Welcome to the DeLaBarre family web site!
In lieu of sending out letters with our Christmas cards, we wanted to let everyone know about this little corner of the web where we provide sporadic updates on our family life. Feel free to look at some of the postings below this one. The post just before this one is a pictorial ‘year in review’ slideshow. It is being hosted by our photo album on Google, so it may be a little slow at times. You can go directly to the album through this link and have a little more control over the pace of the images. Once you are there, feel free to flip through any of our photo albums.
2007 was a busy year for us. We started settling in to our New England environment by exploring the areas around us. Anyone who has driven on New England roadways knows that this is no easy task - were it not for the wonder of GPS technology it is possible that we’d still be lost on a random rotary somewhere near the New Hampshire border.
We bought our first home in 2007 - a stylish Cape in the town of Arlington. We are a scant 9 miles from downtown Boston. When the air is not hazy with Atlantic mists, we have a beautiful view of the Boston skyline. Much of early 2007 was spent finding this house, and much of late 2007 has been spent making it our home. Our to-do list is slowly growing shorter and our trips to Home Depot have become somewhat less frequent, but I doubt that we will ever find ourselves short of things to do around the house.
Tyler is adapting well to his new surroundings. He attends a pre-Kindergarten 3-4 times a week, and will be starting real Kindergarten in a little less than a year. He has survived skating lessons from his dad, karate class with a crazed instructor (not his Dad!), and swimming lessons at the local Y. Currently he’s learning to tumble and jump in a gymnastics class - and performing more and more routines on the furniture at home.
Barb was the brains behind our house hunt. She organized the Sunday trips out to open houses and scanned through the on-line listings during the week. Now she is busy with that ‘to-do’ list I mentioned above. Also that Tyler guy - since he’s a few years shy of his driver’s liscence, he needs a little bit of help getting around to all of those activities described above. On top of everything, Barb has started a pottery craft business that she plans to run out of the house. Currently, WeeClayPrints is in product testing mode, but the plan is to have customers in early 2008.
And Byron? He’s still plugging away in his search for a cancer cure with Millennium Pharmaceuticals in downtown Cambridge. When he’s not doing that, there’s always that ‘to-do’ list to work on around the house. Sometimes he takes a break and tries his hand at reeling in striped bass from the local waters (their population is in no danger of declining anytime soon) or playing poker with some new friends in the area.
We all hope that the end of 2007 finds you happy and healthy. We’d love to hear from you (leave a comment here or email to byron.delabarre at gmail dot com / barbaraleigh at yahoo dot com). If you should find yourself in the area - please drop by. We have space at our dinner table, a spare bedroom, and plenty of lines on our ‘to-do’ list that we’d be happy to share with you 
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