We’re an Aunt and Uncle again! Rachel, Mark’s wife, gave birth to Matthew Anton Hofman yesterday (June 8th) in St. Louis. Her early contractions started early Saturday morning, and they went to the hospital Sunday night, Matthew was born sometime Monday afternoon. That’s too long, if you ask me. They should [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 7, 2009
Right before the Brothers left for Missouri, we had lunch together. And by ‘lunch’, I mean that Lloyd cooked up some baked beans, then had his brothers help run speaker cable from the piano, down a hole, across the basement, back up another hole, and hooked it up to his computer. We ate [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 21, 2009
After a somewhat truncated Sommerer Family February Get-together, most of us retired into Jefferson City to attend a fund raiser for Calvary Lutheran High School. Uncle Ralph organized the event with performances by the Rowden Review and the Homestead Pickers. They played Blue-Grass and Old-Timely music, and both groups were really entertaining. It was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Mark is here! Lloyd was a trooper and cleaned up the guest room, so Mark isn’t in danger of crashing into any piles of garbage. We’ve had a good evening visiting and comparing electronic gadgets, and best of all – talking about the new niece or nephew that’s on the way! The picture is tiny because [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
It all started with a comment from James Sanders, who read the post on Calvary’s dinner/auction fundraiser and was wondering if the Engelbrechts that we knew were related to some of his ancestors who were from around them parts. My dad knows just about everyone and who their parents were and things like that that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
*sigh* The buffer year between me and forty is gone. I’m 39 today! I’ve got two whole days to lord my oldness over Lloyd before he joins me, and believe you me – I’ll milk it for everything it’s worth! I’ll try to be nice, though, because I really like my present. I share this auspicious [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 17, 2008
We made it! Thirteen hours door-to-door. I will never. do. that. again. There is a reason that we have jobs – so we can afford a hotel room and take two days. It wasn’t all bad – Lloyd played songs on his iPhone, we read books, ate a ton of junk from the cooler, and [...]
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Monday, June 8, 2009
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