things that make me smile

Life as I knew it has changed. Of course for the better. I look at things through the eyes of my grandkids and just have to smile.




Bridgette went in to check on Michael after putting him to bed. She turned on the light to take this picture. He must like a hard mattress

A box is a great investment

You'd think that by the 3rd sibling Michael would be a little more interested in holding the baby. Ha!He kept asking others if they wanted to hold her while bridgette was trying to do something.

Jake and Jared and both fit in here. Trust me.

My favorite superheros








Grandparenting - can it get any better than that?

$2 fish

1. A perfect day in Wyoming
2. No pressing commitments
3. A great guy for a date
4. Only 1 lost lure

What a great day. I caught the smallest and the largest. We each got 4. 7 rainbow and 1 lake trout.

Kevin got his limit so he started cleaning the fish. He thought it was dead and had cut open the lake trout to clean it and it jumped out of his hands into the lake. He called me to come try to snag it with my pole. It wasn't moving, just out far enough that we didn't want to wade out. I had just thrown out my line so was reeling it in really fast when I realized I had another fish on. I was able to get it in and snag the other fish and call it a day.

So $6 for a day liscense and 1 lost lure makes for $2 fish instead of the $53 fish my first time out.

Michael and Jake maybe next summer it will be you holding the fish.

The End

Well, it's done... at least from a distance. We still need to paint the trim around the windows and doors and build a rock mailbox
to match. But we are
really happy with it.

a few years from now we'll change the

shingles to a brown, but they don't need it yet.

almost there

I really have come to understand how Extreme Makeover can do what they do in a week. After a minor setback over the weekend they moved right along. On Friday they hit a wire but we didn't find it until Sat. night after they had left. So Monday morning Kevin and our neighbor ran a new wire from the garage through the ceiling and down the kitchen wall. As Kevin was putting the cover back on the panel. It popped again and he came running out saying "No mas, No mas!!. They understood that and he had hit another wire. That was a little easier fix. But Monday was a little behind. Tues the thought they'd get the trim on. But lo and behold this is what they had done on Tues.

Today they thought they would finish. I got up early and started watering the yard at 6:30 thinking it would be done before they got here at 8. But at 6:35 I heard the dog bark and a drill run. They were rearing to go. I made them some muffins which they pretty much ate on the run. By about noon they had the all the stucco and trim done and started on the rock.

It looks great. They ran out of rock so will have to finish Monday. But here it is so far Michael will you recognize us? Now we have to paint the shed to match.

our new house

Well, we finally decided to do it. We are getting stucco and rock on our house. They weren't supposed to start until Monday, but on Wed. they said they'd start tomorrow. So when we got home on Thurs. night. they had all the old off and some of the boards nailed on.

This is what we see when we look out the backdoor to the deck. I don't think it would pass safety issues at FMC. Now we just need to figure out how to make it come to the house again.

Friday brought us this far. I have never seen such hard workers.

Even Grandpa was helping. Sat. they started on the primer base.

I told Michael he wouldn't recognize our house when he came. He was the one that noticed when we got a new front door. I'll keep you updated

week with grandpa and grandma

We got to have another week this year with Michael and Jake. We had a great time. They got to play in the pool. and run through the sprinklers. As you can tell, Jake doesn't like to get his head wet.

They loved to dress up in costumes. We got a great deal at a garage sale. A box of 6 different costumes plus a couple masks that change your voice for $3. sorry for the side view. I don't know how to rotate it.

We went to the splash park.

Again, Jake didn't want to get his head wet, but Michael loved it all.

We painted rocks to put in Grandma's flowers. Guess what color Michael chose?

But my favorite was watching them just be them. What a great way to watch TV. We look forward to next summer so we can do it again.

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I missed last week, so here's the update. Tamika won last week with the biggest loss. Kevin won this week with the most time exercising - 8 hr. and 54 min. I put in a whole 25 min. Yeah, exercising, not my favorite thing to do. I got a good e-mail from a friend that pretty much sums it up. On Monday I'm pretty motivated, by Sat. - if I make it that long without pulling something - no interest at all. But I did get a new step aerobic video. I tried it out this morning. Not too hard - 15 of my 30 min. was listening to the intro. Maybe tomorrow I'll make it past the warmup. Anyway, we have lost a total of 71.3 lbs. I'm down 12.5#. Allison has the best percentage loss with 7.204 so far. Tamika won a subway card and Kevin won a JC Penney's card. Next week it is a Hastings card - maybe I can win and get another DVD

I think I'm starting to look a little like her.