grandkids will get cuter and cuter, I mean and handsomer

Brand new boy

3 boys together for the first time Mario, baby brother and Matey

Mario wanted a picture with Him smiling ;-}

Minutes after birth (10 Nov 2012, @ 1:30am?)













Hours later @ 11:30 am the brothers meet


















Happy Day!

I will dread election results more each year

Even in the face of camera footage showing brave men fighting unbeatable odds for hours until they were murdered while Marines awaiting his orders were only an hour away, proof that he lied many times over, and the use of semantics to avoid responsibility for his actions, the electoral college re-elected him.
 

• Doctrine and Covenants 98:9

  9 Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn.
  

• Proverbs 29:2

  2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
  

I've been in mourning 4 years, I'm devastated that I'll be in black 4 more

I will try to be happy that at least I can email pictures after I post them here!

Random pictures I want to mail or email to Drox...

the promise of things to come 

first bloom to open ;-}

Tiney at St Joes 26 October 2012 kept her overnight for high blood pressure with my camera

same occasion with my phone camera

I will follow my sweet pregnant Tiney with a camera and claim I am a "photo journalist" ;-}

Friday 2 November 2012 - Tiney asked weeks in advance for me to take her on a shopping trip and plan to make a day of it ;-} I'm there!
I begin with a photo of her sparkling clean kitchen:

 ready to have that baby, eh?

 She requested I take a picture of her beside the crib, which I did

she wanted me to use Her camera, oops...

crib; past crib and toy shelves; stroller (folded), car seat, bouncy chairs et al

We had boxes to put in the car for Good will - This is Tiney letting me pick up the Goodwill box -

Then we were off! First stop Michaels - something for Drox

Target - for Ladies' Foundations 

I neglected to take a photo of the Goodwill donation door. Something to do with the people ahead of us having trouble fitting their purchases into their vehicle holding up the line and distracting me

Harborstone Credit Union - I sat in the car and talked to Wil while Tiney got caught in a LONG line

zoom shot of Tiney leaving HCU

 and a lesser zoom shot

Tiney talked to Auntie Nan while we made our way out of the parking lot - we headed for Tacoma Dodge, Sgt bought a 2013 Charger RT and she had paperwork to give them, then back to shopping.

 Babies R Us - I dropped her off at the door and then parked here ;-}

deciding on a breast pump, working mom...

She is just SO darn cute ! ! !

Olive Garden at last -

waiting to be seated 

Aunt Sandy really is awake ;-}

happy raspberry lemonade,
spaghetti with meatballs

Sandy and I didn't consult with each other so we placed the same order, soup and salad,
Zuppa Toscana
but she had diet Coke and I went for Barq's ;-Þ









Last stop Safeway, and the weather decided to make sure my umbrella got a workout, it Rained !

she was not impressed that I failed to tell her her hair was falling down, I thought it looked  cute .

She loved this shot

bad thing about photo journal-ing, the poor pregnant girl does all the loading groceries in the car while you click away!

I was into the photos by this point in time, obviously.

HOME shopping all done, letting her hair down

I like the baby in this shot 

but I prefer MY baby in this one

                                                           
I had a Wonderful day and I think Tiney did too.
xoxoxox

Lessons will be more expensive because I think slower!

I rented a 14 ft U Haul truck this morning, drove the 1+ mile to Tiney's and emptied my things out of her garage with lots of help. SJ was there so everyone stayed on track and kept moving, it is nice to have a friend that enjoys directing people, and works as hard as she asks of others! Matey helped carry things for the first half hour, T and R and JRV and GI did most of the heavy lifting but Tiney and I worked too. GI and T chose to just lift the piano and carry it up the ramp into the truck. Later poor T ran afoul of a door jam, the metal plate part, and did a number on his thumb, slowed him down a bit! Matey had gone out back to play as we finished loading and when he picked up one of his trucks a spider or yellow jacket got him on the finger, it was red and swollen right away but no sign of a stinger. We put baking soda paste on it and Mommy got him an orange popsicle and he was recovering as we left.

I drove the truck out to the property, my first time there as a driver and it is a good thing I had a navigator! EL3 was there ahead of us working on the stump, or should I say EX stump, making it possible to back right up to the door and lay the ramp inside the storage building. We unloaded with JRV and R doing most of the hard stuff, T was injured and we old ladies stayed in the building placing and arranging and re arranging. We lifted but did less walking. 

The young people left when the truck was unloaded but the 3 old folks stayed to work on raising the door to the building so the threshold would fit correctly. At 2 I left with written directions on how to get home and Short my navigator! I was beyond nervous but only panicked once when I thought I had missed a turn and then saw a sign I recognized so it was brief ;-} Paid the toll, filled the truck across the street from the truck rental place - BIG mistake. It was 3.99/gal and I had passed at least a dozen stations with lower prices but I had 11 minutes to return the truck and hadn't thought to check the price this morning. 

So, truck rental 29.95, safe move 14, tax 8.4% and $.89 per mile was $108, toll was 5, the 7.177 gal at 3.99 was $28.70 and the stop at A&W/KFC for a gallon of rootbeer for the laborers and food for me was 12.23. So we skip over how the gallon was in two half gallon drink cups, NOT bottles with lids, and one was in the cooler between seats but its friend was on the floor and when I turned out of the driveway of KFC it dumped over and drenched the carpet in rootbeer. SO, I turned into St Clair's parking lot, swept out rootbeer, ate my lunch and then continued home.

I love showers ;-}

SJ remembered that lumpia had been on this week's menu (and I wanted to hurt her) but she and R helped and it turned out just amazingly well (I was SO tired). The wrappers we didn't put the sausage/cabbage/carrot filling in we brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. I bake lumpia these days and then just briefly fry them to crisp the outside. The 'dessert' ones were really good too, R gets credit for the idea to cinnamon/sugar them, they were just baked, no frying ;-Þ

Did 3 batches of indexing, talked to Le (she may have found her new apt ;-)  worked on dishes, movie with SJ and EL3 and am fast asleep as I type this, or something like that.

The hardest part of the day, besides driving home alone, was having to see just how much stuff I still have. I left Buh a msg saying I am going to kidnap him, camp out on the property with him and go thru EVERYTHING until I give at least half of it away. Yeesh!

And George is getting baptized in Oct so now there is something new to plan and arrange for. Le's move 27-30 Aug, ID trip 3-17? Sept, T and R wedding 5 Oct, George 13 Oct, baby 13? Nov. I get the impression Betsy is working on a nervous breakdown  (more than the oil change I haven't done yet) so I need to take her in this week or I won't be driving too far too fast :-o I love to count my blessings xoxoxox

I will survive yet another move!

I am settling in to my 3rd new room in the last 10 months. This one is shaping up nicely and it is kind of fun to be cooking, and grocery shopping, again. I have helped with both, but this week it was actually me making the decisions again and while I am rusty I am getting there. Now if my new house mates can survive my re-learning curve we will have it made! SJ is still visiting her newest grandson, T and EL seem to be doing just fine despite my presence and her absence ;-}

Today Matey and I will not only go to the Library but will also visit the water feature at the local park and perhaps stay long enough to get him a lunch. Lines and crowds are not my forte but I was there long enough the last time to see that the lunches were from Subway and he would LOVE that! Then I will return him to his house for quiet time and spend a couple more hours in the garage vetting kitchen stuff. I have a microwave oven I do not recognize, belong to anyone Le or Buh? White, the box sez Kenmore I think. Mine is the stainless steel one I got in LV when JE and I were there in 2006. Tiney and I emptied 3-4 boxes yesterday in the 2 hours, I would call her to ask "Do you want or need this?" and she would oblige me with a yea or nay. She also moved a few boxes/totes for me, yes, the pg girl is stronger than her old mother.

Speaking of old, I had a Wonderful 58th birthday! It was spread out over a week and was amazing. Went to Owens Beach where I (Surprise!) met Mr More Calories (very nice young man), had dinner at Stanley & Seaforts (with Wil, Tiney, Matey, and MMC), went to the Little Pink House, spent most of a week with Wil at Tiney's, had delicious bread pudding with dulce de leche for breakfast on the 27th, took a first load of stuff to the new house with help ;-} to load and unload, lunch at Red Robin with Le, Wil, Tiney and Matey, visited with Le (tasted her sour dough and awesome garlic herb salad dressing), dinner at the Thai Hut with my lunch friends and DG, sat in the car and talked to my mom whilst the others had ColdStone dessert - I brought at least a third of my dinner home but was still TOO full for dessert!, DG took pictures of my girls and then he and eventually Le had to return home.

The next day Wil and Tiney made my birthday cake and thru a wild miss calculation it had only half the flour but the French Silk frosting was everything it should be. Saturday the 29th we (Wil, Tiney, Matey and I) met my sister Lm, her daughter, my brother TAB, his wife and children at the Pt Defiance Zoo and spent hours there. I was tearful several times during the experience, it was more than I would have wished for in my wildest imagination! We rode the carousel (Circus according to Matey), TAB purchased a year long Pass in my name and Tiney's so we are set!!!, saw lots of animals and met some along the path, an owl, iguana and beaver were all with zoo staff at various points along the way as well as animals in their habitats. Tiney and I had pretzels while the others had dipping dots? or soda and THEN we had an early dinner at the Ram on the waterfront. I have missed my brother, couldn't hug him enough and it was so strange to see my 'little sister and brother' being themselves but in older bodies, I am very thankful my sister in law called Lm to arrange to see her and we were able to come too.

I have been checking in with Wii fit plus 4 of the last 5 days and am trying to get a head start before SJ gets back and can give me a run for my money. Need to finish putting my cling film on the window before I head out in 15 minutes - Oh no! xoxoxox

I did 600 names, 15 batches, to help with the 5million name event

 Family Search gave a link to the "badge" for helping. I had downloaded 10 batches Friday evening but was gone all of Saturday and have Sunday morning church so I had only done 8-15% on any one batch when the "day" began at 1700 my time. If you open each batch you download and do Something on it you can access it later to work offline and I wasn't sure I wanted to risk not getting on just because everyone else had time to access the server when I did. I did 2-3batches offline and then went online to submit them and download more. Had to try a couple of times once on Sunday evening to get on to submit work, otherwise it was fine. I worked about 4 hours Sunday evening, 1 hour Monday a.m. and 45 minutes Monday afternoon. I listened to President Monson's biography on cd while I worked, Thank You Heather, and time flew by. I usually aim for 600 names a week. Finally realized I was using up valuable time downloading as I submitted and just concentrated on getting batches done and out, download more if and when I ran out! And my time to help ran out before the batches ;-}

Lots of fun!

Then today my Yahoo acct was hacked which led to my Gmail acct being hacked, I have no intention to visit Madrid, no offense to the Spanish, and an email from me would be worlds more articulate - spelling, grammar, Everything. To include my need to capitalize 'wherever the spirit strikes me' for effect/emphasis. Major losses so far are my contact list and sent mail file on Yahoo. Any sent mail more recent than Dec 2008 vanished. My biggest concern was losing the Elder Kahuhu and Elder O'Gara files, emails from my missionaries, Those are precious to me, and to my sanity ;-Þ 

Off to Aunt Sandy's for the 4th, as soon as I update ages for Le and Tiney! xoxoxox