Furnish Family: January 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008

WELCOME BABY VERENA

Last summer Beth was looking forward to a new stage in her life.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.....

We are happy to announce that

Verena Anne Furnish Oehrtman

made her first appearance at

Chandler Hospital in Phoenix

yesterday weighing a slight

8 pounds 5 oz.

Mother, Father and baby are doing great!!

God is Good

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Churrascaria & Charleston

Churrascaria (shoo-ras-ka-ria) = Brazilian restaurant where meat is cooked on skewers over an open fire & brought straight to the table where it is carved directly on to your plate.

Before Brett had to return to school in Miami last Friday, the Hammanns and Furnishes decided to celebrate friendship by stuffing ourselves at Green Field Churrascaria on Rockville Pike.

All sorts of meats brought to the table on swords.

A huge buffet of every other kind of food.

Good Fellowship and lots of affection between us. God is good.

Who Needs a Haircut???

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

Jim had a consulting job near Charleston on my day off last week. We flew down early in the morning. I accompanied him to his client's business and stayed in the car grading papers.

Then we headed toward beautiful, quaint, charming, very southern (I'm not running out of words yet to describe it) Charleston. We walked around town in the evening.

Ate fried green tomatoes (above),

hush puppies, grits, seafood, bar-b-que.

If it's fried, we'll eat it!

Went to Fort Sumpter on the cruise boat.

Took a tour of the city.

Then ate some more before flying home to our kids

and dog on Saturday night.

It's fun to be with my husband.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

MEAL BY MICHELLE
Before she left for home in Boston after final exams, Michelle wanted to treat our family to a meal. Though Jim was hoping for something Chinese, Miss Cho said it had to be Italian.

It was delicious and she got some preparation help from Sam & Abby.

It has been a blessing for us to have Michelle attend church with us

and spend time in our home when she is not studying

hard at GWU in D.C.

CHRISTMAS MORNING 2007

For the first time in years there were only 4 around our
table. No cousins nor old friends.

How special to celebrate the birth of our Savior with

these 3 special gifts I have been given by our Lord.

PLUS filet mignon and Abby’s sopopilla cheesecake for dessert.

A RELUCTANT GOOD-BYE
Darlia Wright

June 6, 1946---December 20, 2007

Seth, Tucker, Maitland, Darlia & Megan

Sadly, the following day Jim made a journey west to be with his brother in San Francisco. Joseph’s wife of 15 years, Darlia Wright passed away a few days before Christmas in the presence of her husband, sons and brother. We observed from afar her battle against cancer and her desire to live. Her last e-mail to me had been a request for encouragement and care for Joseph, who was her main care-taker and best friend. Her concern for his care revealed her heart for others. Her funeral was a celebration of her life and acknowledgement of the many lives she had touched in her 61 years.

Darlia & Joe during 1991

This month her artwork will be on display at the local library.

She was a published poet, whose first book was her last Christmas gift to the family this year.

MURDER & MYSTERY ON NEW YEAR'S EVE

It all started when a mysterious courier arrived in our home with an invitation to travel back in time.

This mysterious messenger was also known as

the reporter MARY KOHN TRAIRIE

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Paris…1940…the Germans are about to take over the city…
EIGHT specially selected &, it seems, rather notorious individuals have been invited to leave on the last train from Paris.