Little Surprise from my hubby!

Today is my birthday and DH surprised me with this lovely plant. It was on my desk when I got home from classes yesterday! What a special guy!

I am a very lucky lady to have such a wonderfully thoughtful guy to share my life with!

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It has begun ...

It was inevitable:

The heavy wet white stuff fell from the sky and tore up trees and power lines, but luckily did not affect our roads too much.  We managed to cover up most of our beautiful flowers, and we shall see tomorrow afternoon how well they fared.  Overnights will still be quite cold, but daytime temps should rise to the 50's and 60's by the end of the week.  DH got the garage cleaned out enough that the car had a dry place to spend the night last night, but the RV and the van had to weather the wet, heavy stuff along with falling branches.. Lots and lots of branches down throughout our neighborhood and sporadic power outages, but nothing that can't be cleaned up.  Life in the Rocky Mountains!

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And now they are 11!

How is this possible?  Here's a video that I have shared before of their beginnings:


And now they are 11 years old!!!  I have shared pictures of these precious children many times in the past - here, and here, and here.  There are more but regrettably not any current.  I hope to remedy that soon!  They are blossoming and growing and becoming more wonderful with each passing year.  This grandma is so very, very proud of these two.  They have come a very long way and it has not always been easy, but they hang in there and continue to grow into strong and independent individuals!  Happy, Happy, Happy 11th birthday to Isabella and Julian!

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It's His Birthday Today!!!

Today is my "baby's" 41st birthday!  Here we are in our much younger days:

A huge thank you to my friend Diane for recently sending me this memory!  I think he was about 2 in this picture and we won't even talk about how old I was - suffice it to say - much younger than I am now!

We are hip deep in holiday spirit, but way behind in our actual preparation.  Nothing new there and we will somehow get it all done.  I hope to be back here later in the week with some new class announcements and maybe some card shares from December's stamp camps.

Today the Denver Broncos play the New England Patriots - my favorite team will be sure to win!  

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Hello, it's me!

I'm dating myself with that title I suppose, but ....

Things have been crazy here, both at home generally and in the craft cave too.  We have been watching grandchildren since school let out last month, and while it is wonderful to have this time with them it is also nearly impossible to do a whole lot else!

Here's another reason:

Our home away from home #3!  We are hoping to take this "land sailing" to New England in August.  We will also be able to use it going back and forth to the boat each year and alleviating the need for hotel rooms!   Needless to say, the grandchildren are thrilled and now want us to take them all camping (not so sure 5 kids and 2 adults will fit comfortably but we shall see!)  We hope to do just that at least once before we hit the road in August though.

I've played with a challenge recently too, but decided to put those images in a separate post later today so be sure to check back!

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Cousins Convention!

We had a chance to take all the cousins out to dinner last night at Cinzetti's.  A grand time was had by all and no one went home hungry!

There was much ice cream, bread pudding and crepes consumed along with pizza, calamari (a favorite of all of them) and pasta.  I hope they weren't too hard to put to bed last night.  I love spending time with these guys - they are the BEST!

I will have more details and some pictures of the projects for next month's Coasting Towards Christmas class at the Longmont Senior Center so watch for that post later today.

Also - it is not too late to register for this weekend's Stamp Camp North - it promises to be a fun filled, creative day so try to join us:

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My favorite models

Here are some pix of my darling grandchildren modeling their scarves:

We are headed out for Georgia/Florida to research marinas and visit my mom for her birthday on the 10th.  My mom has not had all 5 of her children with her at once in nearly 40 years so it should be a good time. Hope to have some pix of our journey coming up in the next few weeks.

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Monday Freebie - December 8, 2015

I have a freebie for you today:

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Right click and choose "save as" to save these to your computer.  As always, if you use one of my digital sentiments on a project, I would LOVE to see it.  Send me a link via a comment on this message or via email (address in the sidebar).

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And now he's SIX!!!

Holy cow - how did this happen.  

Seems like just yesterday we were:

Here's another of my favorite pix of this guy (he's one in this picture):

And here he is on his first day of school this year: 

Happy Birthday darling Justice!   Grandpa and I love you so much and hope that you have the bestest birthday ever!

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And now they are - what ???? - can't be - 8 already!

Today is the twins 8th birthday.  So very hard to believe that they can possibly be this old!  Here is a slideshow of their beginnings:

And here they are now:

Isabella:

Julian:

Two fun, fantastic, marvelous individuals!  Happy, Happy Birthday to these two darlings! Grandpa and I love you more than you can imagine!

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Happy 70th Birthday to the Love of My Life

Today is DH's 70th birthday.  We have spent the last 29 of his birthdays together and it is still hard to believe we are still one!

Here he is in his favorite place doing his favorite things:

Happy, happy, happy birthday to you John!  If you want to leave him birthday salutations, you can send them to his email or you can visit his facebook page!  He has a blog too where you can follow along with his adventures.

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Happy Birthday Darling Boy!!!!

Today is my son's 39th birthday!  I cannot believe that my baby is this old - not possible!  Here he is then and now:

Absolutely the light of my life!  Happy Birthday son - I love you so much!

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This week's Freebie is finally here!

I am not even going to apologize - I'm just swamped and that's all there is to it.  I'm getting things done and posted and that's all I can worry about right now.  This week's sentiment says it all, here it is:

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This week's freebie comes from a blog post title on A Rural Journal.  This is a blog that I have been a huge fan of for years.  Nancy Claeys is both a talented writer and fantastic photographer.  If you have time it would be worth your while to visit her blog and see for yourself.  She kindly gave me permission to quote her for this wonderful sentiment!  Thanks Nancy!

Today is the 5th birthday of this handsome little devil:

Here he is 5 years ago:

And here is in one of my favorite pix of him:

As a dutiful grandma I have tons more, but I won't bore you with them now.  If you click on the link to family posts in the sidebar you can see a few more of this precious little darling.  I'm sure there are many days when his parents would NOT agree with that name though!

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Pumpkin Patch and a Freebie!

We have been taking annual visits to the local Pumpkin Patch with Julian, Isabella and Justice (and their parents too).  Here's some pix from this year's visit:

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Isabella

Justice

Picking Pumpkins is back breaking work!

Can't we agree?

I also have a Monday Freebie for you - on Wednesday!

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I am slowly but surely getting back into a normal routine after a few tumultuous months.  Thanks so much for being patient with me.

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Happy Birthday Kael!!!

Today is Kael's birthday!!!  He is 9 years old today and I am astounded - the time has just flown by.

Kael was my first grandchild and will always be very special to me.  I love you Kael!!!

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