Saturday, June 5, 2010

Grandma Fernie

Happy 84th Birthday, Grandma!

          This is Fern, my beautiful grandma. 
I was blessed with the greatest.  She loves to have parties, keep busy, and eat candy.  She raised six beautiful girls, and our family keeps growing each year.

My Aunt Grace is so nice to host the Hen & Chick's party each year. 

(My cousin Becca made these little cake chicks.  They were DARLING and very yummy. 
She is one talented little chick!)

As you can guess, my grandma is the hen & all the rest of us girls are her chicks.  We do keep the age limit to 18 because once in a while a subject will come up that may be rated PG for little girls.  This is the first year that I was able to attend.  I had a fantastic time.  We were missing a few chicks, but when you are trying to get that many people together all at once it is tough.  Most of the missing were able to call in and talk and hear the party.  My Aunt Millie was even able to Skype from Brazil.  So she also got to see us in action. 





Look at all of these amazing women.  You can usually tell who was born in the family and who married in the family, cause we're a little goofy.  But a good goofy.  Nonetheless, we all love eachother just the same.  We have all been shaped & molded in one way or another by Grandma. 

You're the best, Grandma.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

True Love


Married 37 Years, June 2nd
10 Kids (we all got married)
12 Grandkids + more to come

Thank you for teaching us:
*how to be honest & responsible
*to love the Lord and be active in our church
*how to have fun
*to love history and learning
*how to work as a couple
*to respect our elders
*how to work
*to take a break for T.V. time and movies
*if one paint color doesn't work there is always another
*to make good friends
*sometimes you can't have everything
*how important family is
*getting rid of 'clutter' now & then is good
*to notice others needs
*love life

What a blessing in my life!
Much love to you both!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Bonus to Living in the City

Moving to the "City" wasn't on our list of things to do this year.
But here are some things we've enjoyed in the past month of our latest adventure as city dwellers.

1.  At noon, everyday, the city REMINDS me to eat.  The siren goes off at the fire station and now this sound prompts me to drive to the nearest McDonald's, ASAP.

2.  I see Louie Vito's parents a lot more often now that I live closer to their house and use the same grocery store.  Judy Vito was one the very first people I ever met when I moved here 16 years ago.  Wow, I've lived around here for a long time. 
(photo by abc)

3.  We have a friendly neighborhood.  Some neighbors have come over to introduce themselves.  We meet others by getting notices in the mail that a sex offender has moved in down the street.

4.  Street lamps come in handy.  People mow the lawn at all hours.  Even after dark. 

5.  We've been able to go over colors, quantity, and sorting skills with our five year old.  You can only use certain colored bags to throw the garbage, certain number of garbage cans, and you quickly find that it pays to sort the garbage and recycle as much as possible so you don't have to pay for more garbage.

So here are just a few of our experiences.  I may have others to share later.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Here's a new one...for us anyway.

 
I know you've heard the usual, "Mom, he's touching me."  "Mom, she's breathing on me."  "Mom, he wont stop making that noise."

Today when I sent the boys to put away their clean clothes I then heard Justin yelling...


"Mom, Mitch is looking at my underwear!"


I think we are starting to get on each others nerves.  Thankfully at this point we are only all here at the same time a couple of hours of the day, between school and baseball taking most of our time these days.  BUT school gets out soon and then what?  This could go bad fast.  I'd better make some really great summer vacation plans.  A family pass to the city pool might not be a bad idea.




(We are moved into our little rental.  We are calling it our summer cottage.  I'm still trying to locate my cables to be able to download pictures from my camera.)

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Work or Play

What do you do when you are sick of packing to move?
OR RATHER
Sick of your mom packing to move?

 

You make lots of water balloons to ambush your brothers & sister when they get off the bus.

(Sometimes Judd has some great ideas.  I can't wait to hear the screaming.  Is that bad?)

Monday, April 19, 2010

what goes AROUND comes AROUND

Remember when I enjoyed the moment seeing the guy on the mower on his TINY lawn?

Well, now we are moving to a little house with a TINY lawn.
AND
We only own a riding mower becuase we've always had a big lawn. 
It isn't a zero radius turn mower, so he still has on up on me, but it is a 46" mow deck that will not fit down the side yard. 

When I mentioned this to Layne his only response was,
"There's a side yard?"

Ya, it's TINY.