Today August 15th is a special day. It is Lincoln's Birthday. He is the wife of Mimi and the daddy of little David besides being my grandson.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

A good Sunday

I am so blessed that these four beautiful great grandbabies live close enough to come for dinner
at least once a month or more. Miss having my others live close enough to see them.
If they did believe me my days would be full of all of our wonderfull babies.
I miss them all and sometimes feel bad that they will never really
know Grampy and me as well as these four do.
Last night Sadie just didn't want to leave and
was having such a good time playing
the teddy bears and little toys.
I so love them all.

Max Sadie Jack Annie

Last week my cousin Jeannette and Geoff visited us. They are from Sorrington in Sussex England.
Jeannette is th granddaughter of Frederick Smith who was the brother of my grandfather
Percy Smith. We had fun going over genealogy while Bill and Geoff had a good visit.
They were staying in LongBeach at the Hyatt so we went there and traveled
around Long Beach to see where grandpa Smith lived.
We went to the Long Beach historical society and found information about him
and his other brother Leopold' s real estate business in 1904.
We had fun with Jan and Geoff and really enjoyed them.
Just wish they lived closer. However they have a
beautiful home in the country with lots of
trees and green grass. It looks just like you would
expect an english home would be like.
Would love to visit some time.
It was a fun 4 days!!!!!

father's day

HAPPY fATHER'S TO FOUR OF MEN IN MY LIFE.

I also need to include my grandsons as they are pretty special too.
so HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to you all.

Happy Birthday May 2, 2011

Happy Birthday Matthew. A special day on May 2nd for a special grandson.
Time has gone by so quickly and even though these are just
old pictures I do love them. Now you are married and have
a darling wife and 4 very beautiful children.
Love you very much so have
a very happy and
blessed
birthday
XXX
000
:)

our yard!

Bob and Bill and their first homegrown artichoke!

Huge plant. Counted 15 artichokes on it this morning.

My front yard!

Much prettier looking at the real think as pictures aren't the best
but the purple Iris and the little pink blossoms plus the tall pink foxglove make it
colorful. There is an artichoke plant in the corner of the secone picture but it isn't
doing as well as the one on the side yard. Guess Spring has finally arrived!!!!
Oh, the tree in the bottom picture is a redbud tree and the leaves are shaped like
hearts.

two cute boys!

Lincoln on his Rocking Horse. Such a cute little boy!

Wish I had a side view of David because they do look quite a bit alike. Maybe it is the cuteness and chunkyness Pretty cute!!!!!!! David Young Ho on the same Rocking Horse with his Dad, Lincoln

more memories

Guess who?

picture

Memories

Wonder if Matthew remembers this with his red cape? Little Stephanie, Cute Leslie and big brother Elliott. Holiday at the beach. Just good memories.

Julianne and Toni

This is the picture of Toni and Julianne on the day they got married. It didn't show on the previous post.

Congratulations

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Toni Weis

Julianne and Toni got married today in New York City. I am so happy for them and excited to see them when they visit Orange in June. Congratulations to a very special granddaughter and a new grandson.

When we moved to Orange County in 1961 we lived in Villa Park. We lived in a little craftsman house that
was a Sears and Roebuck catalog house in 1905. It was built by a family called Holditch and they owned
the Orange grove on Wanda Road that can be seen on the left side of the picture. The Fitchens owned the
house across the street form that we lived in and the 8 acres of orange grove
that surrounded our house. They had move into another house on Lincoln that was closer to the
corner of Wanda and Lincoln. When Bob, Dave and Dan were in school
they would go to Bruno's market on the way home and get candy etc. I could run up there
for milk or bread etc. instead of having to go to Alpha Beta on
the corner of Collins and Tustin. (when I was in a hurry!)We now live on Wanda road
between Katella and Collins and just south of Lincoln st. This picture is on the corner of Wanda
and Katella. You can see the railroadtracks on the left side of the picture. They ran right down
the street in front of our house. Wanda was only
2 lanes wide and Katella was only 2 lanes wide with houses on both sides of the street. We really lived in the
country then. Villa Park incorporated and became a city at the time we moved there. It is now celebrating
it's 50 years as a city. Where we live now used to be Villa Park and Bruno's was in
Villa Park but when the city incorprated it divided Wanda Road in the middle and everything west
of the center of wanda road was Orange soif Bruno's was still here it would be Orange not Villa Park.
All has changed so much and now all of the orange groves are gone. The streets are 4 lanes and
there are traffic lights on the corners.The house we live in on Lincoln is gone and it is now
a street with houses on all land where the groves were.
We had eucaleptus (sp) trees dividing all of the groves
and down the streets. You can see the ones behind Bruno's market.

These were the good ole days. We didn't even own a key to the front door!

This is a picture that I found this morning while I was doing some straightening in the cupboard. Hard to
believe they have grown up so fast. They were so cute and all ready for church. I remember that they spent the night
with us and David and Lauren were coming by to pick them up and take them to church.
Such good memories.

picture of great grandfather

My cousin just sent me this picture of my great grandfather. I think that he was the father of my
grandfather Obediah Rose who died when my grandmother Pearl was 3 years old.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. We have a tradition at our house and all of the grandchildren that are here dress in costumes and act out the Nativity scene while someone reads the story. So many of our grandchildren have moved out of state that the ones that are still here in California continue our tradition. I think that they will always remember. After dinner and the story Santa comes and brings goodies for all. We don't have a big family here now but we still have fun and love them all near and far.
Our baby in 1982 was Julianne and all the rest of the children in the picture are now married with children of their own that are in the other pictures.


Christmas 1982 with all of the Grandchildren



Christmas 2009 - the next generation (same costumes)


Christmas 2010 fewer greats here but we still carry on the tradition.

North Point's iBand - Feliz Navidad

another red letter day

Today is one of my special granddaughter's birthday. We went to visit her and her
beautiful children in Texas last June. What a fun time.

Happy Birthday Leslie

Red letter day!!!!

Today is Julianne's Birthday
She is one awesome girl and is living in Sorocaba, San Paulo, Brazil.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY