#58 Family Newsletter 1995

Hi,

                Here’s our family newsletter for 1995

                We only have two kids left at home, Sam and Charlie.

                Charlie is a junior in high school and busy with studies, sports and church. He leaves at 5:40 AM to go to Los Banos to seminary, then comes back to Dos Palos to school. It seems like we can’t ever plan to go anywhere as a family because Charlie always has a sports conflict. He plays football, basketball and tennis, so it’s ongoing. But he seems to think it’s worth it.

                Same likes school and is on the school newspaper staff. He likes to write and spends a lot of time at the computer writing

                The house seems a little too spacey. Not as much fun and excitement as when we had seven or eight kids at home. We never had all ten living here at once because Laurie had married and Susie was in college before Sam was born.

                Heidi Jo left to serve a mission for the church in North Carolina last January. Carrie Lynne went a couple of weeks later to a mission in Toronto, Canada. We treasure their weekly letters. They’re excited and happy about their missions.

                Pete is going to BYU. HE worked in the bay area during the summer, so we got to see him fairly often. That was nice.

                Megan is at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. She stayed there all summer to work and go to school, so we haven’t seen her very much. We’re looking forward to having her and Pete home for Christmas.

                One of the main emotional focusses of our lives is having our kids and grandkids come to visit. We are really excited about the reunion planned for our place next August, when the girls get off of their missions. I’m planning to make another attempt at the watermelon patch (which was a failure this year… too many bugs). I’ve been asking questions and have some new ideas about bug control that I’m anxious to try. I hope we can have a bunch of them for the reunion.

                We really enjoyed having Mary and Jeff and daughter, Katelyn; Laurie and baby Andrew; Melinda, Dan and family come visit this past summer. Charlie and I built a small log cabin (6’x8’) for the grandkids. We had Melinda’s kids, Rachel, Tess, Ashley and Tyler, mud the roof for us. The baby, Kathryn Janet was a little too young for that job. Melinda has just had a new baby girl this past month…Erin Noel, weighing 6 LBS.

                A major change in our life has occurred this year. In September Rob sold his practice to his associate, Dr. Stuart Schofield. Now Rob is the associate and only works a half day four days a week and loves not being the boss and having the extra time. He’s busy in church activities, being on the high council and the stake family history coordinator.

                Janet is loving her new church job. She’s in charge of the “heart sisters”. It’s a group within the relief society designed to offer support to the lonely sisters.

                Janet really misses her grandkids. We both cherish our opportunities to visit them and wish they weren’t all out of state.

                We wish all of you and yours the best,

Sam, Charlie, Janet and Rob Miller.