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RECIPE CARDS

January 5, 2010 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

By now, most of you have your recipe books. Ben and Julie…I have yours printed and ready to mail. Just haven’t been able to actually take it to the post office yet. Everything is so far away from me it seems like. I promise I will mail very soon.

Some of you printed your own. Thank you very much!! I hope you like.

Thanks again to everyone that helped I hope you love and will keep forever and print extras for your kids and grandkids. It may be the only way we are remembered.

ALSO…I will continue to make the recipe cards and hopefully upload them as they are made so you can print them if you want them. If you have recipe you want to add…send them to me and I will add them to the list. -carmen

Bill

January 5, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Either I don’t have the right email address or you just stick at a simple reply that says ok. I never know if you have gotten and email I sent. So…FYI: I have finished the recipe cards and emailed the info to you. I would like to add them to a folder HERE so that everyone has access to them and can print them at leasure, but I am not sure the best way to do that.

AND…I know I mentioned this before, but maybe you could figure how to connect this to FACEBOOK. I personally don’t pay much attention to my facebook, but if I am notified when through my email or maybe for those people that DO check their FAcebook more would be reminded of THIS WEBSITE a little more. If you would like to make Jason and administrator on this, I can get him to do it.

Fun Facts

December 29, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [4]

Carmen, here is one: Bill tried to teach Buddy how to talk, when Buddy was only eight months old, and Bill was not quite three. Bill showed Buddy words and pictures in a book, and if Buddy didn’t say it, Bill whacked him.

We had a Merry Christmas

December 26, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

There were fifteen of us for Christmas dinner: Dad and I; Jason, Carmen, jordan, Teyla, Maria, Tony, Holli, Lauren, Amber, Kory, kory’s mother, Rose; Austin, Chelsea; and i guess that’s all. We had a huge meal, ham, potatoe salad, and all the trimmings. (NO MORE TURKEY)

Buddy’s Birthday

December 26, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Maybe Christmas was in your head, and you were not thinking, but your brother had a very important birthday-his fiftieth! Where were his birthday good wishes?!

Recipe

December 23, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [2]

Cinnamon Rolls
2 c. scalded milk
1/2 c. shortening
1 c. mashed potatoes
5 tsp. or 2 pkgs. yeast
1/2 cup warm water
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup nuts (opt.)
1 cup raisins (opt.)
7-8 cups flour

Pour milk over shortening and let cool to lukewarm. Soften yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Add to milk mixture w/ eggs, sugar, salt, mashed potatoes and 4 cups flour. Beat with mixer until smooth and well blended. Add remaining flour slowly to make a soft dough. Cover and allow to rise until double. Divide dough in half and roll into rectangle 1/2 inch thick. Spread w/ butter. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll up and cut into 1 inch slices. Place on cookie sheets and let rise until double. Bake at 350 for about 20 min. Put icing on while hot and still in pans. Makes about 3 dozen.

Icing
4 oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup softened butter
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
pinch of salt
Posted by Westlake Ward Relief Society

Merry Christmas!!

December 23, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

Merry Christmas everybody. I hope you all have a great one! its strange that all of us

are everywhere, when so many years we all were here. And spend many together. it’s

strange that we would have never realized we would be all spread out. take advantage

of your family togetherness now, later in years you dont’ know where they all will

end up. I love you all and have a merry christmas!

New Address

December 21, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [3]

I guess I should post my address. I tend to forget that I am one of the MOVERS. I am thinking other people needed to post theirs, not me. duh!

Carmen & Jason Viera

14263 Sea Eagle Drive

Jacksonville, FL 32226

HAPPY BIG 5 -0 BIRTHDAY BUD!!

December 18, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

It’s about 9:00 AM in Stuttgart, Germany right now, so you would be about 5 and 1/2 hours old. I am already out of the bed and running around. I popped in to say “hello” to Audrey Sprague, Major Gene Sprague’s wife. She had their sixth child on the 15th, evening their children up to 3 boys and 3 girls. They ended up with eight – four each. I wondered how anybody could possibly have so many children.
I hope you have a great birthday, Bud. Having a Christmas baby boy is a nice thing to happen to a mother. It happened to Mary, too.

Bill

December 17, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

I just went to look at the Polhemus and Lake genealogy, and I see that too much of the “Lakes” are showing “ready” instead of being finished. Maybe you’d better check that out!!!

Carmen

December 16, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I’m working on that assignment, and I’ll have it ready for you this weekend, but it isn’t easy.

A Muslim Burial

December 7, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [2]

I called Cathie tonight, and she gave me the details of Kirsty’s death and burial. Oddly, she didn’t die of anything related to her cancer. She died of a clot that began in her side, and hit her heart. About noon on Saturday (last), Cathie called Kirsty, and found that she was in a lot of pain with her side. She asked her if she could go to her house, and take her to the Emergency Room. Kirsty agreed. Even though her father was there, she preferred that Cathie do it. When Cathie arrived, Kirsty was in so much pain that she could barely move. Finally, she got up to go to the bathroom first, and Cathie heard her screaming, “Mom, Mom!” Cathie ran back to the bathroom, and caught Kirsty coming out, and laid her across the bed. Kirsty said,”I’m dying.” Cathie yelled for her father to call 911. Just as they got her to the hospital, and on the bed in the Intensive Care Unit, she died right there. They worked on her for 35 minutes, but couldn’t bring her back.
Muslims don’t waste anytime with getting their deceased in the ground. The women are supposed to wash the bodies of the women, but Kirsty had already had it understood that no one but her husband could touch her. It was unorthodox, but they allowed it. Josef washed her, and wrapped her in the shroud. They do not embalm. They put her in a casket to take to the Muslim cemetery, but then they took her body out, and laid her on her side facing east. Her father and Josef got down in the burial plat, and heaped dirt around her body to keep it from falling. They then put a vault over it, and put the dirt on top. Muslims believe that the soul or spirit stays with the body for several days after death (I forget the reason), but the sooner the body decays and goes to dust, the better. That’s why they do not embalm, or put the bodies in caskets or inside vaults, or in any way prevent the body from decomposing naturally.
Kirsty had a dream just a short while before her death. One of her co-workers told Cathie about it. She dreamed that she was in a beautiful place, where there was such peace, and no pain. But people kept trying to pull her back, and she didn’t want to come back. I thought that was interesting.
Cathie is devastated. She didn’t really belive her daughter was going to die. She thought all of the medications she was taking was going to make her well. I didn’t know Cathie thought that way. I knew when I talked to her three weeks ago that Kirsty wasn’t going to live.
I feel so terribly sad for Cathie.

A Death

December 2, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [2]

Some of you may remember my close friend, Cathie, who I worked with at El Palacio’s for several years. Cathie had three children; Richard (Ben’s Age) Kirsty (Maria’s age) and Malinda (a little younger). Cathie lost her daughter, Kirsty, to a year-long battle with cancer. It was discovered in both breasts, and immediately spread under her arms, and her thighs, and she was just in agony the last months of her life, but she taught 2nd grade at a Muslim school (Kirsty married a man from Jordan, and converted to the Muslim religion). She dragged up on days when Cathie thought it would be impossible and went to work. I’m very torn up about this, because I love Cathie so much, and I watched her children grow up.

Thanksgiving at the Viera House

December 1, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Thanks Maria for providing us with some good pictures. Maybe santa will bring me a camera this year.

I can’t seem to get the pictures right. May just have to go to media library to see.

Teyla’s First Soccer Game

December 1, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]

For Anyone Not sure…She is the one that looks like the linebacker.

About Thanksgiving

November 28, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [3]

Mom: I got your voicemail message. Sorry there was some miscommunication. I was in Tampa from Nov. 11 till Nov. 17. I emailed you guys to see if I could come up to see you that weekend, but Dad said he would be gone to P.R. and you would be in Jacksonville. It was too long a trip to go all the way to J’ville, so I just stayed there. I did spend most of that Saturday with Mr. McNamara, Nancy’s Dad. We had a great time. I really wish I could have seen you, Mom. Love.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

November 26, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [3]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! We missed you all. Mom, Maria, Tony, Holli and their crew came up and Jason’s Brother, David is here so we had a nice little group of about 13. Dad is in Puerto Rico and mom has been staying here for a couple of weeks. I can’t believe she has to go home tomorrow or Saturday. It has been really nice with her here and I don’t just mean the extra person cleaning the kitchen or helping keep Teyla entertained. Anyway…HOpe everyone elses Turkey Day was nice.

BTW: If you want one of the Family Cook Books you better send me some recipes!!!!

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