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DATELINE: WEDDING BELLS

On a snowy evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Austin McCarty married the love of his life, Kristina Krautmane. The nuptials and reception took place at the old, historic Cheney Place in downtown GR. Your Metro editor had the honor of presiding over the ceremony, which was highlighted by a story of the couple. After the vows and the exchange of rings, Austin and Kristina kissed for the first time as husband and wife to the delight of 170 well wishers in attendance. It was a beautiful backdrop, and lovely ceremony, and a wonderful reception which followed. The couple and their family and friends danced the night away.

Congratulations to Austin & Kristina McCarty!

 

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DATELINE: PHOTOS OF THEIR DAY

 
Ring bearer gets a final touch-up from dad - Flower girls are ready - Austin escorts his mom to her seat
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The bridal party is ready - The groomsmen are a go - Cooper along with Luka brings up the rings
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Kristina's father walks the bride down the aisle - The ceremony to tie the knot - Austin & Kristina are officially husband and wife
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Just had to get a photo op from outside the venue in the snow - The Cheney Place was all decked out - The menu for the evening
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The beautiful bride - Austin & Kristina thank their guests for coming - Metra (proud mother of the bride) & her sisters
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First dances - The bride & groom - The bride and her father - The groom and his mom
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The 2 moms, Metra & Margaret - The McCarty sister-in-laws
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The McCarty cousins - The grandkids chillaxin on the steps
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Austin with his dad and uncles
DATELINE: DMGC / UHY CARES TEXAS HOLDEM

Steve McCarty is announcing that the 13th annual UHY Cares / DMGC Texas Holdem charity event will be back after a 3 year hiatus from COVID. This year's event will be held on Thursday, February 16, 2023 at Petruzzello’s in Troy! I will send out an email to our subscribers once more information and registration is available. You can always contact me at mccartymetro@gmail.com if you have any questions, and I will make sure someone gets back to you. Looking forward to this event!


Brand new this year is "Let's Party McCarty" on YouTube. Created by Alexa McCarty, it goes through her daily life. Let's Party currently has 32 subscribers and over 3200 views. Check out Alexa's "Let's Party McCarty" YouTube page and subscribe.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMTqznbORcb7jjztHwRj6zQ

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
Submitted by Linda

themccartys on Tik Tok has grown it's following to over 5.6 million people. That is an increase of over 200,000 in the past 60 days! In our October issue, we reported that they had 5.4 million followers. They also have over 127 million likes. On YouTube, they are currently top 25 in the US, and are also in the top 50 in views world wide, and have over 5.38 million subscribers and over 8.8 billion (yes with a 'b') views.

Congrats to Kevin, Stephanie, Audri and Braxton on this great feat. If you haven't seen their posts yet, download the TikTok and YouTube apps and search for themccartys and follow them or subscribe to their channel.

THE McCARTYS

VERIFIED TikTok @ themccartys - 
Supporting: American Heart Association
5,400,000 FOLLOWERS ON TIKTOK
6.5 BILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE

https://linktr.ee/themccartys

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Check Out themccartys and follow them on TikTok and YouTube
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New on the Tik Tok platform is the former drummer for Brad Savage & The Cockroaches, Lake Speed. In just several days, he already has amassed 114 followers, and over 1000 likes of his humorous videos. Check him out and follow on Tik Tok and YouTube under Larry McCarty which he has over 11,000 views. You'll be glad you did!


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HERE ARE SOME CHRISTMASTIME TIPS AND IDEAS...

Keep things as simple as possible. If you find that you are unable to manage the twenty-five different cookie recipes you want to make, pick two or three of your specialties and just make large batches of those. Don’t serve fifteen different dishes for Christmas dinner. Just make the five or six favorites.

Try making Christmas Candies instead of cookies. The clean up isn’t as bad and the kids can make them by themselves!

Try to have More with Less This Christmas. Maybe just cutting a few things out can help you save hours!

You don’t have to make everything homemade. Homemade Eggnog is great but if you just don’t have time just grab a bottle at the store.

Cut scraps of fabric or felt into Christmas shapes. You can do this by using cookie cutters or templates. Then attach them to twine, wire or ribbon and use for garland all over the house or on your tree.

When stringing popcorn for garland, let it sit for a couple of days to get stale. Stale popcorn is easier to string.

Use gift bags instead of wrapping paper. We save our gifts bags each year and it’s always fun to see who gets a particular bag the next year. Start a tradition of writing the names in the top corner and each year add the next name and see how the bags go around.

Wrap some of the pictures you have hanging on the wall to look like packages. This can be a really cute and inexpensive addition to your decorations!

Send your Christmas packages early. This may seem like an obvious tip, but many people don’t do it. You can save a huge amount of money by doing this. Not only will you save money, but the more things you can get done and out of the way early, the fewer things you will have to do all at once at the last minute when too many tasks are already stressing you out!

When you have to send things through the mail, think about what you’ll buy. Is it fragile, heavy or very large? None of these are good candidates for shipping. Instead, send smaller items like videos, CDs, or books, which can be sent inexpensively by Media Mail. If you’re OK with gift certificates, you can usually send them for the price of one stamp.

Use items you already have on hand to mail things like Christmas Cookies.

Do you like to have fresh greenery in your home for Christmas? Go to any place that sells Christmas trees (tree lots, Lowe’s, Walmart, etc.) and ask for the branches and cuttings that have fallen off. They are usually glad to get them off of their hands since they’re just going to throw them away. Besides using them for decorations, try tucking them in and around your artificial tree to give it that fresh tree smell. (We sometimes go to a local park after a windy day and collect freshly fallen evergreen boughs.)

Put a candle in a glass jar or bowl for the kids’ table at Christmas or just to use as a cute decoration. Fill the rest of the bowl around the bottom of the candle with cinnamon candies, peppermints, nuts or colored gum balls or jaw breakers.

Instead of a fancy tree skirt, use a white sheet. The colored gifts look great against the white.

Don’t worry about the extra expense of a “tree extender”. They don’t really work. Your tree just needs lots and lots of water. Make sure the cut end is always under water or it’ll seal itself shut and stop drinking. Check often! Your tree may drink gallons of water in the first few days.

Go to your carpet store and ask for the cardboard cores that carpet comes on. Wrap them in white plastic trash bags and twist red ribbon around them. That way you can have instant giant peppermint sticks for outside decorations (and they don’t cost $50 each like the ones in the stores).

Are some of your Christmas decorations and ornaments looking a little battle-scarred and worn? Maybe you want to change from the country look to a more sophisticated look? Try spray-painting your older things with gold, silver or copper paint.

Recycle that artificial tree that you don’t want anymore. Bend the branches and connect them to make either one very large wreath or several small ones.

If you send a lot of cards each year, consider sending postcards instead of Christmas cards. They are less expensive to buy and cost less to send. You can even recycle some of the fronts of old Christmas cards to use as postcards.

Got more eggnog than you can drink? Use leftover eggnog for French toast. Just add a little cinnamon to it and it works wonderfully. You can also make Eggnog Pound Cake.

Give Consumable Gifts. That way you can give the kids treats they love but you don’t have them around all year long.

MOST OF ALL, HAVE FUN!!! 

It’s Christmas and try to remember this is really about the birth of Christ and if we don’t get those cookies we wanted to make done it’s OKAY!!!

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If you have any household tips, tricks, or hacks, send them to me at mccartymetro@gmail.com


Here are some of the recent travel destinations from our faithful readers

Chris, Amanda, and the kids spent a week in Michigan visiting
Kelly, Margaret, and the grand kids spent a couple days in Frankenmuth
Brad & Valerie did a little recon in Vegas, Baby, Vegas!

McCartys traveled from far and wide across the US to attend the wedding of Austin & Kristina in Grand Rapids

Did you travel recently? Send us your destination and pictures to mccartymetro@gmail.com


Dear Editor: A turkey dinner is commonly associated with Thanksgiving. But what dinner is tied to Christmas? -Santa and Mrs. Claus Need Menu in West Michigan

ED NOTE: Unlike my Jewish friends who celebrate Hanukkah, I go by my Catholic mother, who taught me little known lessons in the bible, like Mary and Joseph had cold cuts, German potato salad, and German kielbasa. Who knew??? If you are hard pressed because you cannot get this traditional biblical fare, then 5 Our Father's, and a Little Caesars Hot & Ready is an acceptable substitution to celebrate the Yuletide!

I appreciate you stopping by and would like to hear your questions, comments, or editorials.
Just submit them anytime during the month to
mccartymetro@gmail.com for inclusion in our next issue.



For those that do not speak the language, Le' Food is French for "The Food"! Here you can find some of our Metro family favorite recipe and tips.

Readers, email me at mccartymetro@gmail.com to submit your favorite recipe for inclusion in an upcoming issue.
This month we have tips submitted by
Kristen

Pecan Pie

Who doesn't like pecan pie? This is a great holiday dessert that your family and friends will love. If they don't, just send it to the McCarty Metro editor!
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INGREDIENTS:

1 cup dark Karo Syrup
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 9-inch unbaked or frozen deep dish pie crust

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix corn syrup, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla using a spoon

Stir in pecans

Pour filling into unbaked pie crust

Put on a cookie sheet and bake for 60-70 minutes

NUTRITIONAL FACTS:

Serving Size: 1 piece (1/8 of 9" dia) (122g grams)

Calories 503 
Calories from Fat 244 
Total Fat 27g grams
Saturated Fat 4.9g grams
Polyunsaturated Fat 7g grams
Monounsaturated Fat 14g grams
Cholesterol 106mg milligrams
Sodium 320mg milligrams
Potassium 162mg milligrams
Total Carbohydrates 64g grams
Protein 6g grams
Vitamin A 0.4%
Vitamin C 3%
Calcium 10%

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You can submit videos by sending it to me, send me a link, or uploading to YouTube and sending me the info to mccartymetro@gmail.com

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Introducing...

Austin & Kristina are introduced
as the enter their wedding reception!


Brad's Toast

A snippet of Best Man Brad's toast
to Austin & Kristina!


Cockroach Sighting 

Brad Savage makes an impromptu
appearance at the wedding of
Austin & Kristina, singing Cockroach Party


Test Of Strength

Austin must defeat his oldest brother
in an arm wrestle to win back his bride


Santa vs Angry Iris

Iris faces Santa in a no-holds barred
wrestling matc


Rudolph The Demon
Reindeer

The McCartys get more than they bargained
for on a quick car trip


Luke & Mia Perform

Luke and Mia perform with the
rest of the school band 


Beware Of
Playground Slides


What can happen on later
in life from playground trauma 

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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR METRO FAMILY AND FRIENDS

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN - THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY SINCE THE LAST EDITION

Loretta Lynn, 90, Hall of Fame country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "The Pill"), Grammy winner (1972, 2004, 2010). Judy Tenuta, 72, comedian, actress (The Weird Al Show, Going Down in LA-LA Land, There's No Such Thing as Vampires), and musician, ovarian cancer. Bruce Sutter, 69, Hall of Fame baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves). Leslie Jordan, 67, actor (Will & Grace, Hearts Afire, Call Me Kat), Emmy winner (2006). Jules Bass, 87, animator and television producer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Last Unicorn), co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions. Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, Hall of Fame singer ("Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", "High School Confidential") and pianist. Ray Guy, 72, Hall of Fame football player (Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), Super Bowl champion (XI, XV, XVIII), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Aaron Carter, 34, singer ("Crush on You", "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)", "Leave It Up to Me"). Peter McNab, 70, ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres) and broadcaster (Altitude), cancer. Fred Hickman, 66, sports broadcaster (WDIV Detroit, CNN, ESPN, Black News Channel). Gallagher, 76, comedian, multiple organ failure. Budd Friedman, 90, comedian and producer, founder of The Improv. Robert Clary, 96, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful. Börje Salming, 71, Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Irene Cara, 63, singer ("Flashdance... What a Feeling") and actress (Sparkle, Fame), Oscar winner (1983). Christine McVie, 79, Hall of Fame musician (Fleetwood Mac) and songwriter ("Don't Stop", "Everywhere").

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