tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40339032011-04-21T18:34:45.321-07:00DallasDrummondsChristmasJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-58506496574994650182007-09-14T12:55:00.000-07:002007-09-14T14:17:26.748-07:00WOW! This is gonna change this Christmas Blog, that's for sure: I can now add video!Just for some teasers, I'll post a couple of sports videos I did for Gina's teams. The first is Gina's 8th grade St. Patrick basketball team (Gina is #24):
The second is Gina's club volleyball team (Gina is #7):
For Christmas this past year, Anne Marie bought me a camcorder that records directly onto a Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-67163561602498550682007-01-24T10:11:00.000-08:002007-01-24T10:30:02.684-08:00Other than spring break: We took a couple of summer trips, one to New York and one to Destin, Florida. The New York trip found us at the beach on Long Island for a week in late June. Not a "tour" like last summer -- this was just to Pt. Lookout with a day trip to see AM's cousin and family on Fire Island; we didn't even rent a car. It was definitely summer already in Texas, but not really so Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-24938379090641066172006-12-29T12:13:00.000-08:002006-12-29T12:21:59.428-08:00Oops.I forgot to post anything here this year. Yes, people have asked. I'll try to update this later. Check back in a couple of weeks or so.A short preview: this was the year of the ankle. I first hurt my left ankle a few days before spring break, when I fell off my bike. We went to California, spending half the week in SoCal (did Disneyland, the beach, and San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park) Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1147928842367970522006-05-17T22:07:00.000-07:002006-05-17T22:11:28.193-07:00This is the birthday card Art sent me this year. As he wrote on the inside:Dear Father Jeff,I've gotta find a better card shop. This was the last card in theplace written in English that didn't have some fat chicks or midgets onit.Last year, he sent me one with a befuddled-looking cowboy on the cover, and on the inside it said, "What if everyone DID Wang Chung tonight? Who'd watch the cows?" Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1142649809485427752006-03-17T18:39:00.000-08:002007-01-24T10:30:35.147-08:00Spring Break 2006: This year, the Drummond clan headed to Southern California for spring break; at least, we were there for half the time, staying with the Fees (UD friends Martin Fee and Janis Drexilius Fee) in Orange County for the first half of the week and at Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the second half of the week.As is my usual practice, I spent the month or so beforeJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134577249813633272005-12-13T23:50:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:58:28.466-08:00The Dallas DrummondsYear in Review2005[Editor's note: if you've never looked at a blog before, a couple of hints: they normally appear in reverse order (first on the bottom, last on the top) , but I timed and dated the posts so they show up in chronological order from top to bottom. Second, when the text under a picture switches from black to orange, that is a "hyperlink" and you can put your Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578862810049502005-12-13T23:47:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:47:46.666-08:00Another Christmas Eve photo: the Drummonds usually get together on Christmas Eve to exchange gifts, rather than on Christmas Day (that's the in-laws day). With six Drummond "kids" (Art, Leanne, Greg, Jeff, Shawn, Colleen) and all the kids in the next generation, it's usually mayhem. Adding to the bedlam is the fact that Christmas Eve is also Mary Drummond's birthday. Here's a picture of her 4th Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134579335166629772005-12-13T23:30:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:24:36.743-08:00Another Christmas Eve 2004 photo: Christmas Eve 2004 was at Colleen and Charlton's house this year, in southeast Houston, and it snowed! Great big flakes of soggy white fun. The kids loved it, naturally, and when we left Colleens about midnight to drive back to Anne Marie's mother's house, the neighborhood was still alive with people. Yes, it was almost midnight, but kids and parents alike were Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134579159948160712005-12-13T22:52:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:25:39.376-08:00Your blogsters at the St. Patrick School auction. Yes, you can dress us up, but it still draws stares when you do so. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578920630960232005-12-13T21:50:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:27:51.160-08:00Here's Mary before her ballet recital, Spring 2004. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578699735256442005-12-13T21:44:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:29:29.570-08:00Yet another "Daddy's girl:" Mary and her Daddy at her preschool spring pageant. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134579064269602152005-12-13T21:30:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:30:29.386-08:00Another shot of the photogenic one. I'm not sure if that's a tattoo or marker on her left wrist. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134577363887286552005-12-13T20:50:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:32:39.270-08:00Ellen in her first communion dress. What a day. If you want to hear me wax poetic, check out the "secret" blog. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134577646705227222005-12-13T20:40:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:33:12.460-08:00Another first communion pic: Ellen with her grandmother (Anne Marie's mom). Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578314937906272005-12-13T19:50:00.000-08:002005-12-15T09:40:20.216-08:00Grove Parkers: we've gone to the Grove Park Inn in North Carolina with this crowd of friends for a couple of years in a row.[UPDATE]: I kept looking and looking at this picture, and something just wasn't right about it. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I've just figured it out: nobody's got a drink in their hand. I don't know how that happened; it seemed like there was a lot of liquor Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578398230406102005-12-13T19:40:00.000-08:002005-12-14T10:03:47.833-08:00Our new house: we told you last year that we moved to a new house here in Dallas; well, here's a picture of us on the upstairs balcony, looking back toward the rear portion of the house.Actually, on the trip to the Grove Park Inn, we also visited George Vanderbilt's estate, The Biltmore. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134577713695835632005-12-13T18:50:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:37:58.670-08:00Ellen's "official" soccer photo. Is that the face of a girl who loves the sport, or what? She was a trooper and played, in some awfully cold weather, but all in all, she'd much rather have been on the playground. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578029613165372005-12-13T18:40:00.000-08:002005-12-15T19:31:51.633-08:00Gina, on the other hand, is quite the athlete. The St. Patrick School junior varsity (5th and 6th grades) softball team won the Dallas Parochial League championship in a nailbiter at the Dr. Pepper Youth Stadium on the grounds of the Ballpark in Arlington, where the Rangers play. As you can see, the little ballpark (top picture -- that's Gina at the plate) is architecturally styled like the big Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1117722317667482712005-12-13T18:01:00.000-08:002005-12-15T19:32:15.880-08:00Memorial Day 2005: We had the opportunity again this year to visit the Rivas family in San Antonio and at Julie Rivas' family ranch near Lampasas. This year we were joined by the Littles. I took my kayak to run the Guadalupe and did a little fishing out of it on one of the ranch stock ponds. Karl Rivas and John Little took more fish out of the pond than I did, but I caught the biggest bass. More Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134577551668077982005-12-13T17:50:00.000-08:002006-01-03T09:54:09.793-08:00Another big event in the life of Ellen Claire Drummond: learning to ride a bike. This is in Albany, NY. We visited Tom and Julie Sica and their family this summer; their neighborhood is also where Gina learned to ride a bike. (More at the "secret" blog.) Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578589143775412005-12-13T17:43:00.000-08:002005-12-15T19:43:16.853-08:00Jersey Girls: Our summer trip took us from Albany to the Jersey Shore. Boogie boarding and rollercoasters on the boardwalk were big, as was the new Harry Potter book (Gina read it in a day). Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134578199080161742005-12-13T17:36:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:45:50.736-08:00On the boardwalk, outside Atlantic City, looking for Bruce. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663324676959762005-12-13T16:50:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:50:30.026-08:00August 2005: The traditional "First Day of School" photos.Here's Gina in her St. Patrick uniform. . . . Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663426648183842005-12-13T16:40:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:51:17.470-08:00. . . and here's Ellen in her Oak Hill Academy uniform . . . Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663526867658202005-12-13T16:28:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:52:37.530-08:00. . . and here's Mary in her reform school uniform. Er, I mean preschool, and there's no uniform. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663676983238932005-12-13T15:21:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:53:39.040-08:00This is Ellen with one of her friends from school, Natalie, taken the morning after a sleepover (check out the bed-head). Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663815297860582005-12-13T14:23:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:54:12.780-08:00October 2004: The photogenic one again, this time at a preschool outing at the pumpkin patch. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134663833972628772005-12-13T13:23:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:55:26.060-08:00Halloween. Pretty self-explanatory, but check out Mary's ruby slippers. Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134664391922915272005-12-13T12:50:00.000-08:002005-12-15T08:57:08.203-08:00Christmas: Well, that brings us to our family Christmas portrait. We fretted, as always, about what to do for our Christmas card this year. Last year, we had just moved into the new house and our card was just a Christmas-y change-of-address card, along with a note to check out the Drummond Christmas Blog (which was also a fretful matter -- Anne Marie thought it was too wordy [it was, no doubt], Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1134665152426019992005-12-13T12:40:00.000-08:002005-12-15T19:49:19.660-08:00So, having purchased a sitting with a photographer at a charity auction during the year, Anne Marie calls and schedules the sitting. The photography studio is moving and the new place isn't ready, so the photographer asks if we'd rather he come to our house to shoot the pictures. Sounds like a great idea. We get our holiday decorations up, trim the tree in a particularly photogenic way, and the Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1115068343238126442005-01-01T02:54:00.000-08:002005-12-14T09:05:10.633-08:00[end of 2005][beginning of 2004]Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102274011316927452004-12-25T12:00:00.000-08:002004-12-05T11:14:19.983-08:00The Dallas Drummonds:2004 in photos.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882274600187212004-10-31T08:37:00.000-08:002004-12-05T10:05:18.836-08:00Halloween:
Gina as a cheerleader, Ellen as a cat, and Mary as an angel (certainly a costume).
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098809779951848362004-09-11T09:56:00.000-07:002004-12-09T13:38:24.656-08:00Cedar Creek Lake, Texas
Mary
(She's such a tramp!)
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098809690920732502004-09-11T09:54:00.000-07:002004-12-05T10:04:06.293-08:00Cedar Creek Lake, Texas:
Gina and Jeff
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1099325130025498812004-08-30T08:05:00.000-07:002004-12-05T10:02:52.320-08:00Our new house: 9315 Timberhollow Circle, Dallas 75231
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098809732123159382004-08-25T09:55:00.000-07:002004-12-05T10:01:48.326-08:00Cedar Creek Lake, Texas
Gina, Jeff and Ellen
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098809641726626932004-08-25T09:54:00.000-07:002004-12-05T10:01:00.196-08:00
First Date: Jack Corrigan and Mary Drummond
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882015907263552004-06-17T08:33:00.000-07:002004-12-09T13:41:49.863-08:00
Fish. And chips.
Gina and Mary working on an old English pub favorite.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098809604291125992004-06-16T09:53:00.000-07:002004-12-05T09:58:06.413-08:00Gulf Shores, Alabama:
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882361998424552004-05-31T08:39:00.000-07:002004-12-05T09:37:29.743-08:00Lometa, Texas:
Top photo: Kayaks on Sheewee (Ellen's name for my truck; and no, I don't know what that's supposed to mean).
Ellen on Red.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882254605773462004-05-31T08:37:00.000-07:002004-12-05T09:36:01.046-08:00Lometa, Texas:
Top: Gina on horseback
Mary rides again.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102631312584729202004-04-17T19:28:00.000-07:002004-12-09T14:33:51.586-08:00Asheville, North Carolina
On the steps of the Grove Park Inn.
Drinks in hand.
Seemed to be the theme of the weekend.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1098813831835989202004-04-17T19:03:00.000-07:002004-12-09T14:32:08.786-08:00
Ladies of the evening at the Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N.C.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102631326087554082004-04-11T12:28:00.000-07:002004-12-09T14:35:22.763-08:00Raveneaux Country Club, Houston.
Easter lunch with Anne Marie's mother.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102631347235321682004-03-18T14:29:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:31:04.756-08:00Vail, Colorado:
On a day off from skiing, a short side trip to the village of Vail.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882486629741842004-03-14T13:41:00.000-08:002004-12-05T09:25:38.943-08:00Beaver Creek, Colorado:
Top photo: Anne Marie, Mary, Gina, Jeff and Ellen at the entrance to the Beaver Creek village.
Bottom photo: the view from our condo.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1100882458515095602004-02-14T08:40:00.002-08:002004-12-05T09:22:21.306-08:00February snow in Dallas.
Snow definitely makes little girls happy.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102631286967458742004-02-07T20:28:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:38:12.216-08:00St. Patrick School auction, Dallas.
I had spent the entire day in the sun and was severely sunburned. Or maybe the color in the photo just didn't scan well. Either way, my tuxedo shirt is pretty damned white wouldn't you say? If only I could do something about my hair. . . .
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4033903.post-1102274338188040602004-01-01T11:59:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:44:18.916-08:00That's all, folks. Merry Christmas, happy new year, and we'll see you in 2005.
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067054401696214042noreply@blogger.com