The Family Terrill

A few years ago, we decided to take a family photo on New Year's Eve.  Kelly Shaw was in town and was willing to do the job for us.  And she did a great job!  Unfortunately, she's not often in town over New Year's, so we didn't do another photo the next year.  Then we discovered Marissa Carlson, and started having her come.  At her urging, we did a big family shot - and individual family shots.  

It is great to see the families grow and change - here are the shots from December 31, 2015 - starting with Team Bolander - Bruce, Bonny, Ara, Ella, Esme, and Annika!  (sometimes referred to as B, B, and the Vowels!)

 

The Terrills of Lemon Avenue - Harry F, Dawn, Eve, Porter, Harry W, Isla, and Deacon.  (And in our hearts we remember baby Jonah!)

 

La Famille Fillmore - David, Phoebe, Henry, Calvin, Agnes, Sullivan, and Rex!  (We include cannies who want to come!)

The Selanders of Fairfax - Matt, Eliza, Theo, Ida, Lars, and Polly.

 

The Hamill Clan from Philly Town - Robbie, Hannah, and Rhoda.

 

The newest family group - The Terrills of Glendora - Noah, Taylor, Keesa, and Francis.

 

Maybe we should have been at the head of the line, since we started all this almost 50 years ago!!  What a blessing family is - we love them all - and look forward already to next year - although there will be changes!  Stay tuned!!

What the holidays looked like - at least some of the time!!

It's been a crazy few weeks - and I have not been blogging very assiduously, that is for sure.  Here are some random photos to give you an idea of how things were from December 26th on!!  I'm not sure why there are not a lot of Christmas Eve photos - I think they are on my phone and I put them on Instagram and then forgot about them.  But New Year's is the big deal for the Terrill family!

Of course the babies were very popular - young Francis has Bonny captivated!

 

Clue seemed to be the game of the hour this year - the grandkids played it often - and Noah joined in with gusto!

 

On New Year's Eve day we had Marissa Carlson come again and take family photos - they were great - but the group ones all seemed to have one unco-operative  member in each one!!  They need a blog post of their own - watch for it!!

 

Grandkids in the family room - that Fisher-Price house was Bonny's Christmas present when she was 15 months old!!

 

The cousins draw names and we exchange gifts on New Year's Eve - always fun and the highlight of the evening.  The door is open because it was too hot - put 34 people in our little house and it heats up!

 

This year the activity of the night was the lip sync contest!  The Fillmores may have outdone themselves - and the candle is supposed to be a microphone - Hannah declared that!!  Her lip syncing was pretty awesome too!!  I think someone took video - maybe they will publish it - or not!!

 

The Bolanders were pretty awesome too - as were Harry and I - lip syncing to Louis Prima and Keely Smith singing "That Old Black Magic!"  We may have missed our calling!

 

Of course, the big event of the season was Noah and Taylor's wedding on January 2nd!  It was a lovely affair - and we were so happy to have everyone there!!

 

It was a pot-luck wedding - lots of good food - we are hoping this trend continues!!

 

Helen seemed to enjoy herself too!

 

There were "kids' tables" that were popular.

 

And there's the oldest Terrill child - at the youngest Terrill child's wedding - kind of a nice finish there!!

The season was one of the best in memory - we are indeed blessed!!