Marie takes on bigger role at CodePen

Marie has been promoted to Product Manager at CodePen, where she has worked since becoming the start-up's first employee four years ago.

The company provides a platform for web designers and developers to experiment, test and debug their code, and to share ideas and critiques with one another.

CodePen's three founders hired Marie in September 2015 to handle support, community-outreach and social-media duties. She has written documentation and blog posts, produced podcasts and handled all manner of support issues, all from her home office, as well as representing CodePen at conferences around the country.

Her new job puts her in charge of the growing company's various products and projects.

A Father's Day gathering in NJ

A day after attending Liz's graduation party in Brooklyn, Hugh, Dolores, Doug, Lisa, Cathy, Christopher and Stephanie all joined Julie and Dan for brunch at their New Jersey home. For Hugh, it was a chance to spend Father's Day with his children and two of his grandchildren.

Family, friends celebrate Liz's master's degree

Liz celebrated her completion of graduate school with a party at a craft brewery in Brooklyn, Circa Brewing. She was joined by a crowd of friends, and by family members including her parents, Doug and Lisa; grandparents Hugh and Dolores; aunts Julie and Cathy; and cousins Christopher and Stephanie.

With her master's degree in transportation engineering and planning from New York University, Liz plans to return to Baltimore. She continues to work for WSP | Parsons Brinckerhof and will transfer back from its New York to its Baltimore office.

Meet-up at the art show

Marie, Brian and Xander made their annual visit to the Art All Night festival in Trenton on June 15-16. That gave Dan a chance to spend some time with his elder daughter, son-in-law and grandson on Father's Day weekend. Xander and Brian again entered pieces in the show. Xander's was an anime-style drawing of a character of his own design, and Brian's was a cubist version of one of his Electric Catnip felines.