Wednesday, December 25, 1991

Christmas 1991 - Video from the Hermitage House

It's Christmas! The folks had an old VHS camcorder and Dad/Lamar would pull it out from time to time ... that included holidays of course. There was a tape labeled "Christmas" and it has video from several Westra Christmases, starting in 1991.

In 1991, we were in the Hermitage House. The furniture set up isn't one I remember much (usually it was the stereo or piano there on the west side). There is a fire in the rock-lava fireplace, the stockings and other traditional Christmas decor. We'll have to check Dad's records as to where the Christmas tree came from (most were cut down from the yard).

Even though this video clip was on the VHS tape, there is no original audio, but a music track overlay (which I didn't do, or don't remember doing). All future video clips have the original audio, unlike the older ones, which never did (Old Fashioned Film and Video - Westra Classic Home Movies). 

https://youtu.be/05PcbBUfNbg

As far as family ... The Norman grandparents are there, as well as Merrill and Lorrie and their kids. Chris was the only Westra sibling married at this time, but both Scott and Jen had their significant others there (Amy and Grayson respectively). Dad/Lamar filming, we get a look around at the Christmas Eve party, and then of Christmas morning (with the traditional youngest to oldest line up down the hallway). 


Merry Christmas!


Friday, December 20, 1991

Christmas Letter ~ 1991

 Christmas letter from the Westras ~ the fancy border was added for this blog post, and it was combined into one image from the original two pages. The typography indicates this was printed using the old dot-matrix printer. We were happy to find some of these Christmas letters (in 2020) and to remember the highlights from years gone past.  To enlarge, click on the link for the GoogleDoc and press the +.