Beautiful Snow Day

We finally got some snow out of all of these storms, about 3 inches last night, and for a while to day it was really coming down. I love it when it snows, I chose not to head to work today so I could get home, everyday has been scary to see it Hilary and I would hit snow or not, but God was watching over us and did not see any until late last night.

Happy New Year

I am very glad to see 2009 go, it was an extremely hard year, and also a year of great blessings. We lost Ryan's wife Danielle to a sad sudden disease in July. We moved into the house of our drams in May, just after Tom had a "little" heart attack. We have had enough work to meet our financial needs. We have 2 new grandsons this year. We have gotten to spend a lot of Saturdays with Shelby.

Here are a few of our goals for 2010;

Take care of ourselves better

Pay as much debt as possible

Try to visit friends and family as much as we can

Simplify, simplify, simplify....

Sounds like a good start to a great year. We wish you all a happy new year.

Christmas 2009

Went to Uncle Rodney and Aunt Shirley's for Christmas eve - we all forgot our cameras, but had fun, enjoyed visiting with everyone, Ryan got a chance to see some cousins.

Christmas Day we went to my Brother Brian's house, Shari put on a really nice dinner, and we had a great time. Ryan and Erika had not gotten to see each other in quite a while, so it was really nice. Shari's parents were also visiting from Montana (getting away from the cold weather, good idea!) We had a wonderful Christmas, took Ryan to the airport this morning, he was glad to be getting back to his own home and friends.

Home and Family

I have great kids! All of them, I love them so much. Ryan is home for a visit, good to see him, he teases me like no one else, but I still love him. Cathy is going to come over today (and I hope spend the night) after she gets some rest from taking Shelby to MN yesterday. Dianna is coming to visit for a few days, she has been going to school for Digital Photography, she wont be able to visit that much in the upcoming months. Just one question???? What did I do with my camera....can't find it. :(

Beautiful day, beautiful friend, beautiful tree

Hilary Lewis took pity on her "Christmas challenged" friend, and came over and decorated the tree and mantel today. We had fun, was amazing to see Hilary in action. Note the spoons in the mantel - what a great idea, and she did not even have a plan, just used things I had. Thanks Hil!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Brad and family, Dianna and Cathy and Shelby spent some time with us for Thanksgiving, had a wonderful dinner with friends family and missionaries. Friday we did not do "black Friday" but went to Sonora Craft Fair as we traditionally do every year, rained - but had a good time, got a few hard to find gifts, Saturday we enjoyed the grand kids and stayed pretty close to home, until we realized we really needed to go get some groceries, so we returned Shelby to Merced and ran some errands. Hope you had a nice of Thanksgiving as we did.

Happy Veteran's Day

To my Veteran's...XXXXOOOOO