donnie's turkey hunt

don't know much about this hunt, cuz i wern't there!  but here are a few of the 1,000s of pictures they came home with.  rumour has it... that he shot it from 140 plus yards with his shot gun.

mack daddy with his turkey

ryker and grandpa don

ryker with grandpa's turkey

cheyner, carrying it back to the truck

good job donnie!

birthday dinner with kj

kj turned 7 this year and for her dinner with Grandpa and Gramma, she choose once again to go to texas roadhouse.  confusing to me... go to a steak house for mac and cheese... i don't get it, but what the grandkids want, the grandkids get!

love that she is growing up so much and is such a cutie.  she is so much like mel was when she was that age.  sometimes i wonder how that all works.  maybe she is just too much like mel and heavenly father didn't want them in the same house, so he sent her to chet and tiff.  although, if you've seen tiff's mom, you would know that she belongs where she is. 

kj and gramma j

yee haw! 
happy birthday kj!

grandpa and kj enjoying icecream

don't you love her smile as she is teasing her grandpa

maybe the mac and cheese wasn't all that great

happy birthday kj, hope you have a wonderful year. 

we are so happy to be your grandparents! 

we love you!!

crawling with the crud!

i usually don't post things about myself, but i just had to share this, because i will never forget how painful this was!

the thing is, that you can't really tell how gross this was

 

i had surgery the first part of march.  it was a breeze!  but 5 weeks later, the top of my head started itching really bad.  i thought that it was just because i had been out in the sun.  but after a few days, i started getting these blistery like things on my forehead.  i have never had shingles before, but i remember when grandma ruth had them and how painful they were for her.  i called and got into dr mike.   and sure enough, shingles were invading my head.  i was crawling with the crud!  (apparently, because i have had the chicken pox, these little nasty things were in my body just waiting for something like surgery or something to wake them up).  doc asked me if i had any pain meds.  i told him i had some from my surgery earlier.  he asked me what strength they were, and i told him 5 mgs.  he said "that is NOT going to help you.  you are going to need something stronger".  little did i know how bad they were going to get, before they got better.  they had started creeping towards near my eye and doc was worried about them getting into my eye and gave me some strong steroids to go along with the pain pills.  by far... the shingles were 100% more painful than the surgery i had earlier in the month.  i am not quite to the age where they recommend the shingles vaccine, but all i know is that i will get it as soon as i can, because i never want to have to go thru that pain again.  so if you are of the age that is recommended for the shingles vaccine, i would recommend highly for you to see your doc!  (especially if you have had the chicken pox ever in your life, because these little critters are in there, just waiting for an excuse to cause you the worse pain you'll ever have!)

party, party, party...

March is a busy month for us with birthdays.  Gramma J's is the 8th, with Kamryn following on the 18th and Briggs' birthday is the 21st.  We celebrated all together this year (it's getting harder and harder to get together, so we take advantage of those rare times when we CAN get together).

 

Briggs is "1"

Kamryn is "9"

Jack, Cheyner, and Briggs

Leila

Jack is showing Briggs how to play with the "Carz"

Chet wanted a turn, too.

Siona and Mel

My cute grand daughters!
Kamryn, Isley, Kendyl, Leila, and Siona

And the boys!
Jack, Briggs, Ryker and Hunter

Kamryn sporting her loofa's as ear rings.

Briggs got an air plane from the Murdoch's.

And... He's learned how to go "up" the stairs, but isn't too sure about coming down yet.



"Here Dad, have a little taste!"

We also took Kamryn on her Birthday Date with Grandpa and Gramma.  Her choice this year... IHOP! So we took her for breakfast on a Saturday morning.

Kamryn and Gramma J



I told Kamryn that one of these days she is going to be sorry
because all of the pictures we are going to have of her, her tongue will be a big part of.
 

Happy Birthday Kamryn and Briggs!  We love you both sooo, sooo much!

girls lunch at dear lizzies

my sisters, daughter's and niece's (that is including all the in-loves, too) try to get together every so often and have lunch, to visit and get caught up with everything that's going on in all of our lives.  marci is always finding cute little nooks to have lunch at.  this time we went to 'dear lizzies' in highland. 

jacki, marci, jude, megan and callie

charma, emmie, haley, tiffany and briggs

virginia, erin, gretchen and jude were with us, right now i just can't find the picture of them. (sorry, ginny)
we had a great time visiting and with all of us, we just about had the place to ourselves.  can't wait until next time!

why i LOVE being a gramma!

the front of ryker's card

as i opened ryker's card, he says to me "gramma, this is you and me holding hands".

from k.j.

how cute is this!!!?

best birthday E V E R !  when you have the best family in the world!

diamond rio

so we went out to wendover for a night out and to see diamond rio in concert. actually it was our 38th wedding anniversary and we needed to celebrate.  what better way than to go with the one you love for a romantic evening
we ate at the steak house in the rainbow casino.  can  i say DELISH!?  we had steak and shrimp and it was to die for.  after we ate, we rolled ourselves right on over to the concert hall and waited for the entertainment to start.


should have taken the picture before eating

sold out!

waiting for the concert to start



great times!  hoping for many, many more!
love ya mack daddy!