Happy Valentine's Day to the best looking and smartest kids on the planet! This picture is priceless as it is a slice of real life! We love you!

Happy Valentine's Day to my Sweetheart. This is our 43rd Valentine's together. And the old quote "you're not getting older, you're getting better" certainly rings true. There's a lot of life lived in that many years. We have had fun times, sad times, hard times, joyful times. We have 8 wonderful children (4 adopted by marriage) and 11 beautiful grandchildren who are the smartest and best looking on the planet. No matter what happens, I can always count on my sweetheart to be there for me. He goes to chick flicks, helps me spend hours on Christmas projects (even though he doesn't always approve), runs errands for me, will go to the store late Saturday night because I have decided I need "one more thing" for my lesson on Sunday. And he does dishes! and vacuums! So I just want to say I LOVE YOU and thanks for being my best friend forever!

Bye Bye Christmas

We had our annual family New Year's Eve--eat until you're stuffed and play games. I started doing a big snack feast when the kids were teens, so they would want to stay home and I would know where they were. Now we are still going with the grandkids. We have wall to wall games going, except for the babies, the others are able to play and have a good time. The adults play with the babies so it works out. Andrea and Scott brought their Wii and I'll just inform you my grandkids say "I rock". Games have sure changed since we were kids, but winning is still fun.

Granddaughters

Dinner & jamas

Christmas Eve

There's not a snowball's chance

that winter will be over soon. My blog has gone to the beach. Someone should be warm somewhere.