Merry Christmas to all,

and to all a good night!

I wanted to share a small piece of our family Christmas party with you...two of my grandaughters, Allison & Kaitlyn performed for the family. Allison, 8 years old (black hat) choreographed this entire piece and then taught it to Kaitlyn so they could dance for our party. They were so cute...and Allison is sooooo serious! Love em!

Anyway, I hope you all had as great a Christmas as we did!

End of Fall Season....

Winter is almost upon us, we have had a taste of snow, and it makes me a little bit sad. I love Fall...it is my favorite season of all. The air is so crisp and clean, the smell of fireplaces burning, football, and like my dad always said, "it's chili sauce weather", because his mom always made chili sauce in the fall. This past weekend we were doing the finish clean up of the fall leaves, and fall leave raking just isn't complete without some children wanting to jump into the piles. I don't know what it is about a pile of leaves that just hollers to be jumped in! My three youngest grandkids were visiting this weekend and they took complete advantage of the piles of leaves!

and the biggest kid of all....

Happy Holidays Y'all!

Happy Anniversary!

I find it so hard to believe that 30 years have flown by. Michael, when we were first married you made a comment to me that someday I was going to make such a "cute grandma"! I laughed! Grandma indeed....I was still a kid myself! Now we have 6 of the most beautiful grandchildren from ages 1 to 20! I'm so thankful for the day that you walked into my life, you have been my best friend through all our trials and tears, our laughter, our life. Michael, I love you.

30 years ago when we were wed
Sweet and loving vows we said
I promised that my whole life through
To you my love, I would be true.
Years have gone by
And I still feel
That the love we share
Is just as real.
We have shared the good times
As well as the bad
We have celebrated in happy times
And clung together in the sad.
I have no problem with wondering
Just where I stop and you begin
For 30 years ago I married my soul mate
My sweetheart and my best friend.

Our New Family!


Honeymoon in Vegas

Landmark Hotel doesn't exist any longer

Canada New England Cruise

Well, Michael and I just got back from our cruise to Canada and the New England area!

We had such a great time....fabulous weather, fabulous sights,

fabulous food.....hmmm, did I tell you it was fabulous?

We started in New York City then visited Newport Rhode Island, Boston,

Bar Harbor Maine, Saint John New Brunswick and Halifax Nova Scotia.

We even got some "fabulous" down time....second night out we slept for 12 hours!

We cruised on Caribbean Princess and the beds had pillow mattresses

with down pillows and down comforters! (It was fabulous!)

I took almost 500 pictures but am only going to share a few with you (aren't you relieved?)

Oh, and did I mention that it was fabulous?

Successful Launch!

OK...some of you have been following my long, long soap opera tale of trying to get our boat in the water. It has been in the driveway now for 7 years and we have had numerous repairs and delays. Yesterday we made one more attempt and finally got to the lake and put said boat in the water! We had a great afternoon...never got the fishing poles out, water was too cold for skiing, didn't bring the tubes but we did enjoy some sun and fresh air and BOATING!!!!! So what that it is a week after Labor Day and summer is quickly coming to an end...WE DID IT! We actually got the boat out this summer. OK, it wasn't without some problems but we now have all winter to fix them....there is a leak somewhere in the motor and the bilge pump didn't work! So, we will fix that and then beginning next summer we can actually plan some boating trips with the whole family! Yesterday we made Brian & Jen be our guinea pigs to see if we could make it without sinking the boat...they were very happy that didn't happen!

OK...We are down the ramp and still floating! Things are looking good!

Michael & Brian, the navigators!Ellie loved the boating...hated the life jacket!Captain, my Captain!A little beach time!OK...found the cuddy cabin, time to snooze now!

A Day at the Races...

Yesterday Michael and I went to Wendover to watch our 14 year old grandson, Jake, race his motorcycle. He had a 17 mile course of dust, rocks and river bottoms that were a real challenge. He was upset that he came in 5th but he did a great job and had several problems to deal with during the race. I was proud of him! and we had a great time...the weather was perfect!
Here he is coming in for a fuel stop...his pit crew; Dad & Julie, with Mom shooting photos!

Our beautiful Wyatt...he wanted to have a chair for himself...he picked it up and found his words...Mom, I want to sit! These times that you take for granted with most kids are absolutely HUGE accomplishments with an autistic child.
Jake coming in to the finish line!
Race is over!

This was his first desert race and he isn't so sure he liked eating dirt for mile after mile.