Unscramble away

Alaska

Lauren spent her summer in Bethel, Alaska on a salmon processing barge.

AOP

Awakening on Purpose. A two-year leadership seminar in St. Louis in which Dean participated.

Apt

Lauren, Ross & Dean lived together in an apartment during the past academic year in St. Louis.

Boston

Julie’s stomping grounds.

Cards

We like to play them.

CHU

Containerized Housing Unit — Helen’s pad in Baghdad.

Dan

Schoening (Julie’s fiancé)- Julie & Dan became close friends at Tufts University. They got engaged in August and are getting married next July. Dan is from Seattle and works for The Monitor Group as a consultant in Cambridge. In college, he played Varsity soccer and studied Economics. He’s currently playing indoor soccer and watching a lot of Celtics games.

Deloitte

Jamie is an analyst for Deloitte’s Federal Consulting Practice.

Engaged

Jamie is engaged to Ryan Christopher Schroeder.

Engaged

Julie is engaged to Dan Peter Schoening

Fish line

see Alaska

Fun

self-explanatory.

Julie is an Account Manager for Genuine Interactive, an interactive web agency.

Grad

Lauren graduated from The Principia Upper School in June! She was awarded the Sally Miner King Community Service Award.

Happy New Year

We hope you have a very happy New Year!

Hair

Ross grew out his hair for six months and it stood straight up defying gravity, headbands and his soccer coach. He finally cut it after the first soccer team loss.

Honors

Ross continues to make the Honor Roll at Principia Upper School.

Iraq

Where Helen will be all next year.

JICCENT

Helen’s reserve work supporting Joint Intelligence Center, US Central Command.

JPME

Joint Professional Military Education. Helen completed her first required 18-month military study program.

Kingston

Thanks to Uncle Ross’ renovation, the furbs now have a cabin in Kingston, WA — our new home away from home

Lisbon

Helen gave a presentation at the MDA conference in Portugal.

MDA

Maritime Domain Awareness, the area of Helen’s subject matter expertise.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us!

Mobe

Helen is being mobilized to Baghdad, Iraq for one year- we will miss her!!

Mon Ami Gabi

A French Bistro restaurant in Bethesda, MD where Jamie worked for 6 months.

NWC

Naval War College. Helen facilitated two international Operational MDA war games there this year.

OPNAV

Helen worked 7 months on active duty for Naval Operations, Pentagon, Feb-Sep.

Principia

Lauren is a Freshman playing Varsity Soccer & Tennis at Principia College in Elsah, IL

Rackham

Lauren’s Freshman Dorm.

Rat

Chewed up Helen’s car wires, destroyed "Micah" (the name of Helen’s car).

Reading

Dean & Helen are enjoying new Kindles and Jamie and Julie are mooching off the Kindle IPhone apps.

Rings

Two engagement rings, three weeks apart.

One of Lauren’s many nicknames.

Roe

The Furbs were visited twice by Dean’s sister Julie and her husband, Phil Roe.

Ryan

Schroeder (Jamie’s fiancé) - Ryan & Jamie met at Principia College, they got engaged in September and are getting married next July. Ryan is from Dallas and works for College Summit as a Business Intelligence Analyst. He played rugby & varsity football at Principia College and studied Business Administration. He currently plays rugby on a D.C. Premier League.

Semipro

Jamie made the TSC Maryland Pride’s Women Premier Soccer League

Senior

Ross is in his final year at the Upper School, and graduates in June 2011!

Sing

Ross performed in a production of "Good News" as "Pooch", the college football trainer.

Site

Visit Julie’s blog: juliefurbush.com/blog, to see some of the shooting she’s been up to and lyingawake.net to see the site she recently designed for Helen.

Ski

The Furb fam (minus Mom) will be skiing at Big White (Kelowna, Canada) over Christmas break with the Schoenings.

Skydiving

Lauren’s 18th birthday gift from Dean.

Soccer

Ross had a strong senior year season & Lauren’s Principia College team won Conference championships and went to the first round of the NCAA tournament. Dean plays on an indoor league every Wednesday night.

Sold the RV

finally! Yea, hurray!

Team

For Thanksgiving we teamed up with Ryan, Carolyn & Laura Schroeder to make a fantastic feast!

TMC Youth

The Mother Church Youth. Julie finished a great stint designing on their web team.

Track Star

Last spring, Ross ran the 4x800 in the Missouri Boys Class II State Championships and won!

Tucker

Tucker and Kaia are our two awesome dogs.

Web Design

Julie freelances as a web designer.

(11), Ross will be graduating in 2011.

Executive Officer. Helen was the XO of her JICCENT unit in Millington, TN.

YouTube

Where you can find Ross’ comedy sketch: "Mission Tornado Lightning Blackbird X" —Check it out:

Zoo Volunteer

Ross volunteers at the St. Louis’ Zoo two weekends/month.