Feeding the Fish

Ok...all of the grandkids love the fish in the pond that pappy made.... Ben , Bella, Hunter and kiari fed them this past summer.. and Maddie had me play a video of them over and over and over again from my camera!!!! This is for the Gkids... please play it for them! Love you guys bunches! In the New System... maybe we can have a pond! Maybe Pappy will be there to make it for us!!!

Cali... Surprise!!!! Sept 2, thru Sept 8, 2009

......Ok, I'm Back! The very first day both grand moms enjoyed a special treat! Maddie had her first Tap/ballet class. Sooo precious. It was great cause one of the other girls there was Maddie's friend from the Kingdom Hall! As you will be able to discern from the video , our Maddie is quite the little Tapper, and Free style dancer!

This is just a post .....

This post is just to say that we had very bad news that hit our family. Christina received some bad news... she had to go back into surgery to have the other sphere of her Thyroid removed. She has thyroid cancer!. As you can imagine, this was so horrible, ... Christina is doing fine.... I was a blubbering mess! Imagine , your little girl having something so terrible happen to her! I just wanted to gather her in my arms, pick her up and bring her home with the purpose of her "not playing adult any longer" and for me to take care of her and take all of the badness away. But soon I realized that I truly was helpless, not able to do anything but be next to her and give her hugs and try to keep myself from unraveling in front of her and my dears Hunter and Kairi. She proves to be the strong one , accepting what this system throws at her... and answering back with everything spiritual... proving how strong her love for Jehovah is. This spiritual sister will always prove to be an encouragement to me....

Oceaan City .....Again:) Sat....Aug 22

Barry and I loved the relaxing day at the beach soo much that we planned another trip the following saturday... despite the threat of "Hurricane Bill". all week long we were plagued by weather reports of thunderstorms and high winds and rough turf on the Eastern Shore. But we forged ahead with our plan. And we were thouroughly rewarded! beautiful weather! We couldn't get into the ocean but as you can see by the pics, we still had a wonderful time!

Ocean City Maryland

Ok.. We all needed a break! From Faye, to Barry always taking care of their 93 year old dad... to me, just wanting to see OC again, right down to Mike who just wanted to spend a good time at the beach cause he has been workin hard and Pioneering. We packed up he cooler, left at 4 am on Sunday August 16th. We settled in at the inlet side, where all of the "Day Beach" people go just to enjoy the beach for a day. We had a great time! Just vegging by the ocean. I started gettin alittle burned! so I wrapped up in some towels:) looks cute huh?.

The Appalachian Trail

Ok... so the next post... that right! After Ben's first talk on Aug 10th( He did sooo well, Pappy went to see him and stayed the whole meeting!!) We took Ben and Bella home with us for a few day's where Pappy and I got to spend some neat time with them!! They are both sooo dear! We all went to the park a couple of times and then spent some time on the Appalatian Trail where Bella absolutely wore us all out! here is the evidence!!:)

Barry's operation!

Ok... where to begin... it has been soo long since I have posted anything on here! Well I guess I will start with Barry's Surgery... Knee replacement ... not a surgery of choice if you are looking for the summer off, but one of necessity! He actually is doing quite well 8 weeks after the surgery he was riding the bike with me!!! Here is a pic of what his knee looked like 3 days after. Ohhh I forgot to mention that his surgery was on June 16, 2009.
Yucky Huh?!