Extended Family

The Watson extended family includes children, grandchildren and of course, pets (theirs, not ours):

The Annual Christmas Newsletter is a good source for more current family news!

12/14/15 2015 Christmas News
12/14/14 2014 Christmas News
12/18/13 2013 Christmas News
12/15/12 2012 Christmas News
12/14/11 2011 Christmas News
12/22/10 2010 Christmas News

Karen and Al Amador (left) who are the proud parents of Sophia (12) and Michael (15). Both Karen and Al work for the Table Group, Karen as a meeting planner and Al as a corporate leadership trainer. They have two dogs, Allie and Rico. Both watch after the family proudly.

Michael attends De La Salle high school. For sports, he is on the track team. 2010 will be a big year for Michael as he plans to achieve his Eagle Scout rank.

Sophia turned twelve in 2009. She has been selected as the host for "Sophia's Kitchen" which will air on PBS. She begins taping in March, 2010.

Marston is proud of his son Erik, who graduated from San Fancisco State. Erik, who loves to ski (both water and snow) has chosen sales/marketing as a career. He has two children, Haley (now nine) and Lexie (now seven). Haley excels in synchronized swimming as a member of the Aquanuts team. Lexie has tried gymnastics and will be doing hip-hop dancing in 2010. Several Christmases back, they added Max to the family. He is a golden retriever and very friendly.

Let me introduce Dionne Mitchell-Maniaci, my daughter and her husband Robert. She graduated from Sonoma State University in 1996 earning a Theatre Arts degree focused on lighting design. Robert is an engineer who works at R&D Communications and contracts to build sophisticated television stations. Alexander is now nine years old and is into Pokemon big time! Three cats are now at their home: Mason & Mattie, the indoor cats and Goobers the outdoor cat. May Day, their yellow lab watches over their home.

Near and dear to us are Marston's cousins Jim and John and their mother, Aunt Anita Watson (who in October turned 94!). Pictured here (left), Christmas 2008, are Jim with his wife Mimi (both living in Boston) and seated with Aunt Anita is John.

We visited with my aunt Carol and her family who all live in Georgia this summer. It was a great reunion over about three days. Carol shared a daily journal that her mother kept. The particular year was 1942 and on June 21 of that year, recorded in the journal was the marriage of my mother and father. Pictured here (to the right) are: l. to r. are first cousin Annette, Michael (Annette's husband) me, first cousin Doreen Bassett, aunt Carol Theune, Christopher Durham, and his mother first cousin, Linda Durham.