Quarterly Newsletters

Chip’s quarterly personal newsletters. A short, less frequent version of the Adventure Updates. This is for people that can only take us (me) in small doses. These go all -the-way back to 2006.

Fourth Quarter 2011

Melani is due with number 3 in just a matter of days as I write this.  How are we going to manage three when we were just getting the hang of two?  Dominick is talking a lot but not saying…

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Third Quarter 2011

OK – there have been some rumors circulating for months (mostly of my own making, of course) that the Williamsons will soon be filling another seat in the minivan.  I can now confirm, that in fact, the rumors are true! …

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Second Quarter 2011

I guess if there would be a theme this quarter it would be birthdays!  Gracie turned two back in February and Dominick just turned one this month.  They really do grow up so quickly….  Melani made the “Hello Kitty” cake for Gracie– because for about two months before her birthday the kid kept saying she wanted a greenish-purple “Hello Kitty” cake.   And those of you who have read past newsletters know the kid can be persistent!  Think “Pasta Pasta”!  So Melani went online and got some ideas for the cake and put it all together.  Gracie was absolutely thrilled and that was all the reward that Melani needed!   I must say – I was quite impressed too.  Melani could have a career making custom cakes.  I’m trying to convince her to make me an Indiana Jones cake for my upcoming birthday…   Dominick didn’t get anything nearly as elaborate – but hey – neither did Gracie for her first birthday (or me for the first 43 birthdays I’ve had).  And it’s not like Dominick really knew what was going on anyways…. 
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First Quarter 2011

We had a very special Christmas @ the Williamson’s this year.  The Family tradition has always been that we all go over to my Grandmother’s house for dinner and at the end of the evening the youngest grandchild (now the…

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Fourth Quarter 2010

Early Autumn was all about “cousins” and “pasta”! We loaded up the new minivan and made a grand trek (in Chevy Chase“Vacation” style) to a wedding we attended in September down in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina.  As many of you…

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