Girls Growing Up

Time goes by so fast and I see it's been almost a year since I have written.  So much has happened since I last wrote and I'll have to pass on that and pick up on the here and now.  The Grandchildren are growing so fast and three of them are now in middle and high school.  Savannah and Taylor are cheerleaders and both were on the homecoming court last week. Taylor represented the 6th grade and Savannah represented the 8th.  They were so pretty that night at the game.

Our four sons

Our four sons on Christmas Eve 2008

Christmas 2008

Just a few of the good pictures we took at Christmas.

Christmas is a good time of year

Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of Christ and remember why He came to earth as a baby and lived on earth and paid a price for us so that we would live with him forever in Heaven. It is a time for family and giving of ourselves to each other. This year our whole family was together with goodies galore. We had our four boys, three daughters-in-law, seven grandchildren and lots of cookies, candy, pies and fudge. This was the year for pictures as we had another family portrait made since it had been about 4 years since the last one. Everyone did their best to keep their cool until the very end and for that I am grateful. In the near future everyone will be grateful we had it done and will forget the gnats, the sun in our faces and the anxious children ready to quit after every picture.

Sarah Palin Rally Experience

What a fun day we have had. We started the day at 5:30am. We left the house at 6:30 and headed for a rally downtown at the Jacksonville Landing to see our next Vice President, Sarah Palin. We stood in line for over an hour before our line started moving to get in
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Steven and Stacy got there and found us about 8:30. Stacy inquired about special seating for elected officials and found out that there was such a thing and so we were escorted through the crowds right up front of the podium where the quests were to speak. After hearing from Gov. Crist and Senator Mel Martinez, Sarah was introduced. She was great and her speech was just as good as she always gives. She is just a classy, charming lady that seems so down to earth and personable. I was so close to her that I could notice who she went to after her speech. She saw some Down Syndrome children down in front of me and she made her way to them to talk and sign their papers. While she was doing that she called one of the security men over to her and asked him to bring a couple to her that she had noticed in the crowd. I looked over to them as she pointed them out and they were holding a sign that said, “Today’s our wedding anniversary and we would like to meet you.” He went to them, motioned for them to come with him and when they got to her, she hugged them, talked a little and then posed for pictures. She proceeded to sign and greet all around the crowd front.

Some other signs we saw that were good were, “Superman wears Sarah Palin Pajamas” and “Jews for Sarah Palin—Go Esther” and of course “ Read my lipstick”

We hung around until she and Gov. Crist left and found out that Steven and Stacy had found a way to get closer to them and got their autographs. I was trying a squeeze through to get a shirt signed for our Pastor’s wife but the crowd was so tight I couldn't get through.

We had lunch there at The Landing and left very happy and satisfied that we had done something we had never done before and had experienced such an exciting Vice Presidential event/rally and can now say that we were a part of history.

A Good Time

Here we are with some of Grandma's little goodies having a good time at Chucky Cheeses in Raleigh, NC. We went up for a visit a few weeks ago and took four of our Grandchildren there to play and have lunch.

My first picture

I've been trying to get a picture on the blog and it didn't work the first time so hopefully this time you'll see it.