December 2004 Merry Christmas & welcome to the Fourth Edition of The Patterson Post Christmas Newsletter. For those of you that are new to this publication we have been doing this for the last three years instead of Christmas cards. We believe this is more personal as it allows us to catch up with those we lost touch with this year.
AMBER ilovescoobydoo@usexpress.net This summer Amber spent 2 weeks in Michigan with her grandparents. Upon returning she had six teeth pulled to make room for the new ones. In August she started the first grade and her favorite subjects are gym, library, music, art and saying “The Pledge of Allegiance.” Amber is learning to read more & more words and books every day! She dressed up as a bride for Halloween this year. Amber even attended her first UT football game (vs. Alabama) courtesy of Steve’s boss! Go Vols!
Amy bestwishes@usexpress.net http://imateacher.itgo.com This year as I sat to write my year’s highlights I drew a blank and asked Steve and Amber what I did all year. Steve couldn’t think of much and Amber replied, “paid the bills.” How true and honest. Most of my year was spent taking care of the family, the apartment and working, but I did manage to teach myself to make bracelets with glass bead and decorate cakes like my mom used to do. I was finally able to squeeze in a trip home to see my parents, grandparents and even my best friend and her family. Her little girl is the sweetest. But other than that I guess I have just been “paying the bills.”
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STEVE stevep@cardeologist.com http://www.cardeologist.com http://www.stevezdesignz.com Steve is still working for Premiere Publishing (The Knoxville Journal). Steve got to take pictures at the most of the home football games for Tennessee. Steve is still collecting business cards. He has had 2 articles and 2 letters to editors published in 4 different newspapers (2 in Tennessee, 1 Ohio and 1 Arizona). Steve was also on “Alive At Five” October 13 on WBIR (NBC) and the 6 a.m. news on October 14 in Knoxville for his business card collection. Steve has also been promised to be on a radio broadcast in England. Steve hopes to get 1 million one day! So remember to save those business cards for Steve and send them to him today! Steve got 2 web sites this year. One for his freelance graphic design and the other for his business card collection. Steve has also had the joy of kidney stones twice this year! Yuck!
MISSY Well this year has been a whirlwind for me. I was declawed and fixed and had to get shots all at the same time. Talk about a bad weekend! I didn’t like the new kittens my owner brought home and I showed her by “missing” the litterbox a few times. So this nice family took me in on Labor Day weekend. I like it here, especially now that they switched vets, but I wished the short one would stop squeezing me and grabbing my tail. So far I like playing with the feather on the stick and my ball with the bell inside. I like to sleep on my kitty condo, the towel shelf and on the pillow above Amy’s head. What a simple, yet grand life I lead! Meow!