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Merry Christmas

Hoping you and your family are having as wonderful a Christmas as we are. 

 

 

A Wonderful Thanksgiving Day

A perfect Southern California day for a Thanksgiving Day potluck luncheon. 

 

 

39 again

See, when you get older you say 39 again. In my younger years it was 29 again, but once you reach a certain age group it's just...not right. 

Since we have such a large family we celebrate all the birthdays for that month with one birthday party. Mine and and my nephew Steve's was last Sunday. 

 

And we each got our own birthday cake. 

 

Hectic, Scary, Frustrating, Tiring, Trying, few days

Friday Stan went in for an Angiogram and came out with an Angioplasty. 

During his annual physical, some routine tests showed Stan has some minor heart damage indicating he may have sometime in the past had a heart attack, and not even know it. He was faced with the decision to have an angiogram, to go in and see if there is any blockage and if so to what extent, or, not have the procedure at all. Well, waiting to see if you might or might not have another heart attack is not much of an option that we can see. 

Going in for the angiogram we knew there was the possibility that he might need a stent. As luck would have it he did have to have one, thank God just one. The blockage was minor and the procedure went smoothly. 

He was to come home yesterday, well; after waiting for a long eleven hours, sitting on a hard straight back chair, afraid to even go get a cup of coffee for fear I'd miss the Dr. (that didn't come until 7:00 P.M.)<wahh, wahhh poor me> I went home without him because his temperature was up and his blood pressure was down. 

The Dr.kept him overnight again and ordered more tests. So far the tests show no infection, so we are just waiting for the results of the chest X-Ray and a visit from the Dr., hopefully sometime before the sun comes back up. :-)

The face of a man that found out he gets to go home from the hospital today. 

Yes, that's as big as his smile gets, for him, that's a huge one. ;-) you should see mine. 

And that's that 

Jarod's Nine

 

He turned 9 last Friday. All he wanted for his birthday was a swim party 

 

 with some of his friends, 

 
 

and hopefully the rest of the money he needed to buy the PS3 he's been saving up for. 

I think his 9yr old wishes came true. 

He deserves it, he's a great kid. 

Eyes in the sky

My oldest grandson Jeremy has had his eyes in the sky for a few months now. 

He got his first remote control airplane for his birthday in October. 

Beware of Sugar Cookies

As you know from my last post we made sugar cookies yesterday.

 

Today is the day we decorated them.

Turkey Carving Lesson

Jeremy helped his dad carve the turkey this year. 

 

He took this responsibility very seriously.

It was the best turkey I ever ate.

We'll miss you Fran

My oldest sister Fran passed away Wednesday morning. 

 

I thought I'd share some memories of her with you. 

Birthday Shenanigans

Last week was my birthday. My sister is good about making sure we have a birthday celebration for the birthday people. We do one party for all of the birthday people for that month. We have very few months we don't have a birthday party. 

 

St. Robert bakes a cake for each birthday person. Some months he bakes four, but this month he only had to bake two.

One for me and one for...