October is Here and it's Pumpkin time!

The hardest part about blogging is picking up again after being offline for a long time. I'm glad to be back up and running so we can continue our family story.

Recently I added several more family members to this Blog Family, and would like to welcome them to the group. Andy Dunn and Holly, Jay Dunn and Alek, Bonnie Dunn and Barbara Hall.

I love fall and the "pumpkin season" . I can't wait to start on pumpkin pies and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.  As far as I know, my daughter Sandi is the current "Pumpkin Spice Queen",  If we have any other pumpkin lovers in the family please speak up and share your favorites,   Recipes are also welcome!     

This month I will be posting pics and stories about fall and Halloween so please send me downloads so I can add them for you.

Our Family Quilt - The Beginning 7/3/2009

Thursday, September 3, 2009   Blast from the Past

The Start of Our Family Blog

I hope this blog will become a place where our family can meet and keep in touch. I also would hope we can post our past and present family pictures, as well as memories and family stories so our younger family members can get to know about our family members who are no longer with us. Mary Ellen

Hi everyone, I thought it would be a great time to put my first post up and also congratulate the newest member of the family, baby Eli! We wish his parents Jan and Kim, and all the proud grandparents best wishes.

I hope this blog will become a place where our family can meet and keep in touch. I also would hope we can post our past and present family pictures, as well as memories and family stories so our younger family members can get to know about our family members who are no longer with us. Mary Ellen

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Maynard and Louise Dunn's 79th Anniversary December 30th 2015

Sometime around the age of 10-11, when little girls used to start wanting to know all about the wedding of their parents, I broached the question to my Mom. We were on the way home from Sterling Colorado on a Sunday afternoon. We used to go from Fort Collins to Sterling on Sundays so we could have dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Dunn. I remember that we had just passed the big hill coming in on Highway 14 where you could first see the lights of Fort Collins. We were in the old Buick and I was leaning over the seat from the back, right between my mom and dad. I asked my mom what her wedding dress looked like.


 She didn't hesitate she said, "it was a house dress".  A house dress? "Was it white?" I asked. "Noooo, it was probably blue and white" she said.  "WHY!!" I asked.   "Because we were married by the Justice of the peace." she explained. I just didn't understand.

Then she explained that they had eloped with their friends after Christmas. The four of them took off and drove over the border, to Binkelman, Nebraska, on December 30th 1936 and got married. Well, that was pretty exciting!! I didn't get the dress but I did get a great story about my parents eloping in the "olden days", very romantic indeed!