in and she has all A’s! Way to go, Mel! She is doing research with several Biology and Psychology professors on campus. When she’s not preparing for the MCAT, she’s break-dancing, figure modeling, providing computer lab teaching assistance to education majors, and mentoring freshmen in the business college. Every once in a while we get to see her too.

Leah Kathryn

As the last “full time” daughter, Kat is enjoying having the run of the house (and car and truck). Now that she has learned to drive a stick shift, we don’t see much of the truck. She is a senior in high school this year and can hardly wait until this June when she says goodbye to high school forever! She continues to enjoy her involvement with videography in her Radio and TV class. She and her good friend Karyn produce the “Morning Show” which is a news format TV show broadcast at their school each day. Kat has been accepted to Western Carolina University with a $6,000 scholarship. She plans to study communications.

Melissa Erin

Erin is now a junior at NC State University where she continues to earn stellar grades in her double major in Computer and Electrical Engineering. She continues to enjoy performing in theater. Erin is saving up to fulfill her plans to go to Austria for part of the summer of 2004 to study abroad. She wants to see the world before she gets caught up in the rat race of adulthood. She and her dad dressed up for the final installment of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. After reading the books together, this was something that they both look forward to. Justin, her long, long time boyfriend, and she are still in love Y.

Danae and Mark Ogren

Mark and Danae still live in Kingsland, GA, where Mark is a submariner in the Navy assigned to the USS West Virginia. Their American Bulldog “puppy,” Petey is now as big as a horse! Our family all went to Kingsland where the Ogrens hosted Thanksgiving this year. It was a really fun trip. As I write this, they are on a cruise after which they are headed to Nebraska to spend some time with Mark’s family.

Thanks, God for the lovely family you have loaned us… May we be the people you want us to be.

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