She was the first....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANNE!!
We'll always be there for you!



This is going to be a wonderful year--LPN grad--New baby!! So much to look forward to! HUGS!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Jessi!!

I was wishing I had a picture to post for today, & what do you know, This just got posted!
Lots of love, from Grammie, Papa & all of us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!!
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Something I missed.....

on my list of 25 things about me I posted on facebook.
Goodness, my life is just so exciting, here I am with a new post every day!! LOL!!
Three, going on four!!!

Happy Birthday to my Mom!

This is the first time in 4 years that she's been home to "celebrate" her birthday. We girls took her out to lunch, and had a great time! Happy Birthday Mom! Hope you have a great year!

4 of 52-For our Anniversary

We enjoyed a special evening out at Red lobster with our dear friends. Ryan took the kids all to his place for the evening, so we didn't have to feed them before we left either!
I'm not a sea food fan, so I had the maple glazed chicken--It was awesome!
(Also thought you might get a chuckle out of this:)






Since you all know that I'm not a fan of pictures of myself, it's a challenge of it's own to post them. It's even more of a challenge for me to look into the camera screen, trying to do a decent "self picture"! (which is what I did with this first one I posted)
We did enjoy our day, however after enjoying lunch out, I slipped off the curb while getting back into our van, and twisted my ankle. It was so horrible painful I thought I was going to lose my lunch. After I determined that it wasn't broken or sprained, I hobbled thru Walmart to find buttons & elastic to finish up the outfit that I was making for Jessi for her birthday, planning to get it into the mail so she'd have it in time for her party this weekend.
No such luck. The ankle slowed me down enough that I was too late to get it in the mail in time.
Like the 2 yr. old will care...But I did!
Anyway I did manage to get it finished & boxed up, so today off to the p.o. it goes.
Thankfully after several hot soaks, & some good therapy muscle massage stuff, plus being off of it all night, other than a little stiff, it's feeling much better today.
Today...? Another birthday :) My mom's. We girls are off to take her to lunch later. You'd think this was just one big party around here.....

Happy Birthday Ryan!

http://theweedas.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-21st-birthday-ryan.html
I was going to do something different this year on my blog to recognize birthdays....but didn't get it figured out yet. So, here's a couple pictures. At least not the same ones as last year anyway.



These two pictures are Ryan personified. Getting into EVERYTHING and GO NON-STOP!
The cake--or what there is left of it here was his older sisters birthday cake after a small party we had. I'd put the cake up on the kitchen counter, & Ryan in the tub. I'd gotten him out, wrapped him in a towel, and went to grab his clothes, and within minutes he was up on a stool (minus towel, of course!) devouring what was left of the cake. What's a mom to do? Grab the camera of course. (then stick boy BACK in the tub!)

In this picture Ryan was almost 4, and he was always "going"! Usually full speed ahead too!
Happy 21st Birthday Ryan!!
This one was just taken this week. He promised me he'd get a hair-cut before special meeting, but the day before he still hadn't, so I gave him grief over it, & said I'd give him one. He really doesn't think that's necessary, so he just grabbed the clippers & gave himself one.

I was going to do something different this year on my blog to recognize birthdays....but didn't get it figured out yet. So, here's a couple pictures. At least not the same ones as last year anyway.

Annual holiday bash-1 of 3

Posts that is, not 3 bashes!
Have you ever seen the movie "My big fat Greek wedding"? Well, I don't see very many movies, but I have to admit, that this one is one of my all time favorites. The first time I saw it, a girl-friend got it, & invited a bunch of us girls over for a girls party, & we about laughed ourselves sick/silly over it! I like it partly because I can relate to it quite well. Our family's big and we're loud. We like to laugh too :)
Every year my step mom Jane, has us come to her place for a family get-together. Any and all of my siblings (4 of us) Our spouses, and our children (combined there's 26) plus their spouses (currently 5) Any current boy/girl friends of the children, the grandchildren (currently 7 and 1 on the way) My 2 uncles & aunts plus their families, my grandfather, and Jane's friend Jack are all invited Of course now there are some that are too far away to come, and with this many, we just pick a date that will work best for the majority.
This (post) is really a tribute to our lovely step mother, "G'ma Jane". She has been doing this for about 14 years now, and has carried on even tho our dad passed away away 8 years ago this fall. This year there were 36 of us. I don't know how other people's holidays are. We each have our own families traditions, gatherings, food & fun. None of my family celebrates with a tree or a huge pile of presents, so this is something we experience only at G'ma Jane's house. When we arrive for our evening of fun, (A couple days ago on Friday night,) This is pretty typical of what greets us:

and as fun as that looks, really our evening is full of far more. Before presents is a couple hours of eating, visiting, fun & clearing up from the yummy supper that she always makes for us.
Lynisha brought her beautiful & delicious sugar cookies to share.

G'ma Jane, & Jack. (I'm surprised that I got a picture of her sitting down, she's always waiting on all the rest of us!)


Cousins, games, visiting, goofing, laughter,

The 3 musketeers. Cousins & best friends, Landon, Rebecca & Meshayla.
Floyd & Jeanne....This was Floyd's first family holiday bash with this side of the family. He's probably asking her "What did I get myself into"?!!

Food, and the coffee is non-stop.


My niece & her dad


Leon with two of our son-in-laws and Jack with my Uncle Fay.
And, it's times like this I miss my dad the most. He loved family get-togethers, he loved watching his grandkids, he loved telling a story, and I think he was always amazed that Jane could pull this whole bash together so well!
(To be continued)

hmmm, what's new?

It's back to school day for the kids. This is the longest vacation they've ever had. My little ones were getting kind of bored I think. The snow is mostly gone, and there's not much to do outside with cold & no snow.
I've got some catch-up work to do that I put aside while the kids were all home, so am anxious to get working on that again, and I have a photo calendar to make before Friday when we'll all be going to Gma Jane's for our Holiday get-together. Then I'm planning to have two little grandkids here for a bit, and am anxious for that.
We have a ton of home-improvement/repairs that we need to do, so the other day we went to Menards to look at things. Doors, floor coverings & paint samples. I came home with a pile of paint samples/ideas, and am SO anxious to do some re-painting! I've been telling myself that I had to wait till the "new year" to re-do the living room....well, it's here!! I've also been planning on re-doing (or maybe I should say DOING) our bedroom for several years, so those are first on the list! Oh...woops, guess I'd better finish up that trim in the bathroom downstairs so I can put that picture on here for you all too!

I "heart".....

My grandkids!
It was so fun to have them here this week.



UMMM, Pretzels, chocolate, almond bark & Carmel!




Bye, Grammie, see you next week!