May 2012
Wine and dine, progressively. Nine years ago, Laura and Jerry Kent settled in Spring Valley after leaving Katy. Three years ago, they put together a dinner group of a few nearby neighbors. They wanted to keep it small so that everyone would fit around a dining table. Steve and Jennifer Bass, Tina and Gene Litton, Lory and Scott Margraves, Terry …
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April 2012
Government agent meets mystery-show producer. Jenna Jackson, a former producer of 48 Hours Mystery, met Brendan Gilbert at a mutual friend’s wedding in the northern hills of Italy in the summer of 2010. In less than 48 hours they pronounced themselves guilty of falling in love. They recently married in the Texas Hill Country at the Red Corral …
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March 2012
From beach to lake romance. Melissa Joachim suspected nothing when her boyfriend Justin Krost called her to come outside while they were on a Florida beach trip with the Joachims. He had strewn a walkway of rose petals on the sand to two chairs and a bottle of champagne with wine glasses to pop the question at sunset. Fast forward …
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February 2012
Step carefully. “I wish shoe will attend this High Heeled event” is how the invitation read for Rosemary Schatzman’s celebration for her friends from schools, charities and life. She mingled in Jimmy Choo golden-glittery shoes while guests savored the shoe-tini drinks made with Godiva white chocolate and ate other delicacies. Fancy shoes were in sight everywhere. Striking and hairy were …
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January 2012
It was an Oscar-worthy affair. The inaugural fashion event to raise money for the upcoming Crystal Awards Gala, to be held March 2, was sponsored by the Spring Branch Education Foundation. The fashions from Dimensions were sparkling, and the moms of SBISD students had fun on the fashion runway. Some of those beauties were event chair Wendy Moreland and Cathy …
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December 2011
Girls trip to Peru
Mary Powell and friends Dollie O’Day, Liz LaPorte, Lisa Kline, Nora Ackerley, Sonia Smith and Emma Cohen journeyed 3,100 miles to Peru for a week. High on the agenda was Cusco, which is 11,300 feet in elevation, and Urubamba (Sacred) Valley. Their guide, Fernando, invited them to his home for “tea” and a surprise dish of …
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November 2011
Adventure Island
Harriet and Ed Reitman knew they had an adventure ahead of them on their trip to Papua New Guinea, but they still weren’t expecting their dug-out log boat to leak for the entire three-hour ride. They were headed down a river to the annual Mount Hagen Sing-Sing festival, a gathering of local tribes to exhibit and celebrate their …
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October 2011
Beach babies
There were more than enough sand pies and sand pizzas to go around for the group of eight enjoying a Destin beach vacation. Three-year-old Ezra Terk and his 5-month old sister and sous chef, Olive Simone Bebe Terk, prepared a gritty meal for grandparents K-Ma and Pops Greenberg, aka Karlyn and Jerry Greenberg. Their daughter Camille…
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September 2011
Her life in France
Rachel Kusin and 21 students from the University of Georgia attended the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in France to learn how creativity affects consumer behavior. It’s billed as the world’s largest gathering of communication experts and advertising and marketing gurus. Rachel heard quite a few impressive speakers, including Robert Redford and Martha Stewart. Other …
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August 2011
Donkey sub sandwiches, oh my
Rhonda and Richard Brown and their two sons, Preston, 14, and Hughes, 16, tried Chinese delicacies such as sea cucumber and shredded pig ears on their journey to Asia and caught up with Wendy Ping Wu, her son Kevin Wang and school mate Jackson Nacol while in Beijing. Preston, Kevin and Jackson …
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July 2011
Let the parties begin… Austin Baker’s Aunt Chris and Uncle Reese started Austin’s high school graduation celebrations with a catfish fry and pool party for relatives at their home. A second party the next night was at Austin’s house, where a group of family and high school senior friends came to hear the music of Tag, the band that Austin …
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June 2011
A commoner crashed the party… Decked out in a hat and plastic rain poncho like a “commoner” in England, Tami Smith sat in a folding lawn chair. She was on the driveway at Kristi Rowland’s house with a sign that read, “Waiting to see Will and Kate.” Kristi’s 30 uncommon guests got a chuckle as they arrived to celebrate the …
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May 2011
Extreme vacationing… The Beggins, Manning, Vaughan and Tyson families barely had time to nap on their busy spring break trip at Los Sueños Resort in Costa Rica. They zip-lined through the trees, drove ATVs in the rainforest and surfed the waves together. Some of the Do Not Miss splashy excursions a few gravitated to were deep-sea fishing and white-water rafting …
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April 2011
Feta, olives and tabbouleh, oh my… Mediterranean madness was in the air at Memorial Drive Garden Club’s dinner party in February. The get-together included friends of club members as well as members’ husbands. It was held at the home of Liz and Steve LaPorte, which offered two bars and plenty of room for mingling. Guests feasted on exotic fare, …
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March 2011
Feeling like No. 1 on 1-1-11… Fun, food and a football fiesta awaited more than 100 friends who came to celebrate Rick Frachtman’s 60th birthday. Party hostess Anne Frachtman awed everyone with an enormous cake, a dead-on replica of the Texas Longhorns’ football stadium in Austin, complete with scoreboard and football fans. But Rick says his favorite treat was having …
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