Reunion!!!

Plans for the 2nd annual Allen-Shaffer Family reunion are in full swing! This year's event promises to be even more fun than last year. The venue for the reunion will provide us with more space, electricity, refrigeration, & privacy.

We will be in the house the day before the reunion so if you are coming into town on Friday and have something that needs to be refrigerated, we have a place for it to be kept!

We hope that we have an even better turnout for this years event...please remember to reply by July 10th.

Check out the site for the Manley Bohlayer Farm-looks like the bridge to the Farm will be out of commission, will need to come the back way.

newsletters

I hope everyone enjoys the newsletter...the latest edition will be going out this week. The reunion will be here before we know it!! Going up to the Canton area next weekend so I plan to stop in at the reunion site to get an idea of what kind of space we will have for outdoor activities.

Invitations will be sent next month!!

Happy Birthday to my Dad

Today would have been dad's 90th birthday. It makes me so sad just to think of it. It seems like such a short time ago that we were celebrating his 80th birthday with a big surprise party and thinking about what we would do to celebrate his 90th! It seemed like he would always be here. He is still with us, in our hearts, but it isn't the same as having him to see and talk to.



I still talk to dad, and I know he is watching over us all, looking down on us and acting as our guardian angel. For that reason, I know he will hear me when I say, many times today...Happy Birthday, Dad...I love you!

cousins

I was so happy today to make Facebook connections with two cousins! I hope that we will have an even bigger turnout for this year's reunion!! I have already started planning!

So many things going on with work and I have to finish painting my living room...clean the house...get ready for outside spring clean up!!!! Wow! I gotta get off my butt and get to work!!

Let the planning begin!!

It is less than 6 months till the Reunion, so I am starting to plan! I love planning the event and hope that others will join in with ideas! I have discussed with some others the idea of a Luau inspired party! I also have a few surprises up my sleeve that I will not share until the day of the event! Since we are holding the reunion at a different venue, one that gives us an indoor kitchen, with electricity, keeping foods hot and cold will be much easier this year. I hope that since we are planning this year's reunion earlier than last year's more people will be able to plan ahead and attend.

We also want to plan ahead for the T-shirts, there was one example in the newletter, but please contact me if you have any other ideas.

Happy Valentine's Day!
Missy

Another month almost gone

I see that I haven't posted anything here since New Year's Eve and here we are...January almost gone! I am just finishing up getting the newsletters ready to mail out...I hope you all enjoy them. The Reunion is only about 180 some days away, it will sneak up on us and be here before we know it. I am trying to come up with a theme for the reunion and I am thinking Luau! I don't think they would appreciate it if we dug a hole to cook a pig, but we can still have fun with it. It will be nice to have the indoor space, electricity with no hassle and the privacy.

If anyone has any ideas for games, food or anything, please email me or post a comment! Check out our Facebook Fan page, too!