Births, Birthdays, Weddings and More

In the last 10 days we have celebrated the birth of our 5th grandchild, the 5th birthday of our 1st grandchild, the wedding of a nephew and time with family we haven't seen in a long time. I will just post a few pictures to show how great these past several days have been.

May 16th

Brooklyn is very proud of her new "sissy" and loves to hold her, kiss her and hug her. My camera was acting up again so I don't have many good pictures of Hadley yet. My plan is to get a new camera as soon as possible.

May 17th

Evan wanted Grammy to make a Scooby Do cake this year. Mommy made the "bone" cookies and I made the cake. His 5th birthday party was a big success..... only missing cousin Brooklyn but she was getting to know her new sister.

May 18th

Kayleigh loves to ham it up anytime you put a camera in front of her. This picture is from my cell phone while we were eating at Sanford's. It is a little dark and grainy but a good picture in spite of it.

Keira was really having a good time at Sanford's too. She thought she was a pretty big girl wearing that silly hat. She is almost 8 months old now so she is growing up fast.

May 24th

We stayed with my sister this weekend because she only lives 20 miles from where David and Megan got married. I haven't seen her since last summer so it was great to have a few days. We spent the morning before the wedding helping her paint the livingroom and dining room (also the kitchen which was an after thought). In this picture of Gary he is standing on a ladder in the stairwell to reach the high spots I couldn't get. Dustin did most of that area but I was doing the trim and just couldn't quite reach. I think it turned out really pretty with two walls dark sage green and two walls light sage green. She is getting new furniture next week and the paint is supposed to match.

This is David and Megan beginning their life together.

David's family. Sarah, Norm with one of the twins, Cindy, Megan, David, Tim with the other twin, Cassie, Carrie and Lindsey.

Two people we were really glad to see. They were able to make arrangements to fly out for the wedding. We hadn't seen Harry and Minnie since last summer either. They are going to spend a few days with Adeline and then go up north to see her other sister for a few days.

This is my sister's new "granddog". She is a minature long haired dashound and is 8 weeks old. Her name is Camie and she was sure full of fun and energy. They are trying to potty train her and it was a full time job for all of us this weekend.

I didn't get pictures of my brother but he met us for supper the first night we were there and then he showed us where he works. It was great to see him again and really facinating to see what he does for a living. He works for a company that builds machines that destroy sensitive computer data. They use very powerful magnets put together in a certain way so that when they run the data through the machine it erases it entirely from the disk or tape or whatever other kind of media they are using.

May 26th

Breakfast before we headed back home today. There was a quite a storm last night where we stayed but the sun was shining this morning. We saw lots of tree branches down all over town as we were driving away. We hit rain again about 60 miles from home and tonight it is still raining. Maybe this is the end of the drought that has plagued us for so long.

Today is Memorial Day and we drove past lots of cemeterys on our way home. It was beautiful to see so many flags flying and flowers decorating each place we went by. We can be so thankful for the freedoms we enjoy in this country because of all those who were willing to fight for that freedom. Seeing all those hundreds of red, white and blue flags flying today was really a grand thing.

What a Week

Well this was a wild and crazy week. Tuesday I met Krista to pick up her girls and bring them home with me for the remainder of the week. I had orchestra practice that night so Gary got to have the privilage of putting them to bed the first night. Both girls are really good about going to bed so it wasn't much of a challenge for him. When I got home both girls and Papa were all sound asleep. On Wednesday I stayed home from work and Brooklyn joined us for the afternoon. Grammy sure had her hands full with 3 girls. Seems like one would go down for a nap and the other would just get up from a nap. I admire those moms that have twins or more and can keep their sanity. It was amazing that I did get as much done around here as I did. Thursday I took Kayleigh and Keira with me to work and it went pretty smoothly. Kayleigh keeps herself pretty well entertained and Keira was really good. I had orchestra practice again on Thursday night so once more Papa got to put the girls to bed.

When I got home the dogs followed me in the house and immediately Sadie started crying and barking. She just couldn't seem to get settled and she was licking herself wildly. I found a rather ugly looking sore near her right back leg on her stomach. I decided to wait until morning to see how things were but she was having no part of being left alone in the livingroom. She would only stop crying and barking if I was right next to her. So I coaxed her into the bedroom beside the bed and got her to settle down. Friday morning Gary took her to the vet and he fixed her up. Not sure exactly what happened but he said she either got caught in something or was in a fight and got bit. Considering she rarely leaves the yard I don't think she got caught in anything and we do have some mean neighbor dogs that like to come into our yard and intimidate our dogs. The scary thing is the fact that there was a mountain lion killed just a couple of miles from here earlier this week and we often have coyotes and fox go through here. Anyway, I won't post pictures because it is pretty ugly, but she has a drainage tube and numerous stitches that will have to come out in about 2 weeks. The vet said she had two very nasty, ragged, deep cuts and she has to take "huge" antibotic pills twice a day for a week. She is feeling better today but wasn't worth much on Friday and Saturday.

Our predicted snow storm did not materialize (fortunately) but it is rather cold, windy and cloudy. We did have about an inch of snow when we woke up but it was gone before noon. I think I will be extremely glad when Spring is here and better yet when it is summer.
The last thing that took place this week was the completion of the floor in our other building. It turned out beautiful and now we kind of wish we had taken up all of the carpet and finished the whole thing. I haven't taken pictures yet of the completed floor but will post some when I do.

Here are a few pictures of the girls from this week.

Happy St. Patricks Day to anyone out there who is Irish!