Our loving and beautiful daughter in law Dawn passed away Thursday afternoon 7 May 2009 after a courageous battle with cancer, with her family at her bedside. She left this mortal existence to go home to her Father in Heaven and family on the other side of the veil. Dawn graced our lives with love, laughter and joy and she will be greatly missed by our whole family. Our lives would be sadly different had we never met and added Dawn to our lives. We loved her so. It was our pleasure to know her and consider her our family forever. We look forward to spending eternity with her in a place of happiness and joy and devoid of sadness and sickness. We gladly acknowledge that our lives will forever be bound together through the blessings promised to us from our Heavenly Father.

Our newest Grandbaby "OLIVIA"

What a grand thing it is... to welcome a new grandbaby!! What a wonderful treat it was to meet our new little Olivia. She came to the world a couple weeks early and we are ever so thankful to our Father in Heaven that she came when she did... we had been waiting long!!! I am thankful to Oliver for posting to his blog so I could "share" and put her pictures on my blog... :-) It drove me crazy not being able to post the night she was born!! May I introduce little miss Olivia Kellogg!!

Anyone Heard of This????

Today I got in the mail a letter from "Presidents Education Awards Program" which is awarding Briggs an award for Educational Excellence. It is being held at the middle school on Tuesday. What I want to know is.... what is this???? This invitation is to a reception in his honor.... hhmmmm.... just have to wonder about this one...

OUR NEWEST TASTE-SENSATION!!!

Ok, last week Mike was watching Orange County Choppers and he happened to see Paul Sr. and Pauli Jr. eat a whole box of Cheerios... while watching this Mike notices what all they had put in the cereal, and decided he had to try it. They had added bananas and raisins to Cheerios... Simple as that... BUT....YOU HAVE TO TRY IT.... it's amazingly good. This is our new taste sensation and we've all had a bowl of it every morning since last week!! No more brown spotted bananas on the counter!! Aside from this awesome little benefit, there has to be some kind of goodness in eating bananas, Cheerios and raisins every morning. At least regularity... if nothing else!!
TRY IT!!! I know what your thinking... these people are creatures of habit... your right, but we just can't get over how tasty it is!!

Cast is OFF!!

Monday the 30th of March Briggs got his cast off!! That really was a fast three weeks. His arm has healed but he has to take it easy for three more weeks. That means that even though he is starting track and field at school, he will have to limit his choices to just running, so no hurdles or things like that and unfortunately NO LONG JUMPS... which is what Briggs was really wanting to do. Possibly after his next check up in three weeks. Why is it so hard for boys to just sit at the piano and be happy??!! If you wondering about that last picture... NO, he is not sniffing it... he is looking to see if the "cast faerie" left him a treat...:-)

We Had Another Jack Attack!!!

Gosh... I'm the luckiest Grammie in the world. I was online last night and when I checked my email I had a wonderful surprise... A picture of Jack showed up out of no where!! And look at it...couldn't you just eat him up!! I know I could!! It's so awesome to see what cute children my boys are creating!! With the help of their wives, of course!! Life is Great!!

GONE FISHING!!

Guess what... Mike got his special fishing outfit today and HAD to try it on and so I HAD to get a picture of it... because if you know Mike, you know... this will NEVER happen again!! So enjoy... Mike at work, but still fishing!!

I used to love it when...

I would go to the store and pick up my developed pictures and sit for hours looking at them and marveling at how awesome it was to get my pictures from the grocery store. Now when I think back to that, it seems so primitive!! I absolutely love it when I get pictures sent to me in my email box and I can just click and see the pictures just that fast. I love new technology!!
Today when I signed on I found the cutest pictures of my grandkids... what a great surprise and treat that is for me. I am sharing them here, because as you can see they are beautiful...
So thankful for my family... What a perfect gift from God they are to me. I love you Anny, Ellie and Jack...

Today I Got A Treat!!

In the mail today was a package from one of the Account Reps for Pepperidge Farm that Mike works with, he awarded me a way cute little Ipod shuffle that has an adorable gold fish on it. How did I get it?? I helped Mike out one day taking pictures of displays in various stores around town. Mike had to attend a food show and would miss the deadline if I didn't get out there and do it for him... So, camera in hand I walked in to the stores I needed to and snapped the pics... all without anyone hassling me or having a problem with me taking pictures. One store manager had to help me find the display and I was carrying the camera the whole time. It's hard to hide, it's bright pink!! Anyway, luckily for me, I was treated for my efforts and I'm still thinking about whether I will share with Mike or not!!!!!
(probably not!! SHHHHH :-) )

"Cast"ing a Spell At School...

Briggs was the hit at school today, not only were the kids surprised to see him in a cast, but he spent what seemed like hours with his arm/cast outstretched for his friends to sign it... in so much we had a buy a new pen today!! FUN, FUN, FUN!!