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Christmas Newsletter 2025
“Proverbs 23:15-18:
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed; my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.”
After five years of very hard work and also some good creative paper writing Roger got his bachelor’s degree last month! It is no longer just a hope but an accomplishment! We are so proud of him! We are going to take some time this winter to organize a lot in our house and make some repairs and then will see what kind of valuable work is waiting out there for a bachelor’s degree in social work. We are no stranger to having a ton of projects going, and it looks like that is not changing anytime soon! With several people moving in/out around us over the past decade+, we seem to have items everywhere that we need to sort and purge!! Probably like most everyone we and you all know! Looking forward to opening up rooms here to enjoy ourselves before we are too old to enjoy them! And we ALSO hope to have a family picnic in honor of his graduation, as well as Ryan’s and mine!! The last graduation party was in 2012 for Chris and Colleen! I even bought a yard sign…
A praise we have this year after many years of waiting for the right timing is that we are able to start looking for a house of their own for Chris and Ryan. We are carefully looking and pray for guidance to find the right forever house for them. We are also blessed that their health is good at this time. We have been so grateful for their housing with their current company and will be continuing with that company once we move them into their own house, also. We hope to find something with a little yard and more breathing room where they can live for many years.
Spring 2025 Picture Gallery
Summer 2025 Picture Gallery
Fall 2025 Picture Gallery
Papa’s Special Pictures
Video of his singing The French National Anthem when he was briefly home again during hospice time. Until we meet again, precious Papa! Just keeping this video private with this shared access to you, his family and friends —
Papa singing French National Anthem while in hospice <3
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Summer Picture Gallery 2024
Summer Picture Gallery 2024
Winter Picture Gallery 2024
Winter Picture Gallery 2024
2024 Christmas Newsletter
Christmas Newsletter 2024
This year I have 5 picture pages and a special link — Papa’s Homegoing area and pictures (2 links), Winter ’24 pictures, Spring ’24 pictures, Summer ’24 pictures, and Fall-end of year ’24 pictures. Please click and check them all out, and have a peaceful 2025! Letter follows the picture pages.
Papa’s special pictures, singing video, and homegoing pictures
The tree
Please read the link above, The Tree, as it has way more to say about our Papa. Also click the link to the left for more pictures of the homegoing services and a few of papa (more to be added), that now includes a private video of him singing an old song from his childhood as we visited him this fall.
Unusual it is for me to link to many of my past posts, or even get to do a post beyond the yearly newsletter, but this event probably most affected all of us out of everything that happened this year. “Papa” Chuck Humphries, Roger’s dad, passed away in October of 2024. He had an illness that started in perhaps April and continued on through most of the rest of the year. We all had some good times with him after that and fellowshipped and tried to prepare for what was coming. The tree event above in the link was rather awe-inspiring in its reflection of an afterlife, and the thoughts of it have continued into Lisa giving us a reflective tree suncatcher that is now hanging in our office. His memory lives on in our hearts, and we know we will see him again one day.
Winter 2024
January brought Roger and Lisa’s birthday party with a fun dinner at Fiji Buffet. The 60th birthday decoration remains ready for my birthday coming up! Having Papa there was great.
Later January was often filled with trying to help Ryan get restored with his health, as he had a severe double ear infection after COVID that had him struggling and then more constipation issues after. We ended up keeping him out of activities for about 6 weeks and kept getting x-rays and may have also had to repeat antibiotics for the ear, and he gradually got better.
February brought us a much needed haircut. Roger’s had been a while, but mine had been ancient, with my last haircut being November of 20, after growing out since abou November of 19, and then growing out from 2020 to 2024! I planned after that to get my hair cut every 3-6 months but of course I did not do that, and it is pretty long again.
On our birthday (Ryan’s and mine) we went to a visitation at his new workshop while he was on his six week break. He got to observe the sign langauge class and had fun participating! A month later we were able to have our birthday party at the condo, the last time we were all there together with Papa. Additionally, March 4, 2024 was Ryan’s first day at his workshop. On my dad’s birthday!
Later in March we also got to use our truck to pick up a couch, love seat and other furniture with papa, and he really enjoyed our new truck! The couch eventually went to the boys’ condo.
Also in March we had a wonderful birthday party for me and Ryan, and another sweet family gathering as my mom and Papa were both able to join us and Mama and Aunt Lisa. Colleen was not able to make it to this one, and we missed her…