THE DONAN FAMILY: October 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

GUESS WHOS WALKING?

im so excited to announce that my little maddox is walking, i knew he was close but i just couldnt get him to take a step and saturday night after his bath he was standing by the couch and waddled over to me :) so cute, hes so proud and merrick thinks hes walks funny so he laughs lol. and one more update my merrick is in preschool now, i was going to wait til next year but he wasnt talking very clear so i went and had him tested and they said he can do preschool this year for free and he gets help at school from the speech therapist, hes been going now for about a month or so and so far his talking has improved so much and he loves to ride the bus and tell me about his day, mostly he tells me what he ate lol but i love to see how excited and happy he is. my boys are growing too fast, its sad and fun, merrick learned to draw stick people i will post a pic of a picture he drew its so cute, and hes proud of his pictures and he should be lol. well thats my update for now, i will work on getting pictures on here lol

Emery Miners Win Mine Rescue Contest

CONSOL Energy Inc.’s Emery Mine-Black team, from Emery, claimed first place honors in the CONSOL Energy “Best of the Best” Mine Rescue Contest held Sept. 16-18 in Virginia, capping the 2008 contest season. The Emery-Blue team claimed third place overall in the Virginia contest.

A total of 18 teams from throughout CONSOL Energy and its subsidiaries from five states, including those based in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Utah, competed in the event held at the CONSOL Energy Mine Rescue Training Center at Oakwood, Va. CONSOL Energy has more mine rescue teams than any other company in the industry.

Members of the Emery-Black mine rescue team are Ron Wright, Brandon Wilde, Matt Crosland, Johnny Donan, “For all your efforts, all your sacrifice to serve on a CONSOL rescue team and to participate in mine rescue, thank you,” Hyita said. “It takes time away from your families and the whole industry appreciates your service. You are the most highly trained people we have in the company.”Corey Prettyman, Kasey Thompson and Jim Kulow, trainer.

Emery County Review

Our Trip to Durango

This last week made a little trip to Durango to see family that we haven't seen in awhile and to introduce our newest addition to his grandparents, great grandma, aunts, uncles, and cousins. we were there for 5 days and we got to spend time with everybody which was alot of fun, johnny's dad played the guitar and sang for us and i was going to record it and my camera was dead but eventually i will get a recording of it, Merrick loved it! It was nice to visit and see everybody, johnnys brother lives in new mexico so we made a trip there to see him and the family. Merrick hated being in his car seat all of the time but overall i feel that it was a trip worth while. we will have to go there more often.