The Guy and Alene Goodson Family Blog: April 2009

May 1, 2009 Goodson Family Blog

Family News

Brent Reel and family just returned from a trip to Chicago during spring break. Jan, Jud, Sadie and Brent went to the American Girl store, Wrigley Field to see an afternoon Cubs/Cardinals game, Sears Tower, Navy Pier, etc. Brooks’ spring break consisted of four days of eating candy, drinking soda and chewing gum with Grammie and Pappie. (See pictures at the bottom of the page.)

Leslie Goodson Bailey and the twins now a great new place to play.
They have made a playroom for the kids and a scrapbook area for Leslie in their attic. Emma will be in a dance recital soon so look for photos next month.

Dylan Harris is finished playing middle school baseball for this year and is starting Lake Norman Royals traveling team.

Megan Harris has her dance recital next weekend. Pam Harris is looking foward to summer.

Lily Reavis-Goodson is now 5 months old and has two teeth.

Chris Goodson is finished his Instructional Technology Master’s degree from ASU and will be graduating on May 9th.

Roger Goodson says to tell everyone he has only 26 more days to work until retirement. He is only going to fish on days ending a “y”.

Maggie Watts is excited about going to middle school next year.

Carson Watts is taking piano and has a recital at Ivey Memorial Church on April 8, 2009.

Judy is doing well and recovering from her pacemaker surgery. She will return to the doctor on May 19th and hopes she will be able to do more then.

Extended family news:

Uncle Burgin fell last week an broke his collar bone.

Jerry Goodson's son-in-law, Jim White, has a cancerous tumor on his spine.

Photos

Spring Break for the Brent Reel Family

Lily enjoying springtime.

April 8, 2009 Issue 1 Volume 3 (Please send me the news of your family!)

Family News Judy Watts has been in the hospital since last week. She was transferred from Lincolnton to Carolina's Medical on Monday. Tuesday she had pacemaker implanted. She is still having some problems and at this time we do not know when she will get to come home.

Dale Harris wanted to share with everyone how Dylan is doing playing baseball. Dylan has played in four games so far this season for North Lincoln Middle. He is 1 for 3 at the plate with one strike out and five walks. He has scored the tying run in one game and the winning run in another. He was the starting and winning pitcher for the last game. He pitched a complete game which ended in four innings because the score was 13-2.

Leslie Bailey is also excited about sports. April 4th was Noah's first soccer game. They have only had 2 practices and this is his first time ever playing. He scored 2 of the goals and the other team didn't score any. See the pictures below. He is in orange, #9.

Tammy Dickerson says that March was busy for them. They went to Greensboro to spend the weekend at Les' to celebrate their birthdays (Erika, Les and Tammy's). It was on one of the March weekends that was so warm- the kids had a good time riding bikes and scooters and skipping rocks on the pond in their neighborhood. Jacob was in his school's production of Grease. He played a greaser, no speaking role, but stole the show when he did the Macarena during the Prom scene! See the pictures below of the birthday girls

For those that love Oak IslandThe beach magazine, The Pelican Post, is now an online magazine only. Kathy Goodson has a page of photos there as well as a short biography. Kathy was also pictured in Birds and Blooms magazine with one of her rain barrels. You can see it at http://pelican.neonexusdemo.com/the-art/artists/kathy-goodson

Maggie Watts tells us she is on her schools Battle of the Books Team. Her team won the county Battle of the Books contest. She was pictured in the April 8th Lincoln Times News with her team. She is also on the school news team and is an anchor this month. Carson and Maggie both performed recently at the school's talent show. See photos below.

Bernice Harris says that Phillip's boys, Grant and Aaron are finished with their basketball season. Grant's team came in 2nd at their tournament. Both boys are playing baseball and soccer. Also, Grant lost a tooth. He pulled it by himself!

Lily says “Hello” to everyone. Well, really she just says “Goo Goo” but she means “Hello”