The Rutherford Home - 1425 Hillcrest, Clovis, NM

Heath and Meredith were married in June 2006 and purchased their first home in August 2006. I took a picture of them in their yard one afternoon and decided I wanted this in the blog so our out of town relative could see their home.









They have friends over to play cards and boardgames often, they enjoy their home.

West Texas A & M Homecoming 2007

We enjoy attending the WTAMU parade and homecoming festivities. Here is a picture of the WT Herdsmen running down the street at the parade.

KAMR TV had a float featuring their newscast personnel. The float is pulled by Grubb driving Lee K.'s truck. Lee K. is on the front right corner of the float.























Lee K. and Matt Damon.























Brad Fralick, Andy Justus and Lee K. Howard

These are three great guys.

Brad and Andy were at the game to broadcast the live cast that KAMR was doing for the Fox network. Lee K. was there because he is an alumni and he was shooting highlights to use on his evening sportscast for the TV viewers.

Brad and Andy preparing for the live cast.
















WTAMU has the largest attendance of any D2 school in the nation. This game had 23 thousand in attendance. This picture is taken from the home side looking at the visitor side. The majority of the fans on the visitor side are really WTAMU fans that were not able to get seats on the home side because they were sold out.
WTAMU beat ENMU for a homecoming victory.










Another shot of the stadium.














Larry and Kathy Roberts, Thomas Roberts, D'Arcy Marlow, Jeff and Kelly Reed, Heath and Meredith Rutherford, and Grubb and I all spent the day attending the homecoming festivities.














Lee K. is leaving the game to go prepare for the evening news.




















Another shot of Lee K.















Lee K. and Blake Bonner. Blake is the third of my sister Jill's triplets. Blake was at the game to watch WT play and he spotted his cousin Lee K.

10-10-07 at the Rutherford's

Wednesday 10-10-07? I have no idea how this really happened. We can no longer get everyone together for Christmas and we all ended up in Clovis, NM on 10-10-07?


Here is how it happened:


Lee K. called and said he had decided to come to Clovis on Wednesday, his day off. He called back and stated that Rachel and Abi would like to come up from Lubbock and meet him in Clovis.


I called my mom and told that Lee K. would be coming from Amarillo and Rachel and Abi from Lubbock, and invited her to eat dinner with us on Wednesday. I then called Bly and L.K. and they said they would also join us. Bly called back and said that Molly was also coming to town that day from Lubbock and that Larry, Anna and Molly would be joining us for dinner.


Meredith and I discussed grilling burgers at their home so we could all just be casual and visit more with each other than we would be able to in a restaurant. Here is a picture of Heath and Meredith on their patio grilling for all of the Howard family and my mom, Marjorie.





Heath at work.

























L.K. and Grubb discussing the days work.
Grubb is still in his work clothes, he had just driven in from working on a well.
























Can you tell that Rachel had not seen Lee K. for awhile? Here is Lee K. telling his cousin, Molly Bly some story. Molly is in nursing school in Lubbock. How was she able to be home in the middle of the week?


Lee K. and his grandmother Bly
























L.K. and Grubb



























The Rutherford hacienda. Meredith has always loved color and studying at the University of Guadalajara definitely influenced her color choices. I love this kitchen it looks just like Meredith.





















Meredith and Grammie in the kitchen preparing the meal.
















Abi is in the first grade and she is learning to read. She is reading to Papa, Grandmother, Molly, her mom Rachel, and Lee K.
















Another picture of Abi reading to the family.






















Here it is October and Merediths flowers are still really pretty.

Kathy has her Masters Degree

On August 31, 2007 our friend, Kathy Roberts received her Masters Degree. We are so proud of her. She has spent many hours studying and writing papers to reach this goal.





























The graduation ceremony was at 10:00am on Friday morning and that evening her family and friends gathered at a patio party hosted by Debbie and David Hudson. We had so much fun celebrating this accomplishment with Kathy.































Kathy and her graduation cake.


Meredith shows her talents by making a "graduation hat" for each of us to eat.

Larry, Kathy and Tory at the graduation ceremony. Thomas was not able to be here for the ceremony but came in Friday evening for the party.

Kathy with Larry's parents, Jerry and Willie Roberts.

Kathy with her sister, Sheila, Larry and Tory. Sheila came in from Bastrop, Texas to attend the graduation.

Brian Hudson, Ronnie Cole, Tory and Thomas Roberts. It is so much fun to see how the boys are growing up and maturing. Three of these boys are now college graudates and have entered the working world. Brian is a Sophomore at Oklahoma State and it was fun to see him, he isn't home very often.

Thomas, Tory and Ronnie.

























Steve and Debbie Shipley drove over from Littlefield, Texas to join in the celebration. Steve and Debbie were friends of Larry and Kathy when they all lived in Lubbock, Texas in the early 80's.































David Hudson is showing us how to make the Texas Tacos that they prepared for the evening. They were wonderful.

Here are the girls. Shannon Cole, Meredith Rutherford, D'arcy Marlow.

Ardeth, Laticia, Kathy and Sheila posed for a picture.



Ronnie and Shannon
































Grubb sitting on the steps to the hot tub. I guess he was surprised that I was taking his picture.

David, Leon and Larry.

This was funny, here is a picture of Tory and Geoff. They were college roommates for several years. They both graduated in May and Geoff left for Houston to start his career. None of us had seen Geoff for several months. We were so suprised when he walked through the gate but we all had a laugh when we noticed that he and Tory were wearing identical shirts.

Steve and Lenie stop and pose for the camera

Geoff and Amy. We will all be traveling to Houston in January to attend their wedding.

Kathy, we are proud of you.