It's Been A Long time

Since keeping busy on Facebook I have failed to keep up on my blog. So, I shall do a little catching up this time. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at our home with the kids who were here. good food and good company. It is always fu to get together with the kids!

Christmas came along soon. This year we went to Mike and Angela's home. All Jim's kids were home from college so we were happy to have all of them here. Andrew is in school in Chicago studying to be an optometrist. We had great food, as usual, and then the wild time of gift opening and little kids running around with toys after. ow the teens, they are another story; They were doing funny poses for the camera and seemed to enjoy the time together. Our daughter-in-law, Angela, made a family tree for us that is so neat. It is a big tree and starts with Wayne and I at the bottom and all the important dates - goes through all our kids and grandkids. A special gift!

Last Saturday Lisa's youngest,Lauren, was baptized. My gift to the girls on their baptism year is a Marie Osmond collector doll - hopefully that will help them remember how special Grandma and Grandpa feel that day is. the boys get $100,00 for their mission fund. We had a great dinner at Lisa's after. a great family get together.

Wayne is keeping busy doing yard work - ours and he does three others that he gets paid for. He really enjoys working outside. You can get him off the rance but can't get the ranch out of him! Lisa has a new dog that is little and so cute. For the first time in all these years I heard Wayne say he would like a dog like that. I told him I would take care of it for Father's day. The next day I asked if he had the dog out of his system yet - he answered with a yes. So, no cute little dog. We can babysit Lisa's!

We are flying to Houston on April 1 to spend a week with Nikki and family. Angela and Ben are driving from St. Louis to be there too so it should be fun. Our only concern is that Wayne has a sister with cancer and it is growing quickly. He plans on flying to SLC and then driving to Canada with his sister Ruth to visit Fae. We are hoping both trips work out and we don;t have to change anything last minute. We pray for Fae and don't want her to suffer a long time.

Seems to us that the beginning of the very last days have raised it's ugly head throughout the world. Things are pretty messed up everywhere including in our country. We watch the signs and strive to live more Christ-like lives. We pray for our children and grandchildren that they will hold to the rod and be strong and true to the gospel as it is the only way to true happiness. Our fathers are aging but doing well all things considered.

Vacation

Be sure to go to older posts to see entire vacation as I did them as two post!

Even more Vacation!

We flew to Talllahassee Florida and spent a week with Wayne's college roommate, Charles and his wife Cindy. We had a great time from riding his school bus route with him, visiting the Andersonville Civil War Prison, visiting a Plantation, cruising in water full of interesting flora and fauna and alligators, going to the coast to see a lighthouse and finding it was the monarch butterfly festival and they were everywhere! Then on Sunday we attended a Branch of the church in Florida to visit my college roommate, Bev. After church they eat a big potluck dinner outside on the lawn every Sunday - tables set up out side. The weather was beautiful while we were there and we had great fun with friends we hadn't seen in 40 years and 45 years!

Our Vacation

Wow! did we ever have a good time! the first week we spent our time with Angela and Ben and even better playing with Ella and holding and loving Will. grandpa slept a lot with will on his shoulder! I went shopping a few times just for food and stuff. It was a great time. That Sunday we blessed our 31st grandchild - William Charles Quinney, in his white tuxedo with tails! This was a great time for all of us and we enjoyed every moment of being there and celebrating Ella's second birthday with her!

Babies are the BEST!!!

Well, here it is October. Our 31st grandchild arrived Wednesday, Oct. 7. He is darling and my daughter Angela looks beautiful after giving birth to him. William (after his dad) Charles (after my grandfather) but we will call him Will. I am leaving Monday to go stay with them and hold the sweet new little one who just arrived from heaven. It will be great to be there. My sister, Linda, may come from Louisville, Kentucky to visit us - I hope she does! We are going to Florida and Georgia to visit my husband's roomate who is the one who got us together. We haven't seen them in 40 years at least. We are going to have fun! I have been working hard substituting to keep extra money in the bank for our fun times. I am looking forward to no work for a couple of weeks! I am already scheduled for 3 days the first week we are home. We are so blessed in this life and I am so happy to be feeling good - not like last year! Wayne is feeling good too so we shall enjoy this trip and seeing family and friends.

A short trip

Any vacation , short or long, is always a welcome change. We went up north to see my dad and spent a couple of days with them. Then we drove to Tracy, Ca to visit Ryan and family and to be there for Caden's first birthday. It was fun to be around Kayla and Caden and to visit with Ryan and Kristina. Kayla had me telling lots of stories - of course, they had to be told her way so she could act them out! It was nice and cool at my dads and we missed some HOT temperatures at home. Now we are home and back to normal. I am doing my treadmill walking and my hot tub exercises and Wayne is doing yard work. We are looking forward to Angela, Ben and Ella to arrive the end of the month. Might even make a second trip to the beach - the last one was GREAT!