Picture of Hayden's pre-school class below. 

These children will be a part of the Marion Local Class of 2025

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Below are 2 pictures taken of the same house almost 100 years apart.

This house originally owned by Peter Paulus is located on Redmund Road near St. Rt. 48 where my Grandma Helen (Paulus) DeMange grew up. 

The second picture was taken this past Sunday showing 8 of the 14 children of Paul and Helen DeMange. They got a chance to go back and visit the house that they have not seen since they were children.

Bernice Paulus (my great-aunt) who just passed away a few weeks ago lived there with her late husband Adrian(Grandma's brother). Bernice was the last of the Peter Paulus family.

Here is a picture of Adrian and Bernice 

Cory Luebke gets it honest !

Here is a picture of the old Norb's Place baseball team from Osgood.

This picture is from the late 40's and shows Bob Luebke in the middle 

back who is Cory Luebke's Grandfather. 

Bob and Cory's father Jeff (Monster) were quite the ball players years ago.

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The Most Impressive Train Display In The World !

Growing up my brother Dale and I had a very large sheet of plywood that we used to build our train display. We would glue down grass, trees, electric poles and buildings. We would paint roads and build mountains out of paper mache trying to make everything as realistic as possible. Usually we spent way more time building the display then we did actually playing with it when it was complete.

We ended up selling the display to a guy who bought it for his kids and never thought about it again until a few years ago. Dale was working at an auction and low and behold our train board was for sale. The mountains were gone and the display looked pretty bad, but it brought back many great memories of years gone by.

Dale just sent me this link to the World's largest and most elaborate train display. There are no words to describe this display, you just have to see it for yourself !

Train Display

Vote for the Best Friday/Saturday Night TV Shows

Please check out the following links on You Tube and then vote on the side bar for your favorite Friday/Saturday night TV show when you were growing up.
As you can see from below I grew up watching TV in the late 70's and early 80's

Dukes of Hazzard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX4mlFi06A

BJ and the Bear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GpxAyM6yc

The Love Boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUlKPthrag

Fantasy Island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwaEydIpS0E

Hee Haw (Gloom Despair and Agony)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5ob9B9yD4

Solid Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D37T_PYnhoc&feature=related

Dynasty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijaRcVaRK0

Nolan Showing Off His Eating Skills

This is what happens when you let your 

one year old eat a cup of yogurt by himself.

Too Young For Video Games ?

Here is a short video of Hayden (5 yrs) and Nolan (14 months) playing 

their new Wii that they received for Christmas. 

Pretty amazing how Nolan picks up on what to do from his big brother.