Family Christmas 2013

What joy there is in family gatherings!! We eat too much, spend too much, but there is never too much love!

Our family is blessed beyond measure and so thankful to our Heavenly Father for all his mercy and love! Our children and grandchildren give us more happiness than words could ever express.

Photos are hard to get these days with Klaire twisting out of our laps, and LMW being too busy playing to stop and smile for the camera, but we persevered and got a few nice ones I think.

Great grandparents were excited to get a little sugar from both of the kids.

And three generations of Winston men.

One with LeLe too.

Camera hiccuped on this one, but I edited as best I could.

These photos are precious because Pappaw has Alzheimer's. He may not even remember who the kids are by next Christmas, but we pray and rely on God.

I pray God's blessing on you and your families on Christmas and for the coming year.

Merry Christmas!!

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da....

Life goes on bra.... La La how the life goes on.  Anyone remember that Beatles song?? That's what I thought of when I realized I haven't posted here in a month. Life just goes on and on and gets in the way of sitting down to type something out. It's much easier to just post what I'm doing on The Seam Rippers.  Let's see....

I have some of the items on my to-do list marked off.
Cute clothes for Klaire, a few shirts for LMW, paintings done.
(These can be seen on the other blog)

Class reunion organized and implemented. We won't mention what year....

Grandkids are growing too fast!

Having fun in the cool crisp fall air with chalk.

Beginning to use Santa as a behavioral tool. (wink)

Deer season approaching and the men in my family being totally distracted.

Family gatherings to be planned.

Fall parties and friendly visits to look forward to.

The folks in Washington are playing nice for the time being, so my daughter was able to go back to work. Yee Haw!!

God is good. Life is good.

Out of the Ordinary August

I would have to say that this has been the most usual August I can remember. It's been jam packed with ups and downs and fun and the not so fun.

First, SR retired. And what a joyous day that was!! He wanted to take a little trip, so we drove up to Branson, as I've mentioned in a previous post. I came home with two vintage sewing machines and some fun stuff.

The following week I gave him a little family party to celebrate his freedom and all my children were here. It was the first time since Mother's Day that both my grandbabies were here.

I can't believe how fast these two have grown!

It was quite the day and we all enjoyed it immensely.

I got behind on my sewing due to the trip and the food poisoning I experienced as soon as we arrived home. Not fun, but I lived.  Then....my sewing machine died. This is what it looks like now....

 It wasn't worth saving, so we gave LMW a screw driver and let him go to work on it.

Then we made it into a warehouse and loading dock. He has had a lot of fun with this thing. (And don't be alarmed, I assure you it wasn't worth repairing and it couldn't be used as it was.)

My mother-in-law and her sister both gave me their vintage Kenmore machines, but there were a few little things that needed tweaking on them before I could really sew with them. So, SR and I went to the nearest Janome dealer and scoped out the stock. I was excited and a little sick when we came home with this bad girl...

I'm still not comfortable about spending that much money, but SR assures me it's worth it. We left MIL's machine to be tweaked, and just yesterday picked it up. It sews so sweetly that I used it as much as I did the Janome yesterday. I had a marathon sewing day to try to catch up.

So, it's the last day of August and September begins on the morrow. I hope it's a bit more relaxed than August was. It's been a whirl wind summer for me and that is highly unusual!

Growing Up Quickly!

Both of my grandbabies are growing like weeds. LMW spent the night with us Friday night and he seemed to sleep pretty well. Nanna? Not so much. He slept in bed with me and kept me awake kicking, flopping around, snoring and using his razor sharp toenails to dig furrows into my legs. But you know what? I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

He grabbed my camera the other day and took a self portrait.

I guess this up close and personal, you can see the chocolate around his mouth. Makes him all the sweeter. He surprised me, and took my picture as well.

Oooh, that's just a bit scary....And he laughed pretty hard at it when I brought it up on the computer screen for him.

The other night we kept our Princess Klaire for a while. Her Mommy needed to buy groceries and she decided she wanted to stay home and sleep. So...PHOTO OP!!

This is what we saw when we arrived, but that didn't last long. Heh heh...we are so mean.

She wanted to pull up.

So, Grandpa pulled her up.

Then she decided she was hungry. And she let us know real quick!

And every time we took her to her room to change her diaper, this is the face we saw. She apparently likes her bedroom.

I sure wish I could keep them little. But I guess every grandparent says that!
I tried to upload a video of her cooing and grinning at us, but blogger won't cooperate. :(

Enjoy your Sabbath!!

 

 

KLAIRE ALLYSE!!

Here are photos of our GORGEOUS baby girl. She was born Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 1:59 p.m. She weighed 8lbs and was 20 inches long.

She is beyond precious.

Only a few hours old.

Grandpa and Daddy 

Mommy

Nanna B

We at first thought her hair was red. Her Daddy texted me from the delivery room and told me it was red, but later we realized it just looked red due to the lights in the room and how red she was. Today we saw that it's really a blonde color. And who knows what it will turn out to be later. I predict her eyes will be blue, but we'll see.

They will come home tomorrow and then we can really start having fun!!

I will apologize now for the many posts that will be filled with her pics. You know how we grandparents are when we get a new baby!!