I love holidays and family get-togethers

One of my favorite things about special events and holidays is having family in town. Any more that doesn't happen very often. Especially not everyone at the same time.

We were excited when our son Jesse was able to come for almost 2 weeks! Hopefully next time he and Nicole will both have time off together so we can have them both here.

It is hard now that the family is starting to scatter across the country. It's exciting for them, but sad for me. I miss them even as they grow up and I don't see them as often, because of their busy schedules. I am spoiled. For so long everyone lived with in a few minutes drive. We worked together and played together. Now its a special treat when we are together :)

We all gathered at Morgan and Devin's to celebrate baby Alex's blessing and Devin's birthday!



Something about windy days and us trying to get a family picture...





A partial group shot with Tiggy, Garthy and Forrest added in...




My silly Garthy...Don't you love his locks? He's growing long so he can then cut them for chemo patients wigs...Gotta love that kid ;)




Two of my beautiful nieces...



Silly cousins hanging around...

Lloyds Birthday

So as you can see, this is why Lloyd takes the pictures in our family. :) My battery was croaking, everyone was looking at Tiggy, I just never get it right!

Last night for Lloyd's Birthday I decided (at the very last minute) to text the kids and have them meet us at Macayo's for dinner. Only a few weren't able to come. There was about 14 of us so it was silly and fun with lots of love. Lloyd loved it.



Well this is a really bad shot of the group. Tiggy and Morgan are the only ones looking at me. Can you tell Tig was being a ham. She was insisting it was her 1/2 birthday party. Not Uncles!



Lloyd holding the newest and cutest addition to the family. Tig still won't let me keep him!

latest cake

Busy weekend making cakes for friends. At least with friends I can try new techniques and if I really mess up they usually don't care...much ;).
The Transformer cake was for Ashley's boy friend. It was watermelon flavor which is a favorite of the kids, but I don't care for much. It reminds me of a watermelon jolly rancher and just to sweet for me.


The second cake was for our Karate Sensei. Lloyd has been studying karate with him since the late 1980's. He is a super guy and has a great family. We like to try and do something special for him when ever we can. His birthday happens to be on Veteran's Day so it's always easy to remember. His cake was a pina-colada flavored cake. It was pretty yummy!



Sensei James with his cake...




The cake itself.

So tiny...

When my grandma was still living she was always crocheting. She could crochet about anything. I have many of the things she made me. One of the favorite items for all my family was the slippers she would make us for Christmas. I found some old slippers she had made and decided to try my hand at it. They were actually really fun to make and with my short attention span :) I could do them in no time.


The hot pink one is one of grandma's creations. The other two are a pair I made for Antigone and Alex.

Alex's were so tiny!

How do guys think of these things?

So dh (dear hubby) comes home last night after going hunting with some guys from work. He sets a Diet Coke and half a package of mint Mentos on the counter. I eat a few of the Mentos before he tells me their for an "experiment". Supposedly if you drop a couple of Mint Mentos in a bottle of Diet Coke it shoots the Diet Coke out of the bottle.

Maybe it would of looked even cooler if I hadn't eaten most of the Mentos :)

Silly Boys!

Really...I'm still here ;)

I realized I hadn't posted anything for over two weeks. I really am still here and kicking. However I did get the stomach flu that lasted for a week. Then with my really lovely stomach it took a while to get up to speed again.

Lloyd and I with baby Alex

We did have a beautiful baby boy added to our family on the 24th. My niece Morgan and her husband Devin had their second child Alexander Jeffrey. We are all so excited. Big sister Tigone is very happy he's here!

Aren't they so cute? This is just a couple hours after he arrived. Look at all that hair! I just love my family! I think Antigone likes Alex even better than Pebbles :)!

He is so tiny! Especially compared to the usually big babies born in this family :)

Eww, now he has Ashley germs :).