Hagop and Angela's Memorial Weekend Wedding

Saturday, Phil and I went to Jerry and Nadia's son Hagop's wedding. Jerry and Nadia are from Iraq but left some 20 years ago. They are part of a very close Armenian community out here. Many people at the wedding looked very familiar from other Armenian events that we've attended with them over the years. The wedding was in many ways very traditional but also very American. The wedding took place at the Armenian church and cultural center and most of the mass was done in Armenian. The reception was held at the Antiochian Orthodox reception center. My pics are a bit worse than normal. Missy took my camera to the Grand Canyon this weekend, so I took my pics with my cell phone.

The reception was done very nicely and upscale. There were lots of Armenian appetizers to try at all of the tables. Waiters also brought plenty of non-Armenian appetizers around as well. Dinner was steak or chicken breast.

Best Wishes go out to Hagop and Angela!

Misc Family Get Togethers After Herb's Passing

Here are some pics from different family get togethers during the week after Herb's passing. Most of the time, I had been camcording, but here are some still pics.

Monday Evening- Dinner at our house. From the hospice home, everyone came over here.

Tina and Julie (Phil's sisters) and Christine (Herb's wife)
Lindsay (Herb's son Eric's wife- expecting twins) and Tawana (Jenny's significant other)

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Thursday Evening, over to Chris and Pam's. Julie's employer, a local hospital, sent food over to the family. What a very nice gesture! More food was added to it and we had quite a feast!
Mike, Phil, Matt (Phil's brother), Debbie (brother John's wife), John (Phil's brother) and brother Gregg

Debbie and John

Christine's brother's wife and Pam (Phil's brother Chris's wife)
Christine, her brother and his daughter
Chris and Tina
Gregg, Tina, Chris and Matt
Julie (Phil's sister) and Tina
Pam and her granddaughter Addysen

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We were back to Chris and Pam's house Friday after the service. All of Friday, was camcorded. The following pics are from the next day, Saturday. We had everyone over for our final get together.


Old friends of ours, Jerry and Sandy. Jerry helped Herb get his job out here 21 years ago.
Julie's son- Justin, Matt and his wife- Dawn
Mike and his friend, Alisa




AJ ( father of Chris and Pam's granddaughter), Danielle (Chris and Pam's daughter), Addysen and Dawn

Godspeed Herb

Phil's brother Herb is now in God's loving hands. Herb was the eldest of 9 brothers and sisters. At age 61, he left us far too early. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer a year ago, almost to the day. He will be dearly missed by his family. Herb and Christine's 40th wedding anniversary was the day before he passed away. They have two grown children Eric (wife Lindsay- expecting twins in June) and Jenny (significant other- Tawana). When death strikes a family, you truly begin to think of your own mortality.

Seven of the siblings were able to get together out here for Herb's funeral, along with spouses, nieces and nephews. Phil's folks, due to health reasons, were unable to make the trip, but brother Matt read his mom's eulogy at the service. I was able to keep my camcorder down low enough, so that Father Hoorman didn't see me and give me the evil eye for recording the eulogies during mass.

Herb brought us all together for the past week, as we shared tears and laughter together. The last of the family left yesterday. They came in from as far west as Oregon and as far east as South Carolina.