Della and Lauren

This is a great picture of my grandmother Della Fisher Dixon holding her great granddaughter Lauren Dixon. It was taken at Jay's house in Anderson.

Since Lauren is still a baby in this picture, the picture dates to late 1982.

We look forward to celebrating Lauren's wedding this September in Anderson!

Old IU

Indiana University is a very important part of Dixon family history.

Ever since Lee, Teri, Kent, Wayne and Tonia went there in the 70's, a love of IU has been passed from generation to generation, even though some children of the baby boomers have never lived in the state.

Purdue and other schools are important too, but those alumni will have to supply me with some detail to get a posting here on the blog.

The pictures above show alumni kids visiting Assembly Hall.

Top: Erin, Alyson, Katie and Michael take in a game. Notice the mixture of 70's style " Big Red" attire and the old as new "Crimson" colors. Alyson and Michael were forc....er, um... fulfilled their lifelong dreams of attending IU!

Middle: Alex and Erin pose with a famous IU alumnus.

Bottom: Randy and Deanna, a couple of Florida Gators, make the pilgrimage to Assembly Hall for a game. Hey, we almost won back to back National Championships too!

I don't know if they ran into Martha while they were in the building, but they probably heard an echo of her rousing rendition of the IU fight song!

Raising Boys

I don't want you to think we are the "blog family".

But my daugher Sarah Dixon Sain is writing a blog at the urging of her boss at the Gainesville Sun. Her most recent post about parental disagreement on discipline standards for little boys made me laugh!

It's called Raising Boys.

I like it because Sarah became an editor, at least so far, instead of a newspaper reporter. I always thought... me being her dad and all... that she was a good writer. As a copy editor, she edits articles, comes up with the headlines, and places articles on the page so everything fits. She was a yearbook editor in high school and interned at the LA Times one summer while in college. She works on the features section, so she gets advance news and copies of things like music CD's and movies!

The blog gives her a taste of writing and makes the boss happy at the same time. They publish her picture in the paper every week or so to advertise the blog, so I'm happy too!

My generation was all boys except for our beautiful cousins Joni and Tonia.

My dad Jerry's grandchildren included 5 girls and one boy. Randy wasn't the last grandchild to be born, but we were 4-0 girls at the time.

Now we're back to boys... so far! Sarah and her husband Derek have two!