In remembrance of Mom who left us 2 years ago today

Christmas without you is going to be bad
For in our hearts, we feel very sad
We love you and miss you more everyday
More than these words could tell or say

You made Christmas special for all of us here
With all your laughter, love and cheer
Your smile was so warm and your hug so tight
Christmas without you just doesn't seem right

You won't be with us in body we know
For according to God's plan it was your time to go
But Christmas in Heaven has to be grand
To be standing with Jesus hand in hand

On Christmas Eve we'll go and we'll pray
Look up to Heaven and to you we will say
Each year may get easier, this we know
But we miss you anyway, and love you so

Devin water sliding

I tried putting this with the other blog, did not go through. So here is Devin, water sliding at

fun mountain. We had so much fun.

Summertime Fun

Hello all. Well, unfortunately summer is half over already. We have had alot of rain and mega mosquitos here. To my liking, cooler temps. I cannot stand the heat anymore, and am not suppose to be out in the sun much, so this is my kind of weather. Anyway, we have had a busy summer, last week Jodi, myself and the boys went to tinker town. We spent 4 hours there and the boys had a fantastic time.
In this picture, Ian is riding with his friend Stephanie in one of the cars. They look like an old married couple, nattering at each other. We spent a wonderful afternoon there as always. The boys had a grand time and the weather was just perfect.



In this picture, Devin and Ian are driving a car together. It was funny watching Devin, cause he was steeringaround the corners and curves like he had been driving for years already. Ian was freaked out by the ridesto begin with, until Jodi took him on the merry-go-round, then he relaxed and went on everything and morethan once.








Devin has been spending lots of overnights with Grandma and Papa. Everytime I have days off, he spends anovernight or 2, and he flips out when he has to go home. We really enjoy his time here and I find it lonelywhen he goes home.
In this picture, Devin is playing our new Wii. He is playing Mario Kart, a driving game. This child isreally into xbox, wii and computer games. I am amazed how he navigates around the menus without being able to read. Amazing.





Yesterday we went to Fun Mountain. That was a riot. Ian did not like the water slides, but I think mostly because his first time down he ended up turning backwards and going head first half way down. Then we tried taking him down with Jodi or I and he ended up screaming all the way down. So he just hung out on the side of the pool, in the hot tub or in Jodi's arms. Devin had an absolute blast. He went down and up and down and up hundreds of times. He loved it. He hit the bottom, went under, came up with a mouth full of water, spit it out and headed up the hill again. By later in the day he had mastered slowing himself down by the time he got to the end, and then did not even go under water. He even did pretty good getting in line. We had a great day and hopefully will get back there before the end of summer again.
Well, this is it for now. Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. Will blog again soon.

A few happenings

Okay for starters, I don't publish alot of grandchildren pics anymore because Jodi has her blog, so I leave the cute pics for publishing to her. We just celebrated Ian's 2nd birthday. We all had fun on Tuesday and Saturday. You can read Jodi's blog for the all the events. With us, well not too much happening. Dave is finally off nights, so we have somewhat of a normal life again. He consistently walks the dogs (or they walk him) in the park. They look forward to that everyday. Our baby is pretty much all grown up. She weighs over 90 lbs. (at least at 1 year old she did) which was in February. They all go for their vets appt. end of May, so we will see what she is at by then. She is quite the entertainer - we never know what she may do next, and between the 3, there is always something going on in the back yard. As for me, well, work is going okay. Same old stuff there. Last summer when I was on nights, one of the ladies taught me how to cross stitch, so I have been doing that and loving it. I wished I would have started this years ago. Dave got me a program for my puter that I can make my own patterns for cross stitching and so I cross stitched the boys pics for Jodi and Jason and then had them framed. I thought they turned out pretty good. I have added a picture of them on the blog. I used their year old pics for the pattern. Anyway, enough babbling, I have added a small video and a couple of pics to the blog. Hope you all enjoy.

trying this for the first time

Not sure if this will work, I am trying a little movie clip. This is Dekko, she somehow sniffs out her blue frisbee in the snow. Now she has not dug anywhere else in the back yard, but this is the third time that she has exactly dug in the perfect spot to find her frisbee. She can never dig it up totally, but I find this quite amazing that she can find it out of nowhere.