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Very Early Edition - December 25, 2004 - Volume 12, Issue 1 (Our twelfth year)
We hope and pray that you all have a blessed Christmas. We will be hosting the Omaha Christmas festivities at our house this year, as we will be spending the holidays at home this year -- just like the Nebraska football team.
Last year we traveled to Minneapolis for a "New Years Day" wedding -- a nice way to start the year. In March, we drove to St. Louis to attend the MVC basketball tournament. Alas, Creighton lost their first game but we still had fun.
During the summer, we traveled to the Amana colonies in Iowa for a weekend. We are
pictured in front of our B&B. In the autumn, we took a weekend trip back to visit relatives and friends in Bismarck and spent a fun-filled week in Branson, MO. Terry Burdett continues to work part time at Trinity Church. From April 12-23, she went on a mission trip to Guatemala. While there, she worked at the Children of Promise orphanage, the Home of Life and Nutrition, and in the villages surrounding San Andreas. She is pictured with some of the people that she helped.Burdett Bugle
Online Bonus Pictures: #1 - Terry and the Trinity Church mission team that went to Guatemala. #2 - Terry and a Trinity clown in Guatemala. #3 - Terry playing a game with some very attentive village children. #4 - A cute picture of four toddlers waiting for chow. #5 - A colorful Terry (waiting for chow?).Crocheting and "scrap booking" were Terry's favorite hobbies this past year. In fact, this year she crocheted something like forty scarves. Some of the scarves were sold, with the proceeds going to
Step Up To Life.Grandpa Makes Cookies for Jayson
Bob Burdett continues to be one of the "unemployed retired." As such, he has become the household's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is
pictured with a batch of tasty Santa Claus cookies that he whipped up. The cookies (recipe, mold and trimmings) are a family tradition that Bob's sister resurrected when she found the cookie molds on the Internet. Thanks Marianne!Burdett Bugle
Online Bonus: Santa Claus Cookie Recipe and cookie cutter information.
Bob still plays tennis and goes to the YMCA to bulk up. During the past year he has also taught a little tennis (e.g., to Terry, Jayden, kids at the
Hope Center).Bob has also completed three more units (thirty weeks) of The Denver Catholic Biblical School Program (Dt, Gn, Jos, Jgs, 1&2 Sm, 1&2 Kgs, Mk, Lk and Acts). The 5th (of 12) units has just begun (Paul's letters).
People In The News
It was nice to have all of the kids home for the Fourth of July. Vanessa (left), Matt and Lisa are pictured with some kind of fireworks.
Lisa Watts
moved to a larger (3 BR) apartment in Omaha recently. Now the grandkids each have their own bedrooms. Lisa continues to work for an Omaha podiatrist. She seems to enjoy interacting with the patients and their feet.Vanessa Kramis
also moved recently. She now lives in Panama City, Florida -- a little closer to the territory she covers for GlaxoSmithKline, the giant pharmaceutical firm that makes, among other things, the Advair Diskus inhalers that she details.Matt Burdett is a second year pharmacy student at Creighton University in Omaha. Mom and dad were proud of his 4.0 GPA last semester. For the most part, Matt lives in an apartment near the CU campus but he hangs around the house from time to time (e.g., laundry days). Matt continues to work part time as a lead cashier at the Nebraska Furniture Mart and at a local pharmacy. He enjoys sports, music, and an occasional round of seven-card stud poker.
The
grandkids are doing well. Jayden Watts is a fourth grader at Harvey Oaks School. For fun, she plays baseball, tennis and the viola. Grandma and grandpa enjoy her visits and overnights. Jayson Watts is a healthy three-year old. He enjoys mixing it up with most everyone. He recently got his first pair of boxing gloves. We always know when Jayson is around.In Memoriam
Mutsuko "Mitzi" Oshima
Born: January 7, 1924 in San Pedro, California
Died: July 20, 2004 in Omaha, Nebraska
Mutsuko (Mitzi) Oshima, age 80 years, a long time resident of Boys Town and Omaha, NE succumbed to lung cancer on July 20, 2004. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Kazuji (Mike) Oshima, one sister, two sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Mitzi was born in San Pedro, California but she moved to Japan with her parents when she was seven. She returned to the United States in 1948, after the death of both of her parents. After living briefly in Nevada and California, she moved to Boys Town with her husband. She worked as a seamstress for many years. She was active in her "Keenager" group at Trinity Church at the time of her death.
Mitzi loved her family, the holidays, Lawrence Welk, Sushi, needlepoint, tennis, and greeting cards. She is
pictured at a family gathering nine days before her death. She will be missed this Christmas.Burdett Bugle
Online Bonus: Mitzi Oshima Biography.Lorenzo "Ren" Burdett
Born: August 9, 1916, in Pocatello, Idaho
Died July 23, 2004 in Highland, Utah
Bob's Uncle Ren, died on July 23, 2004, at age 87, following a brief illness. Uncle Ren, who lived in Utah with his wife Bettilou, visited Bob and Terry in Omaha several times while traveling to the family farm near Yankton, SD.
Ren is
pictured at the wedding of Melissa Schuster Martin in Las Vegas back in 1996. Bob and Terry last saw Uncle Ren at the funeral of Ren's brother, Charles Grant Burdett, in Las Vegas during 2003. We will always remember his warm smile and the twinkle in his eyes.Burdett Bugle
Online Bonus: Lorenzo "Ren" Burdett Obituary.
Weather Forecast: Not as much snow as last year -- which had Bob raking snow from the
roof.Happy 2005 from Bob, Terry and Matt Burdett!
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