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| Huxley, 2015 |
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| Emery, 2015 |
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| Gavin, 2015 |
.....October!!!! Yep!!! October!!! Can you say "FAST??????"
I don't think I've gotten to write this in my blog yet.....WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER GRANDBABY!!! "Mr. Peabody", as Hux calls him, will make his grand entrance sometime early in February! I am so excited!!!
We've had baby announcements, birthdays,
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| Huxley's 2nd!! |
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| Emery's 8th!! |
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| Gavin's 10th!!!!!!! |
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| Perfect location and perfect perch!!! |
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| "It's JETS!!!" |
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| Patrick |
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| Bertrand |
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| Aaron |
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| and Los |
trips to Kansas and Branson,
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| Photo bomber in Branson!! |
a trip with Jana to Colorado Springs
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| Just relaxing with my Ladybug |
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| Garden of the Gods and SUPERWOMAN!! |
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| Trying a new restaurant |
So mom has been in her new home for a few months now and it is beginning to look and feel like her home! Thank you, Lord, for getting us thru these last few months of transition and downsizing!!! Since April life got REALLY busy! I went to Casper to pick mom up on my birthday so we could go to Erika's wedding in Galveston, TX! That was quite a trip, exasperating at times (RAIN), hot, muggy, fun!! It was especially sweet to have Aaron, Kelsey and Huxley there, too! It gave mom and I a lot more movement around the island than I think we would have had had it just been the two of us. Mom was pretty limited on her movement, BUT---she was using her cane which totally surprised me when I got to Casper AND she was also working!!!! Great progress, Mom!!
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| GALVESTON!!! The Gulf of Mexico!! |
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| Mom, ordering SEAFOOD!!! |
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| Hux' first time at the OCEAN!! |
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| Cooper, Mini-Cooper (Maddox) and Huxley waiting to get on the ship!! |
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| Shawn, Julyen and Grams |
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| On the ship!! |
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| Erika and Joe |
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| Grams and Erika |
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| Daddy doing sand art.... |
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| Huxley approves!! |
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| Down by the sea....!! |
When we got back from Galveston we had a couple days to recoup and then head back to Casper. Her carpet was going to be installed in her remodeled bedroom and someone had to be there for that and mom had to work also (not expected by me so it altered our plans a bit).
I stayed in Casper for a week helping to unpack and downsize all the boxes we could handle in a week's time. I know that this was an incredibly hard thing for my "collector" mom to do! And at times we bumped heads and reached our limit of stuff! I am especially thankful for Shea! She has taken mom under her wing and does some cleaning for her the past few years. She was able to come in for a few hours once in awhile. It was funny to see her interacting with mom. The things that I would have wanted to put into a garage sale, mom would bow her neck and say NO, she needed it. Shea..."Oh, isn't that cute? That'll make a great garage sale thing!" and into the garage sale box it would go. AND, mom wouldn't say a word or make a fuss. :) We survived the week together and made a pretty large dent in the moving/unpacking area. Sometimes I wish I'd had more time, but am thankful for the time I did have! And I'm thankful for a husband who allowed me to go and be gone so much this summer!
Once I got back from Casper we bought a travel trailer and had several camping outings. Not as many as we would have liked because of finding places spur of the moment. I love our little "cabin on wheels" and wish the summer hadn't flown by so fast! We pulled it up to Casper the middle of September and "camped" at mom's with the kids (Jana & Rob, Aaron & Kelsey and kids) stayed in the house! This was for CJ & Cheryl's wedding! That was a fun time and it was so nice to have all my kids with my mom IN ONE PLACE!!!
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| EmJ and Hux were the SUPER "Reindeer" and SUPER Flowergirl!! |
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THEN, Dad B got sick, went into the hospital, ended up have a quad bypass. Wes flew to Kansas then for a week. After he got home Dad got sick with a bowel problem and staph. So it was pretty worrisome for all of us, but God is GOOD and Dad is now able to be focusing on rehabbing for his original bypass!
Wes came home and again we headed up to Breckenridge for the weekend (a working weekend, because he did a bid measurement in Keystone). It was a really nice time!
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| Looking over Dillon Lake |
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| An artist who was trying to draw attention to deforestation decided to have the aspen trees painted...they are beautiful. |
But now he's going to daycare....(teary eyes here!!) I know it's got to be because I do have to sub during the off season, but it doesn't make it any less sad for me to hand off my grandma time to someone else. (Their first choice of daycare...which was supposed to be a Christian setting, was not successful so now Billy's (Aaron's old roommate) mom, Debbie, is going to give it a try! He seemed to really take to her place when we went to let him meet Debbie! I think she will really love him! That makes the transition easier.
I am getting ready to begin my subbing for the fall starting with a half day this Wednesday! It will really start full force by the end of this month. I'm going to sub for Vicki, at the church the last week of October! That should be fun! It's been a long time since I've been someone else's secretary! Lord, help me to do well!!!
Oh, and I am teaching myself Spanish! Well, not really teaching myself, but using online apps--Duolingo and a few others--to learn! I am starting to think in Spanish...that means I'm making some progress! I really want to be able to speak and understand much more than I have in the past!
Well here's to a beautiful Fall, 2015! Next time I'm sure it will be catching up from Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!
