Brian and Kris
at ages 3 & 2

• Sep 2009: Bob's career underwent transition: to work for Petrofac International in UAE.  We leased a condo in Al Badia Hillside Village, Festival City in Dubai. His work is in Sharjah.

• May 2008: 60th birthday pics. Jan 2008 Bob was elected to 3-year term on the Vestry of Church of the Redeemer, chosen Jr. Warden, and involved with Eastwood Civic Association. Sold our RV lots at "Latitude 49" in Birch Bay, WA - keeping Texas as our home base!

• Fall 2005: after the move of two families from DC to Texas, then evacuating four families to Fort Worth during Hurricane Rita, Bob was ready to get back into his Engineering!  But during Hurricane Ike we stayed: only lost an awning. Per TSARP, our home sits above the 500-year flood plain. See zoomed-out and zoomed-in FEMA flood maps.

• Summer 2005: after a decade in Foxhall Village, DC with CSC & Mobil, Bob, Diane, & Shih Tzu's Sutzi & Tchai relocated to Clear Lake to be near Diane's extended family.
  
  Click here for Bob & Diane's past annual newsletters & photos (1999 to 2005, 2010 & 2011).

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• Bob was born in Auckland, moved to Waikato region at 9, earned scouting's highest award the Queen's Scout, and NZ Universities "National Scholarship" by nation-wide exam ranking. See career web-page for chronology of all places Bob worked after graduate school, and our homes web-page which has photos of places we have lived in)

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• Diane was an international traveling singer/composer before marriage, later graduated from Westminster Choir College, and taught music in elementary schools,  Now retired from teaching, before moving to UAE she worked part-time from home doing service bulletins at Church of the Redeemer Episcopal, also write Life Stories classes, composed choral music.
  
  March 2011 left knee surgery.  Jan 2008 cardiac rehabilitation from 7 stents in artery

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• Daughter Meagan went to UDC, later evening student at UH Law Center. She has a seven-year old son, Brian. She supports Corporate Corrupt Practices Compliance for Weatherford.
  Meagan & John Valenzano were married on 10/10/10 - see photos by Kreative Angle.  Gave birth 22/10/10 to Jacob Thomas Valenzano 6 lb 14 oz, 19" long, see ar two months old

• Son Colin attended Duke Ellington in DC, later graduated from U. Maryland Eastern Shore. Colin & Bob remodeled a basement into an efficiency for him to live in DC on the weekends. Six-year old son Kris lives nearby in Baltimore.  Dedication of baby Kennedy Oct 2011
  Colin's wedding to Stephania Jean, 14 May 2010. View You-tube video and 311 Photos
  Christmas 2011 photo of Jean family, also photo of Kris, Kennedy & Brian

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• Bob's family - his sister Heather Parker and brother Don - live near Hamilton, NZ

• Bob's mother Mary died Oct 29, 2006 in Morrinsville: 'SimplyReading' is her legacy
  She was the youngest of her siblings, Peter and John Gamlen, and Marge Williams
  See FaceBook group "I'm a Gamlen" about the Gamlens in NZ, Australia & U.K.

• Bob's father David died June 11, 2008 after three months at Tamahere Eventide

• Diane's family (aunts, siblings and cousins) all live in or near Houston/Galveston.
  See the visitation photos of deceased mother Joan Davis, also photos of her life.
  Diane's father John Davis died in La Porte in May 2007, a few months after her.

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