Adam's Address for the next 82 days....

I (Elsie) am posting this for Adam.

I landed safely earlier today (this was Friday the 23rd) in Texas at Ft. Bliss. We then got on transportation and moved north to New Mexico, where we are going to be spending the next 2 1/2 mounths at Ft. Mc Gregor. Mc Gregor is 26+/- miles north of El Paso. Tomorrow wake-up is at 4:00am so I am going to make this short. I do have wireless internet in my room through a service here on post. I will try to check my email everyday as time allows. Thank you all for your continued supprot and prayers as I begin this new chapter in life. My address here is as follows:

SGT Rogers, Adam L
HHC 384th MP BN
Mc Gregor Base Camp
Bldg 2453
Fort Bliss, TX 79916

Thank you all so much again-Adam

The Future Title of the Family Webpage

As we are working on developing the current family webpage, I am developing a new one in dreamweaver. This heading is a preview of the cool stuff that is to come. I developed it in macromedia fireworks.

Joe Drouillard

Crazy Pictures

I have been working on some new techniques in the fireworks program for web design. This is basically a computer editing program for artwork and pictures. I will be posting artwork and images from time to time. This way, I can see how they are going to look on the web. Here are some of my first designs. Obviously, I am learning, and these are poor at best.

Adam's Corner is now becoming active.

Don't forget to visit Adam's Corner. We have some new pictures that show where he has been staying, and there is also a video of his troup getting on a plane to Texas. I had to make the link go to the family site because of our protection sign in. So, just go to Adam's Corner from there.

Joe Drouillard

All is Well

Yes, all is well in the Donehoo household. I am sore but recovering well. Rose loves her new little brother, however, she is craving my attention. it's going to take some time to get used to for all of us. It's been really helpful to have mom here helping us out this week. i'm a little nervous as to what i'm going to do next week. I hope that everyone is doing well. It sure would be nice to hear from more of you.

A New Stone Cousin!!

Welcome

Timothy Josiah Donehoo!!

Timothy was born on Sunday, February 18, 2007

@ 11:52am.
He weighed in at 8 lbs. 2 oz.

and was 20 inches long.

This is also Gwen's birthday, so she gave herself a present!! Gwen says that he sleeps and eats well, and now that he is born, she is sleeping well, too! Right now Aunt Rose and Uncle Mervin are up to help for a few days. Cara was able to come to be with Gwen for the end of the birth. The rest of us in Grand Rapids were able to visit with Marty and the Schramm kids.

We all praise God that this birth, though hard, was easier on Gwen than Rose's birth. For Rose is was 24 hours of labor that ended with a c-section. For Timothy, it was 12 hours of labor that ended with forceps! Gwen is very thankful that she didn't have to have a c-section and says it is a great answer to prayer!

by Elsie

A little about Tom(my)

It's been over twenty years since talking with most of you, and many of my cousins and their families are complete strangers to me. So here's a short abridged version of the last twenty years or so.

I currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota with my wonderful wife of thirteen years, Anne-Marie, and gorgeous little girl, Silvi. I left Florida a few weeks after graduating and have only returned once for a visit. These last twenty years have largely been marked by moving. I've always been restless, wanting to see what lies beyond the next mountain or city skyline. After high school, I moved to Chicago where I went to Bible college. However, I spent more time exploring the city than reading my textbooks. Turns out, that's kind of hard on the grades.

After a semester, I decided to see the world and joined the Army. I was stationed in Ft. Riley - KANSAS! There must have been a typo. I eventually grew to enjoy the wild grass fields of the plains, and spent my free time riding my bike down many country roads. I volunteered for anything that would allow me to travel and made it over to Germany, to the Mojave desert for a very long month and down to the humid Panamanian jungles. After finishing my "tour," I returned to Chicago for another year of Bible school, but the lure of the city streets proved to be too powerful. With bad grades but good memories, I left school and moved to Wrightville Beach, NC, where I lived in a shack on the beach for a few years. My brother, Luke, eventually moved in with me, and we had a lot of adventures together (like skateboarding nearly 100 miles up the coast to go to a reggae concert.) In the early nineties, Luke and I decided to head to California, planning to sail around the world. I made it as far as Denver, Colorado.

There, I met my wife, where she was working as a nanny. A missionary kid from Africa, it still amazes me how we ended up together. My sister, Tracy, and my parents also moved to Colorado, and we spent the days hiking and snowboarding. I followed my wife to Minnesota, where we married on the banks of the St. Croix River. (Luke continued to California, where, after some time in Scotland, he lives today with his wife and three kids, making a living as an investment banker in Newport Beach. Tracy is married and lives in the Detroit area with her husband and their daughter, Emily. Their youngest daughter, Hannah, died in her sleep last year at the age of 1 1/2 years.)

After getting married, we moved back to Colorado, where I began my career in video production. I wrote scripts and eventually became a documentary video director and editor. But… there's that restlessness again. In the late nineties, Anne-Marie and I sold everything and backpacked through Europe for the better part of a year, making promotional videos for a non-profit. We went to Kosovo a few weeks after the war and spent a few months in Greece, then edited the videos on a farm in the Alsace region of France for the summer. After the money ran out, we headed back to the States and out to Seattle.

I went back to school in Seattle to study philosophy. Kind of a hobby of mine. I freelanced as a cameraman, and got the chance to spend some time in Fiji, shooting a documentary and interviewing the president after the coup. After a few years in coffee shops and ferry rides in the most beautiful city on the planet, we moved back here, to Minneapolis, where we've been for the last three years. Being in one place for a bit has given us time to start a family, and I wouldn't trade all the exploring in the world for my daughter.

Right now I make training and marketing videos for a lot of the corporations here in the Twin Cities area, and still get to travel a little (made it to Mexico last year). We rent an apartment in the city a few blocks from the lake. I've always been a city boy. My mom and dad live near by; my dad's a pastor and my mom has a private practice in counseling. All the in-laws are here too. When we get together for events, there are around thirty of us. Most days after work, Annie, Silvi and I walk to the lake for the free concerts, sit in coffee shops, explore used bookstores, or watch "The Amazing Race" on tv. I'm still trying to do my own work on the side. Drop in at www.narrowridge.com or at my blog www.narrowridge.blogspot.com.

Sorry. A little long-winded. Drop me a line once and again over at eckblads@yahoo.com.

Tommy