Congratulations to Dave & Carol

Just Married

David & Carol Williamson

January 5, 2006

@ Henry Farm Inn

Chester, Vermont

Congrats and best wishes to both of you!

In honor of all the birthdays we have been having

Longevity

The secret is not a calm disposition
or inner strength
Or following the advice of your physician:
The secret of longevity is length.
Day by day the journey is made.
It's like becoming the Tallest Boy in
The Sixth Grade.
Stick around and you're bound to win it.
And by and by
You'll even be as old as I.

Garrison Keillor

Happy Birthday Lisa February 9th

There are lots of birthdays the first of February!! The one for Thursday is Lisa's. Happy Birthday! Your first birthday as an old married women. Have a great year! We love you.

Happy Birthday, Brianna 11 Years Old!

Brianna, Scott's daughter is 11 years old today! Have a great day Bri!! We miss you and we love you!

Happy Birthday Cory!! (A day Early) Feb 3, 1986

Happy Birthday Cory, you old lady you! (I have to post this today as we are leaving for a couple of days.)
This is Susan Cory at my wedding 8 years ago. How the time flies!!


Here are the two birthday girls at 8 and 6 years old! Happy Birthday to both of you.

Happy Birthday Steve!!

The first thing you have to know is that this is the second post I have made for Steve's birthday. The first one had such a cute little naked picture of Steve but I thought better of it!! Your welcome Steve!!
This first one is at 3 months old.


The second one shows that the love of snakes came early (with the help of big brother Jim!) This is some time during grade school but I don't know for sure how old he is.



The last one is Steve with his cat, Shadow. This must have been first year of college. Look how slim he is!! During high school Steve and Shadow would sit down after school and eat ice cream and twinkes together.
Happy Birthday Steve. We love you!!

Happy Birthday, Ron!! February 1st

Happy Birthday!! Have a great day and a wonderful year!! We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 18th Birthday Casey!!

Casey turned 18 yesterday!! It was just yesterday she was born how could she be 18 already? We are wishing you great things for your 18th year, Casey. We love you. (picture is 3 years old)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, Darcy!!!!

30 years old,

Oh my!!!

We love you!!

Xmas 2005

It has been so long since I did anything on any of my blogs!! I hope to get something done tonight and then to keep it up better than I have been!

Xmas 2005 was wonderful for me. I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did. First off I pushed to have everyone come here this year instead of us going out to Mesa and having the boys at a different time. I don't know why it was so important to me this year but I really wanted to have all three of my kids together. We were all together for Steve & Lisa's wedding but of course everyone was so busy it wasn't the same.
On the 25th Paul and I had Ron and Dad up for about the only thing I cook anymore, vegetable soup. Ron was down visiting for a week. It was really good to see him. I miss not having him closer but I'm glad he makes it down here as often as he can.
On the 26th & 27th Paul and I headed down to Dana Point for some birding and relaxing. We had a great time and hopefully I'll get the Plymouth Garden Birds blog updated with info on that trip.
On the 3oth about 10a.m. Darcy and Scott arrived. Jessy and Kody had already made the trip out here with their other grandparents so D & S had a very peaceful and fast trip out. We spent the day hanging out and getting ready for Saturday. You can see what Darcy did soon after she got here!



On the 30th everyone, Steve & Lisa, Jim & Tammy & my dad along with Paul and myself and Darcy, Scott, Jessy and Kody came over for dinner and presents. Paul made a ham and I made a tufokey. That is the first time I have made one and I thought it was great. Then what do I know? Everything was going along fine with the dinner fixing until I checked the oven and figured out it wasn't working right!! This was after we had everything in it for over an hour. The dial doesn't always move the way it should so it was only set on 200degrees instead of the 375 we wanted. Oh well, a little panic but everything worked out okay.
After dinner presents that I think everyone really liked. I know I did!! Here is a picture of the two boys looking at Jim's present, a map of California.





Lisa & Steve in his new beard.


Jim and Tammy with Jessy


While Jessy was here she played a lot of Playstation games. There is one racing one where you make points by making as many cars crash as you can. The game just drives me crazy!! I have to walk away from it!! Here she is when she wasn't playing the games.

Kody was just wonderful as always. I know he is my grandson as he loves tangerines!! He was eating as many as I was and I can eat a lot!! Here are a few pictures of him.





One last picture of Great-Grandpa and Great-grandson, 86 years old and almost 3 years old.


Thank you everyone for making a wonderful holiday!!!! I love you all.

Happy Birthday!!!!!!

How the years just keep moving along!! One day you are a baby and then the next...



86 Years!!!



Happy Birthday Dad.
We love you!

Wedding Pictures

Lisa wanted me to post a couple of the pictures we got from Todd.

Steve

Funny Martini story

Since we started watching Martini I've learned a few things about having a dog. One thing I learned was that kennels book up WAY early for the holidays. I was basically laughed at when I asked the Petsmart PetHotel if they had any room for Martini over Thanksgiving. Resorting to plan B I talked to one of my friends who has 3 dogs (and 3 cats) to see if they could watch Martini for a couple days. Since we weren't sure if Martini had been around big dogs before she wanted to get them together to make sure it would work before agreeing to watch her.
I brought Martini over to their house after work yesterday. Now, this is the trial run... if things don't go well I need to find another arrangement for Martini in the next couple days. No pressure... ;) So what does Martini do after being in their house for 5 minutes? She poops on their floor! AAARRRRGGGG. I get her outside in case she needs to do anything else. It can't get any worse right? Well.... they have a pool. I figure it's night, it's November, the dog isn't going to want to go swimming, so no problem. She's running around the backyard and I realize that she's headed right for the pool and isn't going to stop - SPLASH! And now we have one very freaked out, very wet dog. And I get soaked holding her. That water was COLD!
Luckily it went better after that. We got her dried off and introduced her to the other dogs, one at a time to make sure everyone was going to get along. She even got to meet one of the cats. So everything was ok in the end. :)

Houseguest

Lisa and I are housesitting Martini for four months while her owner gets settled in NYC. Here she is relaxing on the couch.

Steve

Marjorie Williamson Irving

Marjorie Williamson Irving
December 2, 1916 - October 29, 2005

I'm sad to inform everyone that Aunt Margie has died today. She fell and hit her head this morning and died this afternoon. Grandpa has a trip already planned back to New Hampshire leaving November 2 and staying until the end of the month.
In the first picture she is in the upper right behind her dad, my grandpa. I don't remember just when this picture was taken right now. The other picture was taken at their grandson's wedding on June 12, 2005.

More pictures from Mesa Trip

Kody on our hike. I forgot to put sunscreen or a hat on him so I gave him my hat to wear. His cheeks were getting a little pink by the time we were halfway there. Isn't he soooo cute?


Remember I said I liked almost everything about the trip? Well, this is a picture of one of the not so good things about Mesa! The two dogs are very sweet and very good dogs but they are very good at one thing that drives me crazy.... being DOGS!! No matter where I went there they were. I would get up from a chair just to go into the other room and they would follow me. I would go outside, they would come outside. I would go inside, they would go inside!!! I would tell them, "Just leave me alone, stop following me!" but would they? No. Oh well, that's one of the reasons I'm not a dog person!!




Two more of Kody. If you click on the one on the left you will see he has put his Buzz Lightyear doll and his Buzz Lightyear cup into "timeout"!! When he acts up he gets a minute in the corner to think about it and he was doing the same for his toys!! He also loves to draw pictures. Most of them look all the same, little circles. Of course to him they are all kinds of things like Mom and Dad and Jessy and houses and dogs and hikes and all kinds of things. Come to think of it my aren't any better!!


The last one is of Jessy on her way home from school on Tuesday. I walked around the corner to wait for her to get out and started taking pictures as soon as I could see her at school. She spotted me and I thought she was going to die of embarrassment!! What are Gramma's for if not to drive the kids crazy! I kept taking pictures of her until she got too close to snap anymore. I thought this one turned out the best. How fast she has grown up!!

Home from Mesa

Ten days is a long time to be away from home and hubby! It was a great visit and I loved almost every minute of it but it is nice to wake up and be able to kiss my hubby goodbye as he goes off to work, to play with my ferret and then to sit down to my computer!

Darcy and Scott got back from their cruise on Monday and they had a great time. I won't write more than that as I'm sure Darcy will be posting about it soon. I have to admit it was good to see them again! Jessy went down to the airport with me and she was trilled to see them. She really missed them, even more than Kody did I think.

The week was fun and a LOT of work. I am just so spoiled that it is hard to have to be on all the time! One morning at 5:30am I woke up with three faces, two dogs and one little boy, two inches away from my face. Talk about waking up fast!! Ah yes, the morning starts early at the Wearing house!

On Thursday Jessy and I went over and hit a bunch of tennis balls around. I think around is the right word as we didn't hit them back and forth to each other much of the time!! I have never really played tennis much and it really showed! Jessy thought she was playing in two courts I think as she was hitting it to the next court a lot!! Good thing no one else was there! We had a great time anyway. After that I talked her into going over the Jamba Juice for lunch. Then we headed home and played Polly Fashion Dolls. That was the only day we played Polly Fashion.

On Friday the three of us headed off to the Lost Dutchman State Park for a hike. http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/dutchman.html

The park has a great Discovery Trail that is nice and wide and fairly flat and cleared with rock marking the edge of the trail so it is easy for Kody to walk on. We had fun playing in the water and picking up rock and then Kody took lots of time to toss all the rocks. Jessy got a little bored waiting for her brother to get done but think we all had fun anyway. It is real rough having 9 years between the two of them and finding things that they both can and want to do.
After the hike we drove down the road to Goldfield Mining Camp for the treat of the day, Ice Cream!! I got to sit and watch the birds at the feeders for a few minutes and they got to eat ice cream so all was great!

http://www.goldfieldghosttown.com/


Then it home for a much needed nap. Oh, Kody took one also!

Saturday started out early as always. Think that was the three faces in my face morning. Saturday and Sunday played out pretty much the same. Kody's normal morning starts out with " Boppies" (I don't think I am spelling that right, I can't remember quite what he says. Darcy you will have to correct it for me!!) That is what he calls Chocolate Milk!

(On a side note I remember when Jim was about that age and he would have "Hot Nop" before bed. That was what he called Hot Milk! Ah, the things that I remember!)

Back to the story; he gets his milk and then sits down and watches "Pigs". That is his favorite movie right now. Now normally it is called "Home on the Range" but of course we have to call it "Pigs"! I know he has seen it a lot as Jessy can quote the lines in it as it is playing!! We went outside and worked and played in the yard until his nap and then went to the park after nap time.

Now I have no pictures of them at the park and there is a good reason for that! This boy has no fear or even an understanding of fear! Full steam ahead and jump off anything and everything. I had to be with him all the time to keep him from killing himself or someone else! I was worn out when we got done!! I pulled a muscle keeping up with him and didn't think I could even walk after that but of course I had to! (Muscle was much better in the morning thank you for asking.)

When I tried to stop him and tell him no he just looks at me with this scowl on his face and says " You no talk to me!!" Wish I had got a video of him doing that as it is so cute!! I know I shouldn't encourage it and tried not to but it was hard not to laugh and give him a big hug when he did it!! Sunday we ended up at the school playground and I found that a more Gramma friendly place. He could do more without me rushing worrying! Now Jessy on the other hand did more climbing there as she loves to shimmy up the swing poles and sit on the top of the swings. I really don't worry too much about her as she has a sense of what she can and can't do and even though she really doesn't have any fear she is careful of what she does. Makes me feel better at least!! I really wished I had my camera to take a picture of her sitting on the top just as relaxed as if she was sitting on a chair! It has to be 10 feet high. She sure doesn't share her mom's fear of heights!

I'm going to go ahead and post this now and finish up tomorrow morning. I need to get outside and do things! It is beautiful out.

In Mesa Working

Well, here I am working as a grandmother babysitter for Jessy & Kody!! I will be here all week folks! Darcy and Scott are off cruising around Mexico having a great time I'm sure and what do I get to do? What I love to do, play with the grandkids!! Am I lucky or what!!
I was going to put some of the many pictures I have taken on here but then I figured out that I didn't bring the cables to download the pictures and the card reader here doesn't take either of my cards. Oh well, you all will have to wait for them.

I'm sitting here wondering why my arms are sore. Duh, I've been carrying around a two and half year old!! Even though Kody likes to walk on his own most of the time the little I have to do is making me sore. Does that mean I'm out of shape? Okay, everyone knew that already!!

We are having a great time. I was worried about Kody missing Mom and Dad but so far so good. The first day he didn't say anything about them and I didn't use the M-O-M word at all. Last night he took me around to every room and turned on all the lights and said "Mom's not here" in each room. He wasn't upset, he was just giving me the news. He likes to sit "In Daddy's seat" for his meals. Of course now he thinks it is "my seat". Everything is "My" just add the noun!

The first night he climbed into bed with me and as I am sleeping in Jessy's twin bed it was a tight fit and he moves all the time!! Needless to say I didn't get the greatest sleep! Thank goodness last night he slept in his bed all night so it was much better!!

Jessy is getting out of school half day so we are going to go hit some tennis balls around. Jessy is taking tennis lessons now and loves it! Thursday and Friday there isn't any school so tomorrow we will be doing more of the same and a bunch of other stuff like playing Polly Fashion Dolls! We will have a granddaughter/grandmother day. Now isn't that the best fun you can even think of? Friday I hope to take the two of them hiking and then up to Goldfield to get some ice cream. Goldfield is a tourist goldmine town in the area. I like the place, small not real busy and quiet. There is one place where we get the ice cream that has a outside patio that overlooks a place that they feed the birds so I'm happy just sitting there!! I have no idea what we will be doing this weekend. Kody takes a nap right in the middle of the day so it is hard to go anywhere too far away. Might try for the zoo but I don't know yet.

Well, I better get some housework done before the fun starts again! Signing off from Mesa Arizona where the weather is wonderful!!

Happy Birthday!!

Shannen will be 18 years old on Friday!!

Happy Birthday, Shannen

We love you!!

More Family Pictures from Steve & Lisa's Wedding

Here are a few more pictures from the wedding.
Kody running, as always;
Scott & Jessy
Tammy, Jim & Steve;
Paul & Jim;
Grandpa & Cory looking like a mature college student!
click on the picture to see what I mean!