Granddaughter Jorden's Overnight Visit....

Baby Jorden spent the night Friday and was such a good baby! She slept from 10:30 p.m. until 7 a.m. and woke up smiley and cooing... what a sweetheart! Here she is just after eating and changing... the bassinet I have for her is almost too small already... but she seemed to be comfortable and liked it.
More pictures added later... after her morning nap we're going shopping for frilly foo-foo, girly things... can't wait!! *S*
MORE PICTURES ADDED....
Jorden says, "Enough pictures already Gramma!"

Aunt Kasey & Jorden.

Grandson Friday - super hero, lizard man and cutie cow

Today was a busy, fun day with Jake (Spiderman), Josh (Lizardman, and Jeff (Cutie Cow)... *L* After spending 3 hours outside playing in the hose and sandbox while I pulled weeds, the kids wanted to dress up in the costumes I had for them to play with... a fun and funny time with the grandsons.

Spidey Jake is getting pretty good at climbing walls using his special spidey powers..*L*

Sooo, now that it's almost time for the boys to go home, the granddaughter will be arriving soon... maybe I should get in a nap FAST.

One Year Anniversary....

Hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since John's accident... We were reminded by several people of this "milestone"... our son, John, who works with his Dad came in on the afternoon of the "anniversary", after working, said a few things to me, then told me he was going out to the garage to have a beer with his Dad, to insure he won't be climbing any ladders after work on THIS day.. *L*

For those who don't know the story, last year on July 23rd, after John and son John finished work, they were talking about having a beer down at the garage before heading home, etc. Instead John-John said he had things he should do at home, so he was heading out, and John said he wanted to trim some branches that were sitting on the roof, so after John left, he went and got the ladder, trimmed some, and in the process, as he was coming down the ladder, he fell 14 feet and broke his back and pelvis. (See the archived posts from last July - December for many posts about all this.)
So you see, if they had ONLY had that beer a year ago, none of this would have happened?! - well, maybe not?

Our brother in law, Bill also called and told us he was coming to pick up his canoe from our canoe trailer, that we had hauled along on the family vacation. Bill said on a voice message on the phone that he didn't want John doing anything stupid just because he was coming to get his canoe, like last year, when he came and John decided to take a helicopter ride to the Milwaukee hospital!.. *L* John laughed at that message!

Thank God he CAN laugh... had things been just a hair different, he could have been paralyzed from that accident. While John isn't back to where he was before the accident (the surgeon told him he could take two years or more for some things to get back, and some things would never be the same), John did say that if he has to live like this for the rest of his life, he could cope and manage... so thank you God for where John is now, and I still pray for much improvement for him...in Jesus Name. Amen!

Tuesday Night "Support Group" .... fun, friends, stories, and of course LOBSTER.. yum!

John and I have a group of friends who gather together, on most Tuesday nights, and we all call ourselves "The Support Group". Sometimes there are as many as 8 - 10 of us, and sometimes just 4 of us who get together at one another's homes around 5:30 or so - sometimes earlier if we've had a difficult day.
After enjoying some entertaining discussions with each other about our day, or weekends, we head out to Tubby's, a small little hole in the wall bar with small dining area... Tuesdays are lobster and steak, or shrimp and steak specials.. YUM!!
For about $18 per person you get two small lobster tails and a small steak with salad and potato...can't beat that deal!! Needless to say, you have to get there fairly early or they sell out all the lobster... that happened to us once...we now go earlier to ensure our lobster cravings are well nourished..*L*

The place is always packed ..... and we often see people there we haven't seen in years. We meet new people too, like tonite, a man who slid over to give my friend Sue and I two seats together at the bar, while we waited for a table. He was a friendly fellow, telling all 4 of us interesting stories about his life, his sister who lived in Maine, his former job, & more - a fun guy!... seems our Support Group is a magnet for others too? *L*

Tonite, as are all Support Group Nights, was another fun time.... with Sue and Randy, and of course the lobster!! I wasn't so hungry tonite, but made sure to save one of my lobster tails and part of my steak... mmmm, mmmm, GOOD!! Can't wait till breakfast time!

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig... FINALLY!!

We started out early...well, earlier (9:30 a.m.), after sleeping in, packing up, gassing up at the newly lowered gas prices in Hayward ($3.85 a gallon), we set out for home.... hoping to beat the traffic and get there by 3:00 p.m. or sooner.

But, alas, it was NOT to be... along the way my sister Chellie called on the cell phone and said their van suddenly lost power and they were parked along the interstate about 20 miles north of Eau Claire, luckily we were only about 20 minutes from them, so we stopped to see what John could do... another man also stopped at the same time we did, he hopped out, and suddenly struck up conversations with us all, telling us all kinds of various stories, and offering to help in what ever way he could. It was a nice offer, but my nephew, my sister's son, wouldn't allow his mom to go with this man to get a new battery, which is what we hoped was the problem. So off Joey went with this stranger (we made sure to copy down the license plate number and make of car, forgetting to get the guys name)....
as we sat behind their van and camper with our flashers going to divert the traffic to the other lane, we prayed for his safe return, and thanked God for this man, hoping he was just an over friendly guy and not some whacko. My sister however, who was in the van with Joey's wife and two kids and her daughter, was kinda freaking out after 45 minutes went by and they hadn't yet returned... the guy said the local WalMart was "just down the road"...so Chellie was thinking he'd been kidnapped, or worse...luckily that was NOT the case... the man pulled up finally after about 50 minutes, on the opposite side of the Interstate, and dropped Joey and the new battery off.

John and Joey got things put back together, (with the help of all the rest of us observing and taking pictures...*L*) and the van started again. Here's a few pictures of this part of our vacation..*L* It seems that a local roadkill was a van magnet as their van rolled to a stop right next to this yukky, dead carcas, that didn't exactly make the air smell so good there either! Avert your eyes if this picture makes you squeamish... I'm surprised Chellie wasn't gagging the whole time since stuff like this usually makes her do so..*L*

The new battery seemed to do the trick, the van started. but they also decided to stop at the WalMart and get the alternator tested, just incase there were other problems.

In the meantime, since it was going to be awhile before they could test it, John, Kasey and I headed to a nearby Good Will store to waste some time. While there (and getting NO good deals..shucks!), Chellie called and said the guy at WalMart didn't know what he was doing, so they went to Farm and Fleet, had the guy do the test, found the alternator WAS bad, and they would be another hour before it was fixed... since Kasey had to go back to IL that night too, we decided to not wait and head home.... sooo, after fighting more traffic, we finally arrived home around 6 p.m.... ugh.. unpacked the truck, some of the trailer, put stuff away, did 4 loads of laundry, checked mail, returned phone calls and we're back to NOT being on vacation anymore... *sigh*
I've decided I sure could get used to being retired once that happens... unfortunately, it probably won't be for another 10 - 15 years, so until then, I guess I have to wait for the next vacation time to roll around.....
Thank you Lord for our fun times, safe return home for us all, and times of refreshing and relaxing with family.

Fun Day - Vacations ROCK!

We had a great day at Lake Superior, although we didn't use the kayaks, it was a bit windy and the lake was not as calm as we'd hoped. And John's back wasn't feeling so good, so he didn't want to go kayaking anyway...so we just hung out at the beach, took in some sun, had a picnic lunch, some of us walked the beach, although the beach was a whole lot smaller than what we'd seen the past two years... water levels were definitely higher, and there was tons of logs and driftwood all over.

Here's a pic of us old folks that Kasey took at the top of the bluff where we had lunch. After the hour and a half trip back, we stopped in town, it was our turn to do dinner for the group, and since we no longer have a camper, (we rented a small one room cabin at the KOA that has just a queen bed and set of bunk beds in it), we didn't have kitchen facilities, so we ordered chicken to go from the local grocery and had fresh veggies, and chicken and taters...it went over well. *S*
After dinner our older son, John brought out sparklers for all the kids to do...some adults also got into the act...fun night for all!

Time for sleep... tomorrow is SHOPPING DAY for the girls and fishing for the guys.

Whooo Hooo Lake Superior day.....

Vacation time upnorth.... ahhhh, this is the life!! Camping, kayaking, swimming, sunning, eating, enjoying family (well, only PART of my family could come this year - 27 of us...if they all could have come it would be over 58 of us).

So, we are about to set off for the Mouth of the Brule State Park on Lake Superior to kayak the shore and enjoy the scenery.

Maybe we'll (Kasey and I) will get some good pics to share later....

Lord, You created the beautiful world for us to take care of. You created trees to shade us, and help us breathe. You created the waters to cool and relax us on those hot, stressful days. You created the flowers and rocks, so that our landscaping may be beautiful. For all your wonderful creations Lord, we thank and praise you. Amen.


*poofs to enjoy a great day*

My cutest, most darling granddaughter.. *S*

Kaine and Erin and Jorden came to visit and have dinner tonite... YAY!!! It was great to see them all and see how much baby Jorden has grown in the past month.. she's just over 10 pounds now, and smiling and cooing and so much fun!! *S*
Here's some gramma bragging pictures of Mommy Erin, Daddy Kaine and Granddaughter Jorden.. *S*.. such a doll!! It was GREAT seeing them all!!

Art as Prayer - Interactive Prayer Stations Workshop

I've been contemplating how to explain an upcoming workshop I'll be leading/teaching/sharing on August 22 & 23rd at a Province V/Diocese of Chicago Christian Formation/Education conference, "Whose Church Is It Anyway" in Mundelein, IL. I'll be using 10 -15 of my assemblages to create an experience for participants as well as handing out info, answering questions, giving suggestions on how they could do something similar in their own churches. Here's what I've sent in as my blip about what the workshop would be:

The basic premise of this workshop is simply to pray and to call people to prayer through reflections of sight, sound & action using creative collections of mixed media. It will allow the participants, as well as the creators, to experience God's presence & speak to God about our own needs and the needs of the world.

Participants will experience an example of prayer stations using art, as well as ideas to start one in your own Church using the gifts and talents of your youth and/or adults in sharing their creative expressions & reflections of God and the world we live in.

This is a really wonderful conference, and I look forward to attending some workshops while I am there too. So if anyone is in that area and wants to check it out here is more info from the people in charge of organizing it...

This two day conference offers a wide range of workshops (from presenters from the Diocese of Chicago and from other dioceses of Province V) dealing with ways to assist people in their own formation and is for any and all adults who are interested in, charged with responsibility for, or even just happy-to-be-with-other-folks whose passion is Christian Formation.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

+ learn some new as well as tried-and-true processes for pepping up adults.
+ receive helpful hints and creative strategies for facilitating youth in their encounters with Christ and the Church.
+ be given practical and fanciful ways to continue to nurture our children.
+ view demonstrations of a variety of curricula.

A brochure with registration information is at the website. Please make copies and distribute to others in your congregation and encourage them to join us for this opportunity to experience, discover, recharge and share with each other. Stay tuned for a full listing and details of workshops (to be sent to registrants and also available online at www.episcopalchicago.org soon).

A New Daughter-in-Law to be...yay!!

We've been gone for a very nice, relaxing, long holiday weekend...it was a wonderful time away, great fun and with great friends!

Our son, Kaine had told us (before we left) he was going to "pop the question" this weekend during the 4th of July fireworks, and indeed he did!! Kaine and Erin are engaged! We are happy for them both and excited to be getting a new daughter-in-law in the family. No wedding date has been set yet, but we are looking forward to their marriage and hold them in our prayers.
Congratulations Kaine & Erin!!

Guess this means I am the dreaded mother in law to be eh? eek!! *L*

Gee it's nice to have a professional photographer in the family!! *S*

This afternoon I drove down to IL to see the daughter's new studio... the company she is assistant manager/photographer for moved a couple of doors down from where they were to a studio that is more than double in size...and it's FANTASTIC!! So many sets and cool gadgets, lighting, lots of fancy, schmancy stuff, great dressing rooms, conference rooms, lobby area... it's first class!


So, as long as I was going down to see Kasey and the studio, I asked if I could bring some of my assemblages and have some photos taken... I loaded a bunch in the car, put the torsos in the seats, and belted them (had some funny looks from people driving on the highway there too! *L*)..and Kasey took some great pics for me.

Then we headed to a really good restaurant for some Indian food, .. lots of new things I'd never had before, and it was pretty good too!
Thanks for taking the pics Kasey, your studio is terrific!! Love you! xoxoxox

"The Annunciation" Assemblage

Luke 1:26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 27 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 28 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”
29 Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. 30 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. 33 And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”
34 Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.”
35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.

This full size (small framed) torso is decoupaged with brown paper bag material, which was ripped, crumpled, then mod-podged on. The angel-faced bust is actually a wall hanging which I attached to the torso. The "womb" is a rusty iron pan, inserted into the torso.
The embryo in the womb is a drawing done by Leonardo DaVinci, which I doctored a bit in photoshop, and 3-D'd it, adding a brass crown and rhinestones around the baby.
It is covered with a domed glass piece surrounded by brass tack edging and a few metal leaves for decorations. It has 7 coats of polycrylic on the torso (hence the glare and light reflection which makes the color look a bit different than what it really is.)

Featured in Episcopal Life (June 2008)

This is pretty awesome... I am honored to have a picture of my "Portrait of the Self" assemblage in the June edition of Episcopal Life, the national Episcopal Church newspaper. Part of my artist statement is featured on one of the continued pages...but here is the center spread and a small picture of a part of the piece is there... thank you to those responsible for including it! I hope that people, who know me, will know it IS me, my last name was spelled wrong, but it's still exciting to see my art acknowledged!

Rain, Rain, GO AWAY.....

Rain, rain, go away...come again some other day... or better yet, go to California where they really need it!!

We are lucky to be dry here at our home, so far... all around there are flooded farmer fields however, rivers way over flood stage, roads closed...
2 hours north lakes are no more, and some people's homes are no more either... More rain is coming... off and on this afternoon, and severe storms they say too.. just in time for the DDHS graduation ceremonies tonite.. ugh!

Good thing I'm married to a builder... we can make our OWN ark at least if needed.

Jazz in the Park & Auctioning of Cheeseboxes... among other things today...

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages - and kings." So, today I have all these unrelated ideas...some say to combine unrelated ideas is at the very heart of creative thinking.... if so, I must be some really, really GREAT creative thinker! *L* BUT, how to combine some of these ideas is the question!

I have no new art to show, too bad I can't get pictures from my imagination/brain and post them here for everyone to see, I have so many ideas floating around that I've taken to writing them down more and more so I don't forget them as they get lost in the rest of the stuff that floats around in my mind lately....
I can't get these ideas organized in my mind either... they seem to be as un-orderly as the bins of cool stuff/found objects I have stored in my basement for future art assemblages.
Hmmm, and just now another idea comes to my mind in reference to what I just typed..*L*
Anyway... I'm elocuting here .... and not getting any concrete things done....

This afternoon is the Jazz in the Park event where they will auction off the 60+ altered, decorated, transformed cheeseboxes that were done by area artists. I donated two of them to the cause... to benefit the Friends of the Visual & Performing Arts. It looks like it may be a rainy stormy day here... guess that means it may be held in the school gym instead of in the new band shell at the park...too bad.. wonder if there is AC in that gym? It's gonna be muggy and hot and miserable if not.. ugh!

Soooo... guess my rambling has gone on long enough... time to get to some of those ideas floating around in my head... or wait, I just saw the neighbor put out a rummage sale sign.... another place to look for more junk to put into my already full unorganized basement!..*L*
I know, I know...I'm just walking around the ideas in that brain of mine now when I should be grabbing them and running....
I'll do that after I run to this one rummage sale... (well, maybe I'll hit a couple)...

More to come later.....

Pedestal...the continuing saga...

So, I have been sitting looking at the pedestal that I added some hands to about a month or more ago... it's been sitting here decked out in white gesso just waiting for me to do something to it. I was going to add some kind of decoupage tissue paper, or paper bag material to it, but thought that the detail on the hands wouldn't come out as well if they were covered up with even thin tissue paper. So, I was looking at spray paint the other day and saw some of that "hammered look" kind, so I bought a couple of cans and thought I'd see what it would look like.

So, here it is ...
I don't really like it, too plain, plus you can see the patch job I did to fill in the places I had to cut away to add the hands. It's a smoother texture in those areas and is too noticeable... sooo, it's back to staring at it again for inspired ideas. I'm thinking maybe I'll leave the hands this color, and decoupage the rest of it with something? Hmmm, still thinking on that... any ideas? I'd be glad for ANY from anyone.

Cool Idea,... FANS

So, here's what I did today instead of planting my flowers and plants that have been sitting on my porch waiting for the frosts to stop... (well, that's my excuse as to why I haven't finished my planting anyway). *S*

I found this old cardboard hand fan at (where else) Good Will, it had advertising on the back for a funeral home, and the front was the picture of "Christ at Twelve". I had made hand held fans from card stock before, advertising our church and activities for the last few years, and thought this picture was something cool to use... not to mention the fact that I had just had another hot-flash during the service this morning (you'd think after 6 years of hot-flashes that I'd be done with that, wouldn't ya? sheeesh), anyway, I decided it was time to start making more of those fans for people to use this summer at church.

So, I incorporated the picture into our church info...and VOILA! Here are the results....These are just SOME of them, I am making about 75 of these...30 down, 45 more to go.


I like it because they look old fashioned... I scanned the picture, added the scripture passage on the front, the service information on the reverse, cut them out, glued them together with a large tongue depressor/Popsicle type stick in between, sprayed glossy acrylic on them, added a ribbon tied on the handle, and they are ready to cool off many a parishioner or guest..and ME! *S*
Feel free to use the idea at your church or business. I had a girlfriend who used it for a tea/fashion show she was hosting... she made them and personalized them for her business and event, they went over well there too.

A Few of My Oddities & Favorite Things....

I was looking around my house last night and wishing I could haul out some of my tools of the trade and be creative, but realized I had no time to do that since I have tons of plants waiting to be put into planters and garden beds, and tomorrow is grandson day, so I'd just have to clean up anyway... instead I thought I'd take a few pictures of some of my assembled assemblages and other oddities I have around here...my decorating style is a bit eclectic, but I like it!
The first picture are some ideas that float around in my head and I sit them out to see how I like them, and wait for more inspiration before setting them permanently into an assemblage piece... some of my sisters are freaked out by the things I have sitting around, and they'd really be freaked if they went in my basement and saw some of THAT stuff....bwhahaha I think my sister in law, Lisa, would like that scepter thing I have sitting there, so if it's ever missing, I WILL come to see if you have it Queenie!! *L*

This is part of my husband's offering to our decorating... a wild boar head... ugh! We have TWO of these ugly things on our walls... below it is a coat rack with some of my old wooden canes hanging around, and a shoulder blade of a moose made into a canoe paddle (a friend of my husband's made it for him).

This eye is some art that my daughter Kasey made and I asked to have...it sits by a brass lamp I found at Good Will, I want to patina the brass more so it's more green...someday I'll get to that. The signs I found at a crafters mall.

Another contribution to our walls from hubby... I tried to decorate them up a bit... hee hee... dontcha love that sign!! G*

And these are some holders...one for the cell phone (yes, I have an antique cell phone..*L*) is from my friend Deb...the eye glass holder I found at Good Will... cool eh? *S*

So...that's it for now...gotta get my day going...

"Quackery or Miracle Cures?" a.k.a "This Won't Hurt A Bit" - latest assemblage

So here is an assemblage I'll submit for my sister in law's "Step Outside Your Box Saturdays" challenge from a week ago...better late than never, eh?
I think it could have two titles, since I seem to remember from my childhood some doctors telling me "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit!" when I had to have some procedures for various things... yeah, riiighht!!

The assemblage includes at the top a mini skull crusher (really a nutcracker.*L*), a bed of nails with a wooden foot "walking" on them (ok, ok, it's actually more of a wooden shoe on the nails), some bottles of potions, pills and a bottle of holy water, the background is an advertisement for some bogus miracle cure. I may add more to this at a later date, since I found some things that I may be able to use for this particular topic...we'll see.


Check out my SIL's blog and her latest challenge at A Note From the Queen.

Cheese Box Art Finished....

Last month I decided to try my hand at altering two large round wooden cheeseboxes for an auction that will happen in June to benefit Jazz in the Park and Friends of the Visual & Performing Arts in our community.
So, I am finished... and here are some pictures of the two finished projects.

One is a Hollywood Silver Screen Star Theme:
It includes tissue paper, pictures of starlets, a glass door knob, some beaded trim , 3 small frames (which still need the mirrors inserted into them) and a silver painted metal stand. I also finished it with about 10 coats of polycrylic.


And the other is a Nautical Theme:
It includes brown paper bag material, that I crunched up, then mod podged on the box, it also has two tin shingles with a greenish patina that are some original shingles from the 1800's that were once on our church. (I did some dumpster diving while it was being re-roofed a few years ago).
On one shingle is a brass anchor door knocker and on the other one there is a brass propeller that can actually spin. On the two sides it also has some brass drawer pulls for decorative uses. It has a porthole on the top, which can be opened to insert things inside, it has a mirror instead of a window inserted into the porthole. It has 5 coats of polycrylic and sits on a wooden base.

I can't wait to see all of the boxes which will be on display in various places around the city until the auction on June 7th.

An addition to the pedestal.... HANDS!

I was going to just decoupage the pedestal...but I awoke in the middle of the night, a few nights back, by the idea of adding these hands to it. The hands are a gift from my friend Deb, who found them at Good Will...they at one time had a big bird attached to them, but I got rid of the bird and liked them this way instead. I've been holding on to them for months hoping to find a cool use for them... I think this is really cool! Thanks Deb!

I don't know yet what exactly I am going to do ...paint this?...decoupage tissue paper on it?... the paper bag material is too heavy for the hands and for the details of the hand to come through I think? Gotta think on it some more and then decide...

I should be working on my cheesebox entries anyway... only have about 10 days to finish them! Yikes!

Pedestal remake

I found this pedestal at GoodWill a few weeks ago.. it's not wood, I think it's some kind of fiber board or something and it's pretty tall...over four feet tall. It was painted blue and had some kind of bumpy coating on it, so I sanded it down, and gessoed it in preparation for decoupaging some paper bag material on it. Not sure what I'll use it for yet, but it will be a cool thing to exhibit some of my assemblages on perhaps?
More to come...

Silver Screen Star Cheesebox.... so far...

More of a sneak peak at one of the cheeseboxes in progress.... There are three holes cut out where a fancey framed mirror will be inserted, and on the top will be a silver star out of which will be a glass door knob handle. It will sit on a silver metal stand so it can be used as a table or night stand.

If it looks familiar to you, it's because it is a lot like my Hollywood Glamour Gal Torso...same pictures ... they would look great together as a set... hmmm, maybe I could sell whoever gets the cheesebox, my torso as well...*S*

Time to put another coat of polycrylic on it....

More to come....

Grandma Bragging Time...

Well, my laptop is still in getting repaired (it needed to have a part sent for I guess?)... so I haven't been posting much on my blog.. my old dial-up connection is the pits for places like here and Facebook..arrghh! Takes forever..but I decided to bite the bullet and try to post some pictures from last week here. Granddaughter Jorden came to visit (along with her mom and dad) for a few days and we all finally got to hold the precious baby!

So here are family pics of some of us (after waiting half an hour to load them...ughh!!)...Grandpa John and Gramma (ro)Berta
And Papa (great grandpa) and Nana (great gramma).


Please continue prayers for Jorden (and Kaine and Erin too)... she had some more tests on her liver to see if things are okay, she had a blood test on Monday and some other tests today on her liver (results back next week sometime), because her coloring isn't looking so good I guess? But they say she is sleeping and eating well, and doing good other than the color, so hopefully the doctor is just being extra cautious and making sure things are okay.

Thanks for the prayers.. we ALL appreciate them!

Hopefully I'll get my laptop back soon (oh how I yearn for my wireless connections from it!) and then I'll be able to post more art things, and other random stuff. *S*

Busy Week, Glad for the Weekend!!

Whatta week it's been! Busy with bookkeeping, vestry meeting, family, prayer sponsor dinner, family, bookkeeping, family, family, family and the best part of it was FAMILY!

New granddaughter Jorden was finally discharged from the hospital on Monday, and on Wed. night the kids came with her to visit for a few days. We FINALLY got to hold her...what a sweetheart, soooo small, and light like a feather!
We took a ton of pictures, but alas, without my laptop here (it's in the shop being fixed - I hope?), I can't post the pictures here yet...my old computer doesn't have the ports to be able to get my camera card into it to retrieve the pics...but once I am able to, there will be some here to show off! *S*

We had a family dinner on Thursday and all the kids were home to see the newest addition to the family...fun times!

So now the kids have left, and it's just us old empty-nesters again here... but, it looks like the weekend (except for Sunday morning) is clear to be able to work on my cheesebox altering....yay!!

More to come later....