Welcome to our world!

This is our families newest baby, Joseph Blake. Born on 12-3-2008, and weighing in at 8lbs. 2ozs. He is the pride & joy of our niece Sammi & her fiance Blake. Poor mom was 2 weeks overdue before he decided to show himself. I guess he figured there would be less chaos after Thanksgiving.:) Congratulations Sammi & Blake!!

Happy Birthday Mom (Grammy Ace)

I'm sure I'm in for a butt kickin' next time we see her, but Saturday night we had cake & Ice-cream for mom since they'd be leaving on her birthday...(just remember mom, your son Dan was taking these pictures). See, Patrick was driving everyone NUTS with all the picture taking he was doing and as you can see by the last pic in this post, mom had had ENOUGH!

The day after

On Friday we got everyone outside to play a nice game of kick ball. Even my dad played!! For us adults it turned out to be combat kickball! I think Patrick still has welts on his butt from being pegged with the ball so many times & with all the leaves it was VERY slippery so the guys are all lucky they didn't pull a groin muscle. The kids had a BLAST & in the end we were tie 13 - 13. Patrick even tackled me covering 3rd base & somehow managed to get a finger up my nose on the way down (OUCH!) Luckily I had just went in for a quick pee the inning before other wise I'm sure I would have peed myself!! I laughed so darn hard!!! He took most of the pics this weekend, so once he e-mails them to me I'll post some more!

Thanksgiving Day

We had such a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!! Dan's mom, & brother Dave came down & surprised us by bringing Dave's 14 yr. old son Patrick. We weren't sure they'd make it because Sammi, Dave's daughter is expecting & her due date was the 17Th, but little Joey is proving to be the typical stubborn Ace boy! :) And here it is the 30Th & he's still not here. Anyway, I decided to do a 20lb. turkey...not thinking about if it would fit into my roasting pan. As you can see, it made it but just barely & it was a chore getting it back out to carve, but 3 of us working together managed to get it out. We all stuffed ourselves, and I think this was the best lookin' bird I've cooked yet!!

Morning Sky

I took these while walking out to the bus-stop. I used my cell phone cause I don't always travel w/ my good camera. They didn't turn out too bad. Hope you all had a WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING.... WE SURE DID!!!

WOW!

This guy's truly amazing!!!! Hope you all can view this video!

A lazy day

Today was a lazy day here. So I've been going through old photos & scanning them into the computer again to save on a CD. I found this one taken somewhere between August & late Sept. of 2000. What a good lookin' bunch! I also found this one of Teresa, Crystal & Dottie. I had to laugh cause Crystal really looks Gigantic...She had to be wearing heels?!