New Year’s Eve, his birthday. What a great birthday. COUSINS! Today they met a pool and swam all afternoon, Kirsten’s idea. I guess it was a great idea. Gifts! Where people crowd around so closely: Happy Birthday, you beautiful guy. We truly could not love you more. Love, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
That’s her, in a new hairstyle, in the middle with the pony tails. And there is the brother on the violin. Jay and Maria were there and said they had a great time at this concert while I was working. All you talented musicians and kids? Merry Christmas, with so much love, Grandma
This was a brief, short, scrappy Christmas program, and I LOVED it. The kids were overly energetic. I’m told my own beautiful grandson is wearing his mom’s mother’s yellow bathrobe. I thought he looked good. He gave his speech and did not miss a word about the announcement that came from Caesar Augustus about the
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We baked all weekend. These kids came to stay with us while their parents went Christmas shopping. It was fun. It was a productive and happy Saturday. Love, Val
She came early this morning, and shortly we headed out to do errands. We went to the post office to mail a package, and to the grocery store where she helped me shop for ingredients to bake cookies this weekend. She’s sociable and sweet, had interesting observations, was such a fun person to spend the
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Jay got to a basketball game, and our guy got in a couple excellent shots. It was pretty exciting. So much love, Grandma and Grandpa
We went to Jay’s parents for the day, enjoyed a delicious meal cooked by his mom, who has always been a fantastic cook and his dad was fun too, pictured above with our niece who is now a full-grown Spanish teacher. Dan and Alicia and their kids came too, and instead of driving home Saturday
Okay, in the red cape is my little grandson, and his pious buddy is with him, and something about this whole situation is so hilarious to me. He had to give a speech about his saint today too. Whee. I do love you buddy, and I love your funny pope hat too. Oh my goodness,
It was damp in the morning, fogged up the lens. Alicia is from a soccer family, but I’m not all that familiar with this sport. It’s been fun watching and listening. Starting to see edges of fall around us now. The siblings keep entertained on the sidelines. This is our intrepid goalie who feels very
We went to church this morning for the first time in months, and this cool spider had built an enormous web between the catalpa tree and the fence post. The web was so big and the spider so fierce looking I texted the kids if they came outside not to run into the web.
