New photo from Shawn Matthews.

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I think we will have more to come. Matthews Family Christmas. Date TBD. 

Hillenburg Family Christmas Poem 2016

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The Hillenburg Family Christmas Poem 2016 Its Christmas Day Twenty-Sixteen and the Hillen’s are together which is our routine. To cele...

Christmas Poem 2010

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Traditional cheeseball has been eaten The Christmas dinner has been served Excitement and incredible joy fill the Hillen house this Christma...

Christmas 2009

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It's Christmas 2009 and we gather to celebrate at the Hillenburg homestead It's now time for the traditional family poem to be read ...

Christmas 2008

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Christmas 2008 It’s A Hillenburg Christmas, that we celebrate this day… In the old Matthews Family traditional way. We together celebrate th...
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Christmas Poem 2007

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It’s Christmas Eve 2007 as we gather to celebrate Christ’s birth; The Hillenburg branch of this family tree that carries on this long ...
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Christmas Poem 2001

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As I sit with pen in hand, pondering the year just past, The changes to the family that have happened since Christmas last. The years bring ...

Christmas Reflections 1999

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You'll notice this is called Christmas Reflections this year rather than the Christmas "Poem". This is because it seems to be...

Christmas 1998

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Christmas is here and the stockings are filled, With joy and with kindness and lots of good will. We look at the world with all of its mess,...

Christmas 1997

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Kim got ill, so I swallowed the pill, And wrote the poem this year. It's not very long, None at all would be wrong, And Grandma would ki...

Christmas 1996

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It's Christmas time yet again, the year is '96 Here I sit on Christmas morn, a poem still to fix. There's so much to write about...

Christmas 1995

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The year is 1995 it's Christmas once again, It's also time to reflect upon what kind of year it's been It seems our family is ge...

Christmas 1994

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Christmas is a time to reflect on traditions old and new, To think about the things in this world that are held so dear to you. And as I thi...

Christmas 1993

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Christmas Day is here once more, we're gathered with those we love, To celebrated the birth of Christ, sent from our Father above. Most ...

Christmas 1992

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Christmas is here for '92 and what a year it's been! Three new members of the family seems like a good place to begin. On the tree t...

Christmas 1991

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We've gathered together for Christmas again and what a year this has been! As I think back over the last twelve months I remember the ch...

Christmas 1990

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We have all arrived at the gathering place to celebrate Christmas this year, The first Christmas of the new decade, we've come from far ...

Christmas 1989

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Christmas is a special time that comes but once a year When all the Doubt clan comes together from both far and near To celebrate the wondro...

Christmas 1987

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Christmas is such a joyous time With lots of tradition song and rhyme. And in this family there is much to be said And it isn't about su...

Christmas 1985

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As we meet again this Christmas day in 1985 We're thankful we're all together and all of us still alive And as we think about the se...

Christmas Poem 1981

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Tis the day of Christmas,1981 The day to go to Kirbyville to have some fun. Ah Kirbyville, kind of like Bethlehem town, We return each year ...

Christmas Poem 1980

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It's time in this land once again, To spend Christmas with loved ones and kin, So all of us gather in the Stanley Doubt line To Strength...

Christmas Poem 1979

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The Doubt clan is gathered for Christmas you see And the packages are once again tucked under the tree, The candy is made and set on the tab...

Christmas Poem 1978

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It's time once again for the "Stanley Doubt Clan" To gather and celebrate Christmas again. The presents are bought and wrapped...

Christmas Poem 1977

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Christmas I think, is the happiest of all holidays - a time of faith and festivities that make our hearts rejoice and our spirits merry. A ...

Christmas Poem 1976

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On Christmas morning, we all head for the hills, To Dad and Mom Doubt's in Kirbyville. To share our love that we have for each other And...

Christmas Poem 1975

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We're only one branch of the Matthew's clan, And we're all gathered for Christmas again. Our Patriarch's name is Stanley Dou...

1972

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Christmas is always a time to give; Once again in the Matthews clan. A time for thanks for the privilege to live; From the smallest Child to...

1971

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The family who sings together from the start; Harmonizes together when they are apart. They never let the sun set on their anger; or envious...

1969

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Since this Seasons Greetings just a year ago; We had a blessing in disguise. We do not understand or know; Like the wonder in the skies. God...

1968

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In the course of events it's Christmas again; And round-up time for the Matthews clan. Rickie has a mustache, evidence of a man. And now...

1967

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This has been a Golden for Mother and me; The Anniversary of our 50th Wedding Day. All my brothers and sisters came to see me; Echo could no...

1966

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This is the greatest Christmas for Mother and me; At the gathering of the clan. Grateful to be together, as grateful as can be. For all you ...

1965

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It's been 48 years since mother and me ; Spent Christmas together in Tennessee. Her parents dead and mine far away; with Grandmother Jac...

1964

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We started much earlier-that is Mother and me; Mother's continued illness and us at our age. A young man at the Thayer Church but our Ch...

1963

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It was the night before Christmas and all through the house; not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We put poison in the basement to...

1962

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Every Christmas when I write this verse; I think it may be the last. This continued story, for better or worse; Also is a dowry of the past....

1961

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Another Christmas time has come and round-up time is here; All who could, have all come home for this glorious time of the year. All but Mon...

1960

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It's Grandpa's job at Christmas time to keep the record clear; The events that happen within the clan; And if possible bring good ch...

1957

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We are here for a purpose, it's Christmas again; Just counting out blessings, Mother & me. And join with our children, as we began; ...

1956

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We are gathered again around our Christmas Tree; Children-grandchildren & mother and me. Health-happiness and fancy free; Tho we have no...

1955

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Teresa, as the adage goes "Even Steven"; Balanced the Girls & Boys. The parent tree in 1954 was even; And the Christmas Tree l...

1954

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It's an eventful time for Mother and Me; When Christmas round-up comes. Why? - no bundle for our family tree; Tho we have not increased ...

1953

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This Christmas brings us all the joys; We've ever had before. With health and happiness and our girls & boys; And oh yes there is mo...

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1952

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A year has passed since the Matthews clan; Gathered in a traditional way. From the smallest child to the largest man; To celebrate Christmas...

1951

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Christmas as usual brings more joys: To the children, grandchildren, mother and me. Christmas as usual we expected more boys; But not a sing...

1950

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Christmas is joyous when we have our health; Without great fame or abundance of wealth. With a few new gadgets, trinkets and toys; We're...

1947

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We are proud this Christmas, Mother and me; Our Grandchildren have increased by three. These add much to our Christmas joy; Two little girls...

1946

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The Doc and the stork got together this year; And left another bundle of cheer. Faust and Becky have a new joy; Another gist from Heaven, it...