Grandma Shirley's Birthday Cruise

A wonderful 80th Birthday cruise. We love you Grandma

Getting our bags ready and boarding the ship

The Carnival Magic. Brand new ship and our home for 12 days.

Shirley's cabin was decorated when we arrived.

All of the 16 cruisers. This was a suprise birthday dinner the night before birthday.

Blowing out 80 candles would be a fire hazard.

Shirley was suprised and a bit emotional.

The sisters.

Sisters and the daughters.

And with the grand-daughters.

The birthday gondola ride in Venice.

Heading Home

A couple of pictures of yesterday's tour of Barcelona. I'll keep posting new thingsthis week. Best of yesterday was the Sagrada familia.



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Mom in a go car. Can't rotate this





Nativity scene above front doors.



Alter inside. Will do a better job at home

Sadie's Baptism

Having a great time in Phoenix. Sadie had her baptism yesterday, and it was very nice. Warm and Sunny, golf tomorrow.


















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Location:Phoenix, AZ

Remembering Pepper

This is a picture of DaNae with her swimsuit on backwards. I think it looks alot like Ella.

The best pictures of Pepper were with Parker and Pepper.

Ella was thinking about Pepper yesterday. She wanted to draw a picture for him and OC and mail it to heaven. She remembered pepper being put in a box and being mailed to heaven, and wondered if he would get the picture. So I'm posting a couple of pictures of Pepper for her to remember him.

A Few Favorite Pictures

It's slow at work this afternoon, and the machine is down, so I'll try a little blogging from my iPad.



Grace was our Mary for the Christmas story reading.



Fun to have Sonny and Rosabelle here.



Sure cute kids.



Grandma gave Ella a wedding dress for Christmas



She really loved her AMG girl doll and matching night gowns.






New Years was fun in Buffalo at Autumn's blessing.



The kids had fun visiting the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.






Luckily the giant shark didn't eat them all.
We had a great time tending Dianna's little boys. Miss them already.

Thanksgiving in Phoenix

We had a great time in Phoenix for Thanksgiving. Half of the family made it down. Drew was a great host to share his home and heat the pool. We had ten adults and 12 kids for the dinner.
It was a great meal and we had lots of fun and games with the fam.
Dinner prep by the girls.

Boys watching football

Sometimes dinner just takes too long. Brit couldn't quite make it.

We had a great time in Drew's pool. He heated it so that the cool days were fine to swim.

Playing thanksgiving bingo with grandpa.

Songs with the cousins and then opening the Christmas jammies.

Fun in the pool.

Foul Hooked Like A Fish

It was Wednesday and the tide was in and the fishing was slower. Dave Bowers and I were working hard to catch our limit of 5 fish. I just caught my 5th and he was throwing hard to get his fifth, when whack, I got the lure in the side of the head. It was a pretty lime green vibrax treble hook. One hook cut my ear, but didn't catch. The other hook caught the side of my face. In the picture below you can just see the tip of the hook where is was cut off with pliers. Unfortunately the barb on the hook wouldn't come loose.

We went back to the cabin, had lunch, and then Layne washed it with betadine, numbed it with xlyocaine, and used a scalpel to cut through the skin and release the barb, and free the hook. He did a great job.

Layne put on a waterproof bandage gave me some keflex and I was back in the fishing business with no infection.

The end of the week and the cut is healing well. No sequelae. Dave Bowers really felt bad, but it was just an accident. He was much more careful casting though the rest of the week.