Almost Happy New Year!!!!!

Hi again,

Here it is the 27th of December. Lee and I are celebrating 34 yrs of marriage today!! Seems like only yesterday we stood in front of my Mom and Dads Christmas tree and said our I Do's. Life has been good to us both and we are looking forward to many more years of sharing with family and friends.

Christmas was truly white this year. It snowed all day on Christmas eve into Christmas morning. I will add a couple of pictures taken at Sam and Shannon's. We thought we were the only ones to have the deer visit our house but, we had 7 in the kids backyard eating leftover apples on Christmas morning.
We had a great time with Porter. Grand kids are wonderful maybe we should have had them first! Porter is just about to crawl and when he starts talking Look Out!! He and Nana will never be without something to say.

We missed Clint,Tanya and Dane, but they in our thoughts and we enjoy checking out what is going on with them on their blog.

We are getting ready to go south for two weeks in Jan. Lee has his shorts out and packed already! Needless to say I'm a little behind, but Santa brought be a new suitcase for Christmas and I am going to fill it!!

My Dad and Mom were pretty much snowed in for the Holidays and are hanging in there. Dad

starts his radiation on the 6th of Jan for 6 weeks. He will be staying at the VA hospital in Vancouver for that time and they will take him back and forth to the hospital at OHSU for his treatments. Hang in there Dad were all pulling for you!!!! Mom will be having her CT on the 30th of Jan and we are expecting a good report.

That's about all for now. More in a couple of weeks. Wishing everyone the best in 2009 Christmas morning at Sam and Shannon'sPorter giving us his newest pose

Dane and Clint in the ice fishing tent

Dane helping out mom while she is baking cookiesNeedless to say somehow I got an extra picture of Porter. I can move them around but can't seem to delete it. I also lost the picture of the deer in Sam and Shannon's back yard so goes the the world of the beginning computer wizard!

Merry Christmas

Well, winter came in like a lion!!!! We have about 12 plus inches of snow on the ground. We are off to Sam,Shannon and Porters house for the holiday. We hope to leave this afternoon before we get too much snow. They are predicting about 8 inches of new white stuff. I love this weather, but Lee is getting pretty tired of shoveling the snow off the driveway. Riley is having the time of his life playing in white stuff. Kitty has decided that the garage is a great place to be right now!

We want to wish all our family and friends a very Merry Christmas and thank you to all the servicemen and women that are away from their families keeping us safe.

That is as far as the car made it up the driveway.

Good thing Lee packed in the wood for winter!

Riley just loves the snow!

Kitty isn't too sure about all the white stuff

Winter has arrived!!!

There has been so much going on since the last post. Lee and I went to Montana for Thanksgiving with Clint,Tanya and Dane. Dane is such a cutie. He is crawling and Clint says that he has to keep a watch on the dogs water dish as Dane has discovered it!!! While we were there Lee and Clint went hunting and Lee got a nice doe. We now have meat for the winter and thanks to the help from Clint and Tanya we also have 20lbs of sausage. We had some the other day and it was wonderful. That means that we will have to go back next year and give it another try. We just missed the snow on our way home, thank goodness

I have been spending time in Portland with my Dad and Mom. Dad was diagnosed with melanoma of the nose in Nov. and had surgery to remove the tumor. He also had to have all his top teeth pulled last week for the radiation that they will start in Jan. He is a real trooper!!!

Today we are hunkered down, keeping the wood stove going as it was -3 degrees this morning. Lee is outside shoveling snow. It has been snowing lightly all morning maybe 3 inches on the ground now. We are suppose to get snow all day and several days this week also. I am suppose to drive back to Portland on Wednesday, but the mountain is a mess and Portland is suppose to get 3 to 6 inches of new snow on Wed. I am hoping that my dad can change his appt for Thur as I don't look forward to that drive!!!!

Porter is now saying DaDa much to Sam's delight!!! Sam and Shannon are expecting another baby in June and we are pretty excited. I can get used to this Nana and Grandpa stage of our lives!

That's all for now. I am going to post a couple of pics. Happy Holidays Everyone

Lee and his doe from MontanaPorter getting ready to go outside.Tanya and Dane in Nov. Look at those two teeth!