Shreck Was A No Show

It was a real shame that Shrek never showed  up.

Trav showed up for chili and to help Gma to put together a new book shelf
on Halloween Eve but the costume never showed up with him :(

It's probably all my fault because when he was a child

 we never did do much for Halloween.

Seems like they were always GI Joe wearing their camo hunting clothes.
Not real original.

I've never cared much for Halloween.

My DIL, the GRANDgirls mother, who worked

so hard her big freckles faded off during her work day.

Aunt Jor Jor, Fiona, with her friend from school, the Nerd.

Rea and Shel on the back.

The GRANDgirls

Family friends who came to trick or tread with our girls.

My MIL as the Red Headed Devil.

Shelby and Reagan's GREAT-GRANDma and Aunt Jor Jor.

Another year of silliness over with!!

Thanks heavens!!!!

Waiting For Fireworks

This year we viewed the fireworks in old downtown Brunswick.

We got there over an hour early to get a good place.

We try and sit right at the edge of the parking lot so that

the Sweetheart can get right out and sit down

and no walking or tripping involved.

Of course it's a good time to take some family pictures.

 My GRAND, Shelby.

The other GRAND, Reagan.

My oldest son, Harrison and his wife Christon.

The parents of my GRAND-daughters.

 The Sweetheart aka Pop Pop and Shela.

 Pop Pop and Rea.

My niece Leah and Shel.

The Sweetheart's sister Sue and her oldest son Aaron.

Family friend, Paige.

Family friend, Claudia

Family friend, Kara Mia.

My GREAT nephew, Jonah, Aaron's son.

GREAT nephew Manny, Aaron's youngest son.

The Sweetheart and his mother, aka, Gma Griffis or Kathleen.

Shelby and GREAT-GRANDma Griffis

and a fake cat.

GREAT-GRANDma and Reagan.

And finally the Sweetheart and yours truly!
The weather was perfect, no smoke from the fires and the best breeze.
Everyone had such a great time.
Half way through the fireworks Shelby yells,
"This is the best day ever"!!
And it really was.

Happy Birthday To The DIL

 

Today is Christon's birthday.

She is the mother of my GRANDgirls and wife to my oldest son!

She's a wonderful DIL.

We had a nice Easter dinner yesterday at the home of my other DIL, Jordan and youngest son Travis.

 

The girls hunted eggs after dinner.

They found an equal amount.

 

I think that they had a great day.

 

The Sweetheart and I spoke in church Easter morning.

It was an honor, a privilege and a humbling task.

Can I say, that I'm really glad it's over and that it's Monday.

p.s. I did not take the pictures but it was my camera.

p.s.s. I did my BEST to get that gray goat off that mans face.

p.s.s.s. I am really losing my touch, he wasn't having any part of anything I was offering!

p.s.s.s.s. Yes, I did pick my shirt to match his so we could look like one of those matchy couples for our Sunday Easter dinner with the family. And yes he rolled his eyes and he thinks I'm nuts but he LOVES me.

53 Years Young!

Meet Ci Ci who Reagan can not get enough of.

She loves this dog to death!

What a face!

The Darling Daughter In Laws

cooked a lovely dinner last night for my birthday.

My birthday was Thursday and I just love

extending it to make it a birthday weekend!

The GRAND~girls with the GRAND~dog, Ci Ci.

Shela showing the love.

Me and the Sweetheart.

My oldest son who is not the unabomber.

My Big Baby.

Good birthday squeezes from my only two GRAND~girls!

Got some great help blowing out my candle.

Thanks goodness, not 53 of them!

I love them all so much and it couldn't have been a better birthday!

Thank you!!

I also got birthday phone calls from all my family and several friends and over a 100 wishes on facebook!

All in all it was a terrific birthday!

Labor Day Weekend

I'm back tracking for a bit.

Our summer was so crazy that I didn't blog much.

So I will randomly be adding post that will cover our summer activities.

Just for journal-ing purposes.

We have season passes to Sea World, Orlando, Florida.

We usually go in January for Shelby's birthday.

Again in March for spring break.

Then we usually go the end of October or in November.

But we NEVER go in the summer time!!!

Just go sometime and you will understand.

BUT...

we went to Orlando for the Labor Day Weekend

and since we had season tickets, the girls put in to go.

We waited till around 5:00 pm hoping that the heat would subside.

I was hot but bearable.

Reagan was sure happy to be there!

She has been so funny lately, she throws her hands up like

this when I try and take her picture.

I show you this picture because I want you to see that cup

that Shelby is drinking from.

That's my Sea World cup that if you bring back each

time you come your drinks are only 99 cents!

And this made the 2nd year I remembered to bring back my cup.

No one else remembers to bring theirs.

Reagan and Auntie Jordan.

We were waiting for the acrobatic show to start
and they always come out and sell the flashing light jewelry.
For $5.00 each they got some way cool Dolphin necklaces.


So when the lights go out they really are cool.


Really great show.

The girls wanted their pics taken with some of the dancers.

Uncle Trav wanted his picture taken with the girls.

This is where my Mid-Week Blues picture comes in.

This is the main thing we came to see,

Shamu Rocks!!

I finally started just at dusk!

It was wild and loud with Rock n Roll music.

Interestingly enough no trainer got in the water with the whales :(

The Sweetheart really loved the music because it

was mostly 70's and 80's hits and lots of his favorite.

We really did Rock Out!!!

So much so that we got our pictures up on

the jumbo screen for every one to see.

I nearly died but the girls loved it!

After Shamu Rocks

the girls and Aunt Jordan and Aunt Emmy

rode a few of the rides.

The girls wanted their mama to have one of the flashing hats.

I'm surprised she bought one but it make them all happy.

Uncle Travis ended up carrying the girls out of the park.

We really enjoy spending time together as a family and we had a great weekend.

**I took these pictures with my point and shoot camera. I really missed not having my big camera for this trip.