Happy New Year, everyone!

The Halterman Family Reunion

It was time for our yearly family reunion of the Halterman family. We met at the community Center in Xenia, as always. I always enjoy visiting with everyone so much and am amazed at how fast the children are all growing up. We had so much delicious food and a good time was had by all. I forgot my camera, so you will just have to imagine "pictures here"...

Garret is home and getting better everyday.

Here are some pictures I took of Garret last week when I was staying with him. He is really so much better now....thank God. Thanks for all of the prayers and concern everyone....

Christmas Day with the Christmas Knights..

Christmas Eve with those crazy Haltermans!

Merry Christmas

Things are back to normal.......I hope....

I haven't posted for quite a while because Garret was so sick and in the hospital in Springfield. He is finally well enough to come home, and we are all so relieved. He was one sick little boy. He has been in the hospital for three weeks with pneumonia w/plurel effusions. He just wouldn't get well, until a pediatric surgeon went in and removed the pockets of infection and fluid. He is supposed to come home tomorrow, Christmas Eve. We are all so happy. I will be going to Decatur the day after Christmas to take care of him while Shelley and Cary go back to work.

So, it looks like it will be a Merry Christmas after all.

Just for laughs

We've been elfed....

CLick the link above if you need a good laugh today.......

Girls of '67 Christmas party

We met at Patricia Timm's home for our annual Christmas party for the girls of the class of 1967. For those of us who have stayed around the Salem area, it has become a tradition. There is nothing like re-uniting with old friends from high school. I really appreciate all of these ladies for being there for me during those taxing teen years. You are a great bunch, thanks for a great evening.

We had the most delicious meal. Patricia had made two kinds of salad, my fav. was spinach, onion, water chestnuts, chow mein noodles with a vinegarette dressing...she also had a 7-layer salad.
There were two kinds of soups: one was potatoe/broccoli cheese, it had some other vegies in it too...the other soup was kind of a hot chili soup with cream cheese melted in it and it was served over doritoes. Then there was the wieners wrapped in the biscuits, bbq'd weenies, and for dessert, cheese cake, chocolate cake baked in a crock pot, served with ice cream, and cakes with frosting shaped like Christmas wreaths....to drink she had white tea, iced tea, soda and coffee....Patricia gave us all a little Christmas decoration to take home. We were laughing so loud, it was a good thing she lives in the country.