The Adventures of Pat and Linda

Henry is five

2011-09-14T00:25:00.013-04:00

I always enjoy it when it is one of the grandchildren's birthdays. On September 5 Henry turned five. Quite often I make the birthday cakes for the family. On labor day weekend the family was all together and Henry asked me if I would make him a snake cake for his birthday. I wasn't sure how I was going to do it but of course I said yes !! He also requested spider cupcakes. The theme of his party this year was the twelve deadliest animals, I don't know where on the list the snake and spider are ranked but I gave it my best shot.

We celebrated his birthday on the tenth of September so I had a few days to study and come up with the best approach to the cake. My first thought was I need to get some black shoelace licorice for the spider's legs. I found a website http://www.blaircandy.com/ that sold the licorice and many other nostalgic candies. I ordered the candy and I got it in time to make the cupcakes.

Back to the cake, I googled snake cake and got lots of pictures and directions to make a cake.
I started with two bundt cakes. Henry requested Strawberry cake, so when we cut the cake it would look like blood !!

I cut the Bundt cakes in half and formed this squiggly cake.

I bought several items to decorate the cake and cupcakes: Fruit roll up for the snake tongue, Chocolate marshmallow for the spider bodies, the licorice for the spider legs and red licorice just for fun. Mini chocolate chips for eyeballs, chocolate sprinkles and reese pieces (I didn't use them but they were great to snack on ! )

This is the color scheme that I went with Coral snake or Milk snake.

And here is the spider, isn't he cute ?

Here is a whole herd of spiders !!

The snake is looking to eat a spider ! Candles lit and we are ready to sing !

All the cousins waiting for Henry to open his presents.

It was a good day. Henry was very happy with his presents. Most of all we all had another great time of family fun.

Before we ate cake Sarah and Matt fed us Tacos. Yummy !

Have you ever held a tiger?

2010-05-29T00:12:00.004-04:00

Well here I go again apologizing for how long it has been since writing a blog post. I spend a lot of time on facebook and I keep in touch with so many friends and family that I forget about my blog that I started. I will try to do better.

Gaffney is getting a new store, Tractor Supply, it will open next week. Apparently Tractor Supply asked a little zoo to come and set up in the parking lot for the grand opening, someone got the dates wrong and the zoo came to town this week instead of next week. It was quite exciting to have camel rides and tigers, kangeroos, lemurs, monkeys, a python, leopard and goats, ponies, llamas and a calf right here in Gaffney. The most exciting thing was you could get your picture taken with a baby white tiger ! Now have you ever held a tiger? or even touched one ? It was an opportunity of a life time. We took Henry, Zoe and Leilani to get their picture taken with the baby tiger. It was 8 weeks old, I'm not sure how much longer they will be able to let it sit on kids laps for pictures. I am glad that we had an opportunity to let the kids do a once in a lifetime thing today.

What is going on with me

2010-02-20T12:57:00.010-05:00

I am so ashamed of how long it has been since I wrote a BLOG. The last blog was about our shoeboxes, that was in November, It is now February 20. Let's start with Pat and my anniversary, 11/20 was our 38 year anniversary, WOW !

Next, our family all got together at our house for our traditional Thanksgiving meal on Sunday before Thanksgiving. The food was great, everyone contributed.

On December 2 Pat and I flew to California for the weekend to visit his family. We had a great time, we spent some quality time with everyone. It was bittersweet because we know that is unlikely we will ever get to see his parents again.

December 10, we welcomed our newest granddaughter into the world, Kelly gave birth to Elise Kelly Hawkins, she is so precious !

December 18 I turned 56. Christmas afternoon everyone showed up at the house for snacks, games and presents. We did miss Zach and Jalen that day they were with their mom. Everyone brought a snack to eat. We exchanged gifts and started a new tradition (we hope) of the Christmas raffle. Pat had been buying things at Goodwill that he knew the girls would like. they all took turns picking something from the box. We also played Dirty Santa, this was when we really missed Zach and Jalen because they love the game so much.

On the 29th Kelly turned 30, Andrew turned 29 on the 30th .

Happy New year eve 2010, we spent a quiet night at home. Most recently Sarah turned 32 on the 10th of February, we all went out for dinner at House of Pizza.

The biggest thing going on with me is that I have been having trouble with my hip. After many Dr. visits and tests we have realized that I need to have a hip replacement, so on Tuesday the 23rd of February I will be having surgery. Since the trip to California I have become very handicapped and Pat has been doing a lot of things that I usually do. He has done all grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning. I am looking forward to being able to take on my responsibilities again. I hope to blog a little while I am in the hospital.

Thanks for reading and keep me in your prayers...

One last picture, we have had some snow this winter, Papa and Leilani built a snowman.

I would have had more pictures but for some reason I can't get all of the ones that I want to put on to copy and paste, so the blog only has a few.

Love you all

Operation Christmas Child 2009

2009-11-18T21:50:00.007-05:00

The Boxes

It has been quite a while since I wrote a Blog. I just need to share about Operation Christmas Child. Today we finalized collecting shoeboxes at work. Once again I have been blown away by the generosity of my co-workers. Filling a shoebox for a child in a foreign country. These shoeboxes filled with small gifts may be the only thing that the children get this year. Each box is filled with small toys, candy, personal hygiene supplies, school supplies and small articles of clothing like underwear and t-shirts. The most important thing that each child will receive is a booklet that tells of the love of Jesus, the best gift we can ever receive.

For more information on how you can participate click here: Samaitan's Purse website

Our finishing Department

Our Production Department

Everybody

Pat and I

Do you Remember the Pineapple ??

2009-10-21T23:38:00.008-04:00

Well the day has come to harvest our pineapple. Here is Pat holding his BIG crop.

We have been growing the pineapple plant for about three years.
This past January we learned what you have to do to get the plant to produce fruit. We followed all of the instructions and to our suprise a baby pineapple appeared. We have been watching it grow for several months. (refer back to earlier blogs about the pineapple) At some point the fruit stopped growing but the top kept getting bigger and bigger. As you can see in the picture the top is about four times larger than the bottom.

Pat cut it up today at work.

We made sure that we had a piece for all of our co-workers. Everyone has been watching it grow for several months.

The fruit was delicous. The plant has sent out another shoot on the side, we are hoping to be able to harvest another pineapple next year.

We have had fun with this project and the fruit was definetly worth the wait.

Happy Anniversary Kelly and Will

2009-10-14T00:00:00.001-04:00

Today is Kelly and Will's Anniversary October 14, 2000

Nine years ago today our daughter Kelly got married. After dating for four years she and Will tied the knot. It was a beautiful fall day, actually quite warm. The ceremony was held at our home church West End Baptist. The reception was held at Cherokee National Golf Course. Their honeymoon was spent at Disneyworld.

Nine years later they have been blessed with three children (Clara, Lindy and Charlie) and number four on the way.

Kelly is a stay at home mom and Will teaches English in our local school district. Kelly and Will are both very active at their church. Kelly also leads a Brownie Girl Scout Troop. Pat and I are very proud of the Hawkins family. We pray that God continues to Bless them with many more happy years of marriage.

Remember 9 / 11

2009-09-11T11:29:00.004-04:00

Eight years ago, I was at work listening to the radio. The announcer made a comment about a plane flying into the World Trade Center, at first I thought it was a little sightseeing type plane. As more information came over the airwaves it was apparent that it was a large plane, but why did it hit the tower? Then a few minutes later another plane hit the other tower, then later a plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, then a plane crashed into the pentagon. What was happening? and where or what would be hit next? I remember being so aggravated when I heard of the first plane and I could not get Pat off of the phone, he was on a conference call with the owners of our company.

We saw our country go to a new patriotic high, being in the American flag industry, we saw a huge increase in flag sales, everyone wanted to show their patriotism. Glenn Beck has a project called 9 12 project, he wants everyone to remember how they felt on 9/12/01. If we all remembered how we felt that day America might be a better place. I love my country, but I am afraid for the road we are going down.

Pray for our country, May God Bless America !

Pirate party

2009-09-09T13:13:00.005-04:00

I forgot to post these earlier in the week like I promised. The party was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time on their treasure hunt. They are all dressed up in their pirate costume and ready to search for the treasure.
I wonder what we will do next year to top this party?

Happy Birthday Henry !!!

2009-09-05T11:27:00.005-04:00

Happy Birthday Henry !!!

Three years ago today our oldest Daughter gave birth to our first grandson.

Henry is the first boy to be born to our family. He has a special place in our heart.

We will be celebrating his birthday on Monday when the our family gets together for a picnic on Labor Day. Henry loves sharks and pirates, so we will be having a cake with pirates and sharks on it, (picture to follow on Monday), a treasure hunt and pirate food to eat.

Henry is a sweet boy and he is funny too. Sarah takes a lot of pictures of him, and does a great job making little videos, she has a great video on her blog if you would like to see it.

This is a picture of Pat and I holding Henry, 5 days old.

This picture is from Easter of this year.

New picture from Sarah's Alphabet Book.

Love You, Happy Birthday Henry !!!

Our Weekend in Edisto

2009-09-01T22:37:00.013-04:00

This is where we stayed this time, This part of the resort is called the village. We were on the second floor unit.We had to climb two flights of stairs, I got my exercise in!
We shopped at the only grocery in town, "the Pig"

We cooked someting new, Blintzes, they were absolutely delicous, I will write another Blog about them later.

We went for a ride to Botiny Bay Plantation, drove down this dirt road lined with live oaks and spanish moss.

We went to the beach, we found a few shells (LOL)

We saw a few squadrons of Pelicans fly overhead, there was 19 in this group.

Watched the sunset, and looked for Dolphins.

Another sunset, just beautiful !!!!

The happy couple after a few days of rest and relaxation!!

We had a great time. We just hung out by the pool and the beach, drove around a little, discovered a few new things. Tried a couple of new restaurants, tried a new recipe.

5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

2009-08-23T22:11:00.006-04:00

Have you ever been craving a piece of Chocolate cake, but there is none to be found? You don't have time to bake a cake, and you don't want to drive to the grocery store. Well here is a quick dessert you can make in 5 minutes. I got this recipe from one of the ladies in my Esther Bible study, we all shared a favorite recipe, this is the one that Heather shared.

Ingredients:
4 tbsp flour
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 egg
3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp oil
3 tbsp choc. chips
splash of vanilla
1 large coffee mug

Directions :
Mix dry ingredients in Mug, add egg, mix well, add oil and milk mix well. Add choc chips and vanilla, mix again. Put mug in microwave, cook 3 minutes, the cake will rise above the top of the mug do not be alarmed. Allow to cool slightly, dump out on plate, serve with vanilla ice cream.

We enjoyed it, and thought it was a good quick dessert and it was fun to make. One cake is plenty for two.

Woman of Joy

2009-08-19T11:37:00.004-04:00

I am looking forward to next years Woman of Joy conference. This will be the fifth year that I have gone. The first year that I went was in 2006, I went with Sarah and her church, I enjoyed it so much that I organized the women from my church to go the following year. We will be having a get together on September 11 to determine the location and date that we want to plan for next spring. The conference is held by Phil Waldrep Ministries, I think there was 6,000 ladies at the conference this past May. Below is a picture of our group. I wish we would have gotten a better group shot than this one, but this was really the only time that we were all together at the same time. I invited everyone over to the condo that I had reserved for my daughters and I to stay at. I made dinner for everyone, it was a great time of fellowship. If we go back to Sevierville, TN next year I will reserve a large cabin for all of us to stay in for the whole weekend, the fellowship will be wonderful !

I am really hoping more ladies will attend in 2010, it is a weekend that you will remember for a long time.

Linda

Happy Birthday Will

2009-08-13T22:55:00.005-04:00

Friday August 14 is our son in law Will's birthday.

Soon after we moved to Gaffney Kelly and Will began dating.

I guess it was love at first sight. They were married in 2000.

I'm not sure how old this photo is but it was taken a while ago.

Will has a good sense of humor, here he is holding up the hot air balloon. He and Pat get along very well, always joking together. Will is a teacher, this year his duty is changing, he has been promoted from seventh grade to tenth. Please pray for him as he learns how to respond to older students.
One of Will's favorite things is Bamboo. He and Kelly have a forest of Bamboo behind their house. Will is constantly building things out of it. This picture was taken at our July 4 BBQ cookoff, he has a bamboo windchime as well as a table built out of bamboo ( you can see just a corner of it in the picture).

Will has written a book, we are waiting to hear about that right now. He also likes to play cards, light bonfires, he likes superheros and pirates. He loves the Lord and his family, Will is a great husband and father. I am proud to call him Son. Happy Birthday !

Happy Anniversary Becky and Jeff

2009-08-10T23:18:00.005-04:00

Happy Anniversary Becky and Jeff !

August 11, 2007

August 11, 2009

2 years

Have fun on your anniversary trip, enjoy the time by yourselves.

We love you !!!

It is hard to believe how much the boys have grown up since this picture was taken.

Happy Birthday Katie

2009-08-09T23:21:00.011-04:00

Today is Katie's birthday. I can't tell you how old she is because she doesn't like this age, but it is somewhere between 26 and 28. Katie is the only daughter that kept me up all night in labor.
She was such a good baby ! She loved her older sisters and would just laugh and laugh at them as they entertained her.

Here are a few pictures from a variety of ages.

Katie has always been very social and loved parties, this is a shot of a Tea Party that she hosted one time.

There is about 11 years difference in these two pictures.

The Katie that we love now.

Katie is a great daughter, wife, and probably the favorite aunt to all of our grandchildren, She is known as Toot Toot to them and she spoils them all.

Happy Birthday!

We love you!

Please don't send the birthday cake picture to cakewrecks.

A few random thoughts

2009-08-05T14:58:00.008-04:00

First of all for those of you that look at my blog occasionally you know that I have been so excited about my pineapple plant. I am not so excited about it anymore, it just isn't growing. The fruit is staying small but the leaves on top of it are getting bigger and bigger, I feel like I failed pineapple growing. I think I need to go to Maui and get first hand instructions, anyone want to come along?

Secondly, I attended a Girl Scout training on Saturday, I had a lot of fun. I left Pat at home with a house with most of the rooms turned upside down. I was afraid that he would try to help and clean, which always scares me because I can never find anything when he does that. Well he didn't help me clean, but he did add to the mess ! He has been wanting to paint the hallway and I have been wanting him to paint the bathroom door so the work began. First he pulled up the carpet in the hallway. One thing that he needed to do in preperation was empty the bottom of the hall closet, that is now on the kitchen floor. Look at my beautiful linoleum:

That needs to go quickly ! can you believe he actually taped it so that he did not get any paint on it?

Before he paints he felt that he needed to level the house, so the past two nights he has been under it trying to level it up. Last night it got close enough, I can now actually close the door to one of our extra bedrooms that I use for an office.

Now before he paints he needs to fix a couple of giant cracks that developed after leveling the floor. Quite a few nails popped on the hall wall also. Pat is an excellent sheetrock taper so I know that you will not be able to see any flaws at all when he is done. One more thing that I have asked him to do is to take down the panelling in the hallway also, he will do that in the next few nights. We are hoping that the hardwood floor under the linoleum is in okay condition, just a quick sanding and it will be beautiful.

Third, Saturday night Pat and I went for dinner with some very old friends that were in town,

Kevin and Polly Childs and three of their children, Josiah, Judson and Ian. We went to a local BBQ restaurant, Lisa's Hawg and Dawg. We all enjoyed a good meal and good conversation. Kevin was the Pastor of our church when we first moved here. Now he is the Pastor at the Rock in Conway, South Carolina. Josiah is in the Army, he was home on a short leave before going to San Antonio.

Lindy's Birthday

2009-08-03T23:16:00.006-04:00

Today, August 4 is my grandaughter Lindy's birthday. She is four years old today. Last Friday Kelly and Will had party for Lindy and Clara's birthdays. They held it in their church's gym. The theme was sort of Carnival. They played lots of games and had a Pinata, the food that they served was like what you could get a carnival. Corndogs, popcorn, funnel cakes, caramel apples and cotton candy. Everyone had fun. This is a picture that was taken last September at the beach, I like it. The next pictures were taken by my daughter Sarah. Lindy is posing in the two dance costumes for her recital.

Isn't she beautiful?

and in the next one a little bit goofy.

On Sunday afternoon I took Lindy shopping, she wanted to go to Big Lots, we went on a shopping spree. We bought a doll stroller and baby bed, a laptop table, paper and pens, Froot loops, and little debbie cakes, candy for Papa, and a gumball machine for her and one for Clara, and some cookies for Charlie. It was fun, she saw some things that we can buy next time too.

Happy Birthday Lindy !! I love you !!

What on earth is an Aebleskiver ?

2009-07-30T13:50:00.006-04:00

A few months ago Pat was watching a new show on the Food Network, The greatest thing I ever ate. On this show a variety of the chefs that appear on Food Network are asked what their favorite food items are, and then we get to see the food and at what restaurant you get the best of the item. On the show that Pat watched the one chef (we don't even know which one it was) said that his favorite thing was an Aebleskiver. Well, he must of made it look so good because Pat immediately got on ebaby and looked for an aebleskiver pan so he could make some.

While waiting for his pan to arrive he went to the aebleskiver website and watched a video of a Swedish Chef (not the one from Sesame St.) preparing the aebleskivers. Aebleskivers are pancakes that are shaped like a ball, you can put pieces of fruit inside of them. They are delicous they remind me of donut holes. I took some pictures of Pat making them the first time, my camera was on the wrong setting the pictures are very yellow:

We have made them again since this first batch, and they came out a little bit better.

Now you know what an AEBLESKIVER is !

Finally a new blog

2009-07-29T16:57:00.003-04:00

Pat and I have a little Girl through Compassion International, I have written a blog about her before. Her name is Monique, she lives in Burkino Faso, Africa. At Christmas time we decided to Bless her family with a financial gift. Compassion International takes the money and uses it to buy items for the family. Recently we received a picture of Monique and her family with the items that were purchased for them. They got a piece of sheet metal and rafters to repair the roof over their Kitchen, also corn, rice, spaghetti, oil, sugar, milk, cookies, soap, a dress and shoes for Monique and her mother is holding Fabric than can be made into a dress. This is the first picture we have ever gotten that Monique is smiling. August 27 is Moniques birthday whe will be 12 years old. She asks us to pray for her father he has breathing problems.
Pat and I receive such a blessing knowing that we are making a difference in this families life. We pray that they know that Jesus loves them and has picked them especially to be ministered to through Compassion International.

If anyone wants to ask us about sponsoring a child please ask, It is $32.00 a month, a little more than $1.00 a day. We feel it is a good investment. We hope to sponsor more children in the future.

Fourth of July

2009-07-05T20:57:00.008-04:00

Well Fourth of July has come and gone for 2009, here is a quick look at how we spent the day. As is the tradition we grilled a lot of meat. For the first time we did not have a grilling competion everyone brought their favorite meat to grill. We had chicken, steak, shishkabobs and of course hamburgers and hot dogs. Also lots of salads and desserts. One special dessert was a birthday cake for Clara, we celebrated her 6th birthday this year.

Filling water balloons

playing corn hole

Checking out the Wi Fi in the backyard

Charlie loved the s'mores
Happy Birthday Clara

Happy Birthday Clara

2009-07-04T02:22:00.004-04:00

Today is my first grand daughter's birthday. Clara was born in 2003, she came a few weeks early, as a matter of fact I was in California visiting the giant redwoods on the day she was born. Because we did not have cell phone service where we were we did not even know that she had arrived until after she was born. We always have a family get together on the Fourth of July, to celebrate Clara's birthday and Independance day. I will be decorating a special cake for Clara, this year she wants a cake with Strawberry Shortcake on it, I will post a picture in a little while. I am hoping I do a good job. Happy Birthday Clara 6 years old today !!!

She is one years old in this beach picture.

I am having techinical difficulties loading more pictures, I may continue this post later.

Happy Birthday Becky !

2009-06-20T22:06:00.006-04:00

June 21, 1985 to June 21, 2009

24 years !

Happy Birthday Becky !

This first picture was taken in the hospital before we went home.

Becky always had good birthday parties because her birthday was the first day of summer and growing up in NY we did not get nice weather until June, her birthday was a good reason to have a big party and play outside.

We had a variety of themes for her birthday, Ninja turtles, Dalmations, clowns, Aladin, I think the party that we had the most fun with was the last one that we had in NY, it was a "What would you do?" party. It was straight from Nickleodian TV we had slime, and pie throwing, obstacle courses, just a great day. All of the girls got involved with planning it.

It is hard to believe that my "baby" is 24, and she has a family of her own now. I am very proud of her. Becky is married and has a daughter, Leilani and two step sons, Zach and Jalen. She is a stay at home Mom, and a certified surgical tech. but has decided to stay home to be a housewife and mother for now. She and Jeff spend a lot of their time working for their church, as well as making improvements to their new home.

Happy Birthday Becky, I Love You !

Mom

Update for the week of June 8, VBS and Pineapples

2009-06-11T14:38:00.010-04:00

Here is a picture of Lindy and a friend in her classroom. They have been having a great time with about 18 other kids (preschool age).

STUDIO GO is the name of our program, it is game show setting with lots of action that gets all of the kids involved with answering questions and little games of competition. They all seem to be enjoying it.

These are shots of our Studio Go stage.

Here are some of the youth posing for a picture to put in their picture frame that they made last night.

This weeks update on the pineapple:

Pat and I are like new parents, we show the pineapple to everyone that comes in the factory. We are so excited, I'm not sure if we will be able to eat it when the time comes.

One last funny item: Here is a Smiley Face Fail, I blew this ball up the other day for the grandchildren and it had a frowny face instead of a smile! Poor guy.

Pineapple blog #2

2009-06-04T00:10:00.003-04:00

This is a pineapple update. We noticed today that there are little purple flowers coming at the base of the fruit. I didn't think that the fruit grew much but actually in todays picture it is 2 inches wide at the base and in the first pictures we took it was aproximately 1 inch wide. We are so excited about the pineapple, we are wondering if we should move the plant outside, because it doesn't get very hot in the foyer at work, we don't know if it needs heat to grow. It could kill it with a big climate change from indoors to outdoors. Any suggestions ?

I need a new Blog

2009-06-02T21:58:00.005-04:00

I have not posted a blog for a while, the last one I did about the apricot tarts was just a quick little blog that I wrote because I was guilty about not writing anything lately. Well I have quite a few days until the next birthday celebration, (keep checking in to see who it is) , no anniversaries coming up, so I what do I blog about?

I am just going to let you know about some tings that I have been doing lately:

Saw this Sea Otter at the Atlanta Aquarium, he is eating ice cubes

Had grandchildren over to swim and eat ice cream
Went to Edisto Island with Becky and her family. While we there our friends the MacIntoshes came by to visit for a while. We saw Dolphins, caught the largest Hermit Crabs we ever saw, played the longest game of Phase 10 (took 3 nights to finish) Zach won. Had a good time.

Clara and Lindy had a dance recital, and I have no pictures :(.

All of the girls and I went to Women of Joy women's conference in Tennessee.

We completed the rental house in time for the tenants to move in. There are still a few repairs to finish.

I went to NY to visit my Dad. I also visited with my sister and brother while there.

I have been trying to encourage Sarah with potty training Henry.

Oh and the most life changing thing that has happened is that we are going to be grandparents again !! Kelly and Will are pregnant with baby #4, he or she is due Christmas Eve.

Well, that is about it for now. I will try to get some recital pictures on of Clara and Lindy, they were so cute and did a great job!

Yummy Dessert

2009-05-29T00:06:00.003-04:00

Thursday night Pat and I made Apricot Tarts. Last week we saw an episode of Road
Tasted with the Neelys on the food network. They visited a place that made Apricot Tarts, they looked delicous. We could not find a recipe like the one on TV, so we improvised. We used a box of Pepperidge farm puff pastry. As you can see we tried several shapes and sizes. The ingredients were: Puff Pastry, Fresh apricots, small amount of sugar, cinnamon, egg for sealing the crusts, and Apricot jam as a glaze after bakeing. I like to experiment, this was too easy not to try.

Our Baby Pineapple

2009-05-27T00:02:00.004-04:00

Four years ago I made a fruit salad for a friend's wedding reception. I used a watermelon as the bowl. I cut up two pineapples along with other fruit to fill the bowl. Pat took the top of the pineapple and planted it, and it grew. We have it in the lobby of Gafney Embroidery. We have been hoping for a pineapple to grow out of it. We researched how you get a pineapple to grow and followed the directions.

Last week I noticed a little pineapple growing out of the top. We took a picture of it today and used a ruler to show how small it is. We are soo excited, you would think it was a baby or something. We plan to take a picture every week to show the progress of the fruit. The plant started a second plant, we are hoping that it will also get a fruit on it, maybe next year.
watch for our updates.

Happy Anniversary Katie and Andrew !

2009-05-23T00:00:00.001-04:00

Today is Katie and Andrew's Fifth anniversary! They are enjoying a vacation in Vero Beach, Florida. Unfortunately the weather has not been the greatest ! We love you and will see you on Monday !

Going to the beach !

2009-05-21T08:28:00.003-04:00

We are on our way to the beach today. Edisto Beach, SC one of our favorite places to go. Pat and Iwill be joined by our youngest daughter Becky and her family. We are looking forward to spending time with them. The boys plan to fish and Becky, Leilani and I will just hang out. hopefully I will have some pictures in a day or two.

This is a picture from last summer, taken at Bay Point.

Happy Birthday Zoe !!!

2009-05-09T10:47:00.005-04:00

Today is our youngest grandaughter, Zoe's Birthday, she is one years old today !!

This is her just a few weeks old, She was beautiful then and she is beautiful today!

We will be celebrating her birthday on Sunday with a princess ballerina party.

This is Zoe playing with a balloon at one of her cousins parties.

Happy Birthday, we love you !!!!!!

My trip to NY

2009-05-07T23:16:00.005-04:00

Well I was in NY 4/24-27 I have not posted anything about it. When I arrived at the airport I was looking for my sister or Dad at the Baggage area, the first person that I saw was my brother ! I did not expect to see him there. They suprised me with him comeing along to the airport. My dad did not know that he or my sister were going to be there, so he was very suprised. I really do not know when the last time we were all together, I think it was 1995. We had a short but good visit.

This is not a great picture, but it was the best of this pose. We went for lunch and this was taken in the parking lot of the restaurant.

While I visited my dad he was in a play at his church. It was called the SS Gigantic, It was a comedy, with a salvation message. My dad did a great job, his character was the financier that had paid for the new cruise liner to be built.

I was so mad at myself, because I forgot to bring my camera to the play. This is the only picture that I got, Dad is in costume. I think he looks like my grandfather in this picture. All in all I had a nice visit, and I look forward to when I can go back I wish I could get my dad down to SC.

Women of Joy

2009-05-04T13:27:00.003-04:00

What a great weekend ! The speakers and musicians were wonderful ! The facilities were nice, traffic was a little bit of a problem but we survived! We are looking forward to next year already!
I felt blessed to be able to spend time with all four of my daughters ! Praise God that we all could get together !

Happy Birthday Pat

2009-04-26T00:01:00.001-04:00

Today is the love of my life's birthday. We have been together celebrating this day since 1970. I am a little bit sad because I am in NY today spending time with my father, I think that there was only one other time that Pat and I were not with each other on his birthday. That was in 1995 when he was working in Fayetteville and I was in Ny with the girls. I have promised that we will do something special on Monday the 27th when I get home. I love you and miss you today, Linda

Our new rental house

2009-04-22T23:45:00.015-04:00

This is the new house. I have been talking about doing a blog for a while, so here is part one. I have some pictures of the work that we have done so far. Notice the front door, that is gone now. We will be installing a glass storm door next week. The new windows are installed in this picture. We have cleaned the kitchen and painted the bedrooms, kitchen and have the primer on the living room walls, hopefully that will be finished tomorrow. We have steam cleaned the carpet in the living room. Installed an electric stove. The biggest job that Pat has done is re-finished the hardwood floors in the bedrooms. We have one week to do as much as we can to have it ready for the tenant to move in on May 1. I will put more pictures on next week.
Pat has really worked hard, I am just not physically able to do too much.

Green Bedroom, this is the bedroom closet, each bedroom has a closet like this. Two of the bedrooms in our house have exactly the same closet. There are two drawers that go under the closet. The top of the closet is great for storage.

We pulled up the carpet in the bedrooms. The floor in the first bedroom was beautiful the second and third bedrooms were terrible, the carpet pad had stuck to the floor. Would we be able to make it look good or would we just cover it back up with another carpet. You decide:

After

This is the Beige Bedroom, the old carpet pad stuck to this floor too, will it look okay ? Just scroll down and take a look.

Before

After

Leilani helped

Becky helped

Our new replacement windows

I always loved the roses that grew by the front door, now they are in bloom and this year they are mine !

Happy Birthday Matt

2009-04-18T23:23:00.004-04:00

Sunday is my son in law, Matt's, birthday. We celebrated his birthday last Sunday because he was not going to be home this Sunday for us to celebrate on the real day. Matt is Sarah's husband and the proud father of Henry and Zoe. Matt takes wonderful care of the children during the week while Sarah is at work, he also works in the evening and weekends at the GAP. He is the music / worship leader at their church and also plays bass guitar in a Contemporary Christian band. Happy Birthday Matt ! we pray that you have a great day !!

This is a picture of Matt as he relaxed during our annual BBQ cookoff last summer. (He does do a pretty good job at BBQ !)

Happy Birthday Zach

2009-04-15T23:48:00.004-04:00

Today is our oldest grandson Zach's birthday. Happy Birthday !! I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he said $$$$$ to buy a new phone. We have only known Zach for two years, we have enjoyed every minute of any time that we spend with him. He is a good big brother to Leilani and quite often helps Becky with her. It won't be long before he will want a new car for his birthday, and then before we know it he will be off to college and starting a life on his own.

We love you Zach and are proud to have you in our family.

This isn't the best picture of Zach, but it is the most recent one that I have. It is from Easter.

Happy Birthday !!

Easter Egg Hunt

2009-04-13T08:46:00.010-04:00

Get Ready,

Get set, GO !!!!

Everyone had a great time searching for eggs in our backyard. Even Doodle and Peaches, after "the Bunny" hid the eggs she kept on finding them in the middle of the back yard and even on the living room rug. Doodle only looked for the real eggs, he did not care about the palstic candy filled ones. All in all the kids were all happy with their treasures, we had almost 175 plastic and colored eggs in the yard. We told Zach and Jalen to stop when they found 25 each, they found them so fast, this gave each of the little ones a chance.

Charlie looked....

Eating the bounty.....

Zoe watched and is going to be ready to look for eggs next year.

We all had a good time, we are so blessed to have all of our daughters and their families live near. The "cousins" all have a great time together and they are disappointed whenever they come to our house and all of the cousins are not there to play. On Saturday Becky took Leilani to their church for an egg hunt, one of Leilani's first questions was "is Clara and Lindy going to be there?" she was so sad when they were not there.

Thank you, Sarah, Kelly, Katie and Becky for all of the food that you brought, but most of all thank you for coming, you made and old man and old woman happy. We love you all too much !

Happy Easter, everyone, He is Risen !!

Easter Eggs

2009-04-11T22:51:00.004-04:00

Tomorrow is Easter, Pat and I will hide eggs in our backyard for the grandchildren. It is so funny what you do when you are a grandparent. When the girls were little, we never did anything for Easter that had anything to do with bunnies or eggs. We wanted the girls to all understand the reason we celebrate Easter. I still want the grandchildren to understand the meaning of Easter, but hiding a few eggs in the backyard can't hurt. right? I have a lot of plastic eggs with candy in them, I also have 3 dozen hard boiled eggs that Clara and Lindy colored on Friday, Hopefully I will have some pictures tomorrow of the hunt. Here is Lindy with her favorite egg:

Happy Anniversary Sarah and Matt

2009-04-09T23:24:00.003-04:00

Today is my oldest Daughter Sarah and her husband Matt's Anniversary. They were married five years ago. Happy Anniversary, I love you !!

My Squished Coins

2009-03-25T20:00:00.002-04:00

I have a collection that does not take up much space. I collect Elongated coins, I call them SQUISHED. The first time I got a squished penny was at the Statue of Liberty in New York City. There was a man with a hand cranked machine that looked like an old fashioned music box, I think that he had a little monkey with him like an organ grinder. It was in 1985. Everytime we travel I look for a penny machine. My family and friends know to look for them for me too. I have quite a few coins from all over the US, including Hawaii. This week Katie brought me 2 Euros from her trip to Germany. I have a dime, and several quarters. If you are ever looking for a present for me just find a pressed penny machine put in 51 cents and squish me a penny !

My presents from Germany

2009-03-25T12:00:00.002-04:00

Katie brought us presents from her trip to Germany. Licorice for Pat, Coffee for me and Chocolate to share, a magnet from Hamburg and my favorite item is two "squished" euros for my penny collection. There will be a post about my "squished coins coming soon.

They are from Hamburg, Germany If you look close youcan see 5 Euros on the backside of the coin.

Random pictures from the last few weeks

2009-03-24T22:21:00.009-04:00

March has been a very busy month, as you can see from my previous posts it started with my Dad's birthday on the 4th, then Jeff's birthday on the 5th, Charlies first birthday on the 6th, Leilani's birthday on the 11th. We had our annual St. Patrick's Dinner, corned beef and cabbage
I wrapped up the Girl Scout cookie sale for Cherokee County, finalized our woman's retreat for church, bought the house next door, worried about Katie traveling in Germany and London, hosted our "hometeam" this past Sunday and the month is not over yet.

Fashion Shows

St. Patricks Day

Leilani's Birthday

Jeff's Birthday The "cousins"

Charlies Birthday.

Happy Birthday Leilani

2009-03-11T21:03:00.007-04:00

Leilani was born on March 11, 2006

First Birthday

Two year old Birthday Cake
Leilani just before her 2nd birthday

Leilani Nov. 2008

We will be celebrating Leilani's birthday on Saturday. I am making her a Barney Cake. I will put pictures of her cake on my Blog Saturday.
Dear Leilani, Papa and I pray that you have a Happy Birthday. It is hard to believe that you are 3 years old !! We will see you Saturday at your party.
Love you very much,
Grandma and Papa

Happy Birthday Charlie !!!

2009-03-06T06:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday Charlie !!!

Today is Charlie's first birthday !! Charlie is Kelly and Will's son, brother to Clara and Lindy. He is a wonderful baby, a joy to have. As his Aunt Katie says, I want to order a baby like Charlie. I love you !

Happy Birthday Jeff

2009-03-04T21:37:00.004-05:00

Tomorrow, March 5 is my son-in-law Jeff's Birthday. This picture was taken at his and Becky's wedding. Jeff and his two sons have been a wonderful addition to our family. Jeff loves the Lord and his family, I am proud to call him my son.

Happy Birthday Jeff !

Happy Birthday Dad

2009-03-04T11:40:00.006-05:00

Today is my Dad's Birthday. He was born

March 4, 1931. I am guessing that the first picture of him was taken about 1936, he is sitting next to the pitcher pump with his dog, I don't know if this is Winky or not. In this picture I think that Clara looks like my dad.

The next picture was taken in 1954 in Newburg NY, that is me on his lap. Do I look like any of the grandchildren?

This last picture of him and his wife Caryl was taken last year,

2008 for his church directory.

I love my Dad, I wish that he and I lived closer together.

He is very busy with work, he does engineering consulting and makes and repairs custom golf clubs . He is always doing something for the Masons, and he sings in the church choir. As a matter of fact this April he will be in a dinner theatre production with his church, I plan to go and see him. This winter he shoveled too much snow !!

When warm weather comes he will be riding his Harley!

I hope that when I celebrate my 78th birthday I am half as active as my dad.

Happy Birthday Dad, I love you.

Snow day

2009-03-02T22:23:00.007-05:00

Look at these Giant Snowflakes !!!

It would have been a little bit difficult to BBQ today. Take a look at our pool, it looks like a crater. I think this is the most snow we have ever had in Gaffney since living here. One of the first winters that we moved here we had a terrible Ice storm. Todays snow storm left a lot of people, including our factory without power. Our electric was off for about 6 hours last night. This was the first time that we missed our 4 wheel drive on our old Suburban. When we tried to move our cars to our driveway, they wanted to go sideways down Lyman St. we eventually got them in the driveway.

I would have loved to build a snowman, but unfortunately I am sick and I just looked and smiled at the snow. Sarah and Matt made a great snowman, I should have had them come to my house and build one for me.

My Dogs

2009-02-25T23:53:00.004-05:00

I have two dogs, since I wrote about fish I thought that I should write about my dogs, Man's best friend.

Doodle the Poodle:

Male

White Small Standard

Birthday: 11/5/99,

registered name : Roly Poly Yankee Doodle.

Favorite activity: sleep.

Not a very good picture, but very current.

Peaches the Dachshund:

Female

Red Miniature Dachshund

Birthday 9/5/05

Registered name: My South Carolina Peach

Favorite activity: Snuggling

Doodle is really Becky's dog and Peaches is Linda's. When Becky got married we kept Doodle here, her marriage was going to be an adventure that did not need a dog. Both of Doodles parents weighed in at 7 pounds, Doodle weighs 28, he is what you call a throw back gene. He is not particularly fond of the grandchildren, he tolorates them. Peaches is also a little on the chunky side, but not as bad as Doodle. She loves the grandchildren and is very good with them. She loves you to throw her stuffed toy for her, she will do that as long as you are willing to throw it.

I have wanted a large dog for years, I do not think that I will ever get one, I am pretty sure that I will be getting another dog soon, I just have to decide on what breed.

Well that's my Dogs.

How we spent Sunday and Monday

2009-02-24T18:23:00.004-05:00

We have been looking for a new larger fish tank. Pat found a 55 gallon tank on Craigslist. It was in Asheville, NC. After lunch on Sunday Pat, Leilani and I got in the Suburban and drove to Asheville. We picked up the aquarium and all of the supplies and 4 fish. and brought them home. Now we have to make plans for setting up the aquarium.

First of all I have a large fantail goldfish, he is probably at least 8 inches in length including his tail. He is in a 10 gallon tank with a regular goldfish that we adopted from Clara. "Goldy" really needs more room to swim around. Our second tank is a 20 gallon tank with a variety of fish in it. Pat is like a little boy, everytime he comes home from Walmart he brings home fish. The Plan was to take the goldfish from the 10 gallon tank and put him in the 20 gallon tank, but we needed to move it first.

On Monday night we emptied both the ten and twenty gallon tanks. We were going to put the twenty gallon tank in the kitchen where the ten gallon tank had been. We were going to put the new 55 gallon tank on the hearth where the twenty gallon tank had been. But, when we put the new tank on the hearth Pat did not like it there, so he ended up going to Walmart and buying a stand for the new tank. So the twenty gallon tank that we had moved ended up going back on the hearth, and now I have an empty counter top in the Kitchen YEAH !!!!!!

The stand is nice, and the tank looks good on it, but now there is just too much stuff in the corner of the family room. I don't think the tank will stay where it is.

"Goldie"New Silver Dollar Fish

the biggest one is probably 5 inches around, but they are flat, only 1/2 inch or so wide.

I have a very large plecostamus I am going to try to get a picture of him.

Come on over and see our Aquariums !!

How I spent Saturday

2009-02-24T18:11:00.005-05:00

I decided to invite three of the grandchildren over to play with each other. Quite often Leilani will spend the weekend with us. She loves her cousins to come and play with her. I thought it would be a good idea to try to get them all here at the same time. Lindy is the oldest, 3 1/2 then Leilani almost 3 ( March 11), then Henry 2 1/2. They love to play outside, Papa took them for a ride in the wagon, up and down the street. They also rode on the swing in our backyard. We made sticker books with valentine and wiggle stickers. We ate the #1 food for kids, chicken nuggets, tator tots and corn on the cob. We baked cookies, and then we got cranky !!!!! Naptime. All in all they all had fun. The sad thing to Pat and I is that they are too young to remember it when they get older.

Lindy on our rope swing.

New Computer

2009-02-19T15:43:00.003-05:00

I just ordered a new laptop computer !!! Sam's club offered this today for $245.00. It is small, only 9 inches. Quite often I wish that I had a laptop computer to use when I am away from my house. I am excited to try this one out. It will take 4 - 6 weeks for delivery. So it will be a while before I can report to you how I like it.

On another topic, Pat suprised me and said he would open the Thanks a lot cookies first. But he says that he loves the caramel delights.

Cookie delivery

2009-02-18T23:03:00.010-05:00

Here are a few of the cookies that Cherokee County Girl Scouts recieved yesterday. I took these pictures with my phone. I brought my camera, but it does help if you remember to put the memory card in the camera when you leave the house.

Cookie Sales in South Carolina are much better than I ever remember in New York. All the troop leaders and parents are very excited about selling. We recieved 674 cases of cookies, there are 12 boxes in each case. total of 8,088 cookies. That is only the initial order. Each troop can go back and sign out more cookies from the Girl Scout office and sell them at cookie booths in popular shopping areas.

My favorite cookies is the Lemonades, They are all good and I wouldn't turn any away. The most popular cookie that was ordered is the caramel delights or samoas, (depends what baker your council uses) the next in top orders was the peanut butter patty.

I will get my cookies delivered to me tomorrow. I ordered from my granddaughter Clara.

I will have a hard time opening only a few of the flavors, I will want one of each flavor. First box to open will be the lemonades, I guess I will let Pat pick a box to open. I bet it will be the peanut butter sandwiches.

I also ordered some boxes to be sent to soldiers. I think that is a great idea, what a good way to bring Home to our soldiers.

I will post some better pictures tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Sarah !!!

2009-02-10T01:05:00.008-05:00

Today is our oldest daughter Sarah's birthday. This is a picture taken on her first birthday. Tonight I went through a lot of old pictures, I had a real good time doing it. I realize how much I love my digital camera. Picture taking use to be so hard !! You had to buy film for your camera, youhad to hope that the pictures that you took would look good, you had to pay for your film to be developed andyou had to wait about 1 week to get it back If the pictures that you took did not turn out good, TOO BAD !!!. I scanned quite a few pictures of Sarah I will put some more on the blog but the rest I will put on facebook. Happy Birthday Sarah !

Sarah is 2 days old in these pictures

Happy 3rd Birthday

Happy Birthday Sarah, We love you !!! Mom and Dad

Women of Joy

2009-02-04T08:00:00.000-05:00

Another project that I am working on is planning our annual Women's Retreat to Tennessee. This will be the fourth time that I have attended Women of Joy Conference. I am really excited about this years line up of speakers and the concert. To start the weekend off Kirk Cameron will be the first speaker on Friday Night. Saturday will have these great speakers: Carol Kent, and Priscilla Shirer. Saturday evening we will Praise and Worship with a concert by Casting Crowns !!!! On Sunday morning we will hear from Lisa Harper. I really enjoy going because not only do I get to spend time with my church sisters, but all my girls go , we get to spend family time too, and what better way than at a conference that brings us all closer to the Lord! If anyone wants more information about this conference go to : www.mywomensevents.com .

It is May 1 - 3, 2009

Girl Scout Cookies

2009-02-03T21:25:00.002-05:00

Tonight I went to my second meeting for Service Unit 628. I am the service unit cookie manager. Tonight I collected all permission slips from the various troops in Gaffney. Did you know that it is Girl Scout Cookie Time? Well if you have not been asked to buy cookies from a cute little Daisy, Brownie, Junior or Cadette Girl Scout you still have time to buy some cookies.

They have a great program this year, you can buy cookies to send to soldiers. A great way to let our men and women in uniform know that we are thinking of them. So those of you on a diet, buy a box for a soldier.

What is your favorite GS Cookie? I like them all, but my first choice is the lemonades, second is the caramel delights or in some councils they are called samoas.

I hope you all get to eat some cookies this year.

25 random things about me from facebook

2009-01-31T22:10:00.001-05:00

Okay, I had two friends on facebook tag me in this post. It took me so long to come up with 25 things that I thought I would share them on my blog.

1. I am a Christian, gave my life to Christ in 1977, I was pregnant for Sarah when I got baptized.
2. I married my High School sweetheart, Nov 20, 1971.
3. My maternal grandmother's maiden name is Cashdollar, one of her brothers was NY State treasurer, he is mentioned in Ripley's Believe or Not.
4. Family tradition says that my paternal great grandfather was the Illegitimate son of the Prince of England, he and his mother (the maid) were sent to the U S and given the last name of Hyde. When he died his body was taken back to England and burried with royalty.
5. 50 of my facebook friends were kids that I worked with in Church activities.
6. 10 of my facebook friends were in a Girl Scout Troop that I led.
7. I have changed diapers on at least 12 of my facebook friends.
8. My first real job was working behind a candy counter in Grants Department store.
9. I learned how to drive in a 1968 Mercury Cougar.
10. I LOVE SNOW ! AND it is one of the things that I miss most from NY.
11. I went to three different High Schools.
12. I took Horse back riding lessons in High School and won two ribbons in competition.
13. I have sold Tupperware, Herbalife, Melaluca and most recently I sell Avon.
14. I had two girls from Viet Nam live with me and helped them learn how to speak English, (they are both very beautiful and successful young ladies now)
15. I was Deputy Town Clerk and Tax Collector in Shandaken NY.
16. I wish I had more time to knit, crochet, sew or scrapbook.
17. My Favorite things to watch on TV is Reality shows, the season is just getting going, American Idol,Survivor (2/12, Amazing Race (2/15).
18. Pat and I went to Hawaii 3 years in a row for our anniversary, 2004, 2005, 2006.
19. Neither Pat or I went to college, but all four of our daughters did.
20. My favorite jewelry is Silver and Turquoise.
21. I am the oldest of 3 children.
22 .I am the only one that has children.
23. I prefer dark chocolate.
24. I just started a blog, and I am not too good at it. http://patandlindacox.blogspot.com/
25. I have the cutest and smartest grandchildren in the world!

hope you enjoyed it.

Off to a poor start

2009-01-30T00:17:00.003-05:00

Well, I am not doing too good with a daily blog, am I ? I could make up a lot of excuses, but really it does not take long to write something. I think that I have a hard time deciding what to write about. Well, it is Friday 12:20 am. TGIF ! Thursday night Pat and I went to Spartanburg to pick up Leilani, we met Becky and Jalen at Boston Pizza for dinner, then came home. Becky needed someone to watch Leilani in the afternoon so we volunteered to come get her, and Friday I will take her to Kelly in the morning to play with Lindy, Katie will get her in the afternoon. We will probably invite Henry over to play when I get home from work. Leilani loves her cousins (and Aunts).

Sunday is the last day to order Girl Scout Cookies, Clara sold over 200 boxes ! Her Daisy troop did well. They will earn extra money to help pay for their activities. I have completed my second Avon order. I made the Christmas Club payment all by myself today, without any help from the bank. I have been learning 3 new computer programs: Girl Scout Cookie sales, AVON website, and First Piedmont Christmas Club ACH deposits. I'm too old for all of this at the same time.

Speaking of being old, here is a picture of the necklace that Pat gave me for my birthday in December. I love it.

Well I am off to bed now, I will be thinking of some good blogs to post. Thank you for reading.

Linda

CatholicVote.org

2009-01-28T22:04:00.002-05:00

I saw a video on The O'reilly Factor tonight that I thought was great. I decided to share it here. I have to figure out how to put the video on my Blog. If you click on the link it will take you to the website with the video.
Leave me a comment with what you think of it.

CatholicVote.org

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Compassion International

2009-01-22T06:00:00.004-05:00

When Pat went to Promise Keepers in California in 2007 God led him to adopt a little girl from Compassion International. Her name is Monique, she lives in Africa in a country called Burkino Faso. She writes letters to us quite often and she has sent us photos of her and her family. I am not a good letter writer, I am trying to get caught up and send her a lot of letters in the next few weeks.

This picture is the most recent one that I have received. It shows what she did with the birthday money that we sent her. She bought fabric to make a dress, bought new shoes and bought rice and beans and soap for her family.

This is her family, Notice the little girl with the black shirt on, she is using a shirt as a skirt, you can see the sleeve on her hip. I don't know if her siblings have sponsors or not.

They appear to be poor, Pat and I pray that we are able to make a difference in her and her families life. Compassion International makes sure that the children learn about Jesus, we hope to see her in heaven some day.

It really snowed in Northville, NY

2009-01-21T21:24:00.002-05:00

This is my Dad's driveway. Can you see his mailbox in the snowbank? Now that's a snowstorm !!!

Magazines

2009-01-21T12:06:00.003-05:00

Why do we keep magazines? Last night I was doing some work in my room commonly known as My Shed, I made a pile of all of my most recent magazines.

When I receive a new magazine in the mail I do the following: First I flip through and remove all of the postcards that are loose between the pages, then I start at the back page and work my way forward. When I see a recipe or article that looks interesting I fold over the page. When I get to the front cover I set it down, and most likely never pick it back up. I might share the points of interest with a daughter or friend, but most likely I will never make the recipe that looked so good.

Sarah suggested that I rip those recipes out of the magazine and save them, then throw the magazine away. Great idea, but I already have a drawer full of ripped out recipes that I have never tried. I am going to try to use these recipes in 2009, I will write about them and share my favorites. Does anyone want some magazines?

It snowed !!!!!

2009-01-20T18:35:00.000-05:00

What a wonderful thing, to look out my window this morning and see snow ! I miss the snow so much, I know if it snowed for months and months I would not be happy about it. In Gaffney we usually get at least one small snowstorm each winter and for me that is wonderful.
When I was a teenager and living in California I misssed the snow too. I remember taking a day trip with my parents to go to "the snow". When I saw snow I actually cried ! well I did not cry this mornig but as we say: It made my tummy happy.

Knee Injury

2009-01-19T18:56:00.003-05:00

Well, as some of you know I fell at work last Friday and hurt my left knee. Doctor's order's were to stay off of my feet, ice on the knee and do not return to work until the orthopedic Dr. said that I could. This past Saturday I had agreed to help a friend with her daughters wedding reception, I was suppose to cater the food and keep the buffet full. Well how do you do that when you have Dr.'s order to stay off of your feet? You call your four daughters to help, so that is what I did !
All four of my GREAT daughters came to my house on Saturday morning, we made chicken salad sandwiches, fruit for the chocolate fountain, sandwich spirals, pigs in a blanket, shrimp platters as well as receive items from other good cooks at our church. Lori's pimento cheese, and Danette's bread and dip. Then they delivered the food to the reception hall, and set up the table, made coffee, punch, and melted cheese for fondue. Two of my son in laws also helped. I am very Blessed to have such great girls. I guess the next time I get asked to do something like this I better check their schedule first before I agree to do it.

I went to the orthopedic today and he said that my knee is fine, I probably just broke off some bone spurs, I should be back to normal soon. I go back to visit him in 3 weeks and then he should release me. So I could have done more on Saturday than I did, but you know what? I got to hug and kiss on all of the grandkids while their Moms (and Aunt) were busy helping me.

Thank you Katie, Kelly, Becky, Sarah, Will and Andrew for coming to my rescue ! I love you all very much !!

Pictures from the past

2009-01-17T22:10:00.000-05:00

Junior Prom 1970

Senior Ball 1971