E-Mail and Pics from Ed

hey guys, see brads # 81 open for a pass & blocking down & punting, also his name in the express newspaper, stats vs Madison

also pics of his brothers and their games this week.

nolan - # 81 catches TD pass on thursday vs Seguin & also punts

mason - # 7 catches TD pass today vs the Hornets & also lays out for a catch

Ed

Stacey's e-mail

Hello to all,

We are having Esther's '5' birthday party at Rollercade off Recoleta near North Star. It will be this Sunday Sept 30th. See attached!

Love,

Stacey

E-Mail Announcement from Loretta:

Lindsey is playing once again on the Texas A&M Club Volleyball team.

Her first tournament is next Saturday, September 29, at Texas State University and the following is the rest of her schedule:

Nov. 3: UT, Austin
Dec. 1: Texas A&M, College Station
Jan. 26: Baylor, Waco
Feb 23: Texas Tech, Lubbock
Apr 10-12: TBD, Dallas

All tournaments start at 9:00am and run through around 4p-5p
They play an average of 4-5 matches (10-12 games) each tournament

Come and see Linz play -- its her LAST year at A&M!

Go Ags!

At Mike and Linda's

It was a typical gathering of the usual suspects. Most eventually made it for the feast of turkey, stuffing, and fixings. Missing were lauren, Dana and her boys, Taryn, Maggie, and Alex, Tommy, Malory, and their three sons and the out-of-towners. (Alex and I left at around 7 p.m.)

Great fun-- boisterous, hilarious, engaging bunch of coconuts. Some raucous joking around at one or the other brother's expense.

I took about twenty pictures. Here are a few. I am sorry I forgot some of the younger kids' names (my encroaching senility).

Linda and Barbara chill out.




Loretta, Brenda, and Linda watch the kids.


Tom and Laura with Jimmy and Gina's youngest.

Tom and Rick

Art and Brenda

Mike and Alex

Ed and Laura

Olga and Berk

Brenda, Mike, and Rick

Loretta and Linda

Attn: Redefined blogsite

Note the new on-going list of Nasis Family Gatherings on the right column. I will try to document these events with summaries/ descriptions/ quoted comments, etc.
I am changing the name of the blogsite to "Nasis & Company," since I have not been getting the responses I had envisioned (Just Ed's). I will continue to post any future homage paid to Alejandro and Pacita, but will broaden the scope with other entries involving Nasis family news.

Please contribute news and photos. Thanks.

Editor

Ed wrote these thoughts...

Mom & Dad, the picture - Tess is it during the time when we all celebrated their "50th Golden Wedding Anniversary on February 8th, 1991?" Just yesterday I was looking through my endless array of videotapes looking for the video segments that sister Loretta had taken of Laura and my wedding back in Nov 29th,1986 trying to remember the song that Mike Deleon sang for Laura and I for our 1st dance. I wanted to try and retrieve it on Limewire and add the song to my MP3 player when I stumbled upon the video of Mom & Dad's 50th. Just after the video that I had patched together brother Alex spoke most eloquently bringing it all together. Then Dad, our Patriarch spoke. I've always looked at dad as being so charismatic in personality and the ultimate reconteur of telling stories. I had my boys watch because they didn't know much about their Grandpa and Grandma Nasis. When I had read the sniglet of the story that Tess wrote about her and her mother. I kind of felt a strong sense of longing that I wished my boys could have gotten to know their grandparents, my mom & dad. When Laura,Bradley, and I lived with them for the one year as we prepared to buy another home, I got to live and understand mom and dad as an adult. I began to understand the man and the woman that raised me into the man I am now. I remember I was so full of myself knowing that God has blessed Laura and I with a son, a grandson for my mom and dad to love and for me to take the highest pride in. The story Mom and Dad had told Laura and I during our time living with them was about a special blessing in the Philippines. We were told that should a married couple be blessed to give birth to three sons and then a daughter, they were to be blessed with wisdom and wealth beyond any other as their family grew. The three sons will grow up as prince's to carry on the family name and the daughter, the princess. We have been blessed with three sons but were not able to have another baby due to some complications due to medical. However, so far in our life, we have experienced wealth not in the monetary sense but in the sense of family raising our boys and being with them every step along the way. I see in Bradley, some of dad's ways. I yearn for continued health as my three boys grow into young men. Our boys have been fortunate to grow up knowing their Nannie & Papa, Laura's parents. They have also celebrated their 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary, and as we did with mom and dad, we got to witness this example of God's blessings. This is special to me because in growing up, I didn't have relatives, such as grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, etc. to grow up and help shape my life because they were all back in the Philippines. As our boyz continue to grow, Bradley - Nolan - and Mason, I know in my heart that mom and dad and also my sister Esther are watching from heaven. Thank you Tess for creating this avenue for those individuals who wish to stroll down memory lane. I Love you. Ed


Editor's comment: Ditto, Ed

Hills and Valleys

"Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is. "

[Mama to Beneatha, from A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry]