Hi everyone: Here am, with not a daughter or granddaughter sitting beside me to help me with this post. Wish me luck! I had mail from Toni with pictures of baby Julia. Oh, she is a sweetheart. Toni also sent a picture of Jack with his President Obama cookie he made, commemorating the Inaugeration. Good work Jack. There's a picture of Toni and Karla and of John and Ian. Thanks Toni. Tone has a new digital camera and is in the process of learning how to download and post pictures or attach them to e-mail. Steph forwarded pictures of Ellie and Melissa. Ellie had grown her hair very long and donated the hair to Locks of Love. This group makes wigs for patients needing hair replacement. That was a great thing for you to do Ellie! Well done. When Ellie cut her Melissa decided to join her. I think I'll add the photos separately so it won't interfere with this letter. I just watched President Obama's address to Congress. I hope all he envisions will come true for America. We are enjoying lovely February weather. 73 yesterday and 72 today. Lots of people have taken out their shorts.
Jon just sent pictures of his family and then Steph forwarded photos of Gabi and of Jared and Asher. Not to leave anyone out, we'll go back to last summer and add pictures of Bryce and Tom and also Randy and Elena. I will have to scan pictures Toni sent me of Julia and also Jack taken when Toni&John were in Washington for the Inaugural. I have one of Andy with Sam and Sean in Hawaii in 08
Today Maria and I had lunch and then shopped for fabric. What else? I was gifted with lovely new fabric for free! because of previous purchases. It's like going into a candy shop--I can't resist all that stuff.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Jen was here taking pictures of all the old photos on the den wall. Then she isolated this "Margaret Ann and her Mommie" and sent it to Margo. It was too large, but Maria edited it down to blog size. Enjoy! In the last post, we added Melissa with her braces off. Isn't she beautiful!
OK! After many starts and stops, we're trying it again. Jen left us right after the New Year and I sat here and tried to add something but I could not. Maria has given me a day now and we down-loaded my pictures from Jan 18. Dr Jon came for a quick week-end and it was fun. We had dinner to celebrate Mark's birthday on Sunday the 18th. Before we did that Jon and I visited David and Charlotte because they had all the kids over for lunch. I wanted to see the little babies and was able to get a few pictures. Jon took some and he might send them sometime. Charlotte also took photos and she also could send them to us. I did get Esther rocking little Asher. She said he loves being rocked. Jon left us on Inaugeral Day. That was exciting, to see President Obama inaugerated and the crowds were amazing. Toni and John Gibson were right there in the middle of and has sent up photos of that historic event. Great pictures. So, Happy New Year to all of you.