Does Anybody remember ALL of this??

November 2004

Let it hereby be known to each member of the Graber Family that it is our desire to have each and every member together for Thanksgiving Dinner and a day of working together putting together a memory book of photos for each one.
It is also our desire to start a tradition of taking an annual family picture plus creating a video where each member performs for a recording either by singing, acting, saying something witty or wise, or simply saying, “Hi”, for future generations to observe and learn from.
Please dress according to family principles and have your creative juices flowing.
If for some reason you can’t be present on Thanksgiving Day, please give notice as soon as possible so we can arrange another date as close to Thanksgiving as possible.

Looking forward to seeing ya’ll–

Dad and Mother Graber

Warm Memories...

On the subject of warm memories, I have a few that are were rather cold at the time but are extremely warm in my mind.
I wish we could duplicate them.

Remember waaaay back in Montana? Those beautiful clear nights with a full moon reflection of the snow and flying down a hill on an innertube. I wish we could do that again, I do remember a time though that on a new route...hitting a covered stump and getting some snowburn.

But remember that hill there by the garden? That was a good tubing hill and then that curvy road by the shop scared me quite a bit.

Timothy Graber

On November the first 1981 they brought home my baby, wrapped in a soft yellow blanket but life had fled. I sat on the bed with Ruth on one side and Joseph on the other as their Dad soberly handed the bundle to me . I helped each of them hold their baby brother one last time as I explained to them that Timothy was no longer in that body, he'd gone to heaven to be with Jesus.

Timothy died in the Cuero Hospital and I was in too bad shape physically to be with him so I was at home while Grandma Borntrager and Dad , Lester, were in the hospital with Timothy.