Prettiest girl on campus

Carl picked the prettiest girl on campus to marry! Happy birthday, Ann.

I thought others might like to see the news from the 1950's at IIT. (Since I am still in a learning process with blogging, they printed out in reverse order.) I will mail these to Ann in her card. . I loved the price of the dance: $1.00. They were giving the profit to the Field House fund. You can read more from Technology News online.

March 2 Update

Stacy and Brett are still engaged. You can see more on her Facebook page. They have not set a date yet, but it will probably be sometime in 2011.

Also, today is March 2 so happy birthday to Peg.

News Flash

Happy Valentines day to all - I got a phone call from Stacy today telling me that she and Brett are now officially engaged. He popped the question last night. They haven't set the date yet.

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 was a great opportunity to get a family picture taken. It had been 3 1/2 years since we had done one. I will spare you the ones where Phil and I are frowning or have our eyes closed. We used to think it was hard to get 8 little ones to cooperate, but now we see that even getting older ones to all smile at the same time is a challenge. Amy and Julie blogged about the rest of our holiday celebration and do it so well. Needless to say spending time with family is always the highlight of our week.


The directions for this was for everyone to look at the little guy! Love the shot of love and caring. It was Andrew's year to be the center of attention since he had been baptised two days before and was the reason that we all could be together.


This was the pose from oldest to youngest. They are all growing up way too fast! The line-up is Zack, Tyler, Nicole, Emma, Leah, Becca, Brooke and Andrew.

Our awesome grandkids!

How could we not pick this picture? Zack made it easy to find out takes.

Actually this was the preferred shot for the whole family.

Reunion Picture

Heres a picture I found of the Hinsdale reunion.

New Picture

I was looking through some pictures and found this one from the 1998 reunion. If I remember right this was taken in the Rosens (next door neighbors) back yard.

Phil and I have enjoyed watching the Ken Burns series on National Parks. It brought back a lot of memories of my folks and especially my dad. He loved and respected the natural beauty found in the United States. He could have been one of the ones who worked to help keep the parks free and open to the public. He was always upset at the people who littered and abused the natural beauty, although we did drive the car through the Sequoia tree that had been cut to form a tunnel. I remember Uncle Christ helping him work the car through so that the tree and the car did not come into contact.

The only upset from the trip that we took with Christ and Lis Koerner was over Mirror Lake. Dad talked for miles about going to see it and Uncle Christ was driving as we flew past. Dad yelled at him to turn into the drive, but evidently Christ's ears popped so severely in the mountains that he just could not hear what people were saying.

Over the years we visited the Petrified Forest, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Sequoias, the Badlands, Yellowstone, and several trips to the Tetons. Mom loved to travel also, but always loved coming home to the green of Illinois. What a great heritage of love of natuare we got from both of them. The series made me wish we could take off and visit some of the places we have never seen. I will have to see what pictures I can find to post. Dad took some beautiful pictures.