TIME TO CATCH UP

It has been awhile since I have posted. I think I have been talking to all of you on the phone. Let's see, what is new? Dad is on days of six weeks. I needed to have my husband at home for a while. I was starting to get lonesome at night. Yea, when I get home supper will be cooked. He gets home around 4:00 and I don't get home till 5:30. No more running around after work.
Tomorrow, August 21st is Grandma's birthday. She will be 79. She works as hard as every.
I was on call this week and I will be so glad when tomorrow gets here. 8:00am I will be able to be a free person again. Every night last week I had something to deal with.
Latest on Emily. Well, Friday morning at 6:00 am she called and said that her house was flooded. A pipe had broken in her bathroom on one end of the house and when she stepped in the hall in the other end of the house the water was there. She had water all over her house. That poor woman is always having something. So check your little pipes on the back of your commode and make sure they are holding strong. As you can see I found a neat old picture. Who can tell me where this was taken. I think it is so neat.
All have a good week. mom

Auguest!!!

I can not believe it is August. School will start again and the roads will get congested again. That is interesting. Now school to me means congested roads since there is no one her to see off the school. Thats ok. I have been a couch potatoe the last two nights. Monday night I watch two movies and tonight I watched another. Tomorrow night I need to get something done.
We had a great time on our anniversy. We ate at Salt Grass Steakhouse. When we were finished I was so full and content that I told Dad that we need to just rent a movie and go home. That night we watched Firewall with Harrison Ford. It was good.
I tried to load a picture but it did not work.... Need to take a shower and get to bed.

34th Anniversity

Yes, It has been 34 years since I took my wedding vows. The day went by fast, four of you know that. Wedding days take alot of preparation and in a blink of the eye it is over. Julius and Gloria had a nice celebrataion last week for their forty ann. I forgot that I was in the wedding. Robert looked at the wedding pictures and said, Were you that thin. Unbelievable how thin a person can be before five children and 34 years of living. We are getting ready to leave. I will post more later.
Something for us women: GOD MAY HAVE CREATED MAN BEFORE WOMAN, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS A ROUGH DRAFT BEFORE THE MASTERPIECE!

HOME IN MONTANA

This is John and Melanie's home in Montana. The front door goes into a "mud room". Deana and Toby know about this. It is the room where you leave all your wet clothes from the snow. Taco loved this room because the sun would shine through the windows and he would lay on the couch in there.



This is the back of the house. You can see it is a sweet little older home that John and Melanie worked on . Before we left we worked on the nursery. I will show pictures next posting.

TRAVELING

As you can see we travel in many different positions while traveling. Taco is demostating two of his.

ON YOU SIDE







ON YOUR BACK




He always had the best places. Dad would sleep in the front passanger seat and try the back seat once. My favorite was the back seat while dad drove. Anyway you sat it still was not comfortable for 20000 miles. We will fly next time. Take care. More pictures coming.

More of Montana

This is the Montana couple. As you can see. Melanie is diffently pregnent. They were very surprised with the shower gifts.






These are pictures we took out the window as we were driving through Montana.

After Susie and Ryan showing me how to add pitcures, I think I might be able to do it. We will see if I get any more on.
We had a great day at Bill and Amanda's today. Ryan and Ann played in the sprinklers with the boys.. Garrett is a water boy. He loves that water. Lance follows whatever Garret does. He had great fun to day in a mud hole made by the sprinkler. He is so cute. Amanda has VBS with the boys this week. She has my blessings. They will have a busy week. Better close for now. More later.

Trip of a Lifetime

On our journey... It began on June 29th at 5:00pm. You can see from the picture it was going to be a challage to find places to stop. We found that Wal Mart were good, because they had big parking lots, gas, food, and what ever else was needed. We arrived at Anns and Ryan's at 3:00pm and got a couple hours of sleep and a great breakfas. We toke off from Lubbock at 6:30 and traveled all day. Robert finally played out about 12am and I drove throught Wyome for 2 hours. He then took over and we made it to Montana and stopped at a rodeside park and slept from 3 to 5. Yes, sun comes up at 5 in Montana. We started again. This was Saturday already and we made it to John's about 3:30 pm.. What a trip.

HUP DAY

YEA111 Hup day. Two more days till the weekend. I do have a busy week end. Saturday I am helping a coworker out and taking call and on Sunday we are going to San Marcos.
Can not believe I have gotten behind with posting.
First, the cat situation. Saturday night when we got home from Shiner, I actually had a message on the phone from Mrs. Labay apolizing for being so ugly on the phone. She said she was a bitch. I agree. I need to call her back but have not got around to it. Tomorrow if nothing comes up after work I am going to bring the three littel black and white kittens to Kleckas and see if I haave any luck. If I do not give all away then Friday I will go to Wal Mart. Got to make my big sign "FREE KITTENS".
I made water areobics on Tuesday and walked 2 miles tonight. Tomorrow I have water areobics again. At least I am trying. It makes me feel better just to know I did exercise.
Better close now. Timer about ready to go off. I am "washing that gray away" . Timer went off 20 minutes is over. Love all mom

Poor Emily

I do not know why this things always happen to one person. She called me from the ER. She had stepped wrong and broke her foot. She was at the house by herself and could not get anyone on the phone. Finally one of her friends called her back. I was at water aerobics. Usually we would be talking on the phone. They put a splint on it and she has to see an orthropedic doctor tomorrow.
The frustrating thing that happen to me today is my neighbor complaining because my cats come to her house to eat. She said that our dog will not let them get food or water because they are so hungry. I told her that Rober gives the dry cat food every morning and in the afternoon when I get home there is still food there. She said that they need wet cat food, especially in the summer. I told her that we also had 2 buckets of water for them to drink out of. Needless to say I was pretty upset. I believe Robert is right. He said that they are getting old and grumpy. Guess which neighbor.
Of course the Labays. So I am going to get rid of all these cats to keep peace in the neighborhood and never get another one unless I feed it wet cat food all the time.
Enough of that. Better go now. take care, love mom

TIME OUT

I am taking time out now every day to check the blogs. Everyone must be pretty busy this week. Not to many updates. Amanda I was going to make a comment on yours and I forgot. I love the pictures of the boys on the top with your title.
This has been a good week. Tonight I was going to go to my first night of water aerobics and you would know it we have thunder storms in the area. I will try again on Thursday. Kids remember those swimming pool days. You were always waiting for me to get home to take you to the swimming pool. I spent many of hours out there.. Good , good memories. Now it will be your turn with your kids. What comes around goes around they say.
Tomorrow is hump day already. We hope to clean the yard this weekend. The grass is growing so fast. I really do not have to much to say, so I will close for now. Take care, love mom

Surfside

Believe it or not Dad and I made it to surfside!!!!! We had a great time with Billy , Amanda and the boys. That Garret loves the water. I sure Amanda will have some pictures on the blog. I was planning on posting more, but Susan and Ann have called me and it is 10:35 p now and boy am I tired. I already took to Motrin for the aches and pains. Not use of playing in water all afternoon with a 3 year old that wants to play "motorboat". That is Grandma pulling him throught the water. Take care Love you, mom

JOHN AND MELANIE

John and Melanie now have a blog also!!!. He e-mailed everyone his site. It is heimannsinmontana.blog.com. He has pictures of all of them...Yes, baby too. so check it out.
Record breaking week. For 3 days now I have walked. Susan, I do not believe I will get new clothes. It is more like the ones I have will fit better or I will be able to were others that were alittle to small.
Tired to night. Will post more later. Love mom

My Turn

After reading all of your blogs it is time for me to post.
Believe it or not I walked yesterday 2 miles. Charlette and I started walking and talking and after a while I asked how many laps are we going to make? She said 8 which will be 2 miles. So I kept on walking and talking. Boy, was I tired afterwards. Slept good that night. Today I rest. Charlette had to go somewhere tonight, so tomorrow we will hit it again. Work is fine.
23 more days till vacation!!!!!! love mom

BUSY DAY

Sunday I know is to be a day of rest. I did rest some. Today I attacked out bedroom. Robert started working on his truck this morning around 9:30 and actually finished it this afternoon. It is really going to be nice to put everything in the back. Toby and Deanna did the same thing when they came down. When he finished the truck he came in and helped me move the furniture around. Where does all the dust come from!!!! Even Robert could not beleive how it collects. Whe put the bed on the other side of the wall like it always was. I feel good about getting all that done. Now Robert is mowing the lawn. After that we will be finished for the day. 25 more days to go. Dad and I are planning on stopping in Lubbock for a break if plans do not change. I hope all had a good day today. Love mom

Saturday

What a nice day we had today. I did not do much of anything. Slept late, went to see one patient her is town, got some food from Los Amigos, came home and ate, the took a nap. Pretty lazy. Then Robert and I took the table that we had use for Shelby's birthday party back to Annas and Eddies in Wharton. I finally got everything put up from the party.
We then drove to Rosenberg and got the material for the cover Robert wants to make for the back of the truck for out trip. We want to put all our luggage back there so we can have the back seat to sleep or just change positions. Just 26 more days.
Tomorrow we will get plates from the Fireman Fried Chichen dinner in Hungerfor. I will not have to cook all weekend. Nothing more going on. take care, love mom.

Better Day

Today was diffently a better day. I felt like myself again. Last night I had gone to Sylvia and James house and had supper with them and Mary Ann and Johnny. Sylvia's friend from Cuero husband has cancer and has been at MDAnderson Rotary House for 3 weeks now. Sylvia had it arranged for Monica Kubena to take some groceries to her today and for some reason Monica never called her back. I home everything is alright with Tara. Anyway, I told her I would go with her and James to bring the care packages to them. I was so glad we went. Nelda was happy to see us and get some new food. It is a hotel room they are staying in that has a microwave, icebox, and dishwasher. So she can cook in her room. I feel so sorry for her. Her husband will probably need a stem cell transplant which means 3 more months in Houston. I told Sylvia we will have to fix up anothe care package.
On the way home I introduced them to Joe's Crab Shack. GOOOOOOOOOOOd shrimp. We were going to go to Olive Garden but we missed the exit. This was a good substitue. We will remeber the exit next time. We made notes.
Yea tomorrow is Friday. Will feel good to have a weekend.
Still got cats. This morning I was talking to dad on the phone and he said, "There goes gray bear moving her kittens again." They were all eight in the dog house during the rain. Now she was trying to move them under dads lawn mower. I guess she did not like the older kiitens teaching bad habits to her babies. Tomorrow if it is not raining I can go check them out. Got to go now. So tired. Love you all Mom

Still not Myself

Believe it or not I went to bed at 9:00 o'clock pm last night and sleep till this morning . Only got up a couple of times to go to the bathroom. I still do not feel myself. I am enjoying the rain, but I think it is making me lazy. Maybe I just have not caught up on my rest from our trip to Lubbock. No one got laid off today, so it was a good day. Better to get to bed and start again tomorrow like Susan says. Love you all , mom

Closing

Last post for today. I suddenly feel nauseated. I am going to try to get to bed. Hope I feel ok i the am. I do not want to do what you did Ann. Love mom

Monday on Tuesday

That is what happens when you have a holiday on a Monday. Had to do catch up at work today. It went by fast. We have 10 admissions for tomorrow!!! yea! Our census has been down and one of the branch managers said that she is coming down on Wednsesday. If our census was not better or more admissions, she was going to start laying off. Stress work that is for sure. So our numbers should look good with 10 new admissions, so we will see what tomorrow brings. Enough of that.
It has rained all afternoon here so we got some much needed rain. I do not have to water tonight. One more day in May and believe it or not June already. Almost half the year gone. That is all that happen today. Just work. Got to go make a salad for supper . Love mom

Closing for the Day

It has been a good day. Susan, I hope Justin starts feeling better. Ann, I hope work was not bad to night. Deanna, did not hear from you today. I hope you had a great day. Amanda, glad you and Bill made it home with your family. Back to work tomorrow, but that is ok. Good weekends bring a good work week. Love mom