The rest of 2013

Is there anyone still out in blog land?
Did you give up on my blog?

I guess I did!  Today is the last day of December, 2013 and my last post was in May this year.  Over a half of year gone by.  Tomorrow is New Years day! Amazing.  Time flies.

I'm celebrating 2014 by closing this blog and starting a new one.  I've had a few ideas for a while now, and just kind of tired of the "old".  I'd like to blog more again so I'm not planning on quitting, just giving my blog a new look and feel.  I started this one 6 years ago this last fall and our life at that time was quite different than it is now.

So I'll back up a little bit to give some closure here.

June-- We welcomed grandbaby #13 to our family.  Relyssa and Mark's first, Jasper Lee born in CO at the Midwifery center on June 11 he was 7 1/2 lbs 20 1/2 in.  born at 3:18 pm and I was delighted to be there, along with his other Grammy, two aunties and a (double) baby cousin just 6 mo. older than him.
Also had some kids/grandkids visit over my birthday weekend.  Pretty special to have all our grandkids here at once. A really fun thing is that we have 3 grandbaby boys all in Sidney, just 35 mi. from us.  Carter was born in Dec, Delon in Feb, and Jasper in June, so they are all just months apart, within 6 months.  Can you imagine 16 years from now? :)

July--My two sisters, my mom and I took a special and long awaited trip to Prince Edward Island, We flew to Portland, Maine and rented a car, driving up into Canada and took the ferry over to PEI.  It was a really special trip for us, and I will be making a page of our trip.

August--This month was filled with garden, canning, freezing and grandkids here.  Kind of a blur as I seemed to take forever to recover from vacation! We had super results from our garden, potatoes, squash & tomatoes.  I did alot of canning tomatoes, but also froze alot to make salsa from this winter while it was cold and I had more time.....hmmm guess I'd better get on that?!

September--  Another month that was just packed clear full.  We went to our annual Church convention the first part of the month, then a week later I & the 4 kids headed up to ND to visit our daughter and family up there and got in on their state's convention also.  The trip was a bit bittersweet, as Meshayla who turned 19 this month (Ekks, HOW can that be?!!) took a job up there, and was staying, living with her sister. 
When I arrived home I picked up two of our grandsons and had them here for a week with us.

October and November-- were both filled with helping our daughter and SIL get their house ready to put on the market to sell.  That involved many daily trips over to Sidney, but it was a great feeling when it was done, and their house sold within 3 days of listing it!
For Thanksgiving we had a special Thanksgiving day dinner with some "old" friends and my side of family and 9 of our kids in Kearney.

December--has been full of more trips to Kearney, some special company, special Sundays, and lots of quilting.  I helped my sister quilt a special quilt that she made for her grandaughter.  Now I'm so inspired to do more quilts.  Interspersed in all the above was constant house projects that I worked on doing and had my husband working on both.  I have some new pictures I want to get posted to the "house" page before I close it down too.
Christmas day we enjoyed having our "nearby" 8 kids & families plus Jana, another couple and my grandkids "other" grammie here for lunch and a birthday party for our 2 yr old Bethy girl, and 1 yr old Carter.
We have enjoyed Jana home with us for 10 days, and my mom out with us over a few days including New Years day too.
It's been a really full month!

Now the sun is setting on the last day of the year.
Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year.  I appreciated what someone said recently.  Experiences we go thru, Good ones and Hard ones.  Not bad ones.  Hard ones.  There are always plenty of those to go around it seems, but hopefully we can enjoy the good ones more, and profit from the hard ones.

Till next time........................................