Happy Birthday Matt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.