Please refer to my children's blogs to see what fun we've been having!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(They do such a good job at posting all our family fun!! And they can do it faster than me!)

Yes, Again!!!

So . . . 29 years ago on Feb. 8, my sweet husband proposed to me. He didn't want to do it on the cliche' Valentines Day so he did it earlier. Every year we celebrate on the 8th instead of the 14th.(Crowds are definitely littler.) We went to dinner and tried to get a hotel room in the "Hamptons" (no not the ones in N.Y., the Hampton Inn. It makes it sound like you went somewhere spectacular to say you spent the night in the Hamptons.) Anyway it was full as was every other hotel within miles. This was on Friday night. On Monday, the actual anniversary of our engagement, he sent me these flowers at work!! The ladies were so impressed with how sweet he is. The net is an actual fly fishing net I have been wanting that he took to the florist and had them make me an arrangement in it. The card said, "Still the best catch of my life." Isn't he a great husband? I'd still say yes to that proposal 29 years ago!!!

Christmas 2009

Wow, what a lot of fun!! We had a houseful with lots of fun, food, family and presents. We had all the kids home with their families and also Perry's parents. We had Perry's sister, Vicky and her daughter, Pamela; and daughter and son-in-law Christina and David with their two children here for Christmas Eve day, also. We spent Christmas Eve having our traditional ham buffet with all the goodies and played games all day. A good time was had by all (24 of us).


A quick but rowsing game of Wacky Six.


Kamri, Kylee and Laryssa in their Christmas Pajamas!!

Christmas morning we discovered that the jolly old fat man had indeed found us and we opened presents and then spent another great day playing games and eating more yummy food.




Chanse and Kylee looking over a present Chanse got.

It was a great Christmas!! I enjoyed every minute.