The 2009 Family Reunion Logistics are set:

Fri 6/26/09 - Sun 6/28/09 Ruidoso NM

Hosting Site: Jack Prichard

100 Lavender Court, Alto 88312

(posted by Shane)

Hurricane Ike

Tracy,
We had some damage up in Spring. I was in Nigeria when it hit, Natalia and Alina were hunkered down and Natalia said she was never so scared in her life. Of course, the administration told most people in Houston to stay in place but as she said, never again. I had some roof damage, window and trees down. Half of one tree was in the neighbors yard, Oak tree laid over but I made it home to clean up the mess for a week and got the tree back up, trimmed out the ones snapped in half, repaired the roof and window. We were better than most, worst than some.
We were lucky.
Hope all are well over there.

Hello?

Apparently we need to have lessons on how to use this website. I am willing to teach people in the Midland / Odessa area (and even Brownfield next time I go up there) that would like to learn. As much as our family talks, laughs, and hee haws at reunions I don't believe that no one has anything to say except Dodie and I.

Barri, surely you have something to say...we don't care about politics, but surely you have something to say about something else.

Hope everyone is doing well. Love you all...
Tracey (Brock) Hutchinson

Hurricane Ike...

I don't think we have anyone in harms way for Hurricane Ike...am I correct? Let us know an update if you are.

Tracey

Tracey, thank you so much for posting your photos. They were great. And, to the rest of the family, hope the rest of your summer was a good one. Briley and Avery, my grandsons, have both been under the weather the past few weeks. If one gets sick, the other follows right behind. I don't think there is a way to keep them from putting everything into their mouths? Elizabeth couldn't sterilze their toys fast enough to keep them from sharing their slobber. Briley, the older one, was sick first; and then Avery caught it. I don't know how Elizabeth does it. I only had the boys for a few hours while she and Chloe were shopping for school supplies and new outfits. I was sure glad to hear her car pulling up in the driveway that day. It takes some real stamina on a good day to take care of those two but when they aren't feeling well it is a gold medal olympic event to manage them. (I've been glued to the Olympics the past 10 days, can you tell?) But just as quickly as little ones get sick; they bounce back. And, Chloe is getting ready to start the 5th grade. She had a really fun summer this year. She went to church camp in New Mx., Disney World , San Marcos, Lake Brownwood, Canyon to see the play "Texas" and of course, Andrews, Tx for our family reunion. I can't brag about my summer like that but I've had a great summer this year.

Maybe we need to have a technology get together (even over the phone) so that some of you can see just how easy it is to write on this site. It'd be a fun way for us all to communicate with each other. I had to have Elizabeth explain it to me. I do realize that her and Tracey's generation is much more computer savy than mine but really now, those of you that are lucky enough to be on Aunt Gina's email list, how many of you would have thought just 5 years ago that our Aunt Gina would the "Email Queen"? She can put clever little pictures in her emails, she can make the print wiggle when you read it and have music to go along with it! And it's not unusal to recieve about 50 in one day from her like that. There is no telling what might happen if Aunt Gina begins to blog!

All right.....that's enough for now.....I'll shut up.

Love you all! Dodie

I forgot to also add, we have a website for our little Carley if any of you would like to check it out. Here are the instructions to get onto the website...
Go to www.carepages.com
Click "Visit a CarePage"
Register (first-time users only)
After you have registered, enter the CarePage name: OurBabyHutch

We started the website when we were pregnant and didn't know what we were having so it has been going for a while. We try to update it every so often, but it is getting harder as the days go by. Hope you enjoy...

Love,
Jarrod, Tracey, and Carley

I meant to make a CD of all the pictures I took in 2007 to hand out, but as you can tell, it didn't get done. So I have posted the family groupings. I apologize for butchering the spelling of people's names so please forgive me now. If I figure out how, I will change the spellings if someone will let me know about them.

Lots of Love,
Tracey (Brock) Hutchinson

Family Pictures from 2007

Sorry I missed it

Well Folks looks like all had a good time. Sorry I missed it again this year but the timing is not good for my vacation schedule. Maybe next year if I can sort out my leave. Anyway, my thoughts were there with you even though I was thousands of miles away from home. Hopefully next year the Prichard's can add more bodies if I can work out the days.

The Cookbook

This is great, Elizabeth. I can't believe that I actually managed to follow your directions so that I could blog! First, I want to say to Mike, Mary, Ronnie & Reba, THANK YOU for hosting this year's reunion. It was wonderful and we had such fun. Ya'll did a great job putting it together for all of us. Second, I never remember to bring my own camera to take pictures. I guess I am still stuck in the mind frame that Elizabeth will take plenty of pictures (which she does) but she hasn't lived at home in ???? how many years now? I do look forward to seeing everyone else's pictures (hint, hint , hint.) And, last, Chloe and I have decided that every time she spends the night with me that we will cook using recipes from the family cookbook. We made Dayna's "Chicken Gloria" and Aunt Gina's "Brownies" this week. Dayna, great recipe! I had several friends drop by that evening and they loved that recipe so much that they didn't leave room for dessert. Aunt Gina... your brownies are unbeatable. They are the one's that remind me of my childhood. Thanks to Dayna's recipe, I had enough brownies for Chloe to take home to her brothers and Mom and Dad. (which gave me "brownie points" at the Davis house). Needless to say, I love the cookbook and I will be posting throughout the year as Chloe and I make our way through the recipes. What fun as Chloe and I love to cook together. So, Aunt Gina, thanks for getting the recipe book started (and Aunt Barri, too) and Mary and Reba for putting it together for us. It's such a treasure in my eyes.

OK Cousins....get to posting or shall I say blogging? Surely, ya'll aren't going to let me show you up on this , are you?

Dodie

I am trying to add some old pictures from the past reunions. Be patient with me. LOL

A family blog?

Somebody mentioned doing this at the reunion Saturday, forgive me for not remembering who you are, but I thought it was a great idea! I hope you don't mind that I went ahead & did it! This way we can all post pictures from the past 3 reunions to share with everyone, plus we can post future reunion plans, and ANYTHING we want really. If you just have some great news about you or your family to share then this will be the perfect platform.....with all the miles between us I think it will be nice to have a place we can come together all year round! Love you all & can't wait to see you all soon!

~~Elizabeth

Need a good laugh? Watch these!

I waited all year just to see & HEAR these two....I love how connected you make me feel to my Memaw! Thanks for keeping traditions alive!








And the Maner girls talking about their mother's good ol home cooking...or not!
(Intro by Aunt Gina & Barri)

Elizabeth's pics from 2008 reunion

I didn't take very many pictures this year...can't imagine what excuse I might have for that! But I have lots more from the 2 previous reunions (which I will post eventually), but I'm hoping I light the fire in some of you other photographers to post your pictures...if you have any questions on how to do this just email me!
NO pressure!...It can be time consuming with this many pics so if you need to do it a little at a time you can save without publishing...I have to do this ALL the time as I never have more than a minute before I'm needed somewhere else! ;-)

Amanda & Avery

Chloe

Avery & Briley

Aunt Gina..yeehaw!

YooooHoooo Contest...who won anyway?!

(I didn't get everyone who yoohooed sorry!)

Johnette

Dodie

Chloe

Amy

Some singing Cowgirls!

Amanda, Maddie & Chris

Hula Hooping!!

(I never got a picture of you Chris!! I'm bringing a hula hoop next year & I will get one!!)

Amanda

Maddie
Caitlyn
Amy
Caitlyn
Amy Hula jumping
Chloe hula jumping
Chloe

Tristan

David
Brian (BD)
Me (Elizabeth)
What?!
Amanda
Tracy & Miss. Carly
Pretty girl!
Uncle Daymond & Aunt Gina...so cute!
Johnette, Dodie, Daymond, Gina, Barri, Sarah

Avery getting some lovings from his Great-Great Aunt Barri...lucky guy!


Water Gun Fight!!!!!!!!!!!

Briley
Chris & Sarah...it's fuzzy, but to to funny!
Chris getting Amanda!
Amanda & Sarah teaming up on Chris!
Drenched!!! Love the pose!

Avery with his first sucker!
Cousins!

Clayton & Avery

So I realize I do have a quite a few pictures, and they're a little biased....sorry!!