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Welcome to our web site, SirnaFamily.net. We have so much to share with friends and family that this seems like the easiest, state-of-the-art way to do it. This way everyone can see our pictures.
We married in 1966 and have stayed married ever since, something we are very pleased with. We have three wonderful children:
Our oldest daughter; Michele is married to Jim Grace and they live in Texas. They have the world's most fabulous grandson, Connor, born in February of 1998 and a darling little daughter, Isabelle, born in April of 2003. Michele is a stay-at-home Mom while Jim works as an attorney and lobbyist. Both Michele and Jim went to Notre Dame; when they met they discovered that both their dads had been friends 25 years earlier as Notre Dame students!
Conor and Isabelle both attend Awty International School in Houston, where in addition to the usual complement of classes they both study Spanish. Connor loves history, swimming, soccer, and piano, and Isabelle is into PINK in a big way.
Daughter number two; Cheryl lives in Smyrna, Georgia. Cheryl works as a financial analyst for Cingular Communications. She is a West Point graduate and served 3 years in the Army as a lieutenant. She then went back to the University of Michigan and earned a degree in Library Science and worked three more years in that profession. Then it was back to college life, this time to the University of Texas for an MBA. Cheryl has moved 11 times since earning her bachelor's degree, trying out many of the major cities in the US. She has just purchased a new home.
Tony is our third child and only son. He went to Stanford, majored in computer science, and promptly moved to a farm in northern Missouri where he and many others live a sustainable lifestyle in an intentional community called Dancing Rabbit. He and Rachel Katz, another Stanford grad, are "life partners" and had a commitment ceremony to that effect in June, 2000. Rather than describe what all goes on in their intentional community I refer you to their web site. It has lots of great pictures.
Bob, as mentioned above, graduated from Notre Dame, and owns his own business, Sirco Associates, Inc. which is a contract programer company in the metropolitan Detroit area. He started the company in 1979.
But Bob's real passion is Vintage Cars. Make that CARS, CARS, CARS. Bob is an active member of the Gull Wing Group International and currently serves as its President. This club exists to celebrate the wonderful 300SL Sports Cars built by Mercedes-Benz in the middle 50's to early 60's. It includes the well known Gull Wing, famous for doors that open upward and the Roadster version that followed in 1957.
Bob restores these cars, takes them apart, rebuilds them, hot rods the engines, drives them, races them, and hauls them all over the continent. Sometimes he evern hauls them to another continent.
Right now his goal is to set a speed record at the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, and he has spent several years tricking out the engine of his Gull Wing in hopes of breaking the record.
Gail is a graduate of St. Louis University and the University of Michigan and taught junior high school before retiring to raise her children. She also taught part time in adult high school, and for a short time owned her own needlework shop. Yes, Gail's abiding avocation--for at least 30 years now--is needlework. It actually has been a career for her, as she teaches needlepoint and embroidery all over the country, at seminars and chapters of the American Needlepoint Guild, the Embroiderers' Guild of America, and sometimes even the Embroiderers' Association of Canada. She is certified as a needlework teacher by The National Academy of Needlearts (NAN), and as a needlework judge by the same organization. In 2002 she presented her Honors, a thesis length paper cum slide presentation and display that is the result of 5 years of research on her part. The title of the thesis is "In Praise of the Needlewoman: the iconography of the embroiderer in western art 1500-present."
Gail is treasurer of NAN, and has held many other offices for that organization over the years. She has also served both EGA and ANG in various capacities over the years, and is the secretary of the National Embroidery Teacher's' Association. It is difficult to find time to actually stitch.
Her latest endeavor has been writing. Her first book called In Praise of the Needlewoman: Embroiderers, Knitters, Lacemakers, and Weavers in Art was published in August 2006, and so far has had rave reviews.
To see Gail's embroideries click here.
Gail's other passion is travel. To see some of their travel photos click here.
We married in 1966 and have stayed married ever since, something we are very pleased with. We have three wonderful children:
Our oldest daughter; Michele is married to Jim Grace and they live in Texas. They have the world's most fabulous grandson, Connor, born in February of 1998 and a darling little daughter, Isabelle, born in April of 2003. Michele is a stay-at-home Mom while Jim works as an attorney and lobbyist. Both Michele and Jim went to Notre Dame; when they met they discovered that both their dads had been friends 25 years earlier as Notre Dame students!
Conor and Isabelle both attend Awty International School in Houston, where in addition to the usual complement of classes they both study Spanish. Connor loves history, swimming, soccer, and piano, and Isabelle is into PINK in a big way.
Daughter number two; Cheryl lives in Smyrna, Georgia. Cheryl works as a financial analyst for Cingular Communications. She is a West Point graduate and served 3 years in the Army as a lieutenant. She then went back to the University of Michigan and earned a degree in Library Science and worked three more years in that profession. Then it was back to college life, this time to the University of Texas for an MBA. Cheryl has moved 11 times since earning her bachelor's degree, trying out many of the major cities in the US. She has just purchased a new home.
Tony is our third child and only son. He went to Stanford, majored in computer science, and promptly moved to a farm in northern Missouri where he and many others live a sustainable lifestyle in an intentional community called Dancing Rabbit. He and Rachel Katz, another Stanford grad, are "life partners" and had a commitment ceremony to that effect in June, 2000. Rather than describe what all goes on in their intentional community I refer you to their web site. It has lots of great pictures.
Bob, as mentioned above, graduated from Notre Dame, and owns his own business, Sirco Associates, Inc. which is a contract programer company in the metropolitan Detroit area. He started the company in 1979.
But Bob's real passion is Vintage Cars. Make that CARS, CARS, CARS. Bob is an active member of the Gull Wing Group International and currently serves as its President. This club exists to celebrate the wonderful 300SL Sports Cars built by Mercedes-Benz in the middle 50's to early 60's. It includes the well known Gull Wing, famous for doors that open upward and the Roadster version that followed in 1957.
Bob restores these cars, takes them apart, rebuilds them, hot rods the engines, drives them, races them, and hauls them all over the continent. Sometimes he evern hauls them to another continent.
Right now his goal is to set a speed record at the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, and he has spent several years tricking out the engine of his Gull Wing in hopes of breaking the record.
Gail is a graduate of St. Louis University and the University of Michigan and taught junior high school before retiring to raise her children. She also taught part time in adult high school, and for a short time owned her own needlework shop. Yes, Gail's abiding avocation--for at least 30 years now--is needlework. It actually has been a career for her, as she teaches needlepoint and embroidery all over the country, at seminars and chapters of the American Needlepoint Guild, the Embroiderers' Guild of America, and sometimes even the Embroiderers' Association of Canada. She is certified as a needlework teacher by The National Academy of Needlearts (NAN), and as a needlework judge by the same organization. In 2002 she presented her Honors, a thesis length paper cum slide presentation and display that is the result of 5 years of research on her part. The title of the thesis is "In Praise of the Needlewoman: the iconography of the embroiderer in western art 1500-present."
Gail is treasurer of NAN, and has held many other offices for that organization over the years. She has also served both EGA and ANG in various capacities over the years, and is the secretary of the National Embroidery Teacher's' Association. It is difficult to find time to actually stitch.
Her latest endeavor has been writing. Her first book called In Praise of the Needlewoman: Embroiderers, Knitters, Lacemakers, and Weavers in Art was published in August 2006, and so far has had rave reviews.
To see Gail's embroideries click here.
Gail's other passion is travel. To see some of their travel photos click here.