Happy Birthday Ginger & Traci!

Greetings from California Holmers

Phil, Linda and Grandaughter, Gwen.

Happy Birthday Dana!

Happy Birthday Beth!

Merry Christmas to All!

Love,

The Clarkes

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Highlighting Eric!

Favorite Color - Red or Blue

Favorite Food - Crab Legs, Burgers, Pizza

Favorite Drink - Root Beer or Coke

Hobbies - I like to write stories, write songs, play guitar, read, play basketball and other sports

Favorite Books - Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Catcher in the Rye, 9 Stories, On the Road, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Farewell to Arms, Breakfast of Champions

Favorite Movies - Almost Famous, Red Dawn, Orange County, V for Vendetta, The Ice Storm, Rushmore, 300, Wet Hot American Summer, The Door in the Floor, The Virgin Suicides, Can’t Hardly Wait, The Aviator, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Girl Next Door, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Cider House Rules, Mallrats, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Hearts in Atlantis, Stand By Me, Donnie Darko, Conspiracy Theory, Boondock Saints, Chasing Amy, Wedding Crashers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, National Treasure, The Goonies, 25th Hour, UnbreakableFavorite Television Shows-Man vs. Wild, One Tree Hill, Dawson’s Creek, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, Mythbusters, South Park, Dirty Jobs, Deadliest Catch, Little People Big World, Wonder Years

Favorite Music - The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Brand New, Oasis, Jimmy Eat World, The Cure, Morrissey, The Smiths, Sunny Day Real Estate, Led Zeppelin, Wu-Tang Clan, Weezer, Big Star, The Byrds, Radiohead, The Who, My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Ryan Adams, The Rolling Stones, Deftones, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, The Kinks, and many more…

Favorite Holmer Memory - too many to mention but I enjoyed Isle of Palms a lot

Favorite Time of Day - Night

A talent you wish you had or something you wish you knew how to do better - play piano (better)

If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? Wilmington, North Carolina or somewhere in England

Some goals - I would like to write a book and have it published, release a record on a major label, climb Mt. Everest, and live to at least 100

Favorite sport to watch - Football then Basketball

Favorite sport to play - Basketball

(And) Happy Thanksgiving from Nashville!

We took the stress-free route this year and ate out for Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Texas

The Texas Holmers gathered at Jenny's new home yesterday to enjoy our Thanksgiving Feast. We were happy to have Molly in from Los Angeles with her boyfriend, Traynor. Jenny's new boyfriend, Brian, was also present and took on the very important role as turkey chef.
Also pictured in the slideshow is Brian's son, Brendan, and Molly's friend, Lauri.
Much love from our homes to yours this Thanksgiving!

Greetings from Pam

Just wanted to let you all know what is going on here in Sarasota. I actually negotiated the sale of our home in Langhorne during the family reunion in July. I closed on that sale the end of August and moved into my condo here the first week in Sept. Since then, I've been trying to get my place furnished but have spent most of the time spinning my wheels! Much of my furniture has arrived damaged thus extending the time frame until completion. As of now, my bedroom is almost completed. However, the living room and dining room are only partially furnished and the den/guest room is just a repository of unpacked boxes. I'm shooting for Easter as a final completion date!

Of course, the last several months have been made vastly more difficult by the absence of my dearest companion, Ron. The pain of his loss is not as sharp but the agony of the longing to be with him is undiminished and I'm still quite emotional. Dawn visited me last weekend for a few days and I drive up to Clearwater to visit my parents every few weeks. I am also starting to make more social contacts and the cultural season has begun here so that I have performances to attend. The Wurlitzers will be returning in early Dec. and I look forward to that. At least, I have pleasant distractions from the loneliness. I will be spending the holidays with my family and I'm hoping that I'll see Steve, Beth, The Twins, Kathy and Chris at some point around Christmas/New Years.

I do wish all of you a lovely Thanksgiving and Holiday Season.

Love,
Pam

Happy Bithday David!

Happy Birthday Amanda!

Happy Birthday Karrie!

A cowboy and his monkey

Pryce & Everett Rankin aka sock monkey and cowboy

Halloween 2008

Little Red Riding Hood aka Karly Fisch

Wolverine aka Brayden Fisch

Message from Uncle Don

I have a 2nd hernia surgery scheduled for November 21st in Cincinnati. It looks like another pregnancy -- ha ha -- but really not -- just growing another small football! Anyway, I will remain in Cincinnati until after Christmas ... So any Christmas cards can be sent to me there at Jami's address. If all goes as planned, I will return to Litchfield (weather permitting) for the winter. I've been advised that lifting is a NO-NO, So I can recoup here easier without fear of needing to GO GO GO! While wintering in warm weather is nicer, this will work.
My love to all and keep me in the prayers.
Love,
Uncle Don

Happy Birthday Chris!

Happy Birthday Julie

Brian Holmer Highlighted!

Brian, we hope you had a great 30th birthday!


Favorite Color? Blue

Favorite Food? Mexican

Favorite Drink? Good Beer


Hobbies? Golf, Snowboarding, Hiking

Favorite Books/Movies/Television Shows? The Office, Man VS Wild, Little People Big World, The making of Bandon Dunes

Favorite music? I like all music

Best Vacation you have ever had? Ireland 2007

Favorite Holmer family memory? Has to be trapped in a room with Uncle Don after he had a late night at Chuggies. You all know what happened!!!

Something most people don't know about you? I take a pill called Concerta for ADD. As of right now I have been off of the medicine for a month. Kinda an experiment to see what life is like not on it. Needless to say, Allison is not thrilled with me at this moment.

Which is your favorite time of the day? Are you a morning person or a night person? I like the middle

What is the craziest thing you have ever done? Well, do you have some time..............Jumping railroad tracks with The Scout, Trying to burn Ants with gas only to set the gas can on fire and then watch the pine tree next to the ants go up in flames, I was 11.......Playing Cops and Robbers while riding my bike only to get run over by Grandma, I was 10.........Pushing my dad’s John Deere tractor 150 yards down the driveway into the drainage dip, yea I could not get it out, I was 5............Riding 22 miles on a rusty old 2 speed in 100 degree southern Illinois heat for Fire works, only to get a flat tire on the Lewis and Clark bridge coming back from the Missouri side, only to get busted by grandma, I still threw one heck of a fire works show!!!!! And the list goes on and on …


You're about to sing at a karaoke bar, what song did you choose? Garth Brooks Blame it all on my roots

A talent you wish you had or something you wish you knew how to do? Wish I was better at Golf

If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? Portland, Oregon

Someone who's had a significant influence on your life and why? My Grammy, nothing got her down, the strongest person I ever knew, I miss her.

List some goals that you'd like to accomplish sometime in your lifetime? Grow my business in hopes to find stability

Describe your style. Laid back

Your favorite sport to watch? to play? Golf, but Tiger has to be playing, or the tour is at a course I like to watch. I like to play golf

What's the hardest or most challenging thing you've ever done? Pass my P.A.T. That is the PGA playing ability test

What are your weaknesses? Good Mexican food!!!!!!!!
Share a time in your life when you were particularly proud or felt accomplished. When Allison and I bought our house.

Happy Birthday Brian!

Happy Birthday Rich!

Picture taken at birthday celebration dinner last night in Nashville. Thanks Aunt Willa for sending!

Happy Birthday Leslie!

Happy Birthday Dawn & Phil!

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