Coming Soon---Grand Baby #3

This time last week we were in Denver, Colorado for a visit with our middle son Jeremy and his wife Annie, and our “coming soon” grand baby which is due November 1! We are so excited! One of the first questions we asked them was “Does this mean you are moving back to Texas?” All we got was a little laugh, which probably means we will be making lots of trips to Colorado. But, we don’t mind because we love Colorado.

It was a short trip but we had a great time, visiting, seeing a few new sights and helping them with a couple of projects around the house. This is the first time we have been to their new home and we really like the house, especially the view of the foot hills to the west, downtown Denver to the east and Pikes Peak in the distant south. Real estate there is pricey but they were able to find a great home in the southwest part of Denver. They worship at a church in Littleton which is just south of them.

While we were there we went out to Red Rocks Amphitheater where many musicians have performed. Jeremy and Annie saw Bob Dylan there a year or two ago. We also went to Golden (home of Coors beer and Colorado Schools of Mines) and to Lookout Mountain, the grave site of Buffalo Bill Cody. Mostly we just enjoyed getting to visit and driving around and seeing some of the scenery in and around Denver. Beverly’s highlight was when Jeremy took her to a little place in Denver called Happy Cakes. It is a cupcake shop, not just your regular run of the mill ones, but those with fancy names. It will become a tradition to go there each time we visit. They were yummy!

Thanks for everything Jeremy and Annie and we hope to see you again in a couple of months.

How Does Your Garden Grow

This year we expanded our garden area a little so we could have more sun. We planted onions (they haven't done too well), broccoli, potatoes, tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, sweet peppers, squash, zucchini, corn and beans. We are about to plant our okra and black-eyed peas. The squash have little ones on them already so we are excited about having squash before long. We are about to put a privacy fence behind the garden and plant some shrubs along the front of it. We have been putting in the posts and it dug surprisingly easy, except when we hit big tree roots that had to be sawed out. Sawing in the dirt is hard on a chain saw! So, we are hoping that the rains will continue and we won't be watering all summer long. But, if it means some fresh vegetables, we will just have to do it.

Mama's Little Aggie

If you are familiar with Aggie traditions, you know that April 21 is Aggie Muster. Jennifer serves as Hamilton County Aggie Muster Chairman. When Presley came Wednesday morning, Jennifer had her all decked out in her Aggie attire. We went to Stephenville that day to check on Nana and Granddad so we took advantage of the photo opportunity and snapped these pictures in their yard.

A Time For Catchin' Up

Boy, are we behind! It has been a while since we have posted anything. We have been busy, maybe not any more so than anyone else, but blogging has been pretty far down on the "To Do List". We enjoy reading other blogs but we just haven't sat down and updated ours. So, here is a composite of several pictures from the past few months. Hope you enjoy them and hope we can continue to keep current!

These pictures range in time from around Christmas, one of the snows, Presley's birthday, early spring pictures and Easter.

A Christmas and New Year Update

Like everyone, the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 have been busy times around this household. Of course,we are behind on blogging for a variety of reasons. I think it's just been too cold and we have been busy just trying to keep warm. Now if we were in Colorado having fun, the cold wouldn't seem so cold!

Our family celebrated Christmas on New Year's day since it was the boys year to be with their in-laws for Christmas. It was a fun day having everyone here. Jordan and Ashley came through Stephenville and picked up Nana and Granddad. Jeremy and Annie came up from Houston and Jennifer, Toby, Taylor and Presley joined us. We had a fun time opening gifts and watching the little ones open theirs. This year we had a trivia game where we played for Sonic gift cards and other prizes. The big laugh of the day was our hula hoop contest! Everyone got a chance to impress the judges but in the end Jordan and Jeremy were the only "stars" that could really do it. I think Jordan threw his back out in the process. There were videos made, but, certain people have had threats made against them if they ever surface! There are other pictures at Jordan and Ashley's blog.

We have a number of birthdays in our family from Late November until Christmas (6 in fact) but we also celebrated our wedding anniversary (34 years!), and Danny's birthday on January 1. So, we not only had Christmas but we also had a party for Danny.

This past week was our County Youth Fair and Danny served as the swine superintendent. Of course, as is common with stock shows, there was an attempt to ignore rules, a transformer went out during the weigh-in causing a blackout in the barn (ever try to drive a pig to the scales in the dark?) and the judge took a long, long time to place the classes. But, we got through it and the show was a big success. Saturday morning, Taylor showed in the PeeWee showmanship contest and was one of the two finalist from his age group. You can see more of Taylor at Jennifer's blog.