Busy life...

Mel and I at the Luau in Kona, Hawaii

Mel and I at the Kiluaea Volcano

Aaron & Peightin at the park:

Kaeden's fish:

Steven & Kailer with his fish:

Lady Kinleigh:

Gramma Vicki, Kaeden, Kai & Kinleigh:

Peightin in Jared's rocking chair:

Aaron, Quintin and Peightin

Quintin fishing with Great Grandpa Curt and his daddy, Jared:

Jen & Steven's gang:

Tatum & Kai Kai:

Steven's oldest, Tatum & youngest, Kinleigh:

Kaeden and Triniti:

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted a new message. This year is 1/3 over! We are loving life and feeling good. Mel and I started on a weight loss program on December 7th (yes, we really did start right before the holidays!)We have been pretty successful. I am down to my goal weight and Mel has lost over 65 lbs. He is within 10 to 15 lbs of his goal weight too.

Our grandkids are so awesome. Aaron is now 14 & living with Jared and Tammy full time, Tatum is 9 and is so tall and sweet, Triniti is 8 & also tall and sweet. They are the best big sisters! Riley is 7 & gets to go over to Steven and Jen's quite often. Him and Kaeden are a lot alike. Kaeden is 7 and is growing into such a great kid & doing well in school. He knows to have an answer whenever I ask him "What did you learn today?" Kailer is 4 and always the little comedian. He LOVES having his picture taken with his baby sister, Kinleigh. Quintin is also 4, and you NEVER know what he is going to say...Quintinisms are so entertaining. Peightin turned 1 in Dec. & is our little sweetie. She is a mommy's girl, but does warm up to us when there aren't a lot of people around. She loves drawing and looking at books. Then there is our little Lady Kinleigh-6 months old. She is sitting up now, has her ears pierced and is so loved by all of her brothers and sisters!

Mel and I just went to Hawaii with Gary and Linda. It was our first time there, and we really enjoyed it. There was a lot to see and do. I LOVED snorkeling and swimming with some green sea turtles. I have always loved the water. Maybe because I am a Pisces. We have also been enjoying going to our beach house as often as possible.

I have started a class on making a quilt block a month so that in 12 months I will have enough to make a full quilt. I am also still doing scrapbooking off and on. I love doing it, but just seem to be busy with other things, so don't do it as often as I would like to.

I hope to post more often on here.

Til later...

Happy 1st birthday to Miss Peightin Linn & 4th Birthday to Mr. Q

Wow, time does fly by. We celebrated Peightin's first birthday on December 8th and then Quintin's 4th birthday on December 13th. I made both of their birthday cakes this year, and loved every minute of it.

Then we also took the kids along with their big brother Aaron to visit Santa. Quintin was right at home on his lap, and even was "lounging" on santa's leg with his own legs crossed. Wish they would have gotten a picture of that. Peightin wasn't too sure of him, but did ok sitting on Aaron's lap. Afterwards she did walk around and "Love" on the Elf that was by Santa's chair.

Here is also a picture of Jenny's kids visiting the Santa at their place. Kinleigh didn't mind the jolly ole man, and this was the first year that Kai wasn't scared of him.

When Jen and family were down for Kinleigh's welcoming party, we went to 60 minute photo and had these pictures done. I loved how they turned out. It was quite a challenge with this many kids, and we did forget to get some of just Jen's kids together and Jared's kids together...oh well, there will always be other times.




















And finally...one of our Miss Kinleigh's first smiles

Til next time:

WELCOME Kinleigh ShaeAnn to the family!

I am sorry it has taken me so long to update you my little blog. I have been busy playing with grandkids and welcoming a new granddaughter into the family. Jennifer and Steven had a little girl on October 28th and she is a doll. Her name is Kinleigh ShaeAnn (my middle name is Ann) and she was born via emergency c-section at 9:50PM weighing 6 lbs 3 oz and was 18" long. She has a lot of black hair & is a very good baby. I went and alternated nights at the hospital with Steven, as they were there for 5 days. Due to the Swine flu outbreak, Jen was only allowed 2 visitors during her hospital stay. We did have Steven's mom and I there together briefly-so glad that we got pic's with the both of us and Kinleigh there. I will post more information and pictures later.

Fun at the ocean...

Jared, Tammy, Quintin and Peightin met us at our beach house the middle of September and we had a great time. It was the first time Jared had been over there since the house had been finished. They were last over there in Aug. 07. It was good weather part of the time and cloudy part of the time, but a fun time was had by all. I love spending time with my kids and grandkids and am so thankful for them.

Here are some pictures of the fun times we had while there-Not in any particular order...