Fun Times!

December 27th was our Christmas. Benjie and Steve's families made it a lively exciting day. We read the Christmas story, sang all the Christmas favorites with piano, organ and Steve on the drums. Yes, there was a delicious ham dinner, with Kathy's green beans and Cate's fruit salad. Then, we had to see what was in the Christmas Stockings, and play Liverpool Rummy!
Making it even better was having Stephanie and Courtney here from ID. New Year's Day Benjie's family came. We all enjoyed food and a movie. They stayed all night...fun! In the morning we had strata and coffee cake requested by the kids.
Monday night, Jan. 4th, the gang all met at Danny and Shanda's new home with the large TV for the Fiesta Bowl. Boise State University and TCU played a great game and BSU won! Wow! We all brought Mexican food, what an assortment and was it yummy! (Food is important to us, as you can tell, ha!) During all of this time we've had snow and very cold weather hovering around O degrees, brrrr. Oh yes, Sammy turned 3 on the second and Danny and Shanda had anniversary #1 on the third. Benjie was #1 selling real estate for Carol Jones in 2009. The new year has started with a bang....Wow! a new decade. Hoping this is a great week and new year for you...blessings.

It is 2010!

One Divine Moment

After a delightful morning worship service in Seymour, and a great welcome home from the congregation, we jumped in the car and headed back to Tulsa... Jan and Sharlotte's church presentation of the Christmas story was to be at 6:00. Shannon, their son, was in charge of building all the Bethlehem set which covered the sanctuary stage. He is so talented, working for ORU and taking classes to finish his degree. The performance included a cast of over 200, live animals, and special video presentations. Shannon gave us a tour backstage where we met many of the actors.
Again we stayed with Jan and Sharlotte enjoying many laughs and family stories. All 5 of our kids called on their cell phones to find us. They couldn't believe we were back in Tulsa!
Monday morning we drove home, unpacked, got back in the car and went to Springfield to attend Julie and Jessie's magnificent Christmas Choral Concert. There were 300 students involved. The evening was capped with delicious Braums' ice cream.

Home Again!

We are back in Seymour. After church, Nov. 22 we drove to Tulsa, stayed all night with Jan and Sharlotte (Benny's brother) and left for Seattle on the 23. It was exciting seeing the Isoms. It had been over a year since we had admired our darling granddaughters. There was fun cooking for Thanksgiving, preparing the turkey, and pumpkin chiffon pies plus other yummy things. Russ and Judy Isom came too. Friday, Scott left for Nashville to finish last minute tour planning. He and Debbie were tour hosts for 31 people celebrating Christmas in Nashville and surrounding areas. We enjoyed taking care of the girls...what a delight! Hannah with Bokaw's (Benny's) encouraging painted her first oil painting which was framed for mom and dad to see when they returned. Both Hannah and Haley practiced piano with Bokie (Elaine) every day and can play their whole Christmas book like a professional. Hope sang all the songs in her book and played along with Bokie...great fun! Scott and Deb came home on the 9th and we left the 12th...not before spending a day at the beach though...cold as it was we played in the water, collected shells, and had clam chowder, a must do!! Our trip home was long since we had a 4 hour unplanned lay-over in Denver. Jan was there with our car though and we continued the trek home arriving four hours later. Yes, we were on time for church the next morning. We were blessed...God is good!

December Is Here!

Our computer was not working forever so November came and has gone and here it is the first of December and I'm just getting back to the blog. We are in Puyallup, WA with Debbie, Scott, Hannah, Haley, and Hope. We arrived November 23, after spending the night with Jan and Sharlotte in Tulsa (Benny's brother). They are taking car of our car. Our flight was from Tulsa to Denver, to Salt Lake City, and finally Seattle...an all day excursion with packed flights.
We hope you had a great holiday. We enjoyed a fantastic Thanksgiving with the Isoms from Oregon. It was wonderful having all four grandparents here for several days. Debbie and Scott will guide a Christmas Tour of 31 people for a week in the Nashville area. We will have fun with the girls. The tour starts tomorrow. It has been fun visiting with you this morning...have a tremendous week I know we will.

September 12th--Soccer with Mikey

It is a beautiful day today. Apple Festival time is here in Seymour, a three day event. We went last night and viewed all the treasures people displayed in booths all around the square. The crowd was happy, eating all kinds of fatning yummies, and singing along with country musicians that were on a flat-bed stage. Does this sound like the 1800's?

Today Mikey has a soccer game. It will be fun watching him. He loves sports so that keeps his Dad energized. Jessie still is on crutches after a bad ankle sprain in gymnastics.

Benny trimmed the property with the weedeater and felt his aches and pains yesterday...but, the yard looks great! and the fence-line fantastic.
Lots of empathy from me, ha!

Time for study for Sunday School. Going to tackle Gideon this week.

Hope you've had a wonderful week. Keep smiling. God is good!

September Activities

The last weekend of August was great with Ron and Lois Ingersoll from Minneapolis visiting us. We headed to Branson, where we had great fun. This included hearing the 12 Irish Tenors, enjoying the outside mall , The Landing, and ate dinner at Lamberts, home of the throwed rolls. Also toured Little House grounds and museum in Mansfield, enjoyed Ron and Benny singing in church and then eating spaghetti with the family on Sunday. Yes, it was a busy weekend.

Beautiful weather, in the 80 range with an occasional shower continues in Seymour. Benny has the lawn looking great. He enjoys being my yard man!

We have a second kitten. The first one was attacked by a opposum. This one appeared by our mailbox and so far is enjoying being the guard of the deck. He looks like the first one.

Labor Day Benjie and family came out and spent the night...we had a great time eating, watching a movie, and just hanging out. School is in for all the kids so fall is really here.

Have a great week. Have had computer troubles so haven't kept up as usual. Hope all is going well for you and you are having good days with your friendly computer. Smile...Blessings galore.