Christmas Newsletter 2025

Winter 2025

Spring 2024

Summer 2024

Fall 2024

IN OTHER NEWS….

Broadmoor activities, including basketball games, were fun, and I shall miss going there a lot. I recently took on a position 3 days a week as a preschool substitute at our local schools, so that was an unexpected change that just started in November for Riverside and greatly cuts down on commuting time, but adds a day to my schedule to get used to! I am really enjoying getting to know the local preschool kiddoes! I also probably won’t often get to Painesville City or Fairport schools, and will have to visit! Ryan likes to bring bags of chips to places so perhaps I’ll take him in on a Monday to say hi!!! I still work as DSP on weekends.

Roger attended school once again from 1/2024 through 4/2024, then again from 9/2024 through present. His first new break will be in May of 25, and then he will only have a few classes left and will graduate!! He and I continue as DSPs, with his hours still at a full time PLUS level. We continue mostly online data entry counties, with 2-3 trips a year in Ohio, PA, and NY. We still complete data entry work at home.

Chris continues with his Skyrizzi injections for his psoriasis, and it is still in remission. He should hopefully have dental sedation again in the winter next year with new tests for hearing — his hearing tests for some reason were stalled by his insurance in getting his hearing aids, and I have to call again to find out if the delay has been settled so that he can get them.

Colleen is working at a new grooming salon this year and still enjoying all the things she has loved all the years with her pets, art, singing, and visiting with friends.

Ryan finished off, as you read, 2023 in good health, even not doing too badly with COVID that we all had by December 22. He has been able to mostly overcome the constipation since Spring of 24 where I mentioned he had had to have a six week break, and is attending the workshop of our choice three days a week, hopefully to increase to four. He greatly loves staying with us on Mondays, and likes to go on park trips, and have lunch with us at Taco Bell. Our goal is to have him start atending Tuesdays as his better health permits.

Sometime in the spring ryan also got his talking device tablet. Ryan needs to have another sedated dental cleaning with hearing tests for future hearing aid, so hopefully that will happen in the spring. Both boys are now receiving speech therapy since September from a lovely lady from Tripoint, and she is fantastic and they seem to love seeing her and interacting with their tablets.

Dorene, Roger, Christopher, Colleen & Ryan

My “Mary, Did you Know” video and my singing

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I did this last year. I have not looked at it since, and can’t believe it’s been almost a year. I hope to maybe do more of it this year but am unsure if I will have time! So this link at this point (12/31/2024) still appears the same as last year.

EMAIL DORENE: transcribing.mom@gmail.com, daehumphries18@yahoo.com
EMAIL ROGER: thedodger1@att.net, thedodger64@gmail.com
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WINTER 2025 SLIDESHOW

https://www.criscollrj.com/2026/01/06/winter-2025-picture-gallery/

boiled dinner!
finally had Christmas briefly with Colleen & Christian!
Cookies!
We had Corinne for speech from November (I think?) of 24 all the way until May of 2025 when she moved on to a different position.
We go monthly usually to a family restaurant for breakfast and discuss our calendar and todo list!!
pancakes!
Uncle Don K passed into his forever home 1-14-2025, and these were beautiful remembrances of that. We did not have a public service.
colleen made a store selling these – so talented!
Accidentally matched with Chris!
Couldn’t believe I matched with Ryan also!!
I saved these from Uncle Don K’s date he was laid to rest.
Ryan’s starting to look like Chris sometimes from the side…
ryan’s always happy to find Wendy’s!!
Ryan’s dental — one of Cleveland’s famous schools across the street where he went to Wendy’s —
Heard of it but never saw it before!
Euclid beach!
Field trip
Lake ice
Lake still frozen!
Starting to thaw – March
Early spring park!
Baby Owen Lawrence, EJ’s brother
Frequent visitors!
haircut!
haircut
date night! We forgot to take a picture together so just used recent pictures
Happy 23!!
Mama at our birthday party
EJ enjoying the kitchen!
Ear cleanout day!
Riverside preschool days!
One of Mom’s and my Bob Evans dinners!
Easter decs.
A long winter, first signs of spring!

SPRING 2025 SLIDESHOW

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grateful for the Y!
Papa Johns!
easter dinner!
puzzle time before the dr.
lining up the Yews as to where we want to plant them, replacing our broken fence!
Several roses still looked saveable, but I don’t think they made it…
Ham soup!
Cherry Blossoms!
this blew my mind, a lily I thought had died the year before came back in the pot!!
AI – Ryan
someone looked up what their child should look like from infant stage to age 20 so I did it too! Ryan was most similar. Next 8 pictures
AI FUN – Colleen #1
AI FUN Colleen, #1
AI FUN – Colleen #2
AI FUN – colleen #2
AI FUN – Chris
AI FUN – Chris
mom gave me my high school picture she had…
YMCA
YMCA
Love to see the Lilies of the valley again!
Purple Rhodis
first time I got to see Colleen and Christian sing together!
yet another lily from mom!
finally got plants potted!
Wooster for court work!
Wooster Park
Dinner in Wooster
new speech therapy boys had briefly, she left in August. Have to find a new one!!!
Pier park summer flowers
big distance zoom!
Some of our deer ate all our apricots before we ate one of them..

SUMMER 2025 SLIDESHOW

https://www.criscollrj.com/2026/01/06/summer-2025-picture-gallery/

We got there super early! The bugs were terrible.
Fireworks 2025!
fourth of July picnic
so glad most of the family met here! my mom could not make it, but she made it to the next one!
Axel
Our group met another dog lover that sat with us for a while with her dog —
John & Lisa’s dog Bailey
Her pup right there, the reddish one!
Hello hydrangeas!
Chris’s pre-operative dental visit. Ridiculous wait, hope to get both boys scheduled in 2026! he did great!!!
Love the summer but Ryan wants to always cover his ears from little bugs, need to get a new solution for next year!!!
Bunnies galore! in our yard.
Black-eyed susans
summer picnic
A little more planting!
I love antique blue glass
We want to visit there again!
roger and i checked out a huge antique mall on a fun day out.
We splurged on this before the concert!
A great tribute band!!
Long-awaited Tribute to Bon Jovi concert!
One of our nicest walks to a courthouse that we do…
Erie PA court work
Pier Park (Ryan calls it, Painesville Township Park), the flowers are SO striking there in late summer!
Same blue shirt! Forgot I had it 🙂
That smile!
Comparing Colleen, Grandma, dad, she is like a cross between them.

NEW YORK WORK TRIP 2025 SLIDESHOW

https://www.criscollrj.com/2026/01/06/new-york-work-trip-picture-gallery/

Only food place open!
Near Randolph, NY
Italy Hill Rd. near Penn Yan, NY
Our hotel, night before work in Penn Yan, NY
This chicken was really good from the only food center open by the time we got there!
Always love the waffle makers!!
Catching up Yates Cty, NY files
Catching up Lyons, NY in Wayne Co., up towards Rochester!
Lyons Courthouse
Pre-emption rd.
Pre-emption Rd. somewhere north of Penn YanN, NY
Keika Outlet Trail, so happy to find a nice free walking trail close to Penn Yan, never knew it was there for 6 years!?
Cascade Falls, near Penn Yan and Keika Outlet Trail
Penn Yan, NY, cool sign!!
Yummy dinner!
Needed to catch up Cayuga Cty (nearer to Syracuse) and their recorder’s office is temporarily relocated to community college.
Rt. 54 along the Keuka Lake going south to Bath, NY.
Beautiful Bath, NY
Great Spaghetti in Towanda, PA!
Strange to see the gambling machines all over in this part of PA!
Towanda, PA courthouse catch-up
Somewhere near Sylvania, PA on our way to Crowdersport, our last PA courthouse.
Crowdersport, PA, Potter Cty. PA Last and only time we were there was with Colleen on that precious trip in 2021…
Roger found me a park!!
Wonderful country!
Map says this is called Longtoe Vista. North of the State park, we didn’t venture too far as we had to drive all the way home that evening! 3 hrs, 40 minutes, my map now says!

FALL 2025 SLIDESHOW

https://www.criscollrj.com/2026/01/06/fall-2025-picture-gallery/

Ryan got me this for mother’s day and it’s doing great even in this small container!
Almost got all the yews plants!
Yummy fall dinner!
Grateful to get together for one more picnic! This time Colleen wasn’t there but Mom was! Glad throughout the year we pretty much all gathered!
Rick’s mom Edie
Ready Freddie!
Missed Colleen this time, so glad Mom could come, so with two picnics everyone came between the two!
My filing stack is an imminent chore for New Year’s now, it has been sitting for a quite a while!
I bought this great helpful tool to use for it!!
We were surprisingly close to a branch of the Tow Path and Railroad!! A great walk!!!
Almost ready to burlap!!
Fun Broadmoor field trip day before Thanksgiving!!
Colleen at her dog grooming store
Axel!
Fantastic Bob Evans meal from our work!
Love the story boards on the walkway!
Love that Grand River Bridge and the smile!
Roast beef dinner was delicious! Mama’s famous!
A friend of ours roasted our turkey beautifully! (We need a new oven…)
Snapdragons proceeded to bloom later also! then that plant faded but other one on right is still doing well!
Heavenly donut!
Christmas Music playing all through here
Happy graduation to Roger!! SNHU bachelor’s Social services degree!
All the graduates!
Visit with mama and lisa!
Our work Christmas party
musical Christmas house behind us
Colleen & Christian singing and also theatre area behind it!
Christmas eve pizza lunch – Bailey the pup!
Uncle Mike in from VA!
Pizza was excellent!
Christmas morning!
Lakeshore park
Concord Woods Park
New park, Hemlock Ridge Park on Vrooman Rd.
Gift exchange and dinner at rollhouse