We got our blizzard I guess! I was disappointed we didn't get the 21 inches that was forecast at one time but we did get over 12 inches so that was nice. We haven't had a big snow in years! The interstate was closed last night. My son-in-law said there is snow in the forecast for Monday and Tuesday so guess we'll see what that brings. Maybe I'll get my 21 inches after all... just strung out!

Back again... I tried awhile back to get into my blog and couldn't. Guess I was doing something wrong. Anyway, decided to try again today and made it! It's been so long since I've posted but I'll just post a couple of pics of my grandbabies that I've gotten since I last posted! :)

Grandma's sweet baby boy!

Grandma's sweet dolly girl!

Chiiiikkkkeeennnnn Maaaaannnnn! He's everywhere! He's everywhere!

Chiiiikkkkeeennnnn Maaaaannnnn! He's everywhere! He's everywhere! That used to be some commercial or something on the radio. Thought of it with Bouncer's costume. lol
Anyway, Happy Halloween!!




He really wasn't too impressed--for some reason. lol

Auction

Got to see Mom and Dad some this last week. Diane had her auction Sat. and they came up Thurs. night and stayed all night. Also, IBS was at church that night on deputation and then those of us there went out to McDonalds afterwards. Mom and Dad got in a little later and then left Fri. morning to go down to help Diane finish getting things set up. Bev came and stayed Fri. night so she could be there for the auction. David and I didn't stay a long time at the auction. I don't care for auctions that much. Give me a rummage sale where I can find something I want, see the price they want for it and if I want to pay that then I can go ahead and leave. Whereas, at an auction you may see something you want and have to stay for hours before they get to it and even then you may not be able to get it because someone outbids you! :-( She had quite a bit of stuff though all of it wasn't hers. The auction ended up going until around 7:00 PM I think. Bev stayed here Sat. night but Dad and Mom stayed at Val and Bill's and left then Sun. morning. Dad forgot his jacket at Val's and it had his two heart pills in it he was supposed to take--so he didn't take them yesterday. He went to Wal Mart and got some today and then forgot to take them and his defibulator went off twice today. I guess he did take them today then around 4:00 but he wasn't feeling good this evening. He called the doctor's office and they told him to come in WED. Anyway, I'm kind of worried about him.

BLUE NOT PINK!

Letting those of you know that don't use Facebook; I'm going to be a GRANDMA! Colin and Faith's baby is due Feb. 27 and we found out Thurs. it's going to be a BOY! Now we know a little more what to buy!!! :-) Congrats to the new mommy and daddy-to-be! (Am I really that old???)

Birthday Month

This month is birthday month for our house! Colin was born on the 11th, Janae the 15th, and Dacia the 17th---not all in one year of course! :-) We used to celebrate their birthdays separately but they're getting older and the last couple of years we just had something on one day. Janae turned 21 this year and she wanted to do something special to celebrate. We decided to go to Branson and go for a dinner cruise on the Showboat Branson Belle. I fixed 45 encharitos and we took them to Colin and Faith's house Thurs. night--which was actually Dacia's birthday. We got there later than what I wanted to but we went ahead and ate them for our supper. I fixed some Rotel cheese dip too that some like to put on top of the encharitos. Then Fri. after we all finally got around we headed to Branson and did some shopping before time to go to the boat. We left around 6:30 to go to the boat because they start loading at 7:00. Someone told us where to go so we got there and some of the others went ahead while I took Bouncer to the bathroom etc. As we were on our way up there we met the others coming back and they told us we were in the wrong

place. :-) I called Diane and she gave me the address where they were at. Brad was talking to someone else and they gave him a different address. Needless to say we were in confusion for awhile but decided to use the address Diane gave us as she got it from the company and it took her there. We put the address in the GPS and then it wanted us to turn where there was no

road. The boat left at 8:00 so we are trying to hurry to get there. We went up a ways and turned around and finally got on the right road (GPS needs to be updated or something). It seemed like it was taking us out in the boonies and I was wondering if we were going right but we finally arrived and had like maybe 15 min. before the boat was to leave! Whew! We met up with Faith's family and Di and Val and got to board before it left! I had wanted to get there while it was still light to get some pics. but by the time we got there it was pretty dark.

You could hardly tell the boat was moving. They served us a salad and some bread and then we had some roast, a stuffed chicken breast or something, vegetables, mashed potatoes and some kind of ice cream something for dessert. After supper they had an intermission and we had some time to explore the boat and go out on the decks. They had a ventriloquist that made his dogs "talk". They wouldn't let you take pics or video that part. The last part I laughed so hard. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. He had a woman and a man come up out of the audience and every time he squeezed their neck they were supposed to open their mouth and he did his ventriloquism. We got out late and then went to good ol' McDonald's and some of us got something to eat and we set outside and visited. It was good to be with Colin and Faith. Don't get to see them a whole lot.

The next day was sooooo rainy. We were going to get an old time photo taken but they charged per person and were too expensive so we finally ended up and played some putt putt at a place that had it indoors. Then it was Taco Bell and HOME!

Camp

We finally got home yesterday after 5:00 PM. Went down Tues. before camp and ended up deciding to fix up our cabin some. We decided to paint, replace the old carpet in there and put down some linoleum in the kitchen part. Our cabin used to be part of a motel. We have an old refrigerator and little stove in there and decided to make the kitchen look like the 50's.



2008


2008


This is our new linoleum we put down in the kitchen part. We want to get one of those small tables in red or gray with the chrome around it to put in there and put up some red and white checked curtains.


2009- new carpet down



It's been over 20 years since we'd painted in that part and put down that carpet and we got the carpet at a rummage sale and I don't know how old it was then. Anyway, it took awhile but we finally slept in the cabin from Wed. night on.

I really like the "new tabernacle" and our new dining hall. The air conditioning was great!!