This made me laugh!

  This lady went to the doctor and said
 " I am here for a check-up, so there's no need for you to find anything."

This is so how I feel!

Kristen's New Job!

           Kristen has a new job at the Waterman Village and has said goodby to Kohl's.

She has been saving her money and got herself a car.  She needed a car to get back and forth to work.

I cannot tell you how proud I am of her and how responsible she is with money and trying to do the right  thing.  I dearly love her and we get out together now and then going to thrift stores and spending time together.  Often she will come by and hang out with her old grandma and grandpa and I have to say how many kids her age would choose to do that!

Anyway we had a dinner here Sunday and Sherry made cake for her to say congrats since starting new job. Pictures  of her new car and her in her new uniform.  She is moving on up in the world!  Love you Kristen!

Her new car and now out to the working  world!                    

The Grocery Getter!

  With Seven children getting groceries was a big deal!  We were a big family for those days for sure but even had some neighbors that also had a big family.  Can pretty much say no one much has that many children anymore.  One lady even went as far as to say "Are you a glutton for punishment."
Well I had never had anyone say that to me before so it kinda stayed there in my head.   Actually those days of raising children were quite happy days!  The moments of smiles and laughter were enough to carry you through into another day.
The days of children back then were quite different as to how the kids spent their day. There were no cell phones , no netflick ....our kids spent most of all their time outdoors.    Kids made up their fun from playing school to skating to riding bikes , playing hide and seek in evenings and doing alot of outdoor stuff.  
 Now to the subject of our grocery getter! I sometimes took alot of them to the grocery store with me but most times dad would volunteer to watch many of them at home while I shopped.  He never complained and was a great helper!  A hands on dad for sure.  Anyway we had a
 1957 Buick StationWagon which Angie gave it the name the "Grocery Getter"  makes since to a  young kid who rode in it mostly to just go get groceries.  That name stuck forever until we got rid of it but yes thats what it was called in those early years for a very long time!  Funny how kids come up with the cutest things that just stick.




          Here we are preparing the grocery getter for a trip to Indiana!

Our minds.

Heard this quote somewhere and had to put it down.    "Great minds talk about ideas, Little minds talk about people."I hope to improve and learn from this.

NEW GRANDBABIES ELLA AND ASHLYN

We welcomed two sweet baby girls into the world this pass Nov. and Dec.
 Leslie had baby Ella on Dec.21 2016 and Heather had baby Ashlyn on Oct. 27/2016.
Little girls at last!  Only boys for the longest time.
Here are pictures of these two little sweeties!

Ella...Leslie&Rob's

Ashlyn...Todd & Heather's

Aidan and Axel

Here are two brothers that are growing up fast!  Aidan and Axel!  Stacey is lucky to have Aidan to help her out in so many ways. Will get more pictures of these two brothers later to paste here.

Axel and and big brother Aidan on the beach