Happy Birthday, Connie!

Connie had a birthday lunch with Mom, Mary and me. We gathered at Boston's and had a celebratory cake. We hope that you had a special day, CJ. You certainly are!! Love you!

Updated States List

Nick and I decided to update the Moore Family State List after the addition of Charlotte. Thanks to Bri's original post of states up to #49. We're up to 54 now. Awesome.

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Who's going to be 55?

Congratulations Schulte family!

We would like to introduce the family to the newest member - Charlotte (Charlie) AnnMarie Schulte born on Monday, March 15th at 10:25 p.m. weighing in at 7lbs. 10.9 oz and 19 1/2" long. She has lots of dark hair and is gorgeous. Mama and baby are doing great. Meg got to the hospital at 9:30 and 55 minutes later there was a baby! It was magical to watch!

Sabina and family

There are lots of new photos posted on the Borten blog, including some of my favorite eighth grandchild.

The family recently went to Hawaii, and the blog has plenty of those photos, too. Kinda mean for us folks in the North Country, but still fun to look at. Enjoy!

Greetings from Great Falls

Hello- so i'll go ahead and follow suit with a little update from my life. I think I will give you updates in reverse cronological order so anyone who already knows the "old news" of my life can just stop reading at anytime. So for those of you curious or bored enough to continue reading, I will carry on: So I have been looking into the teaching business of late, flirting with a masters program at UGF starting this summer. It's the same program that Meghan graduated from and is currently volunteering for. Looking forward to it, should be enlightening and applicable for future career opportunities! I am working full-time as a Census Bureau update/leave progress crew leader for the next few weeks. I have been incredibly busy sending people out to nowhere, Montana to "update" our address lists and "leave" the same questionnaires that each of you will be filling out and mailing back shortly, if you have not already done so. It has been challenging and great for building experience. Yippee grown up stuff! I start my last undergraduate class this January- a 6 credit religious studies online independent study class through the U. So far it has been really interesting, but I confess I have fallen a bit behind as of late. I'll catch up when those kids go off for spring break! Right before Christmas, I bid farewell to Missoula and moved back in with the parents here in Great Falls. It has been pretty awesome so far as most of my old high school friends have made their ways back to Great Falls also, which has the makings of one of the best slow pitch softball teams Great Falls has ever seen!

I think that pretty much sums it up for now... hope all has been well in your respective corners of the globe. I hope to see most of you soon, say this summer or shortly thereafter. I think there is quite a bit going on as the weather heats up, 30th birthdays and 30th wedding anniversaries (i wonder if the two are related...) so there will be no shortage of funage if you find yourselves in Montana! I sure hope you do! But until next time, I love you all deeply and God bless.

Nick

Saludos Desde Texas

Thought I'd drop a line from Southern Texas. Life's good down here. Working hard and having some fun on the side. I'm really enjoying San Antonio and all the stuff there is to do here. The Mexican food is great and the country music is better. We went to a Texas Country show at Gruene (pronounce green) Hall last night in Gruene, Texas which is America's Oldest Dance Hall. It was a great time.

Also, while we are talking about states, I made my yearly pilgramige to my state of Missouri. How many of you can say they do that? Ben and I made the trek from Texas and met some friends and, of course, Jacob in St. Louis for Mardi Gras festivities. It was a great time. Maybe too good of a time. Well, so good of a time that I gave up alcohol for Lent. While us Moores escaped without injury, Ben's high school buddy Bo had a fall that sent him to the ER for 5 hours while Jake, Ben and I waited in the waiting room. To pass the time we pretended we were the cast of Scrubs.

Here's a picture from the afternoon of the Friday that we arrived. It's of most of the St. Louis crew after an extremely competitive afternoon at the lanes between the Sunset Stallions, Dancing Dragons, and Super Cool Cobras:

Michigan!

Hey gang! Well, I am currently in North Platte, NE in my second week back on tour. I'm surprised how easily and quickly things came back to me (the show, directing the kids, casting, etc.). There is still a long road ahead, and a lot of towns, before May when I'm done, but that gives me some time to figure out my next move. I realized there hasn't been much sharing of interesting facts about our states. I figured I would share my findings. I am Michigan and I don't know if any of you watched the ice dancing portion of the Olympics (I watched part of the first night and thought it was totally lame, but then I was stuck in a motel room in South Sioux City, NE with nothing better to do and it turned out to be pretty neat) but the silver medalists--Meryl Davis and Charlie White--attend school at the University of Michigan and train in Michigan alongside gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. So I have gold AND silver medalists from my state. I think that makes me pretty high up there. Too bad Davis and White attend U of Michigan. Anyhoo, I'm sure like 99.9% of you probably don't care about that little tidbit, but I just thought I would throw it out there since I don't really have anything interesting going on in my life except waiting to be a new aunt! Anyone else have any interesting facts? I hope to see you all this summer!! Much love!