Yes!!! I love my grandbabies! #7 breaks the tie. We'll have 4 girls and 3 boys. I'm so excited to start the luvs. You just know she'll have great cheeks to kiss! Congrats Geoff & Katie.
February 16, 2012
February 11, 2012
Me and Meryl?
It seems like everywhere I go someone is telling me I look just like their cousin, or their best friend, or their aunt's half-sister once removed.
I was in California for work last week. One of the admins came up to me at the end of the three days and said, "I've been trying forever to figure out who you remind me of and I finally got it". I said "Who, Roseanne?" (I used to get that quite often in my chubbier days!)
She said "No, Meryl Streep." I thought it was one of the oddest comparisons I've had. Can't see it at all.
She said, "You have her mannerisms, and you speak quietly like her, and your skin is so pretty like hers, but most of all your nose comes to this cute little point at the end just like hers."
I smiled and took the compliment and decided she didn't know the real me.
Happy 24th Birthday Baby Boy!
Today marks the 24th year of the day Geoffrey "burst" into this world. There was no waiting for his due date 2 weeks away. There was no time for labor or contractions. He just decided it was time to come out. RIGHT THEN. And so he did....thanks to Jones' master skilled driving and running red lights we made it to hospital and he was delivered within about 3 minutes later. I laughed hysterically afterwards for about 1 hour. The nurses thought I was insane. I was insane...ly....happy about not having to go through my usual 12 hours of labor and delivery. I was euphoric. It was heaven!!! And Geoff's personality has been the same ever since. No time for waiting around or dilly-dallying. He's always movin' and groovin'. No sittin around for this big boy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY! HOPE YOU AND KATIE CAN CELEBRATE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Loves to you.
February 7, 2012
Happy Anniversary Mike Jones
... although there have been a few rocky roads along the way...
... and some awesome, magical days ...
... it has been a great ride for 33 years ...and i've come to appreciate my Mike Jones more and more each day...
...i couldn't have found a better man to share my life with
and to be my kid's dad and the most
awesome grandpa this town has ever known...
Happy Anniversary Jones. Love your guts!
January 30, 2012
Look "Whoooo's" Three!
Look "Whooooo's" 3! Taylor Marie!
We celebrated Tay Tay's birthday last night even though it's on Jan. 31st. I'll always remember how she was such a good girl to be born just in time for Mike and I to visit her just before we were setting sail on one of our vacations. I couldn't wait to get back and give her hugs and kisses.
Britney made these darling owl cupcakes. She's so clever!
Candles were blown out...
Candles were blown out...
Presents opened...
Ice cream cones consumed...
and the usual party proceeded.
Isn't she a doll! I love my beautiful blue-eyed baby girls. I love their beautiful smiles. Each one is a special miracle in my life.
Happy 3rd Birthday sweet baby Tay!
Happy 3rd Birthday sweet baby Tay!
January 19, 2012
My Life Through Sudoku
A few years ago, when I was going to have one of my IVIG treatments, Michelle brought me over a sweet care package to help pass the 8 hours I was going to be hooked up. It was full of lots of fun stuff; my favorite candy(s); puzzle books, etc. I quickly ate the candy and used all the great whatnots in it, and then set it aside.
When it was time to go to our annual trip to the ocean, I was gathering markers, coloring books, games and other assorted things for us to have in the condo. I found a couple Sudoku books she had given me and threw them in the bag. I had never even heard of it before.
When we got to the condo, I started noticing the kids were all playing in the books. They were absorbed in them. They would race each other. They started ripping pages out for each other to all play at once. They would tell each other secrets they had for figuring out how to find the numbers. So I finally picked up one when we got home...and I was hooked!
When I was furnishing the cabin last year, Michelle informed me you could get Sudoku books for much cheaper at the dollar store (say for about a dollar?!) I went and purchased lots and lots of them. I got multiple copies of the same editions so the kids could race each other at the cabin. But I decided to keep one home, just for me. Mike has his own too. Actually, I think he's completed two or three. He has become hooked even more so than I. I dare say it's even replaced his nightly games of Freecell before bed.
But, to make a long story short, I found I would doodle on the top of each page. I'd doodle the time it took me to finish the puzzle; congratulatory words; dates; events that happened that day, etc. Just take a peek at my life last year:
Yes, I labeled my name on the front. I also informed children (including in-laws (Aaron!) to keep their hands off MY BOOK!
One of the first puzzles. I wasn't happy with myself when I finished, obviously. And I'm still in awe how Geoff, Mike and Scott can do theirs in pen and not have doodles and erasures all over the page.
"February 5, (going on 6th) 2011. 12:15 a.m. At cabin w/Jones for 32nd anniversary." I gave myself a "Bad" rating. "P.S. Woke up with the BAD stomach flu...yes, that kind @ 4:30 and never went back to bed".
Sounds like one romantic anniversary!
Shellene Garner 6-6-11. (I must have not have completed it then because I have a #2 at top that also says 8-22-11. Monday Took a couple month's break I guess) "3:30 a.m. Pinedale 2 days. Rained and Rained. Quading in rain. Wallow Fire. Springerville Pre-Evacuation."
This one cracked me up. Little 6 year old Brodie Kana slipped in and actually tried to play. I love how he did the number tics at the bottom and crossed them off and how he used the #10 in squares. He even signed his name...like I had done throughout the book. Love it.
"Thurs. Mike left for Oregon today with Scott. Geoff's starting center on Saturday against Stanford."
"YUK!" I obviously wasn't happy with my performance on that puzzle!
"Home from cabin - Went there for New Year's 2012. Brian, Anna, Koston, Geoff, Me, Mike. (I forgot Scott.) Brit and Girls for Sunday night."
I finally reached almost the end of the book. The puzzles just kept getting harder and harder. Many of the books have stars by the puzzles. I'm sure I was into the 4 star puzzles by then. I found it REALLY hard not to look in the back after almost every answer to check if I was right. I left the book open on Jones' side of the desk with the following notation: "These are too hard for me now. You can finish this book. You're welcome. 
"
And so ended my year of that book. Funny -- all this year I've thought it was called SuDUko, and it's really SuDOku. Either way, the puzzles drive me cuckoo! The poor book has had water spilled on it (as exhibited by the poor wrinkled scans), has tattered corners and is pretty beat up! But hey! No one can accuse me of not journaling last year. It chronicles my travels, the kids visits, my illnesses, some very sad things that took place to dear friends in our neighborhood, what we had for dinner and lot's of different tidbits!
I should just throw it up in my closet with my other treasures and someone can find it someday and learn a lot about me in 2011! Especially the things I wrote after my Ambien set in....just be glad I didn't include those!
When it was time to go to our annual trip to the ocean, I was gathering markers, coloring books, games and other assorted things for us to have in the condo. I found a couple Sudoku books she had given me and threw them in the bag. I had never even heard of it before.
When we got to the condo, I started noticing the kids were all playing in the books. They were absorbed in them. They would race each other. They started ripping pages out for each other to all play at once. They would tell each other secrets they had for figuring out how to find the numbers. So I finally picked up one when we got home...and I was hooked!
When I was furnishing the cabin last year, Michelle informed me you could get Sudoku books for much cheaper at the dollar store (say for about a dollar?!) I went and purchased lots and lots of them. I got multiple copies of the same editions so the kids could race each other at the cabin. But I decided to keep one home, just for me. Mike has his own too. Actually, I think he's completed two or three. He has become hooked even more so than I. I dare say it's even replaced his nightly games of Freecell before bed.
But, to make a long story short, I found I would doodle on the top of each page. I'd doodle the time it took me to finish the puzzle; congratulatory words; dates; events that happened that day, etc. Just take a peek at my life last year:
One of the first puzzles. I wasn't happy with myself when I finished, obviously. And I'm still in awe how Geoff, Mike and Scott can do theirs in pen and not have doodles and erasures all over the page.
Sounds like one romantic anniversary!
Shellene Garner 6-6-11. (I must have not have completed it then because I have a #2 at top that also says 8-22-11. Monday Took a couple month's break I guess) "3:30 a.m. Pinedale 2 days. Rained and Rained. Quading in rain. Wallow Fire. Springerville Pre-Evacuation."
This one cracked me up. Little 6 year old Brodie Kana slipped in and actually tried to play. I love how he did the number tics at the bottom and crossed them off and how he used the #10 in squares. He even signed his name...like I had done throughout the book. Love it.
"Thurs. Mike left for Oregon today with Scott. Geoff's starting center on Saturday against Stanford."
"YUK!" I obviously wasn't happy with my performance on that puzzle!
"Home from cabin - Went there for New Year's 2012. Brian, Anna, Koston, Geoff, Me, Mike. (I forgot Scott.) Brit and Girls for Sunday night."
I finally reached almost the end of the book. The puzzles just kept getting harder and harder. Many of the books have stars by the puzzles. I'm sure I was into the 4 star puzzles by then. I found it REALLY hard not to look in the back after almost every answer to check if I was right. I left the book open on Jones' side of the desk with the following notation: "These are too hard for me now. You can finish this book. You're welcome. "And so ended my year of that book. Funny -- all this year I've thought it was called SuDUko, and it's really SuDOku. Either way, the puzzles drive me cuckoo! The poor book has had water spilled on it (as exhibited by the poor wrinkled scans), has tattered corners and is pretty beat up! But hey! No one can accuse me of not journaling last year. It chronicles my travels, the kids visits, my illnesses, some very sad things that took place to dear friends in our neighborhood, what we had for dinner and lot's of different tidbits!
I should just throw it up in my closet with my other treasures and someone can find it someday and learn a lot about me in 2011! Especially the things I wrote after my Ambien set in....just be glad I didn't include those!
January 14, 2012
Kit Cookin' in Corvallis!
You know what a baby Beaver is called? A kit!It's official! Grandbaby Garner #7 is on it's way. We're excited for Geoff and Katie to break our tie - 3 girls and 3 boys! We'll find out next month what the newest edition will be. I've been baby hungry for quite awhile. We'll be flying to Corvallis for more than just football games this year!!
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