RAZVAN BIRTHDAY 2012by Vladimir and Tania

Happy Birthday Raz, we have always been proud of you, everyday of our life.You are the best son a parent could possibly have! And we mean it . …

Let’s go back in time

FROM THE FIRST STEPS….

No steps

Some steps

Climbing.

Ready for driving

Years

SOME 35 YEARS AGO..

Under your Mom’s close coordination you are digging for …gold; even if you know that is a childish preoccupation you keep looking because – as you used to say – let’s pretend.. (“sa zicem noi” )

The kindergarten – a more serious approach of life

In th

e fi

rst year

A round table

Female spies or just girls ?

A rescue mission

A well deserved vacation after a stressful year…

The youngest (male) generation

as Dumitrescu family support

rescuerrescued

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION…

Acting as the most important letter of the

alphabet

The “team” leader

1979 – A VERY IMPORTANT YEAR

Once he graduated the Kindergarten he started to prepare for his real career, as he will acknowledge 25 years later….

I remember his serious face listening me during our walking in and around Tineretului Park.

And it’s so rewarding for me to observe, over the years, that his mind was so open to absorb the information of this type or a complete different one…I was just the trigger, who gave him a good direction…..

He always keeps an open mind

(even today, ha, ha, ha!!!)

THE PRIMARY SCHOOL

At 6 years and one month Razvan is ready to go to school. Are we too?….

Apparently, yes..

And year after year he took first prize in all grades of primary school

1st grade

2nd grade

7th grade

4th grade with his “equals”

THE HIGH SCHOOL

The last day – the high school graduation; he’s getting ..mature.

I would say on the

contrary

The admission day –When I saw him listed

among the firsts I hugged him and start

dancing around; he was so sure it will be

admitted that barely looked at the lists

INSTEAD OF REAL PICTURE

After high school the obvious choice: Polytechnica

These pictures

are merely after the

Polytehnica graduation.Apparently

Raz preparing to drive a

high performanc

e car LADA 1200,

somewhere in

Bucharest AD 1994

At 24 in California: the big decision

Apparently he choose to change the direction, from computer science to civil engineering, cooking and , strange enough, pet hair cutting.

What other hidden skills he’s going to reveal in the future?

ADMISSION TO YORK UNIVERSITY

Sorry, no pictures available

CHRISTMAS 1998 IN CALIFORNIA

With joy, among the relatives and friends

MOVING TO OTTAWA Tania, in 1999, among the first guests to his Ambleside condo

and to his lovely town

AMONG THE FOUNDERS OF

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

TRAVELING WITH US: SPAIN 2003

A big step forward: his Manotick house (1)

His dream became true: a house in the forest!!

When we saw it we were open mouthed

A big step forward: his Manotick house (2)

To get used

with the house:

our next visit from

California in

November 2004

The call from Canada or the Americans invasion

Raz, as always,

took care of his

parents: we moved permanent

ly to Ottawa in

2005 – here is our summer and first

winter

AT 30 – A NEW BIG ACHIEVEMENT

In August 2004 he showed me his thesis. Like always, he was telling me, discreetly, about a great accomplishment in his career. He was just, 30 years old.

When I reached the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS page I burst into tears of joy and pride. He wrote something that touched me deeply, and I quote him:

“In October 1979, when I was five, Vladimir explained to me how a semaphore works in an Operating System. Probably this is how everything started…”

As I already said, I was just a trigger, at the right moment……. Back to caller

Traveling a lot to China, Scandinavia, Vienna

CHINA

EUROPE

ANOTHER MILESTONE: YVONA IN HIS LIVE

At Raz suggestion

Yvona moved to

Ottawa from Vancouver to get his Master in

International affairs at Carleton

University.Shortly, we became an

joyful family.

TRAVELING TO PRAGUE

Getting along with

Yvona family. Raz is happy with Vera,

Thomasz and

Babychka and they

are happy

too with Raz (and with us)

HAPPY TOGHETER AT YVONA GRADUATION

Celebrating Yvona graduation, was,for all of us, a big emotional moment…

After two years of hard work Ivona got the great achievement of her career and Razvan was an integral part of her effort. And we were happy for their happiness.,.

SOUTH AFRICA – A DREAM VACATION (1)

They planned this vacation carefully long time ago. They did it and they were rewarded for their effort.

SOUTH AFRICA – A DREAM VACATION (2)

Look at them: they are so full of joy and happiness. Bravo and do it again!

WE LOVE YOU SON

Happy Birthday to you! May you be happy

and successful in all that you do.

27 August 2012