Happy Birthday Duane

Hope you have a wonderful day - and that the weather is nice enough for you to take the day off and go fishing!

We would call that a 'Miracle at Stinky Bay'.

Evil Roy Slade

I wanted to wait until David had been in the family a year before exposing him to ERS.
But he watched it while he was in Florida over Christmas.
And life for Tara has never been the same - "drop your curly locks and put on your socks".

And to make matters worse, Duane watched it while he was in Florida - but I guess he has been in the family long enough.

So to all the women in the family I apologize.
But you are 'prettier than the sun glistening off my riffle barrel'!

-Mike

From 82 degrees to 25 degrees

Dear Family,

This is what you call going from Fl. to Il. We had a great time in the sun but you had sun too because you got rid of the snow at least for a day. It seems to be back today and in the forcast. Mike and Faye aare great hosts ans make you feel so welcome. I enjoyed the whole trip with good flights and great weather, good food and great company. Thanks again Mike and Faye.GG

Florida

Hi Everyone! Duane and I and Mom are enjoying our time with Mike and Faye. It is a beautiful sunny day. Duane just got back from fishing and I think he is going to try the pool. We enjoyed our cruise. It was nice to sit on our balcony and watch the full moon over the ocean. Sat. eveing we sat on the patio around the fire pit and also enjoyed the moon. We will be getting home tomorrow night about midnight. Love you all. Eileen

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. I'm putting everyone's birthday in my new planner and I'm missing David's and Kobe's. If someone would get these to me I would appreciated it. Now don't expect a birthday card but at least I think about you when I see it on my calendar!! We are getting ready for Kayla's graduation party. She is excited to be done but is thinking of going on to get her degree.

Keith, we are glad your reports have been encouraging. We pray you don't have any side effects from your injections.

I hope everyone has a great year.

Love, Eileen

Tim & Cathy's Christmas 2010

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Thanks...........

Heartfelt Thanks!
We would like to thank you-all (southern speak for family) for all the prayers! We are doing ok. Keith is recovering from the surgery and we are keeping our eyes on the Lord! Tuesday we meet with the oncologist and hopefully will hopefully formulate a great plan for treatment. We are grateful for all the love and prayers we have felt in the past few weeks. We cannot tell you how much you-all mean to us! What a wonderful family we have.

We will keep you posted.
Love,
Connie & Keith

Happy Thanksgiving

Okay, dear family, here is the situation, and I want honest opinions.

Gavin and Riley got the MMR vaccine on Nov. 11. Saturday, Gavin spiked a fever for a few hours, and yesterday he broke out in a rash. The doctor said he likely has either measles or rubella. Because he got it from the vaccine and not from a direct full exposure, it is unlikely that he is contagious according to the CDC and our doctor, but there is the remote possibility that he could pass it on.

Both measles and rubella are usually very mild illnesses with a low fever and rash. Gavin is fussy but otherwise fine. BUT rubella in particular can be dangerous if a non-immune pregnant woman gets it. I don't think any of us are currently pregnant unless I just haven't heard yet (or someone hasn't announced yet.) We also have several babies in the family who are too young to have gotten immunized. If anyone does not feel comfortable being around Gavin, let me know so we can plan to stay home on Thursday (or Brett and Gavin can stay home while the girls and I come, if that's an acceptable compromise.) You can e-mail me at kingtaran@yahoo.com if you don't want to answer here. As much as I want to see everyone, I don't want to put anyone at risk.

Jen

New Baby Boy

Kobe Nash

11/6/10 (on Daddy's birthday)

8lb. 8oz., 18.5"

Parents: Staci & Jerime

Everybody's doing great!

Update on my kids

We had a monster appointment for all four kids last week with our primary doctor. Ethne and Catie have started growing again, so Dr. C feels okay with backing off the testing for now. We still have no answers for why they were losing weight. I am glad we did the testing, but I'm also okay with backing off. The girls are happy, healthy, and meeting milestones. As long as they keep growing, I'm not worried about them being small. It's only when they stopped gaining and started losing that we wanted some tests done.

Thanks, everyone, for the prayers and support while we were testing the girls. Here's hoping they keep gaining.

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