OH My Gosh... Look What Was In Our Back Yard This Morning...

Is it a sign of some kind?? I know I have read online about similar happenings and from what I can remember... things like this are a sign that Alians have visited and left a sign of good will (or something...) Well, they have visited my yard in the wee hours of the night and so I had to get everyone out of bed to see it. I have taken a picture for my posterity to see and have recorded this exciting event in my journal.
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Jeannine's 80th Birthday Celebration...

On Sunday, 21 December we all gathered together to celebrate Jeannine's birthday, and we did in big style. Most of her children made the trip even in the snow and COLD, COLD weather. It was a nice party and she was very pleased. She had several of her friends show up to surprise her and several of her nieces and a nephew, and everyone brought gifts to share with her. What a great time it was... and the best part was to see her smile with delight at seeing all her family and friends!!
S-u-r-p-r-i-s-e !!!!! Alex sent out a cute video of his daughters (Jeannine's Great Granddaughters) singing a birthday song which I plan to post here too, once I figure out how to do it!! Keep a watch for it... it's so cute!!

Christmas 2008

We want to wish all our family and friends a Merry Christmas!! It's been a great year and it's always sad for me to see another year end, but because I'm trying to be positive and know and have faith that Heavenly Father has another great year in store for us... I will just say to all "Merry Christmas and lets all keep the special feelings we have at this Christmas Season all through out this coming year". Thanks to everyone who have made this blog so much fun to do... thanks for all the personal comments and the good feelings you shared with me. I will keep posting pictures as my way to keep in touch.
I am posing our Christmas picture... if you only knew about all the many different poses Mike and Briggs did in the 24 pictures we took trying to get one that was satisfactory to use for the card we sent out... but after looking through the many poses, I decided to post the one where none of us have a double chin!! This is important... but, I do have the... all teeth pose, or the celebrity pose, or the HE-Man pose, or the King and his servants pose, or the back-side pose...
Enjoy and Merry Christmas to YOU!!

Keeping Busy with Scouts...

Briggs has been busy earning his ranks up the Boy Scout trail to Eagle. He was awarded the Life Scout Award this last Wednesday night at the Court Of Honor. Along with his advancement he also earned his Personal Finance, Rifle Shooting, Shotgun Shooting, and Sports award that night. He has a total of 28 merit badges with 9 of those required for the rank of an Eagle. He is on his way!! He was also elected to be the new Scribe for the troop, which he is looking forward to. In the picture he is pinning the moms merit badge on me!! I particularly like this one... it has a heart on it and he is a big part of my heart!! Ok... he makes me proud!! :-)
Plus... I'm the one who's always on him to work on his scout stuff!!!

Briggs and Basketball

Just thought I would post of picture of Briggs and his basketball team in action. Briggs is number 4!! The games are fun and well... kinda funny at times. We really enjoy seeing them all run around like lost little chickens, but hey, it means something to them!! The first picture is of the stars of the game... and their half time necessities!! See what I mean!! Gotta love 'em!!! November 2008

MY GRANDCHILDREN !!

I feel like the luckiest Gramma in the world. Not only do I have gorgeous grandchildren, but my son and daughter in law know how to take beautiful pictures!!! Ashley is lucky enough to have a great camera and I feel like I am the lucky recipient of her talents!! Oh... life is GOOD!!
Ashley, I need you here to take pictures of Briggs at his sporting events as my camera just can't capture a good pictures no matter how hard I try.