A Home in Mound

Best wishes to you all this Happy Season. We are going to have a fun week with friends and family, and hope you do to.

There's something familiar about him though... I just can't place it!

Mommy caught us on camera!

Starting a tradition here, playing our horns for some old friends.

Shes starting to take steps between furniture now. It's very exciting.

Ain't they grand?

Sara is expecting a baby now... so she told our mother on Santa's lap. Very exciting! Congratulations Sara and Jon!

Was a hoot this year. Kudos to the guy singing "Four Calling Birds"

The cat finally gets some love... maybe he could find a home at the Burfeind residence?

"Put that pretty outfit here Mommy!"

The lake froze up enough to bear our weight for the most part. I thought this would be a fun picture... it's still too warm to go much further out in my opinion, though I didn't ask the fishermen out in the middle of the lake.

Standing... and getting her bearings... she is practically walking.

Janet got 3 alike dresses that were sized nicely for the girls, and then she and my mom made a 4th to complete the ensemble for the cousins. They were very cute walking about downtown.

This has nothing to do with my family, but interesting video I thought.

Since the Pearl Harbor rememberances this last week were on the airwaves, it also made me think about World War I. I've been thinking that those veterans are really old now... and wondered if there was a count on how many veterans are still alive.

Then I saw an article about an annual Pearl Harbor Survivor reunion in Hawaii. They have held these every 5 years, but the consensus seems to be that this year may be the last. Only 1500 survivors made it this year, on the 65th anniversary.

This made me think again about the WWI vets, and I found the list of surviors pretty easily...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I


Putting this in context, it's strange to think about our lifespans, and the coming and going of events, big and small. It seems to be quite a moment to be here, witnessing the end of a generation who fought in one of the earliest, bloodiest, mechanized wars. Guys who may have started the war with rifles on horseback, and finished with machine guns, tanks, and airplanes.