2021 Christmas Family Reunion

December 16-28, 2021 Doug and Carla flew to Dallas, Texas where they rented a car and drove to Boyd, Texas for a lengthy visit with Carla's daughter, Lynne Lutton. It felt so wonderful after not seeing any of the family through the lengthy COVID pandemic and Carla's fourth bout with cancer which included chemotherapy this time. Doug says, "Carla survived cancer four times and chemotherapy once."

 

The visit was wonderful after so long not seeing anyone and no one had the misfortune of contracting COVID, thank God. Relatives came from Dallas, Springtown, Azle, Burleson, Weatherford and McKinney, Texas and we still didn't get to see everyone.

 

Carla's son Russ

 

 

 

 

Carla Kerr 

 

Lynne with Mom (Carla) in Lynne's spacious kitchen

Carla's great granddaughter, Tawni

Carla's grandsons, Landon and Dakoda making turkey sounds

 

Tawni, their mother, Marcia and Taylor Ann

Great Grandchildren, Dakoda, Brooke and Sydney with Granddaughter Tiffany

Carla and Doug lunching with Doug's daughter, Nancy

Lynne with her mom, Carla 

 

 

 

Grandson Drew with his son, Cooper

Alison getting acquainted with Great Grandmother, Carla

 

Drew carving the Christmas turkey 

 

Alison listening to Priscilla talking 

 

Priscilla helping Cooper eat

 

    Brooke and Alison sharing some cousin time      

Standing from L: Lynne, Wesley, Taylor, Jennifer, Carla, Tiffany, Priscilla and Drew

                Seated from L: Brooke, Alison, Sydney, Camden, Dakoda, Cooper, Landon and Ashton

Lynne's beautiful home 

 

Miss Maggie May

 

Carla, Samantha, Joshua and Joni

We had such a marvelous time visiting with each family and the grandchildren and the great grandchildren. What a wonderful way to celebrate the end of chemotherapy and the beginning of my weight gaining regimen. As I am very late in putting this communique together, I can tell you that I am up to 119 pounds and I have a full head of hair. It feels good to look like myself again. My sweet husband, Doug, was with me and apparently he was behind the camera so much that we only got one photo of him when we met his daughter, Nancy, for lunch and the waitress took that one.

I am so grateful for being blessed with such a big family. Since we visited there, Samantha is newly married (last October) and Taylor Ann is now engaged, so the grandchildren and great grandchildren are carrying on as nature intended.

This is all I have to say for now.

Relatives Visit from San Diego, California

October 2, 2016

Our granddaughter, Tiffany Peterson, and her mother, Kelley Cromwell came by for breakfast and a driving break with our precious great grandchildren, Dakoda (almost 4) and Brooke (3 years old).

We had a lovely visit while they ate pumpkin pancakes, bacon and scrambled eggs. I had some items left over from my International Red Hat Convention in San Antonio, Texas last month which I had saved to give to the children. They each got a stick horse, red cowboy hats and other items I had put together for them to play dress-up.

L to R: Dakoda, Tiffany, Grammy Carla, Brooke and Mimi Kelley enjoying breakfast

Brooke, Kelley and Tiffany

I appear to be spinning some kind of yarn to Kelley and Tiffany

Apparently, Dakoda likes his new hat

Brooke continues to eat. She can put it away!

Dakoda with his new stick horse named "Lady Glitter"

Looks like Brooke has finally eaten all she possibly can!

Dakoda is a'ridin'

Brooke wonders why her horse doesn't whinny like Dakoda's does when she pinches her ear

They are enjoying this ride

Kelley watching the kids ride

Brooke, waving to the camera

L to R: Tiffany, Brooke, Carla, Dakoda and Kelley. Four generations represented here!

It was a delightful visit and we hated to see them continue on their journey to Springtown, Texas, but Pops was waiting there for their arrival. Maybe we will be lucky enough to see them again when they do the return drive to San Diego.

Thanks to Douglas A. Kerr, Photography for taking all the pictures and, as usual, we forgot to take one of him (also known as Papa Doug).

This is all I have to say for now.