Sunday, January 18, 2009

Riley Family Picture Diary - January 2009

Thursday morning (1/15) Mark, Dale and I left at 7:30 am on a
bitterly cold morning to travel to Freeport, IL. The sun was just
coming up and fog was rising off the snow to the north of our
home... The roads traveled were not that good but we made it
to Chicago O'Hare airport by 2:00 pm to pickup Cori on the way...

Aunt Edith (on the right) with her two sisters: Florence and May.



Vicki with her sons: Chip and Scott. Doug with Iris who live in Baltimore, Maryland... I have a better
picture but couldn't locate it so this one will have to do for now....

Aunt Edith with sons, Bobby and Doug and daughters,
Vicki and Pam. Dale Riley's family with Mark, Cori, LauraLee and Chad with
their six children: Jesse, Javan, Jared, Jolene, Jubilee and
Jonas. At Christmas they announced God has blessed them
with a seventh child to be born around Labor Day!

Curt and Pam's family from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Donnie with sons Jim and Donald. (Marcy is Jim and

Donald's mother and Uncle Bob and Aunt Edith's daughter).

Marcy passed away when Donald was less than a year old...

It was GREAT to visit with the Riley family since we don't get
to see many of them very often. The time we spent laughing
and enjoying each others company was fantastic. I'm sure
if Uncle Bob was looking down from heaven he was very
pleased with the gathering that took place at his home
going. God Bless you everyone!!!

4 comments:

Drew said...

Hey, I think this is a post that sweatiepie could digest. I'm assuming the words & pictures are on their way? :)

Shari said...

Yes, I must have hit something wrong because my title published but I wasn't ready with the pictures. Glad you are on your toes...we need more teachers like you!!

Drew said...

I figured you were still working on it. Just needed to get a sweatiepie comment in after his rampage on the web the other day.

Plattner Ranch said...

Nice pictures Mom! Too bad Andrea and the children are missing!