December 25, 1990

Dear Friends & Relatives,

As Theresa is still recovering from our most recent adventure, Roger's providing the annual scenario.

This year has been most hectic at the Meyer household. After years of offspring moving out and moving back in and moving out and moving and moving and moving, we finally married off the last two of them this year. Yes, the nest is now empty... It sure is quiet.

Back to the story. Some time ago, David announced he was marrying a very nice young lady named Sarah Lenarz. David has known Sarah about three years. She is a lovely young woman. He's most fortunate to have found such l lovely bride. Sarah is a Medical Assistant and works near their home.

At about the same time, Kathy announced that she was marrying her (University of Minnesota) college sweetheart, Cam Hagen. Cam is in the computer business, operating his own private consulting business. His degree was in Computer Science. He has several clients, but does much his work for the large local private grain dealer here in town, Cargill. We're fortunate to have such a talented son-in-law.

Suffice it to say we had a lot of work to get ready for weddings; and not one but two in one year. So, on September 22nd, David and Sarah were married. Eight weeks later on November 17th, Kathy and Cam were wed.

First, we wanted to fix up our home with a myriad of odd jobs. Fortunately, we re-roofed the house 2 summers ago. This year we put in a new driveway. We rebuilt the front deck from scratch. We painted the outside. We painted, floored, and wallpapered the guest bathroom. We installed new vinyl in the kitchen and nook. Why, it almost looks like a different house.

Then came the hard stuff. We organized groom's dinners, we bought wedding dresses, we sent out invitations, and more invitations, we re-fitted the wedding dress, we bought shower gifts, we re-fitted the wedding dress, we picked out a hotel for the reception, we re-fitted the wedding dress, we organized the reception dinner, we re-fitted the wedding dress, we talked to the pastor about service details, we re-fitted the wedding dress. Yes, we re-fitted that wedding dress at least half a dozen times and that was after Theresa originally told me that she and Kathy had found this wedding dress that was just perfect. In fact it almost fit without any alterations!

All in all, everything went just fine. We had occasional snafus, but I don't think anyone except Theresa noticed. Lots of family came and we enjoyed showing off our family and new daughter-in-law and son-in-law.

David and Sarah spent a week in Florida on their honeymoon. Kathy and Cam spent a week in Hawaii on theirs. All had a great time.

David and Sarah live in a suburb North of Eden Prairie about l0 miles with their two kittens: Margie and Kemper. Their address is: 17600 -14th Av N, #233, Plymouth, MN 55447.

Kathy and Cam live in a suburb Northeast of Eden Prairie about l0 miles with their cat, Clayton. Their address is 3136 Louisiana Av S, St. Louis Park, MN 55426.

Danny continues to live in Edina, a suburb East of Eden Prairie about five miles. He continues also in the same job as a technician specialist repairing electronic equipment used in the retail business. He has a very nice female friend named Dawn. They're both interested in old railroads and do a lot of train chasing. He lives at 4101 Parklawn, #337, Edina, MN 55435.

Theresa continues as a nurse at Medical Wellness Technologies as the resident expert on T.E.N.S. (Transcutaneous Electronic Nerve Stimulators). She enjoys it, but doesn't like the office politics.

After 28 years at Control Data, I left and went to work for a new startup company who designs and manufactures a high performance Super-Server for Local Area Networks of PCs. It's great fun in a new small company after so many years in an "old" large one. I'm the Technical Marketing Manager and do quite a bit of traveling nationwide giving presentations, speeches and making sales calls with local salesmen. I'm having a ball.

We also continue to be very active in the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. I chair the society's Data Processing Advisory Committee. I've written a variety of programs used by the society, most notably a scoring system used in all of their contests. In 1991, l will be the Land O'Lakes District Vice President of Contest & Judging. It's fun!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Roger & Theresa