Things you may (or may not have learned) at the party—or you may already know:

• Both of Emma’s parents (Stephanie Vaughn and Kerry Matthews) are doctors in Family Practice and share a job at Kaiser
  

• Laura Korman (Avi’s mom) and Renae Lind (Abby’s Mom) trained together as residents at OHSU (I already knew this one)
  

• The Wrays are friends with another resident that Laura and Renae trained with—Drea Olmstead (I didn’t know this)
  

• The Briglia’s name is pronounced Brill-ya.
  

• Kim Foren did the flowers for Gabe Schnitzer’s (Sophia’s brother’s) Bar Mitzvah. If you need flowers she is the one to call

• Russ Natter learned to cut pineapple from a chef while working as a rafting guide—and he’s good!

• Russ Natter played 3 sports in college—none of which was soccer.
  

• Sutton Stern was not an All-American—but he should have been (OK, this was from the parent meeting)
  

• Bonnie Castro grew up in Wisconsin and is a Packers fan.
  

• You can see Maddie Ehl’s house from Abby Eakin’s house (I knew this one too)
  

• Madison Wray likes to be called Chipmunk—or Madison is OK, too.
  

• Annalise Laurila can be kind of crazy—in a good way (Abby told me this one)

• Madison Wray can do “eyebrow dancing” (this also is according to Abby)
  

• Keith Lambert is Irish and likes to drink Guinness—surprise, surprise.
  

Hopefully you all learned something new too. If you did, make a comment and share it.

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Thanks for coming. We look forward to a great season!! Go Santos!