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Halloween was a fun, especially for Sophie and I. Since Sophie only had half a day of school, I picked her up around noon and took her with me to knitting group. She loves to go with me whenever she can. Sophie ate her lunch while I crocheted, then she colored. Before we left, we looked for books in the used book room. Next, Sophie and I went to Michaels to pick up some items for my craft group

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"Yeah, so what?" you're probably thinking. For us, it's a really big deal. We haven't had any rain since mid-August. That's almost 2 months ago! We're down over 12 inches of precipitation for the year. In fact, we have officially been labeled as in "extreme drought". There's only one level worse than that.I was thrilled to see the wet ground when I got up this morning. The air was cool and

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Vacation Days 7 and 8 - Family Time and BowlingOn Monday we took care of some more car business in the morning, then went bowling. Hailey and David bowled by rolling their bowling balls down a ramp onto the lane. They did fairly well until Hailey fell asleep. I thought that maybe all the time I've spent on the Wii playing the bowling game might help me, but it didn't. I couldn't find a bowling

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Vacation Day 6 - A Day in San DiegoChristina and family picked us up at our motel at 9 AM so that we could get to the USS Midway Museum when they opened at 10:00. The museum was something that George was very interested in seeing so I took a lot of pictures for him. It wasn't hard to do because the ship was huge! The USS Midway was a naval aircraft carrier commissioned from 1945 - 1992. Ryan and

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Fun at the Beach -On Saturday we took care of some business, then drove around the Oceanside harbor looking for a place to park. We wanted to walk around to see the booths and attractions there for Harbor Days. Unfortunately, we couldn't find parking so we drove further south in Oceanside. We found a place to park near a beachside playground and picnic area. We had quite an interesting picnic

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Vacation Day 4 - A Trip to the San Diego Wild Animal ParkWhat a glorious day! The kids and I all wore the camouflaged hats that I brought. This picture shows Ryan, David, and Hailey posing near the parking lot. To see a picture of me with the kids (all of us wearing our hats), click here. I took lots of pictures of the kids in the park, but only a few animal pictures. The highlight of the day was

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Vacation Day 3 - George and I arrived in Oceanside in the afternoon. Christina and her family drove to our motel to see us. Everyone was so excited! The kids piled on our bed to be close to George and I. David (age 2) proceeded to jump on the bed  and said, "I jumping". Both David and Hailey had fun getting into the yarn I had brought along to work on a couple of my crocheting projects. Ryan and

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George and I are on our way to California to deliver our mini-van to Christina and Joseph. They REALLY need one. Rather than trade it in when we bought a Toyota Corolla, we negotiated with Christina & Joseph to buy it from us. We are all pleased that it has worked out for everyone. The problem is, I'm feeling a little sad about seeing the mini-van go. We've had it for 4 or 5 years and made many a

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I am way overdue on blogging! My goal is to blog every month to keep you up-to-date on what is going on in our lives, but I guess I've been so busy doing stuff, that I let my April to July blogs slip by!! So, what have I been doing? LOTS of yardwork, watching the grandkids, working on photos, crocheting, reading, volunteer work, driving to St. Louis, and more. Let me tell you more about these

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Today Holden had a party to celebrate his 3rd birthday. A lot of his school and family friends came (more than 20 people). They played outside in the bouncy house, in the playhouse, on the seesaw, and on the playscape. The kids also played inside in the playroom, Sophie's room, and the family room. After playing, lunch was served. Of course, birthday cake was a part of the lunch. Opening presents

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Christina called this week to tell me that Joseph has received his orders to report to Camp Pendleton (near San Diego, CA) in mid-October. They will be leaving Hawaii in mid-September. First they will check in at Camp Pendleton, then begin their drive to visit family in Missouri and Texas. I am thrilled that they will be on the mainland again! Now I'll be able to see them more often!  Joseph will

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I'm sorry to say that I've been neglecting my blogsite which you probably figured out since I haven't posted anything new. I had a lot going on in late January and all of February. Most of you know that I flew to Hawaii to be with Chris and her family. She posted pictures on her blogsite while I was there. I sent all of you the link to her site. Needless to say, I has an absolutely WONDERFUL time

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Christmas was only a month ago, but it seems a lot longer than that. I started feeling bad 2 or 3 days before Christmas, but I thought it was allergies. Jackie and her family came over late in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. We let each of the kids open a present or two, then we had a nice dinner that I had prepared. The table looked so pretty. I regret that I didn't take any pictures of it. To

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I've wanted to post something on my blog for weeks, but I've been busy with making Christmas gifts, working on projects for the craft sale (to raise money for our library), and being around my grandkids. Here are a couple of the things I wanted to tell you about:I heard the coyotes singing one night while we were watching TV. I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed hearing them. It was such

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While we were in St. Louis in late October, I helped my sister Cindy prepare for a family gathering with a Halloween theme. We worked Friday evening and all day Saturday preparing the food and fixing up the house to look spooky. My nephew Bradlee helped with the decorating. We made a variety of foods: Worms and Eyeballs (spaghetti and meatballs), Quicksand (a really tasty dip made from cream

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This picture was taken in 2004 on our patio. Marley looks pretty happy to me.

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By mid-week Marley was doing much better. He was acting like he normally does. On Friday, he took a turn for the worse. He vomited and started the heavy panting and breathing again. It continued into this morning, so I dropped him off at the vet. After she examined Marley, the vet called to say that the pain was coming from his abdomen. It was unlikely that it was from the Prednisone since we had

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I can't tell you why or what I was freaked out about until you know what led up to it. So here's the story...First it was Tori (our Chow/lab mix) that was sick, then Marley (our 15 year old cocker mix). I could tell that Marley was in pain because he kept panting heavily, wouldn't sit or lie down, and kept wanting to be close to me. On the first trip to the animal hospital, the vet thought

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Boy, have I been busy! Most of you know that I am now a Creative Memories consultant. I have been busy the past couple of weeks on getting my business ready. I've ordered some products to show my potential customers and to give away as prizes. I've also ordered business cards and a shirt with the CM logo on it for myself. I've been running off some labels with my contact information and putting

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On Saturday night Sophie and Holden came over for their first sleepover. I wanted to get a picture of the kids coming in the door with their backpacks, but they came over earlier than I expected. We had dinner here at our house, then played and read stories before bed time. One of the stories I read Holden was about dinosaurs. The book told us how some dinosaurs are plant eaters, some are meat

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It's been hot here in Austin the past couple of weeks, but not nearly as hot as where some of you live. We've been mostly in the mid to upper 90's with heat indexes in the 100-110 degree range. We haven't done much outdoors because of the heat. I've been mowing the lawn in the evenings with our new lawn mower. It's the first one we've had that I've actually been able to start. That's because we

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We've now lived in Texas for 1 month and 2 days. Here's what I've learned in that time:When it rains, it pours in Austin! We've gotten through the rainy season and are now into the heat of summer. I don't think we're going to see any more rain for a while.Austin can be just as humid as St. Louis in the summertime.There are some really big cockroaches in Texas... really big!Nobody in Texas obeys

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We live in what is called the "hill country" in Texas. For those of you who haven't experienced it, this picture shows what you would see as you drive to our house. This is a side street in a subdivision on the way to our house. (These are multi-million dollar homes.)If you continued on your way to our house, this is the view you would see. I love driving from the main road to the smaller roads

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I promised that I would post some pictures of the grandkids. Here are a few for you to look at. I call this picture "the birthday princess". I took the picture at Chuck E. Cheese before all the kids got there. After that, the princess was too excited to stand still.Here's a picture of the birthday princess with her mommy. This is a rarity because Jackie is usually taking the pictures. I had the

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This morning I was reading a local newspaper we got in the mail last week. There was an article about happenings at our local library. Lo and behold, a knitting group meets on Fridays from 12 to 2! I decided right then that I was going to go to it. I thought it would be a great way to get to meet some people and learn how to knit better. I arrived a little after 12 and was disappointed to see

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We said our final farewell to our house of 22 years on Saturday, July 7th by departing at approximately 5:30 AM. We made the drive to Austin in about 15 hours with help from KK, my nephew Aaron's wife. She drove my car; George and I shared the drive in his car. We kept the two cars together the whole way down. KK and I had fun with the walkie talkies. Even Bradley (who will be 4 years old

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