Congratulations to our brother Tommy and his wife, Melissa, for the recent birth of their first child!
From a post on Melissa’s Facebook:
We are so happy to introduce Benjamin Junho Belanger, born Sept. 12th at 10:47pm weighing 8 lbs! We are home and doing great!
We are excited to see the growth of this wonderful family and are looking forward to all the havoc that Ben will no doubt cause over the years.
Congratulations to our brother Matt Haynie and his new wife, Katie Halliday! The two got married today, October 2, 2010, at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. We all got to meet Katie when Matt brought her to our reunion last year, and she won us over in short order. We are happy to welcome her to “the family.”
This photo was taken at the NHS Class of ’99 10 year reunion. Incidentally, 10 years was also how long it almost has been since the last time Brotherhood were all together.
A lot of great memories were shared and the laughs were more than plenty. There are many other great pictures that will go up in the near future of us and the rest of the people who made it to the reunion.
If you were part of the Nacogdoches High School Class of ’99, the plans for the class reunion seem to have come together. For information and registration, go the class reunion website. So far, it’s looking like the most of the Brotherhood plan to be there. And we will bring the HURT.
More great news on the education completion front: after taking some time away, Adam Coats went back to Stephen F. Austin State University about a year ago, and today he proudly walked the stage to finally proclaim his degree in Biology! We are all really proud of Adam for not letting the job go unfinished and for his rededication to his education. We’re particularly excited that Adam has also decided to take it even further as he plans to apply for grad school.
Congratulations to our good pal for achieving this great milestone.
I just got off the phone with Tom because I was calling him about a relatively trivial subject only to discover that I caught him just after his freakin’ graduation ceremony from St. Louis Univesity Medical School, thereby officially making him Doctor Thomas Long Belanger. This is obviously a big moment for our man Tommy and we are all extremely proud of him. Personally, I don’t trust him with a plastic fork much less any kind of medical instrument, but I’m sure he will be a boon to the medical profession. At least, as long as his wife keeps him in line.
The New Doctor (ref)
Our old friends Dustin Aguilar and Nathan Miller live in Denton,TX and is part of a collective known as Darcy. Darcy is a band. This past weekend they revealed a spiffy looking new website that features concert dates, pretty pictures and a blog by Dustin. They currently have an equally spiffy album out right now called “The Brighterside.” You can listen to the tracks on their new website as well as their MySpace page. Make sure to check them out.
We are proud to announce that Eden Alice Middlebrook came into the world (sometime) Saturday weighing (around) 6 lbs. Mother and baby are doing fine, but the father is probably still suffering from a severe case of pride and giddiness.
Congratulations to Thomas and Katie Middlebrook on the birth of their first child!
Update: Katie has posted some pictures and more details on her blog.
I just received a voicemail from Tom, who no doubt got the original message from Thomas, that his wife Katie’s water just broke and (one assumes) she’s going into labor. Keep watching this space for updates.
Our webhost’s server crashed, and it seemed all backups of the database went with it (?). Fortunately, I had a backup from last month, so all we lost was a couple of posts on this blog. I’ll probably throw the last one up again sometime soon (aka when I feel like it).
I hope everyone is enjoying the fall.