Happy birthday

Happy Birthday Dan!!!!!!!!! Don't you look cool!

Special Day

Younger days!

An old picture when we were much younger!
Wedding at the Oceanside First Christian Church.
August 2, 1963

happy day

Happy Anniversary

David and Lauren thank you for wonderful grandchildren and precious great grandchildren.
Love you very much,
Mom

goodby lunch

We met Ginger and Elliott and all of the kids at downtown Disney before the went back to do more fun things at the park.
They are staying for a few days with Ginger's parents before they go home to Ind. It was good to see them one
last time before they leave.

Sundance with some of our great grandbabies

Surprise visit

This summer has been a good one so far. First Heather came to visit with Cayden and then this week Stephanie came to visit with Mabel. Oliver and Stella. This was the first time I have seen Stella and been able to hold her. She is very huggable and delicious. Mabel and Oliver made a late birthday cake for Mike and we all sang happy birthday. All 3 are darling and kept themselves entertained so beautifully. Grampy built block houses with them and grammy made a book for Stella to color in. She is quite an artist and may grow up to be one. Who knows! Oliver is as cute as a button and probably the quietest little boy that I have ever been around. He loved all of the cars and the helicopter.
They left after dinner tonight to drive back to Arizona. We will see them again in a week or so in Sundance. All of David's grandchildren will be there. 14, 8 years and younger plus their mommies and daddy's. It will be quite an event. It wasn't hard to say goodby this time as we will see them again up there. The faries, Charlie and Liliy, were visiting and Mabel watched them carefully because she said that Liley's eyes moved. They did bring them a couple of surprises like good faries do. They found them everytine the flew to a new place.

Our Faries

We have a fairy door at our house that the faries use to come and visit us. They are the only ones that can open the door. Annie and Jack have named them Charley and Liley. Sometimes they are here and sometimes they have gone back through
the door. Sometimes they just land someplace in the house and show up in unexpected places. They even leave special
treats for the children who visit us. I hope they are here when Mabel and Oliver get here. I caught a picture of them when they were visiting this morning. Annie and Jack want to touch them but if they did they may not come back so they just look. Of course they won't move as long as someone is looking at them.
Our fairies bring blessings to our house and good surprises.

Fun day

Sunday was a good day. The Matthew Parker's came for dinner as they always do on the first Sunday of the month. We have such fun with the four of them. Annie got her favorite desert which is Dibs ice cream and we had fried chicken, corn on the cob and potato salad. Also made fresh strawberry pie and a bananna cocoanut cream pie. The "faries" Charley and Liley were here and they kept flying around and Jack and Annie discovered they were gone from their usual place and had to go and find them. On my next blog I will post the picture of the fairy door and the faries. They come to visit often and bring good wishes and blessings on all that enter the house. It is fun for Annie and Jack and when Mabel and Oliver come next week they will get to see them too. Just wish you all lived closer so that you could share our Sunday dinners once a month. Sadie was so sweet and I am sure will gow to fast. Babies just don't last forever.

Do you like my clothes? Do you want them for....free?!

Do you like my clothes? Do you want them for....free?!

Click on the heading and maybe I can win. If I do I will send the winnings to Ginger because she is the one that has it on her blog. Then maybe I will enter again next week. You can too.
Just click on the heading and see what comes up. Cute clothes!

Big day

Today we wemt through the new athletic pavillion at Chapman and in the bottom picture Bill is pointing to the wall where
they will but our name. David was the one made this all possible and what a wonderful gift!
The door to enter is to the left of Bill in the picture. It is a beautiful facility.

Guess who came all the way from Co to visit? Heather and Cayden arrived on Friday the 20th and we have had such a good time. He is so cute and such a smart little boy. Of course he is our great grandson and all of them are very cute and very smart! He is only 14 months old but communicates quite well with his sign language (that his mommie and dad taught him). Things like please, thank you, all done, etc. They are leaving tomorrow morning and I will miss them. Matt, Annie, Jack and Max and Breanne, Rob, Emeri and Broxton all came for dinner last night. The kiddos had such fun playing with each other and I love the interaction with them all. Annie made good friends with Cayden and he just followed her and held her hand. This has been an exciting week with new baby Sadie and our visit with Heather and Cayden. Wonder what the rest of the wek has in store?????

workers

Forgot to put these pictures on for Chelsey. Joseph, Steven and Ben did a good job of weeding and cleaning the side yard. Now I can do something with it!!! Thanks guys

I loved this cookie jar so much I had to find one. Went to K-Mart where Steph got hers but they did not have one so tried Target and hooray they had one. Now to keep it full of cookies without eating them myself!

STAR BABY WRAP

I went to a baby shower and one of the grandmothers there had made this star shape baby wrap. I think mine is prettier but did think it was a great idea. You can put your baby in it and then wrap it up and it will go into the car seat without having to uncover the baby to strap her in. What do you think? Is it worth making more?
We have 4 babies coming and I can make one for each if you think it is practical. Just let me know! These are good for winter babies. Probably to war for summer ones????

the visiting 3 wisemen

This really is for Chelsey as these 3 young men are friends of hers that are on a road trip around the U S and they stopped here for a while before continuing on. This was Sunday night and we had tacos for dinner. Their sleeping acccomendations are on the deck and in the hammock. The weather has been great and so the nights are pleasant. Starting from the left
Ben (who got sick on Friday and we fed him pepto bismol and chicken soup. He did feel better on Sat. ) Joe and Steve. The have went to the beach on Sat and yesterday (Sunday ) they just hung out here. Today the were off again to the beach. They arrived Thurs night and I am not really sure when they will take off again. Nice young men and we have enjopyed them. Anyway Chelsey this gives you some idea where they are.

Pictures of my new front yard. Hopefully it will be much easier to take care of.
It will look better too when the plants have develped and grown to fill out
the empty spaces. Just thought I would blog it so that you could see the results!
I am loving it.