Working through the family letters has brought me to another year filled with Joy and Family. Goode-Stock at Custer State Park, a trip up above Yellowstone to Hell's A Roarin outfitters, a family re-union with Austin and his Birth Family. Lots of Family re-unions this year
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Wedding Day
Greg, Vince, Marcy, Dixie, Austin, Emerson |
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| The Crescent City, Goode family |
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| Vince & Marcy |
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| Emerson and Grandpa Harvey |
Merry Christmas and Happy
2011 to you
from Dixie and Greg, Austin and Emerson
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| Raft Ride at Cody Wyoming |
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| Christmas 2010 |
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| My Family at Vince's wedding |
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| Lance at Hell's A Roarin' Outfitters |
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| Pahaska teepee |
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| Austin gets my Dad's Truck |
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| In Fern Canyon |
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| Goode-stock |
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| My Boys |
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| Vince and Marcy's wedding |
Hello
again,
The year has once
again flown by and left me wondering where it went. Sometimes I think that I could just copy the letter from
last year, because we keep plodding along in the same yearly routines – but I
like that. This year, I feel the
end of those routines following my every footstep as I realize that my baby
boys have turned into young men, and the time when we have two children at home
is slipping away so fast as to be already gone.
Austin is going to
turn 18 at the end of March, and Emerson will be 17 just a couple weeks after
that. By June 2012 we will be done
with the High School Days. Except
for Greg who is in his fifth year teaching High School Band and Choir across
the border in Brookings, Oregon.
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| Austin with his birth family |
The highlights of our year were mainly
about family. The first really
exciting one happened on March 29, Austin’s 17th birthday, when he
flew to Nebraska to meet his birth Mom, her husband, his sister, and three
younger 1/2 sisters. They have
always been in touch, but this was the first time, since he was a month old,
that they have been able to hold each other. We have been so lucky to share him with another family who
loves him
as we do.
The next major event was that Emerson started driving and his Grandma
Mimi gave him her car, and now I
have even more reason to worry.
Honestly, The person who said that deciding to have children meant
deciding to always have your heart running around outside your body, had it
right.
In May, Greg and I
celebrated our 26th anniversary, Austin started working at Burger
king and Emerson earned an academic Letter at del Norte high school.
June was a happy month. Three years after we lost Greg’s big
sister April, her husband Vince remarried. The wedding was a delightful celebration, with a few intense
tea filled moments of bitter-sweet memories. We love April still, but Marcy is a wonderful new member of
our family, and it is great to
see Vince so happy again.
Then we drove back to
Wyoming to celebrate Mimi and Harvey’s 60th anniversary with a
family reunion in Custer State Park.
That was a great visit, followed by a visit to Cody to see Grandma
Priscilla and Uncle Lance where she gave Austin my dad’s old Ford truck.
Everyone managed to
get together, except we didn’t see my brother Brett and his kids, or our nephew
Cody’s children. Mom and Lance did
get back to see Brett and family at the start of December. Greg and I rented
our favorite Gold Beach Cabin for Thanksgiving and our nephew Connor, and Vince
and Marcy came there to join us.
My other news, is I
finally managed to publish one of the many writing projects that I have always
been working on. My fantasy novel,
with a 9 year old boy with cerebral palsy as the main character, goes from a
school shooting to a life changing journey to another world. Duffy Barkley is Not a Dog, can
be ordered by any bookstore or library, and is available on Amazon.com.
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| Duffy Barkley is Not a Dog |
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