Granny,s Trip

Well Granny ( Marion) left N.J. this morning and she arrived safely in Houston. She enjoyed playing Dominos, and had a Salmon dinner at Kelley's. Her next stop will be at Dougs and Leslie's in Louisiana, then on to Tallahassee to Ralph and Lourie's . She will be enjoying Thanksgiving with April and her family then she will be back in N.J, the first week in Dec. Aunt Robin got a good report from her Dr. her hip healed very good. I know everyone is busy I know I am, but if you have not sent your Reunion pics. to Sandi please do this so we can all enjoy your pics. of the Family Gathering, there are a lot of good Pics. still out there. Sandi has a lot of good pics. on her Photo Gallery, the white water ones that Bob took from his Kayak are great, and Sandi took great ones of the train ride. I,m so glad everyone took pictures at the Water Fall, It was almost as good as being able to be there myself, they were just beautiful. From all of us who couldn,t do those trips, Thanks!! Aunt Gail

You Know Your Getting Old When?

1. Grandma Marian's youngest grandchild turns 26.
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How To Post *

I've had a couple of people tell me that they haven't been able to post anything because they've forgotten how to do it. Unless you're on the blog a lot, it can be confusing. So here are some step-by-step directions.

1. To get onto the family blog, just click "sign in" in the upper right corner. This brings you to the sign-in screen. If you prefer, you can click the big "B" (in front of "blogger") that's in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Clicking the "power blogger" button on the bottom of the page works, too.
   
2. On the right of the new screen, you're given two choices: to sign into Blogger or to sign into New Blogger (formerly Blogger Beta). You want the first one (new Blogger), so click on that choice.
3. Then you'll be given a chance to enter your user name (the name you created when you first joined the blog) and your password (which you also created when you first joined). If you have forgotten your user name or password, email me for help. Also, if you don't have a user name yet, email me and I'll send you an invitation to join.
4. If this is the first time you've used the new blogger, you'll have to create a Blogger ID. The screens will walk you through, so just type in the information you're asked for. (Again, if you need specific help with this, just call or email me and I'll walk you through it.)
   
5. After you've entered your username and password, Blogger will bring you to the dashboard. Just click on the big plus sign under "new post" to do a new post.
6. Type your post, and remember to include a Title in the Title box.
7. Add a label to your post in the box along the bottom of the screen. The labels we're using include your name (i.e. Herb and Gail, April, Kelly, Colorado Herb, etc.) as well as "photos." (Don't worry if you don't have a label -- I'll come back and edit it for you.)
   
8. Click on "Publish."

If you just want to comment on a post that someone else has written, you don't have to go through as many steps.

1. All you do is click on the word "people chatting" under the post that is already there.
2. Type your comment.
3. Then add your user name and password in the boxes given.
4. Click on the "log-in and publish" button and you're finished.

I hope this helps. If you still have problems with it, you can always email me. My email is slkilbride(at)gmail.com [change the (at) to @].

*This was updated on 1/26/2007.

Celebrations for October

I finally updated the Celebrations blog for October. Since I'm late, we've missed a couple of birthdays:

Happy Belated Birthday, Ricky! I wish you could have made it to the Family Gathering -- we were looking forward to seeing you and the kids. Please post, and let us know how you all are doing.

Happy Belated Birthday, Cathy. I'm sorry I didn't make it down to Boca yesterday. I would have MUCH rather had spent the day celebrating with you, instead of playing taxi-mom all day for the kids!

Life In Tennessee

I figured I will let you all know what I am upto, since April asked so nicely. I am in my final semester at East Tennessee State University and SUPPOSED to graduate this coming December. I have such a grueling schedule. Mondays are my day off. Tuesday I have Plate Tectonics in the morning, then a strenuous class of Badminton, Two hours off for lunch then my Outdoor Recreation Skills Class, and to end the day my Dance as a Human Experience class. I work in the Mountains of NC on Wednesday's which is more like playing for me, Thursday is pretty much the same as Tuesdays with a Physics Lab II instead of Dance class. I work fridays and Saturdays in NC also. Yeah I know you all feel badly for me with such an intense course load. My Sunday's and Monday's are pretty much taken up with studying or trying to go hiking. I am taking my Land Surveyor In Training test at the end of October. It is the first part of the Test I need to take before I can get my license as a surveyor and it is an 8 hour exam. So I really can't wait for it to be done with. Other then that not too much going on with me.
How is everyone else doing and upto?

Bobby

Hello Everyone

Its almost the end of September already! Where does the time go? We had a great time in Orlando, Cathy arranged a trip for us all and it was great. Just hanging out together is really special. We went to Epcot, of course it rained (this is Florida) but we got to see quite a lot and we stayed for the fireworks show! The best thing about Florida rain is it stops and you can continue having a good time. What is everyone up to? Drop a comment here so we can all keep in touch. Okay? Love you all. April

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday Grandma. On this special day I hope that all your wishes come true.

Let's Have A Family Labor Day Picnic Together!

As I was driving home from work today, I had this really neat idea (at least I thought it was a neat idea). I was thinking that it seems weird that we're not getting together with a ton of relatives for a picnic this weekend. So many of my memories involve the outdoors, lots and lots of food and even more people and fun. So I thought that even though we can't all get together for a Labor Day Picnic like we used too, maybe we can do a long distance picnic together. I figured that between today and Sunday, each of us could post a recipe of a dish that we would bring to a family potluck picnic/bbq. That way the others can add that dish to their actual picnic selection and we can "share" with each other. If there is a "story" behind the dish, you can share that too. Maybe people will even post some pictures of themselves making the different dishes/picnicing etc. Not quite as good as being there, but maybe the next best thing.
Ok, how many of you think I'm crazy and how many think it might be fun?

Charles, aka Chuck, says "hello"

I had a wonderful email from Aunt Kay's Charlie, and he asked me to share some photos with everyone since he can't post anything. (I'm sending him an invitation to join us, so hopefully you'll soon be hearing directly from him.) This is what he wrote:


Hi Sandi

My brother, Herb from Colorado showed me the family website and it is fun to see all the Jersey Neuhaus'es I grew up with, including your Mom, Uncle Herb, and my Aunt Marion.

Just for clarification, I am the Charlie Neuhaus living in Massachusetts, son of Auny Kay and Charles. Some of the family think of me as "Chuck"

Here are some pictures of my wife Roberta, daughter Sophia (17--leaving any minute now for college), and son Nick--16, in high school.

Good job on the website, and sorry I missed the reunion.

Charlie

A question for Dorothy

I was working on the family pictures DVD (I'll post more on that later), and I came across this picture I had taken Sunday morning. I need to know -- how was the car ride home?

(I know that our entire ride home, mom and I just kept reminding each other that at least my kids didn't have a snake with them...)