We may tell you more than you want to know about our family.OUR FAMILY
Updated: 06/09/10
We may tell you more than you want to know about our family.
We will try
to be brief … but … please bear with us
if we key too many words and display
too many photographs.
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Family Reunion June, 2010
To read about this year's reunion, click Family Reunion 2010 .
Visit our Reunion History page to see our annual group photographs (2000-2010).
LINKS: Our Children With their significant others The grandchildren . . .
We threw in a little about us at MOM and DAD .
You will also find a few words about OUR PARENTS on this page.
Use this link to read our 2009 Holiday Letter
.
Look at our 2009 Christmas Photographs using this link.
Becky Fred Melanie Scott
Michelle Steve
LINKS to their pages:
FRED and BECKY , MICHELLE and STEVE and MELANIE and SCOTT.
Nicholas Lillian
Caitlin Ashlyn
LINKS to their pages:
Caitlin and Nicholas
Ashlyn and Lillian
Caitlin Nicholas
Ashlyn Lillian
FRED
and BECKY have lived in Indiana since 1999. Fred enjoys the longer season for
outdoor activities - fishing, hunting and just watching animals. Becky enjoys being
closer to her siblings. They both appreciate the open space they missed in the
city. We camp in their driveway for a week or so a couple times a year.
Fred owns and operates an optical store in a town near their home. He also serves as a volunteer fireman for a local community. Becky is a homemaker - managing the household. Both have jobs on the side but find time to be very active in their church.
CAITLIN, their first child, was born on September 3, 2000. She is also our first grandchild.
We have more information and photographs. Caitlin
NICHOLAS, their second child, was born on March 5, 2003. He is our third grandchild.
We have more information and photographs. Nicholas
Their pets are members of the family too. They have two dogs and a cat sharing their home with them. Max is a stray they have had for a many years. Ziva is a stray Becky brought home in mid-2009. They are both nice dogs. The cat, Bandit, is coming downstairs more now that there are only two dogs to contend with. Pepper, the black lab, had to be putdown in October, 2009
Max
Bandit
Ziva
MICHELLE and STEVE moved
in 2007 to
a city a little farther away from us. They are still close enough that we are able to see them
regularly when we are home.
They have a 5th wheel trailer which they thoroughly enjoy. We spend a weekend or
a few days camping with them
each year.
Michelle is the compensation and benefits manager for a supplier to the automotive industry. Steve is an engineering technician in the survey department of a civil engineering / land surveying company.
ASHLYN, their first child, was born on March 8, 2002. She is our second grandchild.
We have more information and photographs. Ashlyn
LILLIAN, their second child, was born on May 13, 2004. She is our fourth grandchild.
We have more information and photographs. Lillian
In
2008, Riley was added to the family. He was a stray from the wooded area behind
their house who wandered into their yard and their hearts.
MELANIE
also lives in a city near us. She enjoys her backyard - sitting on the patio and
doing yard work. She has many interests. Among her favorite activities are water
skiing and tennis. Melanie is a business systems analyst with a nation-wide homebuilder.
Scott works at the same homebuilder. They have known each other for over five years and dating for over a year.
They became engaged on Easter, 2010. We look forward to the time when Scott is an 'official' member of our family.
If you look real hard, you can see Melanie in one of her favorite spots - behind the boat.
When
she isn't behind the boat, she is the captain.
Last summer she shared the bow of her boat with Scott at
Higgins Lake.
Melanie has another favorite place - the patio in her backyard.
Sorry, no pet, no pet photograph.
MOM and DAD (that's us) are
doing well. Fred retired from his job as a cost analyst at a major automotive
manufacturer on February 28, 2001. Mary Lou retired from her job as a call
director at an electronic parts distributor on June 14, 2002. We sold our house and purchased a new condo in the area. We
moved into the condo the end of June, 2002. The condo gives us more freedom to "come and go" as we choose.
We have been very fortunate, with the help of family and friends, to be able to travel since we retired. In 2009, we visited our 49th state. There are several destinations we still want to visit - the rest we will find as we roam.
We have adapted well to our job as grandparents. As grandparents, we would never, ever, under any circumstances, even consider, spoiling our grandchildren. Well, maybe that is not entirely true.
OUR PARENTS
Prior to moving to our condominium in June, 2002, we always lived within four miles of our parents - except for our time
in Missouri with the U. S. Army. As our children were growing up, they and we always appreciated the frequent
interaction with their grandparents made possible by living near each other.
Mary Lou's mother died in August, 2001.
Fred's father died in July, 1998.
Her father died in January, 2001.
His mother died July, 2007.
