2006 Rugen Christmas Card


Merry Christmas from the Rugens! 

Spring 2006 brought several changes to the Rugen family.  Dad had moved to a senior apartment complex in Jamestown last fall where he would have more neighbors and fewer icy steps in the winter.  As the months passed, it became apparent that he was not safe living alone.  Around Easter, we had to move him to a nursing home in Boonville.  In May, an opening was available in the Veterans Home in Warrensburg.  His address there is:

Lloyd Rugen
C/O Missouri Veterans Home
1300 Veterans Road
Warrensburg, MO 64093


Missouri Veterans Home, Warrensburg

Warrensburg VA 


After school was out in May, we took a trip to the southwest, an area Betsy had been interested because of the Zane Grey books she uses in her classroom.  We visited Santa Fe, the Petrified Forrest, Flagstaff, Sunset Crater and the nearby
Wupatki National Monument, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks.
 



2006 Vacation


This is Tim's last year of high school at Jamestown and Betsy's 9th year teaching there.   The season and school year was progressing normally until the first of December, when the weather decided we need a few days off to deal with 17" of snow.  Luckily, the ice went to the south and east of us, so all we had to deal with was ice.  Some areas near St. Louis were without power for up to a week.


Dec 1,2006 Back Yard



Dec 1, 2006


Andy and Kirby are planning a June 9th, 2007 wedding.  Andy has been working with a large landscaping company near Columbia, we aren't sure of his title, but he does tell a few people what to do and some of them even understand English.  Kirby will transfer from State Fair College to (probably) Missouri Valley this spring. 

Ben is still  working with a siding and window company out of Prairie Home.  He, Andy and one other classmate share a rented farm house on the other side of Prairie Home. 


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