That's My Baby!

Trav's Birthday Cake

 I forgot to post pics of Trav's birthday cake!

It was to cute!

And tasted awesome!

Cake once a month is NOT bad!

It's My Big Baby's Birthday

And he turned 30.
And I can't believe it.

I don't feel old but I must be,
because he is 30!
Love him more than he will ever know.

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!

Home Grown

Perfect day for planting!

Thankful for sons who help their parents.

Tomatoes

yellow crook neck squash

zucchini

broccoli

cabbage

cucumbers

okra

That's all I have so far, I'm sure I'll throw something else in there before it's over with, yum!

Big Baby's Birthday

Not today, but tomorrow is my Big Baby's birthday.

This was his last year's birthday picture with his requested Birthday cake.

Like last year he has requested me to make my carrot cake again for his birthday.

If you haven't made this cake yet, since it's been on my blog for over a year now, you really should!

Jordan made one last week and took to an office birthday party and it was a hit.

You really can't go wrong, I promise, you'll love it!

Just ask anyone that has had it, they'll tell ya how good it is, yum.

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Carrot Cake
2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 -1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
3- 4oz. jars of carrot baby food (like stage 2)
1 8oz can crushed pineapple, drained
1/2 cup chopped pecans
In mixing bowl combine all dry ingredients. Add oil, eggs and baby food. Mix on low speed until well blended. Stir in pineapple and nuts. Pour into two 9 inch cake pans or three 8 inch pans. Bake at 350* for 35 mins. or until it passes the tooth pick test. (when the tooth pick comes out clean)
Cream Cheese Icing
1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
1 -8oz. block of cream cheese
3 or more cups of powdered sugar
1-1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Blend butter and cream cheese until creamy. Start adding sugar and a drop or two of milk until you get the right consistency. Then blend in the nuts and ice completely cooled cake.

Saturday Photo~Hunt

This weeks theme: Upside Down

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Price of Eggs

The first week of September for our family was like this:
3 cases of Sinusitis

1 case of Bronchitis

1 confirmed case of H1N1 flu

1 case of Mental Pause

and MRSA!

I think that maybe you are not aware of how fast MRSA can affect you, please check out my son Travis blog by clicking here.

Oh, and by the way, you might want to turn your speakers down. He's got some wild music on his blog.

And another thing, that pictures has nothing to do with anything, it just makes me laugh.

1:30 Update From Travis

He is good. They are keeping him sedated and he will be like that for a few days. He has 3 breaks in his pelvis 2 up front and one in the back. The bones are not displaced they will heal if he can stand the pain.

Love you,

Trav

The Hole

Uncle Travis

The Hole!

See how much fun a hole can be!

Ride'em Cowgirl!

It's a lot of fun with Uncle Travis!

Been Hunting

Warning: pictures of

dead animals below.

This is the reason I've been in Missouri!

Travis shot him at 105 yards with a 300 Remington ultra mag. He is a main frame 10 point with a 3 inch kicker off of his brow tine. (if you know what that means? Not sure I do.)

I actually went along to take care of my sweetheart and make sure he stayed out of trouble! He hunted his heart out and saw lots and lots of whitetail deer and one turkey. Out of all he saw, none were of legal size to kill. So he came home empty handed. (or empty cooler)

They planned this hunting trip over a year ago. Way before all of this past summers 'high health drama'. I tried more than once to cancel this trip due to bad health. The hard headed southern man I'm married to refused. So off we went to Macon, Missouri the week before Thanksgiving. We returned home Thanksgiving morning about 12:15.

I'm not sure who killed the coyote, but it was legal.

Drive 900 miles one way to hunt in extremely cold weather and sleep on a bunk bed and eat tasteless food and do with out Internet, cell phone service and a TV and then drive another 900 miles home in Thanksgiving traffic, PRICELESS??

Forget about it!

But if he wants to do it again??

I'll go along and take care of him again and again and again, if that's what he wants. He's gone through so much. He more than anyone deserves to have a little fun. (I just still can't see how that can be fun!)

1st Day of Black Powder

Only difference in this picture and one of Harry, is he'll be sitting in a wheel chair. Much more comfortable than the old hard ground. Trav picked him up at 5:20 this morning and they were headed for the woods. I'm so thankful he could go and have some fun with his boys! Freezer food or not! Last year 1st day Harry killed one and Travis killed 2. Harrison had killed one a week before with his Bow.

Big Baby's Birthday

This is my baby and today is his birthday!

Travis Wade Griffis
9 lbs. 10 1/2 oz.
21 1/2 inches long.
Oct. 07, 1981 2:42 AM
Happy Birthday baby Trav!

Red Neck Pinata

Mrs. Peg from Christon's work had given her these Pinatas that had been in the storage closet for years. So she filled one of them with candy in case any little ones did show up for Reagan's 1st birthday party and they needed a little fun. No other real forethought, like where to hang it or something to hit it with? So, Amanda brought her little ones and Carla's daughter Anna and Shelby were there. And where there are little children there needs to be some action/activities.

So Pinata time!! Where to hang it? We were having Reagan's party at the cafeteria at Griffis Steel Co. Not really conducive to children's birthday parties. So Uncle Travis to the rescue!! He thought he could hang it from the overhead crane outside in the shop! Yea good idea, not really. It wouldn't stay on, it fell off 3 times. Poor frustrated children. It wasn't to bad an idea though because Travis could lower and raise the Pinata with the crane, to the height of the children. Now remember, no forethought to this little event?!? He had to find and old broom handle to hit the thing with. It was the funniest disorganized event ever witnessed by the older party goers. We laughed so hard at those poor children it was a shame. Finally Travis let Jonathon finish it off and candy spills all over the dirtiest floor ever!!! No forethought to sweeping under where the Pinata candy would fall! The poor little children had to pick up their now very dirty candy off the filthy floor. So sad! No one had ever witnessed such a redneck event before and we were all wishing we had a video camera because we could have turned the tape over to America's funniest Videos .

Handsome

#1 Son "Harrison"

#2 Son "Travis" (Big Baby)

My Favorite Letter Carrier

That's the official term, Letter Carrier. But I'll probably always call him the "mail man." And NO we didn't get free stamps just because he worked at the Post Office! Any who this is a rare picture of my daddy in his postal uniform in front of his mail truck with my boys, Harrison and Travis. I love this picture.

Memory of the Letter Carrier
Well, if you will hang with me I'll tell you about the time I thought that I was going to witness a killing. Really...There was this young deaf lady and her husband and about 3 kids lived on Kennedy Street. Since she was deaf she got an SSI(subsistance) check for those kids. She and husband or maybe he was her live in boy friend had had a fight and she was not staying there but her check was still going that address, stay with me I'm laying a little ground work.It was the first of the month and checks were in the mail and they knew it and was looking for them. I was to deliver down one side of Kennedy, turn onto Elmwood St. and about ten minuets later come back up the other side of Kennedy St. the side that they lived on. After I turned onto Elmwood and stopped at the first mailbox I noticed that a car had pulled up behind my mail jeep. I didn't know the guy getting out of his car but in my rear view mirrow I recognized the deaf lady. The man came up beside the jeep and said he wanted to get that ladies check early before I got back around to her mailbox. I wasn't sure I wanted to do that but before I could say anything here comes a guy in a pickup truck pulling up in front of my jeep so now I am hemmed in. This big old fat dude comes piling out of that pickup with a tire iron in his hand. The skinny guy standing beside my jeep looked up and charged the guy coming at him. They began to fight in the middle of the street and I have ring side seat of it. Believe it or not the skinny guy was able to take that tire iron away from the big guy.All of a sudden I look in my rear view mirron and the deaf lady is behind the wheel of the car behind me and revs up and runs staight at her previous 'live in'. BAM, she hits him with the front of the car and he's up in the air and rolling off the hood to the ground. Quickly the skinny guy is working on him with the tire iron. "Shay Zam", I see my opening and I escape and drive to a convenient store a couple of blocks away and call my supervisor, he calls the cops and tells me to wait there and he'll come get the women's check and he did and told me to continue with my route. Now, wait I still have to go back around through that area and deliver the other side of Kennedy Street. When I turned the corner there were cop cars all over the place. The cops have both contestants under arrest and I ease on through the area and go on my way. Now that was some experience and pretty intence for a little bit, but I have never forgotten it. Now there's one more..... no that's enough for now, more later if requested.Papa

Half Way There!

Uncle Travis came by yesteray and hung the baby swings!

All we are missing now is the 5 Foot Pop Pop swing in the middle!