Family Time

Mom and Dad invited the family over to their house for dinner on Wednesday before Pa's funeral Thursday. Eight of Pa's nine children made it over, and many of my cousins were there with their kids as well.

Three of the great-grandsons, Noah, Bryden, and Jackson, had such fun wrestling and playing football!

The following sequence of pictures is in the running for top all-time moments caught on camera:

Great-grandchildren of Pa: Audrey (3), Kate (2), Noah (7), Beau (8 mos.), Bryden (6), Matthew (1), Jackson (4)

Noah almost drops Beau as Audrey "meows" and Kate "cheeses"

Recovered, but Beau is traumatized

Pa's grandchildren in attendance with our children (most of them)
Ally and Daniel Darling, Evan with Bryden Bradley, Anne with Matthew Olson, Kendall Iles, Adrian with Kate Gillum, Angela with Noah and Audrey Redman, Andrew Bennett, Diana with Beau Buchanan

 Everyone crammed into the living room to view the slideshow I put together for Pa's funeral.

Thursday was a really nice memorial service for Pa, followed by lunch at my Aunt Boo's house and lots of family pictures!

Pa's grandchildren with our spouses and children.
Josiah and Tina (missing Gabe and Zuri); Evan, Jenn and Bryden; Chase and Kendall; Matthew, Anne and Matthew, Jr.; Carolyn and Daniel; Jackson and Ally (missing Drew); Bryan and Meryl; Eric (missing kids Sophia and Laurel); CJ (missing wife Lindsay); Angela, Chris, Audrey and Noah; Beau, Diana and Mark; Matt, Adrian and Kate; Andrew

Simplifying things, these are Pa's grandchildren, oldest to youngest.
Meryl, CJ, Josiah, Angela, Eric, Adrian, Kendall, Evan, Diana, Daniel, Anne, Ally, and Andrew

The girl cousins--the middle five of us live in the DFW area

Pa's nine children and their grandchildren, missing Gabe and Zuri

"The nine" in order from youngest to eldest.
Jennifer, Janet, Dan, Barby, Kay, Andy, Tony, Nancy, Lynn

Everybody! Included here are all the spouses and the Rue side of the family (Granny B's kids and grandkids)

Me with my cousins CJ and Josiah. All of us are within 6 months of each other in age.
CJ is a chief warrant officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and Josiah is a deputy with the K9 unit of the Sheriff's department. I'm pretty proud of these guys!

My family