Shirley's Birthday

Our excuse for going out tonight was to celebrate Shirley's Birthday.  It's always a good excuse and for some reason it helps make the night happen.  Shirley's birthday is on Sunday but since Kathy and I have been wanting to get together with Shirley and it took us a few weeks to get a date....it worked out great!

We saw the Adairs there too celebrating Ashley's 21st birthday.  Birthdays are so great and should be celebrated and fun.

I just have to say that I laughed so hard tonight.....all the laughing had to be good for my tummy muscles...Holy Moly.....Good Times!

I am very blessed to have such wonderful neighbors. My whole street has only good and wonderful people living on it and we are all friends.  It's been fun growing up with these ladies and raising parts of our families together.

I always thank Heavenly Father for putting such great people in my life.  I am "needy" in that way and I feel His love and recognize His blessings!

Grand Son's

I had fun with my grandson's today.  Holy Crud they are so stinkin cute and fun.  These two littles love each other so much and play so good together.  Since I was going to watch Zaden and Parker was going to come later I decided to pick them both up so they had more together time.

Being a gramma is like ...... the best calling ever!  The little ones love seeing you and even get excited when they get to come play at your house.  They run and jump into my arms for hugs and squeezes. (I like that a lot)  They call me "Princess" and "Beautiful" and "Fun".  They truly do something different to my heart....it's such a great feeling!

I enjoyed having the boys over for some boy time while their sisters and cousin were involved with "school stuff".  I hope they always enjoy each other as much as they do now.  They are go great!  I'm so glad it's me they call Gramma!  I'm the lucky one!

Just 4 more of these ;)

I can't believe that school has started again.  What in the heck happened to summer....where did it go?

The nice thing about school starting again is that it means another school year will be behind us again soon.  My kids enjoy going to school for which I am glad but for us all it is added stress that I would rather not have.  It's part of life though so I just need to buck up and be happy that they are getting so smart.  I'm glad for all the learning....that's the part I like.  It's all the "I don't get it's" that frustrates me.  Truthfully it's all the homework.....hopefully this year there won't be as much.

I hope these two do enjoy this time in their lives.  I hope they love getting smarter and gaining more knowledge. I hope they make new friends that they will enjoy for a long time.  I hope that they will believe in themselves.  I hope that they will work hard, do their best and have fun.  I hope they will make good memories to share with their kids.  I hope they realize how wonderful and smart they really are!  I hope they know that this mommy loves them and believes in them!