Thankful Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving Day with our wonderful family. This is all the grandaughters. They all had so much fun being together playing games and eating all day.

Trixie came too and was so cute. She is a good puppy and makes herself at home just like the girls. I think she knows it is her grandparents home now.

Tia and TaraKate wore their Pilgrim dresses and brought their American girl dolls with their matching dresses. Don't they look so cute!!

We had so much food and everyone was really stuffed. It was a wonderful day of just being together eating and having a good time relaxing and enjoying the holiday.

I meant to take some more photos of the food but when everyone got here I forgot to do that. We are so thankful for another wonderful year. God is so good!

TaraKate's Birthday

This is a little late but just wanted to post TaraKate's cute pictures for her birthday. Mommy created this very cute birthday card to invite everyone to her celebration

Her very creative Mommy also made this monkey cake for her since she loves monkeys. It was really cute and TaraKate really liked it.

The napkins and plates were so bright and pretty. We all had a great time together celebrating TaraKate's birthday.

"Happy Grandparents Day 2009"

Today was the Annual Grandparents Day at School. Since we have 2 in school we had lunch twice so we could be with each one for lunch, but on the way to school we stopped by and left a sack lunch for little Tabi so she could enjoy Grandparents day too even though she isn't in school yet. She acted so cute and just smiled and made sure she said "Thank you Mamaw and Papaw'

Tia's lunch was first so we ate with her and then she was so anxious to show us her room. She had made the sweetest 'Thank you" card for us.

Her room was so neat. Not sure if you can read the card but if you click on it it may come up big enough to see it. It was so sweet.

Tia showed us her History book and what they had been studying today.

She really likes this book and you can see her sweet smile as she tells Papaw about it.

This was a paper that Tia's class had done and Tia has an A+ 100% on it and they had it displayed in the hallway for everyone to see.

Next was time for us to eat with TaraKate. This is a large picture that someone has painted on the wall. I thought it was so neat and TaraKate had on the right colors to match it so I took her picture, There are some other pictures in the gym similar that some talented person has done.

This is the door to TaraKate's room. The room is decorated in a Jungle Theme and is so cute.

TaraKate made a cute picture decorated with macaroni and colored really pretty.

This is a calendar in her room and if you can see it there is a special little picture on the day next week that is TaraKate's birthday and she wanted us to notice that.

This is some of the class on the playground and they were having so much fun enjoying the beautiful day. We enjoyed our day visiting the school today

We had a wonderful visit and it was such a nice day to be outside. We certainly enjoyed Grandparents Day with our sweet little girls.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged . . . . .

Tia's 10 th Birthday

On Sunday we were invited to celebrate Tia's tenth birthday. Her birthday was actually on Monday. Here the 5 grandaughters are ready to see Tia open her gifts. It is hard to believe Tia is ten already. Seems like she has grown up so fast.

Mommy (Tina) made this delicious cheesecake for her. Tia loved it. Strawberries are her favorite thing so this was a really big hit

As you can see Tinley their new puppy was right there too. He is so cute and the girls love him and have so much fun playing with him

After the party the girls went outside to enjoy the nice day. We have been having some wonderful weather lately. There are a few signs that fall is very near but it has been wonderful outside the last week. We are so thankful for these great days.

"The New Little Puppy"

Yesterday was a really happy day for Tia, TaraKate and Tabi. Mommy and Daddy got them a new pet, a tiny little puppy. He is 8 weeks old and only weighs 1 lb. and 5 oz. and he is so adorable. I think he will get lots of love. He is a Yorkshire Terrier and will not be very big so he will be so neat for them.

See that happy smile on Tia's face. She has been wanting a pet for a long time and she already loves him a lot.

TaraKate really likes him too. They have a hard time putting him down. I think he was spoiled anyway so he likes to be cuddled. Good thing!

Little Tabi kept wanting to hold him too. She would say, "little baby." They said his birthday is in May just like Tabi's so he will be one year and she will be five next May. Can't even believe she is already four. Time is flying by so fast.

Construction of the new park (as the girls call it)

Here we are in the newly constructed playhouse. Don't they look happy? It was a great day when they returned from vacation in Texas to see their new park all ready for them. Our little grandaughters have been looking forward to having a new swing set and they had a really neat book that showed some really neat play sets. They were always asking Papaw if he would build them one. They would ask him"Papaw will you build us a park" so for Christmas Mommy got them a box that had the hardware in it for a really nice play set. Mind you it only had the hardware in it and you had to buy the lumber and even cut the boards to size. The instructions told all the sizes and length of each board and all you had to do then was put it together. Sounds pretty easy.

First it was Christmas and it snowed and was cold and the ground was frozen and then spring was really rainy so it got delayed for awhile, but finally it got underway and now it is reality and we have the pictures to prove it is ready to use and they love it.

Papaw Mac putting one of the frames together in the garage. Below we called Uncle Bruce to help him carry the heavy frame to the back of the house. The wood is very heavy.

Papaw Toby came and helped too. It was a big project.

It is getting to look like it can have some swings and the clubhouse. Even Papaw can stand in it.

Papaw Mac and Papaw Toby after a busy day of working together on the park.

The girls are so happy to be able to pose with Papaw. Isn't it so neat.?
They love the swings and they can go really high!
It is so neat and then they have their sandbox underneath with little seats on the sides and a climbing rope. It will also have a big slide beside the ladder and a glider beside the three swings..

Summer happenings.

This is Tia's first year for being in 4-H and she wanted to crochet something for one of her projects so she ask me to help her learn to crochet. We found a single crochet dish cloth pattern and today she finished it. It was so neat to see her do this and I was so happy I could teach her how to crochet. She loves to learn new things and it was so fun to see her working on this project. Doesn't she look so cute!!

This month has been so rainy and a good time to sew something so I made these little tote bags for the little girls to use for various things. Don't little girls like to carry things in little tote bags? Tia had hers at church yesterday with her Bible in it.

Some of my flowers in my new flower bed. The lilies don't last very long but they sure are pretty when they do bloom. I always look forward to seeing them in the spring.

We have had so much rain and stormy weather. This is one of the days we had storm warnings and it got very dark, almost like nightime. I went outside and took photos and this is some of the really black clouds that I captured above our house one day.My clematis and iris were really pretty this year too.