This is Grandpa cutting up watermelon with the most precious Grandkids.

Oh the fun! The kids had watching and helping Grandpa cut up the watermelon.

Austin and Taylor were eating it as fast as Grandpa was carving the melon.

After all the cutting was finished Melissa, Jason, the Kids, And I enjoyed watermelon until our bellies ached.

Grandpa put all the time and effort into cutting the watermelon and he doesn’t even enjoy watermelon. He did it just for everyone else.

Austin sure was chipper in these snapshots. I think he enjoyed spending the day playing with the neighbor girls.

On Thursdays Austin gets off the school bus here instead of at home. He was so excited to show off his sticker that he got at school that day. I think this picture really captured the energy and bounce in his step. As soon as he was done showing the sticker off he stuck it on his shirt.

Austin & Taylor
2007

These are my batteries!
They give me strength and energy and keep me going.
The best part is they always stay charged.

This is one of my favorite pictures, mom took it summer 2006

everyone was up at the lakes that weekend fishing, playing and working and we surprised everyone when we showed up. I remember it was a lot of fun seeing both the kids Austin and Taylor playing around the water with their little life jackets on. The kids were 2 and 3 years old they sure have grown a lot since this picture was taken.  Even though the picture is a couple years old it is still a very good memory and a day i wouldn’t mind experiencing again someday.

This was the last time doug and I were up at the lakes.

hello family and friends, i have had a so so day not to bad, far from complaining about, hey no headaches so you know it hasn’t been to bad, morning started out pretty slow, doug got off to work-he called me about one hour later asking about his bagel that i had forgot to put in his lunch, he wasn’t really upset but i sure was, gee how could i have forgotten his b-fast bagel fast forward to when he got home tonight and im cleaning out his lunch box, when isee hmmm he didn’t drink his ice tea hmmm well no wonder i put one of my honey ice teas in there instead of his plain no sugar tea geewizzz (he was so sweet about it- he says thats ok pats i wasn’t to thirsty today geeewizzzz wherewas my brain this- AM-while i was putting his lunch together, mel and kids stopped over for a few minutes mostly cause taylor had to have her unicorn she had left over here, when the three girls next door seen the kids pull up they were here in about 5 min, to play. Austin told me his music teacher now calls him mario  because he loves to wear his mario shirts and then austin said his music teacher is luwedgi because he is bigger , it was funny,, taylor was in a giggle mood and was ready to go home 5 min after she got here because all she wanted was her unicorn well she had along day mel and taylor went grocier shopping stopped at grandma greats and had to be home before austin got off bus- mel said minnie was doing ok but it was hard holding her, i have gotta get to moms its been to long since i have been there and i wanna see minnie and see how she is doin for myself, i guess moms hand is healing and mel said it was wrapped up, stacy called me a couple hours ago just to say hi and check in on things we both got so tired we could barely talk on the phone and here i set two hours later tryin to type. jim is much better today then he was yesterday having them two teeth pulled was a bit rough on him well not only him it wasn,t easy on me neither it was gross,thats the only way i can put it gross gross but i think the vico is helping him alot im having him take some probiotics with the amoxcicilian , the porkchops we had for dinner didnt work out to good for him but the cheesey noddles he did okay with…. we got the ball game on cubs and cardnals 3to3 bottom of the ninth, well im thinkin i gotta call it a nite my eyes are wanting to close on me…. love patsy  ,, oh no- not good -cant believe-cubs lost!

well, its getting late here  in byron, we finished dinner (laz) melissa and kids stopped over that was nice, they played around for awhile and grandpa got home early enough to enjoy them too, they got their surprises from uncle Jim that he ordered off the puter, taylor got a neat horse,and austin got a sonic shirt that he has wanted so bad for so long, he took his old t-shirt off so fast to put his new one on and the smile on the boys face was a happy one, now he cant wait to wear it to school tomorrow,then they played horses till it was time to go. im glad this rain stopped. it seemed to last all day

i wonder what minniepearl is doing it will be nice when mom and jim go get her tomorrow and she will be home in a familiar place. well its been nice telling you about my nite and now i must call it a nite, im like dad rite now i need some tooth picks to hold my eyes open. byebye nini love patsy