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.

The past 3 months!!

Molly loving the freedom here. Farmington Lake
Brian singing and making sure everyone has a great time!
Katie has the floor at the dance. Check out the proud parents in the back! (:
Steve and Katelynn at the dance!
Holly and Nathan at the Escrito dance!
Lexie, Ryan and I at the Escrito dance!
Steve and Holly at Brian's dance in Escrito!
My rear view mirror! Isn't Ryan beautiful!
Ryan checking herself out in the mirror!
The death of the Trampoline! Brandon took it for the team! (not an easy task!)
Ina and I at the Joseph Smith memorial.
another cool picture! Ina came to visit me. what a blast! I love her so much!
woops! couldn't resist!
kitchen/breakfast nook/family room
my bedroom and back porch
Kitchen on the extreme left nook and fam room straight ahead
Kitchen/family room as seen from the living room
The view from the cliff above us!
The back of the house and the porch
Our driveway
An old copper bell with a pull rope will be in this hole
a walk on our land 16 acres.
The living room with the unfinished keva
front of house and Johnn's office
Front view ready for stucco and tile roof
Our house finished (: (;
John is alive and well and Happy!

We're doing it!!

Woops these are tag alongs.