2010 Reunion

We apologize for the late notice, but this year's reunion will be held this coming Saturday, September 4th at 1:00. It will be at John Pyles's riverfront property and pavilion in Sardis. If you are unsure where that is, you can call Dave and Jody or just come to their house the day of the reunion.

Meat and plasticware will be provided. Please bring a covered dish and your own drinks. Hope to see you all there!

This website is working! :-)

I am pleased to share with everyone that this website is already doing its job. I received an e-mail from Susan R. She sent me a picture of herself with Simon's daughters. She writes, "Simon would be very proud of his girls.... I am too." Here is the picture, taken at a baby shower. Her granddaughter will be delivering Susan's first great-grandchild, a boy, any day now.

L-R: Chris, Susan, Diana, and Kathy

I'm glad that this website is going to help everyone keep in touch. Susan, with this site up and running, I will be able to let you (and every one else!) know when the next family get-together will be!

Baby Mason

On September 9, Santina and David P. welcomed their first child, Mason. Mason is the first grandchild of Billy and Sue R. and first great-grandchild of Bill and Lucille R.

Mason Howard P.
8lbs 13 oz
21 inches

Family Reunion 2009

These are the best of the pictures from the reunion held at Midway School on September 5, 2009. I appologize for the blurriness. They really aren't that blurry, but I uploaded them in medium size and then tried to stretch them to make them bigger for better viewing. I'm either going to have to reupload them in a bigger size when I get the time (it takes forever!) or if there are particular pictures you want, I can e-mail you the file. Hope you enjoy!

Edit: if you click on the picture you would like to view, you can see it clearly and in full size.

Eli E. with his Pappy Dave E., Jesse E., and Joe E.

Sandy E. and Brenda E.

Pam E. and Rhonda G.

Robert and Patty E.

Billy R. makes some announcements

John and Melvin E. listen and patiently wait to eat

Lucille and Bill R. are the first to dig in!

L-R: Hannah, Dawn, and Marissa R. add to the dessert table

Jesse E. poses with his chicken

Brandon L. poses with his girlfriend, Sierra E.

Melvin E.

Brittany and Justin (grandchildren of Robert and Patty)

Gage A. (son of Jeremy E.'s girlfriend, Crystal)

Lukas R. and Joe E. fight for the rebound

John E. says "it's a beautiful day!"

Sandy E.

Siblings Joe, John, Melvin, Sandy, Robert, and Dave E.

The R. Family: Brad, Billy, Bill, Lucille, and Rhonda

The cousins: Jesse E., Kelsey W., Sunny K., Rindi K., Jagger K., Sierra E., Nathan E., Eli E., Seth E., Lukas R., Marissa R., and Hannah R.

Eric K., Jagger K., Melvin and Brenda E., Sunny K., and Rindi K.

The W. Family (in-laws of Dave E.): Kelsey, Kathy, and Todd

Amy and Doug H.

Jesse and Joe wait for Pam

Jesse, Pam and Joe E.

Brad, Dawn, Hannah, Billy, Lukas , and Marissa R.

Nate E. signs up for the lottery while others wait their turn. L-R: Marissa R., Joe E., Jesse E., Sandy E., Billy R., Rindi K., and Mel E.

Sisters-in-law Kathy W. and Jody E.

John E. and son Nathan E.

Eli E. says "look Pap! We won the lottery!" (Dave E.)

Brother and sister Sunny and Jagger K.

Sunny and Jagger

Marissa R. and her grandmother, Lucille R.

Hannah R. helps keep an eye on Eli E.

Melvin E. and his partner (Robert E., not shown) take on Lucille R. and hers (Billy R., noth shown) in the euchre tournament

And because there aren't any pictures of me, here is a self-portrait of Seth and I from the reunion.

Introduction

Hello, and welcome family and friends!

My name is Courtney, and I'm going to be updating this blog as a way for us to keep in touch and share pictures. I'd like to thank Billy for asking me to do this. I feel honored, and I'm very excited about it! Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm the girlfriend of Seth E. (son of David and Jody E.) and the mother of our son, Eli Richard E. Seth and I live in Sardis, right up the road from Dave and Jody. I work as a nurse's aid and I'm going to school full-time to become an RN--that should take about 3 years. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, going to movies, shopping, taking pictures on my new camera, baking, playing games, and spending time outside walking or relaxing.

So, here is how I thought this could work. If you have any information you would like to share with the family--be it a picture, your child's team won a game, a job promotion, a birth, an engagement, anything!--e-mail me and I can update the site. My e-mail address is cesmith1@mail.wvncc.edu. No update is too small. The more participants we have on this blog, the better it will serve its purpose-- to stay in touch! And by the way, I hope everyone likes the name I picked out for the blog. I literally spent an hour trying to think of something clever, and this was the best I could come up with. I was trying to make a play on the fact that we always seem to play cards when we get together.

If you would like to make a comment on any of the posts, all you have to do is create a Google account by clicking here, or you can post as "anonymous" and sign your post so we all know who you are. :-) I'm going to keep last names out of the posts for privacy issues. I especially don't want to include last names in any of the captions for the kids' pictures. I will include the initial, to help jog your memory a bit, but if anyone has an issue with that, just let me know.

If you have any questions or feedback, please e-mail me or comment this post.