So here's your "Sneek Peak" of the Pacific Coast Campanelli year end summary.
The Campanelli Christmas Letter
(AKA: The Pacific Coast Campanelli Year End Summary)
2010 has been a very busy year for us in Washington State. Our family has proudly achieved personal milestones, professional achievements, and has met life’s physical and mental challenges with courage and grace that continually keep me in awe. My goal is to keep this letter brief with the understanding that we as family and friends need to keep in touch. I will close with our email addresses, Face Book pages, and cell phone numbers. I used to think that these letters were so impersonal, but when I realized that I couldn’t write as well as I used to, only then did I value the “Family Annual Letter.” Here goes!
Allyson married Nick Spence on Friday, August 13th. The weather was as spectacular as the wedding, but no one has ever been more radiant than our Allyson! My sister Suzanne married them in a beautiful ceremony. Most of our East Coast family, and about 100 of our local family of friends shared the day with us. Nick is an “employed” Master’s trained Computer Scientist, holds a Black Belt in Karate, and is a smart handsome guy whom Sue and I really like. Allyson successfully tested for her black belt as well as graduated from Saint Martin’s University and has applied to several Osteopathic Medical Schools! They have been busy this year to say the least!
Kelsi is in her third year at Pacific Lutheran University. She is majoring in communications and boy is she communicating! After about four years of listening to Japanese television shows, songs, and her on-line community she actually went to Japan for 6 months! She lived for one month with friends in and around Tokyo, then for the remainder she lived with two families in Saitama, and Yokohama respectively. Needless to say she speaks conversational and formal Japanese as well as reads and writes in Japanese. She has also lined up a production internship in Los Angeles with a large reality TV show company for next summer. She sure is a mover!
Susan has been busy in her new position at the hospital coordinating inpatient budgets, revenue development, multi system alignments, nursing acuity evaluation, and many other organizational projects and goals. It’s a wonder she still finds the energy to train for and run her third marathon. That’s right! On her birthday this year she ran the 26.2 mile Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC! Oh, she also helped plan Allyson’s wedding and Kelsi’s trip to Japan, not to mention care for me following my brain surgery and recovery. I think our family is as strong as it is because of her love, strength, integrity, and her darn good looks!
Roger (me) had a busy year too! Early in the year I had deep brain stimulation surgery in February for Parkinson’s disease. To make a long story short, I’m taking half the medicine I used to, retired fully this last June, got a little fatter, and now have a service dog named Chief! I now have the freedom to reinvent myself yet again and so I’m pursuing several different ideas such as painting (rooms in the house), singing and dancing (in the shed), beading and knitting (not!), HAM radio operator, blogging (www.rogercampy.com), and training Chief. That’s about it! Check out our yearly summary in pictures on the next page. We miss you all and hope to hear from you after the holidays.
Roger Out! Happy Holidays to you all!
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