Our first great grandchild was born 14 August 1999, Alexandra Lynn Barlow, daughter of David and Elann. This is Sylvia’s first grandchild. We had a five generations picture taken with Alexandra (Alex), David Barlow, Sylvia Barlow, Barbara Honey and Corraine Williams.
Ashley and Tanner, Nancy’s children, spent a few days with us. Leon helped them make little step stools. They helped putting them together and then painted them. They wore Leon’s old white shirts to protect their clothes. I think they quite enjoyed that.
We had another great family Christmas party at the church. This year, there was no heat! It was cold!!! Some problem with the furnace but we had fun being together. Lauren was the director with Becky assisting. Peggy did the narrating. It is always fun to see the grandkids take part.
We finished a kids room in the basement and then had grandchildren paint pictures of Winnie the Pooh and friends. Pooh was painted by Ashley (10), Kanga by Stephanie (8). Laura (5) painted a flower, Tanner (7) painted E-yore and Piglet by Michelle (11). Rachel (10) did Tigger, Zack (7) and Hannah (3) painted a ball and another Pooh was painted by Katie (9). Michelle also painted "Pooh’s Corner" in different colors. Leon drew me a grid on the walls and I drew the figures. It is a fun room for the kids with a little table and two chairs and a toy box.
This year, 2000, saw three graduations: Jenny with a Master of Library Science from Clarion College, PA; Russell Romriell and Chris Barlow from high school.
We traveled again to visit Tricia and Mark. At Tricia’s Laurisa played her clarinet for us and on Mother’s Day, the Romriells brought me breakfast in bed! We always enjoy the pool in Austin. We then visited Mark and Sharon in St. Louis. They now have five children with Rebekah being the youngest. We drove to Kansas City and met Leon’s cousin, Letha Sormanti. She’s descended from Burton Honey, Barsuma’s brother. We also met a granddaughter of Burton’s. It was nice to connect with these distant Honey cousins.
We visited the old Ellsworth cabin in Payson. It was built by Leon’s great Grandfather, German Ellsworth. Five children were born in it. I can’t imagine how the family lived in that small house. It now is used for storage. German built a nice larger house for his growing family.
A distant cousin and her husband now own the property.
3 comments:
There certainly has been alot of family growth in the ensuing years....we are now expecting our 16, 17, and 18th grandchildren.
Life has been so chaotic I have missed your last couple of postings so I went back, I loved having you guys visit. It was so fun to show you around, thank you for going out of your way to come and see me in Penn. I had forgotten I graduated the same year Chris did, man time goes by fast. I love you Grandma!!!!
Alex was such a cute baby! I didn't realize that Rebekah was born the same year as Alex.
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