The Life And Times Of James M. Wisler

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Ada and James Being Silly

Took the kids to see Santa while we were in Branson visiting Melissa’s Aunt and Grandparents. I was half expecting James to get scared of the crazy looking man in the red suit, but they both did a really good job of sitting still for the picture.

The holidays were very fun and very busy for the Wisler household, which is why I haven’t written any notes here for a while.  We spent Thanksgiving at a family gathering in Fort Scott, KS, then a small at-home celebration for Melissa’s birthday (a.k.a. Stu Day), followed by a trip to Hutchinson for Christmas and then hosting a small family-friendly event with a few other parents and kids at our home for New Years Eve.  Glancing over at the http://mac.wisler.org/ I see that I didn’t make a post regarding Melissa and mine 4th wedding anniversary either, which we celebrated in early Nov.  As I said, its been a fun and busy couple of months.

This first pic of the kids that was taken on picture day at Googols Of Learning.  We usually get pictures taken of the kids every year to send out with holiday cards, but since these pictures were taken so close to the holidays, we just decided to use them instead.  I had been planning on getting a full family photo taken, but Melissa  is a little camera shy and since we were able to use this picture instead of going to a portrait studio again then she was able to weasel her way out of getting her picture taken.  Foiled again!

The other two pictures are of Ada and James decorating the Christmas tree.  They were very well behaved with the ornaments during the tree trimming, but we later had to move all of the glass bulbs up out of reach or else James would be pulling them off the tree.

…I was starting college.  But a few months before that was my graduation from Pleasanton High School.  I received an invitation to my 15 year reunion yesterday.  We had a 5 year reunion that wasn’t very big, only about 7 out of our class of 24 showed.  I don’t think there was a 10 year reunion, or if there was I wasn’t invited – I was living in Colorado at the time and that was before social networking (myspace, facebook, etc) was big and that seems to be where I’ve run into most of my former classmates.  It looks like only 3 classmates in the list of 24 have unknown addresses now, so maybe we’ll get a better turnout than before.

This mug seems to be one of the few peices of memorabilia that I still have, most of the pictures and other stuff I had was lost when my basement flooded during college.  “Dr. Who” was one of my nicknames in high school (yes, I was a big geek, even then), I had that name on the license plate of my first car too.

It should be interesting to see how some of my old friends have grown up and changed.

Fraggle Rock: The Movie

Too bad she won’t be won’t be able to appreciate how long it took them to make it.