Holiday Blessings

I don't have a picture to put with this one but wanted to post anyway. For Thanksgiving we got good news that a new grandbaby was on the way & now today we got news another one is on the way too. So 2009 will see us adding two new grandbabies in June & August. :)

Christmas Sillyness

Last year after Christmas Grandpa & Grandma saw these reindeer antlers marked down & we thought it would be fun to buy them for the grandkids to wear. We are sorry that the grandkids in Arizona could be part of the sillyness. Even one of the big "kids" got in on it.

Snow & More Snow

This is what our front yard & drive way looks like, or did before the drive was plowed out. This seems to be the common look this year. We sure have had more than enough snow & we aren't done yet. We are suppose to get another 5 to 10 inches yet tonight through tomorrow. The last major storm that this picture is of we got 12 inches.

MESS

This is what we found when we came home from the family get together. It was very cold so we let the dogs stay inside. We totally forgot about the possiblity that Betsy would attack the plants. It wasn't a very important plant but oh the clean up was a major job.

Sibblings

We had a family get together with Ed's side of the family. We don't seem to get together too often so we always have to have a sibbling picture. I wish we had done a sibbling picture when we were together with my 3 sisters, next time I guess. They are standing in age order.

Girls & Frogs

We have a tin of fake frogs here that the grandkids love to play with. At their last visit Sarah decided to build them a "pen". She did a good job laying out the blocks for them to sit on. She was not too happy with Betsy when she kept coming to see what was going on.

Cats

We have been trying to get both of our cats used to each other. Diamond the black cat lives in the garage but wants to come in & visit us off & on. But she is a bit intimidated by Owyn's size.

Sewing Projects

I had several pillow panels that I wanted to make up for our motorhome "Silver Eagle". This is a picture of sort the before. I forgot to take a picture before I got going on the first one. The picture to the right is the finished project. I was glad to get them done as my fingers were really getting sore as I sew the panels on by hand.

Christmas Programs

Yesterday was the day for Christmas programs. Our church Amazing Grace had theirs. This is a picture of our choir. We are small but we are very on fire for the Lord.

This is the kids choir. That is one of our granddaughter as "Mary". "Baby Jesus" ios our doll, which will probably now be forever called Baby Jesus instead of Rose.

This is a picture of some of our other grandchildren. kind of hard to see them but we couldn't get any closer for pictures.

Vacation

We just had nearly a week at one of our timeshares, this one was in Sunrise Beach, MO near Lake Ozark. We left here a day late as we wanted to be in church here as a missionary couple were coming we wanted to see. Then we headed home early enough that we could be home again for church yesterday. We have a full & busy week but it was good.

Our last night there the moon was so pretty.This picture doesn't show it as pretty as it really was.

This is a picture of our "friend" while on vacation. The first day when we were going to head out in the morning I saw what I thought was a twig laying on the stair railing. But it was a tiny snake. I thought he was dead. But when we came back I thought he was laying a bit different, so I took his picture. Yes we had snow while there. The next morning we moved him a bit to see if he would move. He didn't while we were there but later when we came back he had moved a bit. The last day we were there he had made it down to the floor of the stairway. I didn't think he was safe there so moved him into an area with bushes.

New Family Member of the Four Feet Kind

Well we did a very silly thing today. We added a new dog to the family. She is a lab mix of 4 or 5 months. We have named her Betsy. She is a sweet girl. Abby is not so sure she likes her but they are doing fairly well. I saw her on Criag's List last night. She was at a animal shelter in White Cloud & her days were limited. I have promised not to look at the list of Pets any more.