Correction

Aunt Lee's Party is at the Heritage Protestant School, not the church.  ( hope this isn't confusing).

Food for Aunt Lee's and Van Drunen Christmas Gatherings

Dear Family,

For those who would like to contribute to our family dinners, the following are needed:

Aunt Lee - Elmer's family - bread & butter, 2 desserts, veggies and dip. (Monday, December 21, at the Protestant Reformed Church, at 6:00 p.m.

Van Drunen family - veggies and dip, 3 appetizers, broccoli salad, taffy apple salad, pretzel salad, 7-up jello, 4 desserts, 2 bags of Lays potato chips, 2 bags of Lays potato chips,  We will serve ham and beef tenderloin sandwiches.  (ham - Elmer, beef - Keith).  Rolls & drinks - Cher.

Please let Georgian know what you will be bringing.  Questions???? - 708-333-5877

Thanks,

Grandma & Grandpa

P.S.  We would like to begin gathering at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 26, at Keith & Cher's home.

Pinochle Party Details

Dear Family,

Our Pinochle Party scheduled for Saturday, November 21, will begin with pizza at 5:00 at Keith & Cher's home, followed by Pinochle, snacks, and white elephant gifts. RSVP by November 16.

Van Drunen Pinochle Party

Dear Family,

Our Pinochle Party date is Saturday, November 21.  Details to follow.

Van Drunen Christmas

Dear Family,

We have set our Christmas date for Saturday, December 26, 2:00 p.m. at Keith & Cher's home.

By aiming at this date, we recognize the great probability that we won't be able to repeat the "perfect"
attendance record of Blue Harbor 2015.  Hopefully, this date works for as many of us as possible.

More details to follow.

Grandma & Grandpa

Lost charm?

When we were up at Birchwood at the end of July, we found a Pandora present charm under the bed in the middle bedroom.   Let us know if it belongs to you!

Gene's E-mail Address

Dear Family,

We talked to Gene this afternoon and he gave me his e-mail address - which we are passing on to you - vossgene@gmail.com.  Keep in touch with him.

Wilfred's Death

Dear Family,
We got a message from Brian & Kathy informing us that Brian's dad, Wilfred, died this morning.  Brian & Kathy are in Amsterdam.  They had a State Farm trip to France.  They stopped in Germany and The Netherlands.  Please remember Brian, Kathy, and family in your prayers.  We were able to visit Wilfred two weeks ago when we were at Brian & Kathy for the weekend.  We had a nice visit with him.  The visitation is a week from Sunday, Aug. 9 and the funeral is Monday, Aug. 10.

60th Anniversary Song With Lyrics

Grandma- you asked for the video and the song with lyrics. Here you go!

Hey, you ja-moke This ain’t no joke.

We prefer RC cola to Co-oo-ke.

We’re from 8 states. And we can’t wait.

To get together with Yous Kids and celebrate

Elmer and Georgian Van Drunen’s

60th Annivesary

Easter Egg Hunts For the little tykes

Our family Facebook page has 28 “likes”

We even have a guy whose name is “Uncle Dyke”

We are the Yous Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

We play every game for the win

White elephant gifts are a borderline sin

Treasureland is run by our Auntie Kim

We are the Yous Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

And we’re here to celebrate

We go to church. Fish on “Big Birch.”

We prefer catching Crappies to Perch

If ya hit a snag- it’s in the bag

Because Yous Kids can tighten the dra-aag

Elmer and Georgian Van Drunen’s 

60th Annivesary

How many other families do a family dance?

Or have so many role model Uncles and Aunts?

We steer clear on the roads of the hammer ass.

We are the Yous Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

If only yous saw what we can see

You’d understand why we love our great family

We even all got accepted to Trinity

We are the Yous Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

And we’re here to celebrate

Elmer and Georgian Van Drunen

60 years strong together

Elmer and Georgian Van Drunen

60 years strong together

Yous kids you multiply like nobody else

The way we Pinoccle gets me overwhelmed

At crazy bunco yeah it ain’t hard to tell

We are the Yous Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

Teachers, lawyers, and awesome moms

HVAC, State Farm, traders, and the list goes on

No matter what we do we are proud to don

The name “Yous Kids”

And we’re here to celebrate

If only yous saw what we can see

You’d understand why we love our great legacy

We’re so proud of that big number Sixty!

Elmer’s Glue’s Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

Scotch-erooos Kids

And we’re here to celebrate

Yous Kids 

And we’re here to celebrate

Additional Anniversary Pictures.

Dear Yous Kids,

We are looking for pictures you might have taken at our Anniversary weekend.  We want to put a book together.  We have Becky's, but if you would like to have us consider putting others in, we would appreciate having them.  Kim is helping us choose pictures - so send them to her.  Thanks.