Christmas at our home 2007

Christmas at Mom's 2007

Christmas afternoon we went to Farwell to my mom's house. We had a fun evening with mom, Jill and Jordan Bonner, Scott and Karen Watkins and Grubb and Sandy Howard, Heath and Meredith Rutherford, Lee K. Howard, Rachel and Abi Engler.

Mom prepared a mexican meal. (Rachel thinks our family only eats mexican food. She is just about correct.) We had enchiladas, fajitas, beans, rice, guacamole, queso dip, chips and several desserts.














Sandy, Jill, Scott and mom. We are not usually together at any holiday so it was special that we could all be together.














Sandy, Jill and mom.
















Grubb, Sandy, Jill, and mom all having fun opening gifts.















Abi laughing and showing her gift to someone.















Grubb saw this goofy truck at Gander Mountain and thought it was so funny. It is an old jalopy pickup that jiggles around and sings songs. Mom purchased it for Grubb because she was with us when he was looking at it at the store. Here he is demonstrating how it works.















Mom, Mere and Lee K. I don't have a picture of Heath, Karen or Jordan, they must have all been camera shy.















Sandy and Lee K., Rachel took this picture.
















Rachel, Sandy and Lee K.

Christmas Brunch

Every Christmas morning, we have brunch at our home for both sides of our family and anyone else that would like to join us.

This year we had Grubb's parents, Bly and L.K., Grubb's sister and her husband, Larry and Anna and Larry's friend, Dave from New York. We also had my mother, Marjorie Watkins, my brother and his wife, Scott and Karen Watkins. We had our daughter, Meredith and her husband Heath, our son Lee K. and his girlfriend, Rachel and Rachel's daughter Abi.




I make a Christmas punch each year and here you see Lee K. pouring punch for his dad because Grubb is holding Majerle our yorkie.










































I use my Spode Christmas china for the brunch.









The menu is always about the same, Egg and sausage casserole, pull apart bread, Christmas Cranberry coffee cake, muffins, punch, and coffee.


Bly brings the coffee cake each year.







Larry relaxing after brunch.























Bly and L.K. holding Majerle.

















Grubb

Marjorie




















Heath and Dave














Molly and Jonathan could not be here this Christmas. They are in Anchorage Alaska having their first Christmas together. However, Molly knew we would all be together at brunch so she called to wish us all a Merry Christmas. We passed the phone around the room so we could all talk to her.



Molly's mom, Anna, talked to her first and then passed the phone around for us all to talk to her. Rachel is talking to Molly now.
































Grandmother and PaPa talking to Molly






It is Lee K.'s turn to talk to Molly

















Now, Mere has a turn to visit with Molly.

Tim

Illene, Steve and Tim Vernon.

I am writing this about Tim, a nice looking, talented college student. Having said all of that, Tim needs a liver and kidney transplant. He is on dialysis six days a week while awaiting a his transplant surgery that will take place in Rochester Minnesota.

The Vernon family was a blessing to Clovis. They came to Clovis a few years ago because Ilene's family was involved in the dairy business here. We fell in love with them immediately.




This picture has Tim's older brother, Geoff and his fiancee(now wife) in the picture. We attended Geoff and Amy's wedding last week in Houston. Tim and Ilene flew from Houston to Rochester on Sunday and Tim has been having test all week long in preparation for the transplant. It is so hard to believe that anyone this young and that looks as healthy as Tim is in need of this medical procedure.

Pray with us all that Tim will receive this transplant soon and that it will be without any complications.
God Bless this family.