Happy 21st Birthday Mandy

My niece, Mandy, turns 21 today.  All grown up...happy birthday Mandy, Love Aunt Lynne

Nori, Mandy and Ray

It must be Genetic..

While we are in the middle of the NCAA tournament, I thought I'd share the following picture of Selma and her sister.  They were basketball players for Zanesville High School in 1916.

Linda is holding the Kewpie doll

 I know that John Riley (Grandson of Selma) played basketball for Capital University.  I have three nieces  (Mandy, Megan and Emily Raymer) who played/playing high school basketball.   There must be something in the genes or it may have something to do with the girls' father being 6'8".

Emily & Tony Raymer

Mandy Raymer

Emily & Megan Raymer

Happy Birthday Mandy!

Today is the 20th Birthday of my niece, Amanda Lee Raymer.  She is the eldest daughter of my sister, Judy and her husband. She is a Sophomore at the College of Charleston.  

The Riley/King/Raymer Christmas Picture

We resolved the technical issues we had with our family picture.  Here it is!

Documenting Christmas Traditions

I saw on another blog the importance of documenting your family's Christmas Traditions.  We can spend so much time and energy documenting the lives of our ancestors that we forget to document our own family.  I am sure there are many elaborate traditions but some simple ones as well.

I am sure many families do what we did as children and what we did with our children, New Jammies on Christmas Eve.  Trust me, it is much harder to do with boys.

Lynne 1960

Max 1995

Think about your traditions and how they started.  One of our "little" traditions has to do with Captain Crunch.  Wouldn't Quaker Oats be thrilled?  When the kids were little Mom and Dad would have them all over to spend the night before Christmas to unwrap Mom's Santas.  It became known as Santa Slumber Party.  They would give them Christmas Captain Crunch for breakfast.  The Captain Crunch morphed into what they wanted for Christmas Dinner.  Every year Dad still looks for it and my boys, now in their 20's, still want it if it can be found.