Christmas time.

Our Christmas pictures. Christmas Eve at Sue's house. Chinese food. Games. White elephant exchange. 'Feelie' gifts. And our adult exchange. Christmas dinner at Moms. But no snow.

Bacon Yule Log - A Virtual Fireplace for Your Holiday

This tickles me..  A bacon lovers yule log.  lol..  Wish I had that fry pan..

White Pass

We go to Selah and Yakima every weekend to take Jim to see Sandy. They moved her to a rehab center. I didn't think she was ready but I saw a little bit of improvement today from last week.

Our trip over the pass was nasty. Last weekend the lights flickered off for a second on the way home. It was darker than I have EVER seen.

These are a progression of pictures as the weather deteriorated. (For some reason they won't go in order as I put them but you can figure it out) I quite taking pictures when I felt the need to 'help' Jeff drive. Lol.

Jeff's Mom had a stroke last week and is in the hospitol.  It has been touch and go.  Last night they took her off the ventilator and she seems to be holding her own.  She recongnizes us, moves her feet, and squeezes hands on her left side. She is the rock in that family.  We will be going over to Selah every weekend to do whatever we can..  Please keep Sandy in your thoughts and prayers..

Thanksgiving

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Missed a few of you including Jeri. We brought home a doggy containers for her. Kids played 'find the turkey leg' and Sue of course made us play her annual games. :)

Spokane

Enjoyed being in Spokane with the family. Carly played WSU and Gonzaga. She does a great job out there. We also ate. Shopped. Ate again. Went to No-Li Brewhouse. Ate. Went shopping and the mall had the tree up. Beautiful. Our taxi Mike picked us up and we ate again. We had quite a good time. Weather held out and we flew home in a big wind storm. Good to be home.

Off to Spokane.

First stop.... Breakfast.
Beecher's..

Fair is fair.

Jeff goes to the bead shop with me..

I go to the bullet store with him...

Experiment.

First post from my phone. If it works it will be great for our Spokane weekend
I hear Jackson reminded uncle Jeff to close his toolbox. Thanks Jackson.

 

It was a beautiful day today.  Warm and in the 60's.  Jeff cleaned the gutters and trimmed the tree that touched the house.  It was only supposed to be a few snips.  It was a few BIG snips..  Oh well.  He thinks that Magnolia grows faster than any tree there is..   His excuse to cut as far as he could reach.  If I wasn't there it would be a stump.  The picture on the top left had leaves swirling around and I just got hit with one.  Almost dropped the phone..  :)

 First Halloween customers. 

 Neighbor said I was cheating with electric pumpkin.

I had glow sticks in 5 paper towel tubes and cut out eye shapes.  No one even noticed.  I thought it was cool. (when Jeri comes home tonight it may scare the crap out of her. teeheehee)  Almost ran out of candy tonight. First time ever.. Had probably 70 kids.  I should have known after a 7 ft.  Marilyn Manson in 5 inch spike heals came to the door it would be a different evening..  Most of the kids were very polite.  I thought it was funny when they would pull out the candy I threw in their bags and they would check it out before they moved out of the way..  One kid cried because Jonathan cut in front of him.  lol.  The old kid who came to the door just looked at me because he knew who I was.  Willie is his name and he's 21.  He knew that I knew that he knew.  Know what I mean?   Well another Halloween is over and November just begins.. How time flies...

Two new pictures.  The first one is from JJ's work at the Aviano Post Office.  It was on a website they have.  Don't he look skinny?  Check out those glasses..

This second one is Jeri and her ballot.  First time voting and first time voting for a president.  Woohoo... 

Happy Birthday to Dad...

We celebrated Dad's 80th birthday last night at Sue and Dan's house. We had lots of fun games. (right?) Good food (we always have too much), Good drink (someone had to much), some laughs (thanks Grace)  and great company... Happy Birthday Dad..