May 2005 - IT'S A BOY - Information about the adoption!

April 2005 - Vacation to Disneyland and Seattle - (coming soon)

12/14/04 – Getting a tree....decorating a tree....and some other stuff

11/25/04 – Thanksgiving 2004 – At Mike and Jayne's and in Fresno with the Donnelly's

10/11/04 – EUROPEAN VACATION – Sept. - Oct. 2004

8/10/04 – FLOOR PLANS – First view of the plans in progress

7/25/04 – Mom's (Clary) 75^th Birthday Celebration at our house

7/18/04 – Mike and Brian Painting the house - July 2004

7/4/04 - 4^th of July in Ashland (2004) (new)

6/13/04 – Gaskell's Ball - June 13th, 2004

4/16/04 – Nancy and Bob's wedding

12/5/03  -  Holiday Wine Tasting Party

11/27/03  - Thanksgiving 2003

8/31/03  -   Wedding Pictures

10/4/02   -  Weekend in Yosemite (October 4^th – 6^th)

8/16/02   -  The Ring!

8/9/02     -  Photos from our camping trip to Bodega Bay (August 9^th – 11^th, 2002)

7/21/02   -  Engagement Party

7/21/02   -  Our Engagement Annoucement (and party invitation)

7/4//02   -  Photos and news from the 4th of July, 2002

3/20/02  - The web site for the company we may use for building our new home

3/20/02   -  Mike and Jayne's (potential) Ashland property. 21 Acres of wooded mountainside; 4 miles from the Ashland Plaza

3/1402    -  Pictures of Mike and Jayne's trip to Ashland. (March 14-19th, 2002)

3/14/02  - Jayne's much faster web page (under construction) of our Ashland trip.(March 14-19th, 2002)

4/26/02  - Updates on the Ashland Property Project

4/3/02     -   Pictures from Ashland

About ratboy.net:         

This is a personal web site for Michael and Jayne Donnelly .

Mike writes: I currently have the pleasure of working at Sendmail, Inc.  If my name looks familiar, perhaps you knew me from Sybase, from Pixar Animation Studios, or from Irish dancing somewhere.  If you know me but we've gotten out of touch, please drop me a line!

Jayne writes: I have just left work as a training consultant to be a 100% mom. Hopefully I'll be able to do some part-time work in the future, but now my focus is my wonderful baby boy, Alexander. To contact me, send a note.

5/8/2005 - UPDATE:  The call came in, we are off to Russia to meet Alexander. We also need to find some place to live as the house is sold. We are going to try to get up to Ashland at some point during this adoption process to find a house to buy, however.... details are changing daily as we prepare to bring our baby boy home. Keep watching for more details.

8/5/2004 - The adoption paperwork is FINISHED!!! We are officially in “wait mode” and hope to be hearing something soon. Sometime in the next year we will be travelling to Kaliningrad, Russia to finalize the adoption of a child. Wish us luck.

While we wait we are busy working on the floorplans for the new house. We have almost finished the design, and then we begin building. Watch for updates and pictures.

August 31st, 2003