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Here, gathered in our beloved South Dakota, are a few members of our Williamson / Mattson Clan. Charles and Luella are to be blamed (be kind, they didn't know what they were doing). We're generally a happy bunch and somewhat intelligent (notwithstanding our tenuous grasp on reality). I'm also proud to say that most of us still have our teeth.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Christmas Eve. Photos From less Wrinkled Times and Videos. Merry Christmas!

From the Fortress of Solitude
Pleasant Grove

Hello All,
     Christmas Eve and everyone is out doing their last minute shopping for that one person who slipped between the cracks in an overtaxed memory. The person most likely to be the one left behind at church a half dozen times when they were younger; or the one who relies on Facebook to know who is pregnant or out of work or depressed or dead because he or she tends to blend into the foggy background haze of life. 
     Most of the family will gather at Jilane and Kevin's home this evening for the traditional Christmas gorge in the trough of sugary goo. Considering so many of us teach in some form or another, Jilane's counters and table will sag under the weight of goodies gifted to us from our students.  
     It's always of interest to see who shows up with the biggest haul - always a sign of that year's most loved teacher.  I didn't do too well last year. This year I did better. I attribute my success to a few extra A's given at strategic times preceding progress reports; along with the additional spent listening and laughing at jokes only an 11 year old would find funny. Then there were those painstakingly rehearsed looks of sympathy and thoughtfulness I gave to any student telling a tale of lost homework, a bumped knee, or hurt feelings; all done in a shameless quest to score big. The extra effort paid off.  I should take the award for biggest haul of 2016. Sorry Jilane, but you'll have to give it up for this year's biggest suck up.  

Signed,
This year's most decorated teacher,
Victor

Photo's from the Williamson Backyard:  
July 1998
   
Lisa and young Draker

Annette and Draker


Caden, Grandpa Williamson, Draker

Draker and Caden



Photos from 1994

Nintendo with the cousins

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Grandma Luella. Never happy to have a picture taken


Grandma Luella, Janice and Jilane

 Photo's from 1999

Chaz and Brooklynn Bodily

JD, Kim and Baby Cameron Delgrosso

Cameron's baby blessing

Brandon, JD, Forrest, and Baby Cameron

Thane, Annette and baby Tait

Luella and Aunt Bev

Caden

Kevin and Lisa




Caden, Brock and Quinn

The Delgrosso sisters with Aunt Lisa


The Family Picture


Family Christmas Theater Over the Recent Years






This video has pictures from Christmas 2009 with pictures from the Tudor times in England.
Rich in our family history.

    

Christmas 2009

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