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See those toes?  This is how you end up with cheese on your socks. – Love Grandma, aka MOM

It’s January and the days are very short, and very quiet. It was a pretty tragic week in Minneapolis.  The community was assaulted, and an innocent person was killed.  The news is disturbing on every level.  A precious friend is expected to make a good recovery, but the surgery coming up this week is serious

As they always do, Pam and Paul and their family host a wonderful party. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – What a beautiful afternoon spent all together.   So much love, Val

Fourteen years of loving you? Lucky, lucky us Happy birthday, Sweetheart Love, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody – – – – –

Ahhh you guys are so cute. Love, Mom

These pictures are from yesterday.   It was warm and rained, turned all the snow to thick, chunky ice. Jay’s working out of town so I had to bring back the trash cans–very carefully tippy toe in the ice, one by one. Did not fall in the puddles. Today Heidi called early in the afternoon and

Barb made Jello Jigglers, Kari’s favorite. A deer went strolling through the back yard, see it down in the left hand corner–it took me a few seconds to get my camera out. – – – I love Barb’s Christmas decorations, the fancy Santas and cute, fun things everywhere. These guys are always happy to be

– Midnight Santa, always sweet. This is what I saw in the morning when I opened the door to check on the kitties. !!!! This one was all docile-like in a small nest. Christmas night Kari was home, so we had Midnight Santa, Round 2: – – And this is the dog who stole the

– Dan and Alicia hosted after church. They always have a beautiful tree. – Kirsten hosted this auction game, which was a screaming hit.  They had numbers to hold up to bid, fake money, and they fought it out.  I love this. – – – – – – Thanks for preparing a delicious meal and

Our family party was on Sunday evening, after the play. Very nice evening. He worked on the meatballs for hours, well worth it. – – – These two: – – – – – – – Gifts! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –