Warren E. Hardy Family: September 2008

More Reunion Pictures

We missed all who weren't there this year.

Hope to see you next year.

A Published Poet

Trevon Turley (Richard, Jerry, Oliver) submitted a poem into a creative poetry contest. His poem was chosen to be published in a book of poetry by children. The book is called 'A Celebration of Poets' & his poem is titled 'My Sister'. His parents are very proud of him.

Way to go Trevon!

Past & Present

This picture is of Stan Palmer (Laura) & Dwayne Morse (Patsy, Marie)

Dwayne has been serving as the President of this great family organizaion for the past 3 years with Stan as his Vice President. We wanted to thank Dwayne for his great years of service and to let him know that we appreciate him very much! Stan has become our new President with Richard Turley (Jerry, Oliver) serving as Vice President. We are excited to see what Stan & Richard will bring to the reunion and want to offer our support to them. Here is a small blurb from our President which will be in the newsletter that will be coming out soon.

I have many many very fond memories of reunions of yesteryear and hope we can continue to only add more happy memories to the archives of history. The greatest of memories are those that are EARNED by everyone.
As with everything in life we feel more a part of things when we serve and sacrifice for them. We encourage everyone to sign up to help out with the fireworks sales next July. Put it on your calendar NOW, ask for the time off work NOW and come out and help the last week in June. It is a lot of hard work but it is also a lot of fun and you really get to know other family members. It is worth any time you can give. The family will help with gas and lodging and food so start planning now to take the time.

Melvin & Denna

Melvin (Hattie) & Denna report that they had a wonderful Labor Day. They spent it laboring at the mission office. Missionaries don't get holidays off.

We had the mother, daughter back to school Relief Society enrichment day and it was really fun. They had a brunch that was wonderful. They had a fashion show for the children to show off their new school clothes and a fun activity making and decorating journals that was fun for everyone.

Josh and Laurie Brown had a baby girl August 27th. Lindy was born on the 25th but they missed her birthday. They named her Lucie Miraya. Her middle name is named after Eric's daughter Miraya so she has a little cousin named after her. How exciting for Miraya.

Our granddaughter Erica, Eric's oldest girl entered the MTC on the 3rd of September after spending two weeks in Mexico with her mother and Matthew, her boyfriend. They decided not to get married now, but he is planning to wait for her and go to school while she fulfills her mission. He just returned from Portugal at the beginning of the summer.

Our great granddaughter Tenley is growing and is so much fun. She is reaching for everything now and can sit up alone. We haven't seen her since the end of July, but she is a really good, happy baby and she has just about caught up on her development after such a difficult start. She is off the charts size-wise. She came, off the charts, and she is growing well. She reaches for everything now and everything goes in her mouth. We are so grateful for her and that she is doing so well.

Melvin and I are both doing well. We are truly being blessed health wise. We have neither one missed a day at the mission office because we have been sick. Melvin ditches regularly now. He gets his work done so fast that he runs out of things to do. He often comes in at noon and then has all his work done by two. His years working for the IRS have given him skills that just make him very efficient.

We love all of you and love to hear from you. God bless all of you.

Love,

Melvin and Denna

First Awana Night

Ashley Gomez, 7th grade and Joshua Gomez, 3rd grade (Linda, Gilbert, Marie) are doing so well in AWANA this year! That is our baptist kids Bible club. God's Word will not return void, and I'm so thankful that we have a great program where they can hide His Word in their hearts. They both won prizes in the first week of club for memorizing the most verses in their handbooks.

Great Job Ashley & Joshua.

Prayers are needed

Linda Gomez (Gilbert, Marie) reports that her husband Rene is going to have a third shoulder surgery here pretty soon. He's a policeman and has had a lot of stress on his shoulder in the 23 years he's worked for Tucson Police. He is really praying for a speedy recovery and for no pain.....but he'll be happy if the pain is just reduced some. He just hurts all the time. He works as a Backgrounds Investigator for the Police Department.