Lexi's favorite sport. riding on the Dolly!
Halloween 08
Lexi and Rena on Halloween!





Ethan won a contest and the fire dept came to pick him up and
drive him to school. Bonnie got to ride along with him. Awesome!!
Hobie eating the last rasberry of the season.
Hobie took this picture with my camera
Brandon, Gage, Traci, Hobie, and Piper at the old castle!

Piper sitting on the rock window of an old castle up in the mountain of ct.
More of Awesome Connecticut!
Fall in Connecticut!
Piper watching Brandon and Hobie ride bikes
Hobie, John, and Piper
Bonnie and Ethan in the Fire Engine
Hobie, John,piper riding bikes!!
Piper talking to Gage (Brandon and Traci's new son)
Abby (Paula's daughter) holding up her squad!!
Dave at Ethan's soccer game
Tyler,Amber,Tanner,Paula,Tristen and Trevor, a day at the farm
with grandma and grandpa!
Paula, me then Bonnie
at Paula's house Paula, John and Bonnie!
I'm up on the ledge looking down on my best friend!

It was fun to stand back and take pic's of this awesome event!

Brian stayed to the back of the room so he could keep a low profile. It didn't work! He was made Element leader. (not an easy task)

The bus ride back to the base "Daddy's little sweetheart!"

A great day!

Reunited at last!

At last Brian's class marches by on their way to the field for graduation.

Lexi, tired of waiting for her daddy to come! San Antonio Tx. Brian's graduation from basic training in the Air Force. Nov. 10th 2008

John and I Last Christmas

My Oldest daughter Paula, she is the second from the oldest. We have six children now all married. We will have 19 grand children around Christmas time. thanks for checking out our blog. If you double click, the pic gets large enough to see. christmas time we will try to get a pic of all of our kids and grandkids and their spouses. and put it on our blog. The pictures of the house at the bottom of our blog is the house we sold in Connecticut last March. carla

My bedroom with smaller Keva. I am posting these pic's at the request of our children living in Pennsylvania and Connecticut so they can see our new home. We are so glad to finally be in the house. much to do but we can see a light at the end of the road.

I bet you can't guess what these are!

The car wash shower (:

Steven our son did all of our plumbing, infloor heating, built and customized everything. He also put in all of the propane, septic, and the most difficult parts of the home. He is such a sharing and genersous person. Our youngest son Brian (dancing and singing later in the blog) also helped Steven every step of the way. We are so blessed to have such great kids. We moved here to New Mexico mostly because our sons were here. John retired early because of a bad back. He made sure we got the best tub and a shower that is like going through a car wash. A shower head for me (short) and another complete set for John. Thanks Steven and Holly for letting him come to our home so many times.

back splash is an oil painting transfered to tumbled marlbe "Copper Cauldron with eggs!"

The front of our living room and front door (check out the woman holding the bird and the baby birds along the edge! )

woops! I thought this was the front wall.

This is as if you walked into the house from the front door

Our copper bell This is a California Mission home!

The front of the house

This is the back of our house

Bayley get down!

Our First Party!

Our house isn't quite done but it was close enough for a party. We had a great time together. Here is our Dining Room

Here is our kitchen
Another view of Mission style table.

Kiva/ or fireplace

Outback Grill
Everyone came, Lisa & Adam, Steve and Holly, Brian and Rena and all the chillin'. haha.
We played some stick game called Evil Sal or something like that. it was so fun!
Adam and Rena hanging out waiting for some burgers.