READY OR NOT --HERE I COME

Well, tomorrow is my big day!
Off to Indianna for a new grandbaby.
Last year it was Montana for Gabe. Where did that year go?
Who would ever have thought I would be doing the same thing this year.
This year we get a girl.
My plane will leave at 8:10 pm and arrive in Indianapolis at 11:31 pm on Monday, October 29.
Deanna is off the next day so we will see how long Shelby lets us sleep Tuesday morning.
Wednesday is Halloween. I hope everyone has a good day with Trick of Treating.
I will be flying back Monday, November 12.
Deanna and I will let you know when Tessa makes her arrival.
Until than all take care and love you all.

Sunday

Today is Sunday and Dad is off.
He is plannning on going back on days Oct. 22nd. I was getting just tooooo lonesome and he needed some rest.
I have my ticket. Three more weeks to go. I fly out Oct. 29th at 8:05 pm and come home Nov. 12 at 4:00pm. Dad being on days can take me to the airport and pick me up.
Deanna said that she is off on Oct. 30 so she and Shelby can pick me up from the airport and we can sleep late on Tuesday morning. You know how it goes. Best plans are made to broken.
We will see what little Tessa says about this. She might decide she wants to be there when I get to Indianna and than someone else will be picking me up. Time will only tell.
I can not believe that it has been a year ago I was doing the same thing. Gabe will be a year old and I can not believe it.
I really do feel that I will have a break next year. Two years in a row, flying out of Texas for babies in October and November! Who would have ever dreamed this when you all were little and running around. No one knows the future, that is for sure.
I went to see the Heimanns in Katy yesterday. I had a great visit. Billy cooked some great steaks. The boys and I played. The highlight of the afternoon was when grandma pulled them in their wagon for 3 city blocks to the park. I got my exercise.
Garrett is always thinking. He had hit his brother on the back and Billy popped him for it and than tried to explain to him that things will change one day. He told him, "One day when you hit Lance, he will be bigger and hit you back!" Garret looked at him and that responded, "Than I will hit him back."
I will close now. Nothing else really going on. Mary Ann decided that she is going to get herself a car before she retires. John wants one kind and of course Mary Ann wants a different one. We will see who wins.
Sylvia and James are busy making strudels for the church bazaar auctions. She made 12 for the Hungerford bazaar this weekend and 700 dollars for the church.
Next weekend is the East Bernardbazaar and she plans to make 12 for that auction also.
Take care and talk to you'll later. Ann, your hair cut is cute. I agree with Deanna. I do not ever believe that you have had it that short. Easy to take care of I am sure.

Parties

We had a great time at Grandma's Birthday Party. As you can see we had a table of old pictures. Billy is showing Garrett how things looked than.










Grandma looked great and enjoyed every minute of it.









The boys did not want to take this picture.









This was our planning day for Mona's Luala shower. My sister's needed a day to "get away" so I took them to Matagordia. I think I need another one of those days.





Carter Yackel, Martin's oldest, was very pleased when I bought something from his school fund raiser. He is a cutie. This was at Mona's shower.









This is the "new" Mona and her soon to be husband, Don. They are holding a picture frame that Mary Ann and I made. We picked the sea shells up a Matagordia the day we went to "get away from it all" and glued them on the frame. It was really pretty. It was a copy of the invitation to the shower in it.









Fufu had a great time with her with the children and watching Mona and Don open their gifts.









Billy and Carol Ann came down from the shower. Their son graduated from high school this year.









Another picture of the "great"frame.
We are doing fine. Dad has been working all the time. He has had one weekend off in the last month. You know how it is at Hudson - feast or fanime. (Your know what I mean. Never could spell.

Busy Week---Month---Year

Can not seem to catch up with anything this year. It has been a busy one. I will take time to post now before I get busy again.
You would think with no one around I wound get alot done. That is not the case. When I get home from work it seems like I just melt into the couch. Hopefully this week will be better. This weekend I did get to mop the floors and vaccum. Saturday afternoon I went to Moulton to Aunt Annie's 105 birthday party. Dad was working so I went by myself. It was great to see all the counsins that I haven' t seen in a long time. Aunt Annie looked great. She only uses a walker and walks fast with it! I do have pictures and will try to post them later, but I decided to post fiirst so that you would hear from me. When I get with putting the pictures on her I get confused. Thanks to Susan I got the last pictures on here. I just do not have the patiance to wait on all this stuff.
Today Shirly and Anna are coming over for us to work on Grandma's birthday party invitation list. That is less that four weeks away.
I did get my dish put in for the tv this Friday and it is great. Dad did not get to take a nap on Saturday because he starting watching the show about fixing the big truck. He really enjoyed it.
I do miss my roomies, but I hear that Susan and Justin are doing great. That was a good experience for all of us. Now that poor room... I am trying really clean up around here so when I am not for sure what I am going to do with something or I need to take something somewhere to someone I use that room to put things in. Oh well, at least I am trying to clean and get rid of some stuff.
This week I do not having anything planned. I hope to sew on Susan's curtains when I get home from work. Dad is going back on 10 hrs this week. He has been on 12 hour shifts at night since we got back from Montana. Today he is cathing up with the yard. With all the rain it is going like crazy.
Well , all stay well. Mom

July Fourth 2007 found us in Polson, Montana withe the John Heimann family. This was a great vacation that we had with Ann in Montana.
The drive was long and challenging and it was said more than once, "We will not do this again!"
Then after we got there the trip was worth it. As you can see we were at a Fourth of July parade. This was Gabe's first parade and probably one of Dad's viewed in a long time.
Dad was very excited with the old cars and had to have a conversation with the man driving this car. It ended with, "My dad remodeled one of those!"
Then there was Dad's dream car!!!!!! Got to build one of those again!.
This was the group on the corner with Allen taking the picture.
Gabe had the best view of all.
The rest of the Fourth was spent in the back yard with food, fireworks, and good conversation.

CATCH UP

Well, it has been a while since I have posted. One of the reasons is that this computer takes for ever to hook up to the Internet. It will lock up when you try to go on line. One day I tried 4 times and the computer locked up every time. Susan and Dad have both called the WCNET and Dell computer. This morning I tried and on the first time I was connected. So, this is my chance to do some catching up.
Daisy woke me up at 8:00 this am. When she gets up she is waiting for Taco to play and then for our morning butter and toast together. Yes, the dogs are very spoiled. Taco sleeps with Dad every day when he takes his nap. He knows when I am getting ready to go to bed and he jumps on the bed and lays on the corner watching the door for me to come to bed. It is surprising how Taco and Daisy have become buddies. You would not believe how they play together ever moring and evening.
2007 has been a year of surprises so far and also doctor appointments. For some crazy reason I starting having this lower abdominal pain and it stayed with me from Jan. 15th until now.
I had a cat scan and nothing could be found and then about the time I had the scan it went away. Dr Satterfield said that it could have been a kidney stone. What ever it was I am ready to feel better. One thing I did gain from it is that I learned that I can live without tea. Since I had some blood in my urine also I am staying off of caffeine and tea. I have learned to enjoy juices and water. So that was that problem. Then in December I went for my yearly lab work and it was f0und that my thyroid test was abnormal. I have been going to this specicalist in Katy and he has diagnosed it as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. My own immune system is damaging thyroid cells. So I am now hyperthyroid and then he said I will go hypothyroid. I take medication now for hyperthyroid and my next appointment will be March 19 and I am sure more blood will be drawn to see what is going on. Really this is very common and there is not any problems in treating it. Only thing is that it is genetic. So remember this kids when the doctor ask if you have any thyroid problems in the family. On top of the belly and thyroid, I have been having a tooth ache. So this week I had one of my back teeth pulled. So as you can see I have met my dedutablele with my new insurance. I feel great now!!!!!!!
Now for surprises. Ann and Ryan really surprised us! They said that they just had to come home because they had not been home for awhile. I believed that. What a surprise when I saw the real reason! The big problem was I was on call that weekend. When we were going to Greek Brothers Saturday night with Ryan's family and Susan and Justin I got a call right when we were walking in. No food for me that night had to take care of the patient. Then Sunday we were celebrating at our house and at four I got a call and left and did not make it back till six. The kids and Dad did good. They had shrimp and steak ready when I got there. The kids still say I planned that call so I wound not have to cook. I will never tell. I was able to sit and enjoy the meal. Ryan's parents had come over also so we had a great time with that celebration. I am so happy for Ryan and Ann and yes Deann it is a good feeling to have all my children happy with great husbands and wives and husbands to be. I feel very blessed for I have a great family.
Now, about this outer surprise Yea!!!!!!another grandchild. Everyone at work think I am crazy because I get soooooooo excited about my grandchildren. Pictures of them are all over my office. I am waiting for an update from Montana of Gabe.
Toby and Deanna, Dad and I are so excited! Cannot wait to see you at Easter!
Talking about grandchildren, Lance had a great birthday party. I cannot believe how he has grown up since January. He is talking and is his own little person.

Well the house is waking up. On Saturday morning I am always the first one up. Usually the dogs will need to go outside. When I am up I say up. Then I stay quite until everyone else wakes up. Dad working nights does not get in till late and usually sleeps till nine or ten. Susan is tired from the week and Justin also works nights and is catching up on his sleep. This morning it worked out great because I worked on this posting.

Amanda, thanks for starting this a year ago. Its great to keep up with everyone.
Better close now. I am going to try to work in the yard today.
Keep posting and know that Dad and I love all of you. MOM
(Remember i am not a great speller. Love me any way OK?)

Party! Party!

Great birthday party!!!! This was after the party and bathes. The boys had some good moves to the music.

Before the baths we had to play alittle with the tunnel and then it was Dad's turn to get on the floor for some rought stuff which the boys loved.

After the bath we have to brush teeth. They can both fit at the sink. This is done before pajamas are put on . You can imagine where the toothpaste might land if not.

Garrett had finished eating and was waiting for the cake.

The boys helped me blow out the candles. Thanks, Amanda for not putting alllll the candles on the cake!

The boys loved the cake.

This all happen when Susan I got there. It is amazing how much fun you can have with wrapping paper!

Lance was waiting to eat.

I had a great party for my birthday. You can see the boys were waiting for the cake.

I was disappointed because the pictures did not down load in order so I could tell the story, but it is told anyway. I had a great day with a great ending!!

No I did not download the pictures. Susan is helping me. Maybe one day I will get it

CATHCH UP

Well, due to request I feel like I need to make an attempt to update this blog since I have not posted in two months.
It has been a busy two months. First, Dad and I were getting ready for Justin and Susan to move in. We did get the garage room cleaned up as you know, because Susan and Justin are living in it.
Then it came Christmas. No need to say any more. As you all know it was a great one. Missed the Reeves and the Heimanns from Montana, but we all know that one Christmas we will be al together again. The main thing is that all are well and healthy and that everone had a great Christmas where ever they were at. Thanks to Amanda, these blogs have made being apart alot easier. I start reading and I get so involved in the picture and story I feel that I am there or alot closer. I finish reading and I go "That was a great visit!". Keep the pictures coming. I will try to do better. As you all know I am not that good at doing pictures. Now that Susan is here, whenever we get time I will do a better job. Susan and Justin went to his parents this afternoon, so I decided to just write and get pictures on the next one.
I had a great birthday! Thanks for all the great gifts and cards. As always my kids showed me that I have the best kids in the world! Bill and Amanda had a great meal. Garrett organized the party. He told us what we should do. It was "light the candles--sing happy birthday---blow out the candles---eat cake---party games".. What party games Garrett? Pinata? Let me tell you Garrett knows what a party should be like!
Today Robert and I went and got a new wash machine. We got a Maytag--the best--yea right!!!
We will see how it does. It has a drum capacity of 3.3. It does hold alot of clothes. The other washer would not spin out the clothes and our light bill went uppppppppppppp! We will see if this will make a different. Of course, everyone's electric bill went up. I gues will start eating by candle light more and go to bed early.
Dad is working 10 hour night shift. Last week he worked 61 hours. He had worked 8 hours on Saturday. He was suppose to get a nap today. Well, by the time we got the washer, he did his dollar store shopping, and wrapped the pipes it was 5:00pm. So much for a nap....
As everyone knows this is going to be a cold week for us in Texas. Those that live in Montana and Indiana expect to have ice. Us Texans have to realy get ready for this type of weather.
Lubbock as you saw on Ann's and Ryan's blog had ice. I was glad that Ryan did not get hurt when he fell on the ice.
Well, I guess that is all I have to say. I will post some pictures. All take care and keep on blogging!