December Family Blog

December Blog

Mike and Gail sent us this photo of their family on the beach at Thanksgiving. Great to see them looking so good.

Leslie Bailey shares that they had lunch with Emma and Noah (the pilgrim and Native American) at school on Tuesday. Noah starts basketball on the 30th. We are very proud of Emma and Noah for saving their money. They saved enough money to buy themselves a Wii...now Santa just has to bring somegames. Leslie also shares that she went on girls weekend to the mountains with 5 other mom's at thebeginning of the month. She says it was nice to get away and relax, hike, and shop at the outlets. The following weekend Ethan went away on business to a convention in California. His booth was right next to HGTV's booth. Even though he was right across from Sabrina Soto (Real Estate Intervention), he didn't get a picture.

Bernice shares that she and Bill were busy at Thanksgiving getting ready for their family. They had a great time, especially the children. They ran and played until the meal was ready. They had a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Bernice says that "God has been good to us this year and we all had much to be thankful for. " After they ate they played games. They went to Leslie and Todd Black's house on Thursday evening. There was enough good food to feed an army.

Bernice says they are still trying to get window treatments up in the house. She has about gotten every thing else in place. You can actually walk through the rooms now and the other house is empty except for yard sale things and we will have a yard sale soon. They still want everybody to come by for a visit soon.

Lily celebrated her 1st birthday on November 21st.

Lily and her Monkey Cake...oh and Daddy.

Lily Standing all by herself on Thanksgiving

Goodson Christmas Party Photos

Please send me your December family news and photos. I can't write the blog if you don't send me any information. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas...and use those cameras at Christmas. I'm just an email away at kathygoodson@gmail.com

November Blog

November 2, 2009 Blog

Family Christmas Party

December 6

Alexis Baptist Church Family Life Center

1:00

Bring a covered dish. Email or call Dori or Delora and let them know what you are bringing.

From the past -

This is a photo of Gerald teaching Phyllis how to dance. The date on the photo is July 1958.

Judy and Phyllis remember Gerald talking on the phone to Wanda by pulling it into the living room and closing the door. So they would stand outside by the window to listen to the conversation. Once Gerald caught them and called them "Childish". This was funny to Phyllis and Judy since Wanda was their age!

Family News:

Judy sends a Happy Birthday to Roger on Oct. 17th and Karen on Oct. 27th.

She also wants everyone to know that St. Luke's Lutheran Church will have their Fall Craft Bazaar on Saturday, November 7th at 8:00-2:00. Besides handmade crafts they will be selling soup and sandwich. The craft Bazaar will be held in the new family life center.

From Bernice

Bill and I are officially in our new home. We have grass (and mud) and an out building to go with it. It is nice not to have to go down stairs to wash, iron or get things out of the freezer. When we were young it was no problem but age does things to you. We don't even have leaves to rake.

A lot of people from Macedonia came and helped us move. Michael Lippard brought a box truck. They made one load and that was it, but I am not getting it unpacked as fast. Biggest problem is 41 of years of stuff just does not fit in this smaller house, so come to the yard sale. Thanks to family members who helped and thanks in advance to those who will help hang pictures and get some pieces of furniture, a few accessories,and window treatments we need.

God has been good to us and worked out things for us. All that is left is to sale our other house. Pass the word if you know of any one in the market for a house.

It is beautiful here at this time of year. We can look out and see Bill Richard's horses in the pasture and the leaves turn. We can see Little Mountain. I feel like I've come home. Enough of that!

Bill is still having a lot of back pain and we are going to Hickory twice a week for therapy.

COME TO SEE US!

Our new address is 3940 Goodson Road, Maiden, N. C. 28650 and Phone 828 428 9739.

From Dale

The Harris' continue to be busy with football games at NLHS, football games at ASU, and Dylan playing baseball. We should slow down some in November.

From Brent

Updated email addresses Brent Reel breel@spectrum-properties.com Jan Reel brentreel@bellsouth.net

From Leslie

Noah and Emma turned 7 on the 23rd. We celebrated with a party at SkatelandUSA. Noah finished his soccer season on the 24th. We have signed him up for basketball which will start in November.

Noah and Emma's birthday was a half day at school so Ethan decided to let them skip school that day and took the to SciWorks in Winston. Leslie had to work. There is also a picture of Noah at his last game

From David

Mason's JV Soccer Team won the conference championship and finished at 14-1-1. Parker had fun on Halloween with his friends. The "nerd" is Parker.

From Dori

Kylie has moved to California. She is looking for a job and plans to go to school there. Here address is

Kylie Melius

1912 Carennak Place 91913

Unit 64

ChulaVista, CA 91913

Aubrey started school at Aveda in September. She is in an 18 month program.

Dori says her mom, Karen, celebrated her birthday at Jones' Fish Camp.

From Roger

The family celebrated Hazel Setzer's 83rd birthday (Kathy's Mom) on October 5th.

Chris had the flu this month. During his illness Becky and Lily stayed with us. Luckily, neither Becky or Lily caught the flu. Chris has recovered after a week of high fevers.

During her stay with us Lily decided to take the boat for a spin.

Lily was a little Viking for Halloween. She will be 1 year old on November 21st.

She says for everyone to have a Happy Thanksgiving and send her Mamaw Kackie some news and photos.

October 09 Family Blog

From Leslie Bailey - Leslie and family have had a busy month. They went to the mountains over Labor Day weekend. They went to Tweetsie while they were there. The kids rode the big kid rides this time and loved them!

Noah is playing soccer again and loves it. This is a picture from his game of the season. He is number 12 on the Rams (notice the Carolina blue jerseys?)

They ended the month with a trip to Pine Know Shores for one of Leslie's co-worker's wedding. They made the most of their our weekend and went to the aquarium and Fort Macon before Emma and Noah attended their first wedding.

From Tammy Dickerson -

September was busy for the Dickerson family. They spent Labor Day weekend with Garin's family at Cherry Grove. Shortly after They had another family get together when Garin's grandmother passed away. Paulie Ruble, the last of Jacob's great grandparents, passed away on September 15th. She was 91. She had been sick for awhile, but they remember the beautiful woman with a contagious laugh and a tremendous love of her family.

Jacob turned 11 on September 15th as well. They celebrated a week later with a pizza party and sleepover. Jacob is playing soccer at the Y and his team is doing well. He love playing goalie, but plays well on offense also!

To relax at the end of this busy month, Tammy went to Wilmington for the weekend to visit with some friends from college. The four "girls" had a great time catching up, shopping and doing a lot of giggling, just like the good ole days!

Wayne Goodson has a new dog, Oscar.


David Huss - Progress reports came and both boys have done well. Parker's club soccer team is doing okay, but it wll be a difficult season inthe top division. Mason made the JV soccer team at ardrey Kell and has started every game on defense. He is playing well and hoping to maybe move up to the varsity team for playoffs. the varsity team is one of the top teams in the state.

Vonda is on the raod alot, but at least she has a a job. In October she travels to San Francisico, Seattle, San Francisco again and Louisville. Always aware of the most important things. Vonda says that it is not as hudmid on the west coast and everyday is a good hair day. Real Estate? David say s it is getting a little better. People are staring ot get back in the mood. Do you Tweet David asks? If so you can follow Parker on Tweeter at parkerhuss and David at davidhusslive.


Bernice Harris -

Bernice and Bill's house is complete and they will start moving over the weeekend. They are just moving boxes and packing more boxes. New Weekend a friend has access to a box truck and they will be moving the big stuff. If any one wants to help let Bernice know. They need packers, someone to put up stuff and some strong backs. Oh and maybe a supervisor.

Other news from Bernice -- Bill is taking some Aqua Therapy which seems to be helping with his pain. They hope!

They still have not sold their house. So they reduced the price a little hoping that will move it. Bernice asks that you keep them in your prayers.

The yard has been sown since this photo.

Roger, Kathy, Chris, Becky and Lily

Roger had a new shed built onto his barn this month...he plans to park his boat there. Kathy is keeping Lily 4 days a week. She is also active in Lincoln Theatre Guild Board of Directors along with Chris and Becky. Roger and Kathy have both joined a photography club and were surprised to see some of our photos in the paper recently.

Chris and Becky are very active in the Lincoln Theatre Guld. Becky is Presiden and Chris Vice President. Chris is directing the Dinner Theatre production. The play is Geofffrey Chaucer's Flying Circus. It will be held October 30 and 31 as well as November 1. Tickets are $45 each for your meal and a play. The play will be at the Citizens Center in Lincolnton. Email Kathy or Becky for tickets or purchase tickets online at Carolina Tix. The doors open at 7:00.

Lily is 10 month old now. She is learning more words each day. She is standing, crawling and pulling up.

Wearing Roger's hat.

Watching airplanes at the Laney Airport Fly In

September 09 Goodson Family Blog

August was a busy time for all the Goodson family. Many families were on vacation, having fun in the sun and getting ready for school to begin.

But first here are some photos from the past from Bernice.

Guess who these cute babies are? (answers at the bottom)

That's right, the baby is in the bicycle basket!

Recently I asked folks for memories of Gerald. Judy sent this one along with a photo of Gerald.
Phyllis and I share this memory about Gerald. When Wanda and Gerald were dating he talked on the telephone to her every day. Gerald always carried the telephone into the living room to talk so he would have some privacy. Little did he know, Phyllis and I heard him as we listened outside the open window. One day he caught us. Boy, was he mad. He told us we were inmature kids, along with some other choice advice about how to behave. Later in years we always laughed about it. After all, Wanda was our age!

Baby Gerald

Family News -

David Huss shares that Mason made the JV soccer team at Ardrey Kell High School and will be moving to defender this year. Vonda continues to travel quite a bit – Tampa, Atlanta, San Francisco all on the docket for this month. Parker is enjoying the new experiences of middle school. David says he is not a biker, but he did a 65 mile bike event last week. Actually rode 74 after he missed a turn. Yes, David says his butt was sore for a few days. He also met Michael Goodson. No, not uncle Mike, the Carolina Panther. David says he has a special gift for Uncle Mike when he sees him again.

Phyllis sends word that Mason has his driver permit. She took him to Lincolnton (when he was here working for Brad in June). Great experience for her. Parker spent two nights with NC and Phyllis last week. Anna and Mia are very happy with their teachers this year. Mia is "Beamer" for the elementry school. N.C.'s garden here and in the country has provided wonderful tomatoes, beans, corn, cucumbers, watermellons and cantelopes to the family and neighbors. She is sad to say they are all gone now.


The Dale and Pam Harris family have been busy with sports lately. Dylan is playing baseball on the 3Up 3Down Rebels team. He played left field in both games Saturday and had three hits and one RBI.



Megan is on the North Lincoln Varsity Cheeringleading Team. She had her first game on August 22. Megan is a flyer on the team.



Pam also sent photos of Dylan and Megan on their first day of school.


The Harris kids and Cale Watts' kids went swimming with Lily at her Aunt Linda's and Uncle Danny's right before school started. Here are some photos of the day.

Judy Chillin' and Maggie Swimmin'.

Grant taking a break and Aaron playing water basketball.

Dylan with a nice dive, and Carson having fun.

Lily and her mom swim while Dylan takes a break.

Megan keeps an eye on all the kids.

Wayne and Erika went to the Outer Banks with Ethan and Leslie's family as well as her inlaws. Here are some photos that Erika and Leslie sent.

Life is Good

Nice way to wake up in the morning

Leslie and family running from the waves

Cape Hatteras lighthouse

Erika made it to the top of the Lighthouse

Wayne is teaching Emma and Noah to fish with hooks and bait.

Ethan, Emma and Noah at the Wright Brothers Memorial

Erika and Jean (Ethan's mom) at the NC Aquarium in Manteo

Emma with Grandpa Myles (Ethan's step dad)

Erika also sent these shots from around her pool this summer.

Jacob showing his form

Jacob is almost as tall as Aunt Leslie

Judy is TRYING to relax, while Maggie & Carson are swimming

Leslie also sent in this photo of Emma's and Noah's first day of school

Bernice Harris sends these photos. She thinks they will be moving into their new home around Oct. 1st.

Bernice also took this beautiful shot of a butterfly in her yard.

Phillip and Janice Harris share that Aaron is playing fall soccer at Maiden Recreation and Grant is playing tackle football for the Balls Creek Trojans. On Saturday, October 10, the Trojans will playing at East Lincoln High School against the East Lincoln Orange team which Judd Reel is playing on. Should be a lot of fun watching them compete against each other. Phillip will be coaching Aaron in soccer and Janice is busy with her Premier Jewelry business.

Phillip and Janice also sent some photos of the boys and their trip this summer. They went went crabbing and caught some blue crabs. They also saw the tall ship festival in Charleston Harbor.

Grant in his football uniform


Grant and Aaron playing par 3 golf this summer

Catching Blue Crabs and seeing the tall ships.

Family Photo taken in Charleston Harbor


Roger and I have been enjoying his retirement. Now that school has started I am back to babysitting Lily. Come by and see us at her house some time.

Chris is teaching at North Lincoln. Becky's practice continues to grow and she is teaching at CVTC. They are so very active in the Lincoln Theatre Guild. Chris will be directing the Dinner Theatre in October. Everyone is invited to come. It is a nice night out with good food and live theatre.

Roger and I are both members of the newly formed Lincoln Photography Club. If you get an opportunity our club has a display at the Lincolnton Library. We both have photos displayed.

Carson, Maggie and Judy stopped by to say hello to Lily one day right before school started.

*****The babies at the top were Mason Huss and Wayne Goodson.

By the way, Happy Birthday on August 11th to Wayne from Judy. The photo of Wayne was made in Grandmaw and Grandpaw Keener's front yard. This house was in Boger City across the road from the old Winn Dixie.

Please send your family news and updates as well as photos anytime to kathygoodson@gmail.com or kathygoo@bellsouth.net .