Great news from Kiley DesRoches Rogers

I always wondered about the s (see blog below)...anyway I thought I'd share a picture of my sister Khristy DesRoches Gonzalez and her long awaited pregnant belly. Khristy and Corey have been trying for their second child for almost five years. God has blessed them with a baby boy due on June 29th! His name will be Jace Micah Gonzalez. Here are a few pics from her shower.


Kiley and Khrisy

Kiley, Khristy and Vicky

to "s" or not to "s"

Recently some of us were wondering why some family members spell our last name different from the rest of the family being that the "s" is left off. So I went to our expert genealogist Aunt Gloria and this was her answer:

When Jerry and I were married the clerk used the name on Jerry's Birth Certificate, which is Jerold James DesRoche. Dot and Gene have the same last name"DesRoche" on their Marriage Licence, hence, we, at 20 years old decided to use the name on our Marriage Certificate.

We were not too bright and have regretted the act. The regret is that it is a family name, be it correct or incorrect, we should have continued using "the spelling" that the rest of the family was using. Uncle Robert was disturbed when he realized how we were spelling our name, we should have listened to him. I still have the letter he wrote us. He made Jerry mad with his sarcasm and of course hurt our feelings, perhaps if he had used logic we would have understood, and maybe not. No blame on anyone but ourselves.

We have asked our kids to go back to the old spelling and Jeanne is the only one that has true issues. When she divorce Andy Terrell she had to change all of her diplomas and certifications to DesRoche, and she doesn't want to go through that again.

In our Family Tree everyone is DesRoches now. I didn't like the separation.

Now, if you want to get really correct, forget it, there is no way. Since I have been doing the Family genealogy, I have uncovered at least five different spellings.

1. Julian Deroche born abt.1813
2. Jules Deroche born Jan 8, 1838
3. Hyppolyte Deroche (from marriage invitation) born Aug. 13, 1881. Changed his name to Hypolite
DesRoches sometime after 1937

NOTE: Carolyn DesRoches' birth certificate says DesRoche also. So as far as I know all of the children of Hypolite DesRoches, were christened "DesRoche", but they were wise enough to go along with the Family and started using "DesRoches."

Hope this is a helpful explanation.

New Addition!

Just dropping to warn everyone of a new family member! I am 2 1/2 months pregnant with my first child. Chad already has 3 wonderful kids and this will be our first together. We are so excited and are counting down to October 4th!
Monica Sheeren Sundbeck
(Carolyn's grandaughter via Wendy)

Look Who's Friends/Cousins...

Beaux and Anthony became friends at their school about a year ago, but did not know they were cousins!! Lea' thought Anthony looked familiar and then asked him his last name and realized he was Aunt Carolyn's grandson!!

Sad News

Rc'd this e-mail from Monica (Wendy's daughter) this morning,

Hi Laurie,
I have some very bad news to post on the blog... Cathy (Jerry and Carolyn Hargis' daughter) wanted me to pass this on to you.
Thursday night (3/5) Rachel Vallery (daughter of Kirk and Cathy ... sister, Darcy) was shot and killed by her boyfriend who then shot himself.. Christine and I are traveling to New Orleans tomorrow for the service. The service will be on Monday from 10-2. Funeral Service at JACOB SCHOEN & SON Funeral Home, 3827 Canal St., New Orleans, at N. Scott on Monday, March 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm. Followed by internment at Lake Lawn Cemetery. Visitationwill begin at 11:00 am until service time. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to SPCA Animal Shelter, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70114. Please sign on line guest book at www.mem.com. Funeral information: (504) 482-2111.

Please keep her and her family in your prayers.
Monica
She is on the far right in the attached picture.

Happy Mardi Gras!!!

Beaux & Hunter rode Mardi Gras Day in BES following Grella on the Westbank


Beaux, Hunter, Candi and Emma Lou(Candi's Mom)


Kennen & Gracie walking away happy with goodies...including the hat!!!

The Hargis Family

The Hargis Family - Cathy, Ellen, Wendy, Carolyn, Jerry, Bobby, Jeff and Mark


Carolyn made us do the silly pose!!


Carolyn & Jerry


Lauren, Brett and Bobby


Cyril and Wendy Sheeren


Darcy, Kirk, Cathy, & Rachel Vallery

Steven, Christopher, Mark, Anthony, Elizabeth, Mary (Hargis)


Jeff and Mary


Monica & Chad



Brandon, Chad, Bethany, Monica, Baylie (and Hailey and Holeshot our chihuahuas :-).

Graduation Congratulations for...

Darcy Vallery (Carolyn Hargis' granddaughter) graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Dec 20, 2008. With five and a half years of non-stop academic activity,earneding a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English (Linguistics) and minoring in Spanish. Currently working full-time.

Hello Again, It's Been Awhile!!

Yes, it has been some time since the the last post which was back in October!! The weekend after Thanksgiving we went to Bart's camp in "Belle Magnolia" in Magnolia, MS, it started to rain the minute we pulled up and did not stop until the next morning...and some more throughout the day!


Blake and his girls!
Ellie, Gracie and his girlfriend Erica. These girls were not afraid of a lil' dirt!

The boys...Hunter, Kennen and Beaux take their turn on the four wheeler and that's Chris(Laurie's husband) behind them.


While it rained I painted and actually finished a commissioned painting!


OOPS!

Blake's truck is STUCK!! Had to get it out with a neighbors tractor.

More post coming soon from Christmas, graduation, & more!