more pictures

This is Obediah Wellington Rose and Emily Pinney with their children. This must have been about 1992 or 3 as Peal who is in the center was 3 years old when they came to California and Obediah has passed away before that. I know that Olive and Blanche were the other 2 girls and Carl was one of the boys.

More old pictures

My cousin Eleanor Martinez in Arizona sent me these pictures. She is the grandaughter of Dorothy MacDonald Aunt Blanche's daughter.

This is a picture of Pearl Rose Potter, Blanche Rose MacDonald and Olive Rose DeRemer. They are 3 sisters. Pearl is the youngest and Olive is the oldest. I remember all three of them and used to visit Aunt Olive in San Fernando. Uncle Ed and Aunt Olive had an orange grove and I remember Uncle Ed getting up very early in the morning to set out the smuge pots. After the 1933 earthquake in Long Beach my mother, sister and I lived at their house for a good 6 months.

This is my mother's sister, Lucille Potter Miller, Dorothy MacDonald(Aunt Blanche's Daughter), someone named Vera who I don't know and Evelyn, my mother. This picture is in Long Beach down by the Pier. I love to look at the clothes and notice the bathing suits on the people in the background.

old pictures

A cousin in Arizona sent me these pictures of our family. I had never seen a picture of Obediah Wellington Rose before.
He died when Pearl Potter (my grandmother) was 3 years old. This was before the Pinney family left Missouri by covered wagon and came to California. She has more pictures to send so I will blog them when I get them. I am not sure of the date on any of these or just when Emily married Mr. Roberts. After they were divorced or he passed away (I am not sure which) she married A J Potter,who was Milo Potter's father. This made Grandma Pearl and Grandpa Milo step brother and sister as well as man and wife. I know that Emily did not marry A J Potter untill some time after Pearl and Milo had been married for some years. Family history has so many stories.

Obediah Wellington Rose and Emily May Pinney Rose. This is a picture of Pearl Potter's parents.

Emily Pinney Rose

Emily Pinney Rose

Emily Rose Pinney Roberts Potter

Haven't posted anything on my blog for quite a while so decided I should. The month of June was a busy one. We went to Colorado for Chelsey's wedding and then tried to play catch up when we got home. The wedding was special even though there was rain,hail, ligtning and thunder. I was told by my therapist that a tradition in Mexico was that if it rained on your wedding day you would have a long and fruitful marriage. So Chelsey and Brad it sounds good for you.


When we came home we got busy moving fom the upstairs bedroom to the downstairs one. It was hard for me to do as we had such a comfortable one up there. No fireplace, no closet , 1 chest of drawers and not as much room besides the bathroom has 1 sink and is a bit crowed for 2 people. As David said I need to be flexible and make things work. We bought a portable closet to hang clothes and I put my other things in the cupboards in the bathroom. If I want something that isn't downstairs Dad has to go up and get it for me. After 3 months of not being up there I have forgotten just what is there. We bought a new mattress set so I can sleep in the bed instead of the hospital bed. Life does change and I am trying to be Flexible. Somehow it will have to work even though I don't like it.

Love reading the blogs and keeping up with the ones of you who keep them up. Of course I am guilty for not doing it either and will try to get better. Really have no excuse.

lost and found

My father had 2 sisters, Aunt Dorothy and Aunt Winifred. Last night I recieved a phone call from a lady who had found me on google she asked me some questions. She caought me up on my 2 aunts and had questions regarding my father.
My Aunt Dorothy married at the age of 50 and has since passed away and she had no children. I had not seen her since I was 12 years old. Aunt Winifred had 2 girls. Lynn and Cameron. Aunt Winifred has since passed awayalso. I had no way of connecting with any of my cousins as I didn't even know their names. The phone call turned out to be my first cousin Cameron Pilchard Kelsey. For years I have wondered where these 2 cousins were but I couldn't trace them because I didn't know their names. I did know that the oldest one was named Lynn and I did see her once when she was a baby. Cameron was born when I was about 15 and I didn't know anything about her except that she was Lynn's sister. Anyway, it was rather exciting to finally know where they are and what their names are. Lynn lives in Santa Maria and Cameron lives in Prescott, Arizona. We talked on the phone today and Cameron is going to send me some pictures etc. of the family. I only have 5 formal pictures of Grandma and Grandpa Smith and my 2 aunts and my dad. Not only that but I really didn't know any of the history of the Smith family so she said she would catch me up on some history. She did say that she had the names of Grandpa Smith's mother and father and a picture of Grandpa and his brothers and sisters. I didn't know he even had any. I can then forward it to Leslie as she is keeping all of the family records. I know that on the Smith's side of the family there were only my sister and I and Lynn and Cameron. On the Potter side there was my cousin Glenn and My Sister and I. Glenn has since passed away also. No one else is probably interested but I have a mystery solved!

Gorgeous flowers

I opened the door this morning and there was a beautiful bouquet on my doorstep form
Dan, Dawn and Chelsey. Thank you for the Mother's Day flowers. Love you all!

Matt's birthday

Matt and the kids came to our house on Sunday and brought a delicious dinner that Katy had made.

Sadie loved the cake and had all of her fingers int and then proceeded to suck her fingers with all of the frosting and cake. Needless to say she loved it!!!!

I have a cupie doll and we all think that Sadie looks just like it.

Bob was helping Max and Jack to a second helping of cake.
You can tell by their faces that they loved it.
A fun time was had by all!!!!!

Beautiful Iris

Isn't it pretty? My friend gave me quite a few Irises and they are now starting to bloom. Many different colors. He will give me some more when it comes time to divide them. He has a whole garden full of these beautiful flowers. When I was in the hospital he brought me a gorgeous bouquet of Iris and roses.

new construction

bob spent a week and built the new porch railings. they really enhance the house.
what do you think?

we aren't supposed to fly!

it has been a while since i have blogged. things have bee pretty busy and the year started out kind of crazy. the best was getting to visit the horns in tx , even though it was for a root canal by my wonderful grandson neal. that turned iut just fine but it was feb before the crown was on and it was all finished. the rest of feb was pretty uneventful and then on the 3rd of mar i let curiosity get the best of me. you know the saying curiosity killed the cat! well, some workmen were putting cones in the street and of course i wondered why. soooo as i was hurrying out the front door my foot came out of my shoe on the second step and i went flying onto the brick walk.
God did not intend for us to fly like that and i can attest to that. i couldn't move and am so glad that bill was home. he called the paramedics ad they delivered me to ER at kaiser. soon everyone knew i had fallen. the paramedics were friends with others i knew and the phone calls started coming the next day. anyway it tuned out i broke my pelvis and my right arm. not fuN.
the good part though it wasn't my hip! the best part is that all of my family called and i got to talk to them. now it is just taking time to heal. i will!!!!!!
bob built railings on the front porch and i Will USE THEM. will blog a picture later because tey look really great and were a lot of work. they should have been there in the beginning. of course i would have been hurrying and not used them. no more! next month will be MUCH better.

dress up time!!!!!

Matt And Katy and the children all came for dinner last night. Annie , Jack
and Max dressed up and were acting very silly
so Matt took a picture of them. They are
so much fun and what a blessing to
have them come here for dinner
and to play.

rub a dub dub!

Rub a dub dub 5 littles ones in a tub. Isn't this the cutest picture.
They all wanted to take a bath in Grammy's big bathtub. It was just hard to get them all out as they were haveing a good time.

A quick trip!

The last 3 days was so much fun. I was able to spend the time with these adorable little ones and Leslie and Neal. It was a good time and Neal did a root canal for me too. Leslie took me to Audrey and Parker's school and we had lunch with Audrey in the lunchroom. Then we took sa ride to where there is a house being built that they are interested in. It was a quick trip but i loved being able to see them all and really giving them some hugs. It was a great and wonderful 3 days.

Bob and his two little sons!!!! Milo and Tyler
Tyler came to visit over Christmas. He is really a nice young man and because
he is bigger than his dad we forget that he is only 12. He and Milo spent some time together
playing Tyler's new wii game. We enjoyed him as we have not seen him much in
the last few years. Just thought I would share a picture of the 3 of them.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!! What a beautiful day, even though it is raining. We have so much to be grateful for.
The Matt Parker's was here for Christmas Eve dinner and our usual pagent in costume of the manger scene Santa ringing the bells as he left and running upstairs to see if he filled the stockings.
Rob and Breanne came by in the morning about 11:30 in the morning and and left Emeri and Broxton then they left for the hospital. At 7:15 Christmas Eve they gave us a new great grandson. Matt and Katy were here so there was alot of excitment.

Matt and Katy had some last minute things to do so they left the babies with us so we had 6 babies to love for the day. Tyler was here for a visit and he really helped with all of the little ones. He has turned into such a nice, gentle boy.

After everyone left- (Rob's parents came after Emeri and Broxton to take them home to their own beds) we went to the hospital to meet Kaius. what a beautiful baby boy. This of course is not unusual as all of our babies are beautiful.

We miss all of the rest of our family but you are in our thoughts and we know you will all have a wonderful day. Love you all.

A view of Christmas long ago!!!

This was about 1954-55. Notice the very large TV in the

corner. The tree was decorated with large cookies that

we decorated. The pattern for the cookies were taken

from color books and then painted with a paint brush and

frosting. The boys would put all of the cookies out on

Christmas eve before they went to bed and Santa would

bring a tree and on Christmas morning low and behold there

was a decorated tree with all of the packages underneath.

It was a fun tradition and lasted for quite a few years.

Now all 3 of these little boys are grandfathers. Where did

the time go?????

Happy Birthday

Today is special because it is Ginger's Birthday

Have a very happy birthday!!!!!

Love you.

Grammy and Grampy

Elves and Faries

Our Christmas tree with all of the silly elves.
They just sit there and look around. I think that they like it
because they are up high and can see the whole room.





The faries, Charlie and Liley ( Annie and Jack named them), brought a
small fairy Christmas tree. We woke up one morning and there it was.
I am not sure how they got it though their little fairy door but it is really
pretty and they look like they like it too.













The Nutcrackers didn't see them either but then I am not
sure they could tell us anyway.

Happy Birthday

A Special Day.
Today is our Leslie's Birthday.
Happy Birthday to a very special Granddaughter.
Love you very much
Grammy and Grampy

New baby!!!!!!!!

Today is a special day!!!!!Our 25th great grandchild entered the world. Her mommy and daddy are Cashel and James McCrory. Her wt was 8lbs 9 oz. I am sure Cashel will send out announcements. Chelsey has put it on facebook for those who read it. Hopefull pictures will be coming.
Luke Parker and new baby Cali Faith have the same birthday only Luke is 2 and Cali is brand new!
Breanne is due soon so we will be patiently waiting to hear the news from her. She hasn't found out whether she is having a boy or a girl. As she has one of each either will be wonderful.
Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving.