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For those of you who don’t know my sister’s husband Brian, you are definitely missing out. Brian’s enthusiasm for life, overachiever attitude, and all around caring, kind-hearted soul makes him one of the most AWESOME people I have ever met. After spending six years as an undergrad student at the University of Maryland (go TERPS!) and getting not one, but three undergrad degrees, it wasn’t enough. He decided he needed to go to school longer, and get his Juris Doctorate. He spent three long hard years away from my sister in the most frigid of places Lansing, Michigan. Back and forth they went making sure to see each other at least every other week, all along assuring her that soon he would finish his life long dream and make it back to Maryland for good.

I knew, but I think he was still unsure, until he saw it with his own eyes. I got the call, “Sparrow, I passed!” He endured, he did it, he passed the bar. Now all that was left was to make it official with the ‘Swearing In.’ All of us were so excited when the big day came, and even though the limit was two guests, all eleven of us came along…whoops. Congrats Bri, I knew you could do it!

This guy gave an amazing speech, not at all what I expected from a Justice.

“Brian Andrew Tucci”

Making it official, signing the book that all barred lawyers in Maryland have signed. He tried to sign it with his purple pen…but they wouldn’t let him.

The Court of Appeals building was so awesome!

Here he is, the newest laywer in Maryland, Brian A. Tucci Esquire

After the ceremony we all went to McGarvey’s for a celebratory lunch.

Only Bri would be excited about a Maryland Law book.

All of us, minus the fab photographer… me :)

And if that wasn’t enough, he will be taking the Virginia state bar in a few weeks, and has started his own construction company; Coordinate Construction. Check out his website here, if you’re looking for a good, reliable, licensed, insured contractor. Or if you need a lawyer, contact me and I will pass you along.

Feel free to leave your congratulatory comments for Brian in the comment section.

As Thanksgiving approached my bloggity blog started feeling a little ill, and decided it was going to give me a world of difficultly with posting photos. Which is fine and dandy if you didn’t take PICTURES FOR A LIVING. But when it will only let you post 2 images per every 8 hours…well you get the point. So…I realize this is several days, ok months late, but I had to post it in fear of my aunt dis-owning me as her favorite niece (and no I still haven’t told anyone that I’m your fav).   This Thanksgiving was extra special because for the last three years Brian has been away at school in Michigan, and now he is finally finished…woot woot!  We had an awesome weekend, and I am so thankful for having food on the table, a roof over my head, and such an amazing family.  Although, they of course get 2 ‘amazing points’ taken away when they make me play games …let that be a lesson!

This of course is a cute picture (that I obviously didn’t take) unless you know what was about to go down. Lets just say that if I had a dime for every time we’ve rowed, yes ROWED, out to the boat and climbed on, only to find the battery dead…I would be a millionaire living in the hills with Diddy. Stupid sailboat. Good news is that we got a tow, and everything worked out.

I’m thinking they should be in the J.Crew magazine.

She’s got some crazy blue eyes…if you hadn’t noticed.

I’ll probably get yelled at for this one…but I LOVE it…and well it’s my blog ;)

This is what we like to call an Armenian sandwich.

After all the Turkey Day festivities we went to see Australia. And I’m well aware that this is a horrendous picture of me…it might be that I hadn’t showered in two weeks, or the fact that I had a sinus infection for two straight months, but that’s besides the point. I’m just appalled at the size of the popcorn bucket…I mean really, this is all you’ve got?!?!