We have a new baby girl grand daughter.
Isabel Marie Rothrock was born on Jan. 15 at 3:45 (ish) am. I was never really sure of the exact time. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was 19 3/4 inches long. She is beautiful and seems to have a very laid back disposition.
I have tried twice to load pictures tonight, but the computer connection keeps cutting off. It could be because of the ice storm that is traveling through. I will try again tomorrow to post some pictures.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
A Bit of Christmas & and other projects
Hi it's me again. I lied. I did take a few pictures at Christmas. This is Turner and Nathan looking for the "pickle" on the Christmas tree. The tree managed to withstand the onslaught, (see previous post) so I guess the new tree stand did it's work. The winner gets a basket of goodies thanks to Lori for providing each year. It won't be long before Landon, JT and maybe Sam & Gwen can be in on it.
Our niece Lori came from South Texas for Christmas and Nathan enjoyed playing with Landon. Nathan has always loved babies. Parker was content to sit in Amanda's lap.
This Ralph supervising Nathan while Nathan cuts down a low branch off of the pecan tree. That cost us too. When Nathan found out that Turner and Parker had each earned $$, he wanted some too. It was fun putting them to work and then taking them all shopping for their Christmas presents. Amy was home for thanksgiving and she helped me with taking them shopping. She has lots of good ideas. I tend to stick to the tried and true and don't think much out of the box.
JT also played well with the boys. It was parallel play, but he so enjoyed being with them.
JT came and stayed with us for 5 days before Christmas. Amy was working on getting packed and ready to move into their new (for them) home. Parker and Turner stayed several days before Thanksgiving and Nathan stayed a few days after Thanksgiving. They are all getting so big. Of course we are on BABY watch now. Isabel should be joining us in a few weeks. We are all so excited and anxious to meet and hold her.
Yesterday Allen and Ralph helped me redo the girls room. It had pink and white stripped paper from the 70's. Ralph gave me a new set of bedding and Johnny helped me pick colors. I love the new look. I think that is a glare under the window, but I haven't finished my touch up painting yet. Just need to figure out how to finish off the windows and hang some things on the walls. Any suggestions?
We have enjoyed having Allen home for a few weeks. I tend to keep him pretty busy when he is here. He will graduate in May and this may be the last time we have a "break" together. I am so excited for him and look forward to beginning his new life as a 'grown up' with a job.
This is it for my post today.
Our niece Lori came from South Texas for Christmas and Nathan enjoyed playing with Landon. Nathan has always loved babies. Parker was content to sit in Amanda's lap.
This Ralph supervising Nathan while Nathan cuts down a low branch off of the pecan tree. That cost us too. When Nathan found out that Turner and Parker had each earned $$, he wanted some too. It was fun putting them to work and then taking them all shopping for their Christmas presents. Amy was home for thanksgiving and she helped me with taking them shopping. She has lots of good ideas. I tend to stick to the tried and true and don't think much out of the box.
JT also played well with the boys. It was parallel play, but he so enjoyed being with them.
JT came and stayed with us for 5 days before Christmas. Amy was working on getting packed and ready to move into their new (for them) home. Parker and Turner stayed several days before Thanksgiving and Nathan stayed a few days after Thanksgiving. They are all getting so big. Of course we are on BABY watch now. Isabel should be joining us in a few weeks. We are all so excited and anxious to meet and hold her.
Yesterday Allen and Ralph helped me redo the girls room. It had pink and white stripped paper from the 70's. Ralph gave me a new set of bedding and Johnny helped me pick colors. I love the new look. I think that is a glare under the window, but I haven't finished my touch up painting yet. Just need to figure out how to finish off the windows and hang some things on the walls. Any suggestions?
We have enjoyed having Allen home for a few weeks. I tend to keep him pretty busy when he is here. He will graduate in May and this may be the last time we have a "break" together. I am so excited for him and look forward to beginning his new life as a 'grown up' with a job.
This is it for my post today.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009
Happy New Year to all of you!
Here it is Jan. 4 and it has been a long time since I've posted anything. That's because we have had a Christmas that almost didn't happen! In other words, this should be titled "Why I didn't get my Christmas cards done in a timely manner."
It all began at Thanksgiving when my grandsons from Edmond came to see us. They needed some Christmas money, so in order to accommodate them (that's what Grandma's are for, right?), I made a list of things they could do around the house. One was "put up the Christmas lights outside." Of course that took supervision from Uncle Allen (the engineering major, soon to graduate from college, yeah!). Allen forgot to check the lights to make sure they worked, so a week later, when I went to turn them on, we realized that half didn't work. Sooooo, I went to our local handy dandy Wal Mart and purchased three strands to replace the burned out lights. Little did I realize until I tried to replace them the next day, that the lights were a bit different, blue white instead of yellow light. I knew that Ralph wouldn't like them, so I stopped in mid porch until he came home and confirmed what I already knew, that he didn't like them. So I said "go get the rest of the lights and I will replace all of them." So he did and the fourth day, I restrung the lights. Now we are talking about a thirty minute job here( to start with). I have now invested $$$$ for three grandkids and my son to put the lights up that didn't work, take them down and replace half, take down the other half and replace those and finally they are up only to have them blown off the house in a major wind storm the next day. Not being one to be defeated, I went back AGAIN and put the lights up. Seven days now invested in the lights.
In the mean time the Christmas tree made it's way from South Carolina with it's very own stand designed to be able to just drop the tree in and have it ready. Think again. Only a 30 minute (or less task). On Tuesday we dropped the pre drilled tree into the stand only to discover the hole in the tree was drilled too big, the tree listed and so we (Ralph & I) spent three days trying to figure out how to make this tree stand stright. Once we figured it out -on Saturday, (Ralph drilled the hole a bit deeper) we unwound the tree and I put the lights on. Ralph said it was still leaning so we adjusted the feet under the tree with some wood blocks. We are going on 5 days now trying to get this tree up. So Sunday, I put more decorations on (as I had time) and on Monday evening I finished decorating. Then Ralph tells me the tree is leaning a little bit, so we made one more adjustment with another set of wood blocks.
Much to my surprise, when I got up on Tuesday morning (we are now closing in on Christmas Day- 7 days and counting) there is my Christmas tree laying in the middle of the living room floor. Ralph is gone and I call him- "did you know the tree was on the floor?" Yes, he said, it fell over while I was eating breakfast and I knew it would take two of us to get it back up. "
Tuesday night we made another trip to our local handy dandy Wal Mart to buy a new Christmas tree stand that could screw into the trunk of the tree. I now had two Christmas trees stands valued at $60, broken ornaments and a sopping wet carpet (the tree was well watered and was standing in 2 gallons of water that now was watering my carpet.) We got the tree up on Tuesday night but had to move the tree out into the middle of the living room floor so the carpet under the stand could dry out. And four days before we could put presents under it because the carpet was so wet for several days. I wanted to just throw the presents on the tree while it was on the floor and call it good but I know Santa Clause might think I was acting like Scrooge if I did.
And here is a picture of my tree:
That is my story and I am sticking to it. Needless to say, these are the ONLY pictures I took in all of December.
Here it is Jan. 4 and it has been a long time since I've posted anything. That's because we have had a Christmas that almost didn't happen! In other words, this should be titled "Why I didn't get my Christmas cards done in a timely manner."
It all began at Thanksgiving when my grandsons from Edmond came to see us. They needed some Christmas money, so in order to accommodate them (that's what Grandma's are for, right?), I made a list of things they could do around the house. One was "put up the Christmas lights outside." Of course that took supervision from Uncle Allen (the engineering major, soon to graduate from college, yeah!). Allen forgot to check the lights to make sure they worked, so a week later, when I went to turn them on, we realized that half didn't work. Sooooo, I went to our local handy dandy Wal Mart and purchased three strands to replace the burned out lights. Little did I realize until I tried to replace them the next day, that the lights were a bit different, blue white instead of yellow light. I knew that Ralph wouldn't like them, so I stopped in mid porch until he came home and confirmed what I already knew, that he didn't like them. So I said "go get the rest of the lights and I will replace all of them." So he did and the fourth day, I restrung the lights. Now we are talking about a thirty minute job here( to start with). I have now invested $$$$ for three grandkids and my son to put the lights up that didn't work, take them down and replace half, take down the other half and replace those and finally they are up only to have them blown off the house in a major wind storm the next day. Not being one to be defeated, I went back AGAIN and put the lights up. Seven days now invested in the lights.
In the mean time the Christmas tree made it's way from South Carolina with it's very own stand designed to be able to just drop the tree in and have it ready. Think again. Only a 30 minute (or less task). On Tuesday we dropped the pre drilled tree into the stand only to discover the hole in the tree was drilled too big, the tree listed and so we (Ralph & I) spent three days trying to figure out how to make this tree stand stright. Once we figured it out -on Saturday, (Ralph drilled the hole a bit deeper) we unwound the tree and I put the lights on. Ralph said it was still leaning so we adjusted the feet under the tree with some wood blocks. We are going on 5 days now trying to get this tree up. So Sunday, I put more decorations on (as I had time) and on Monday evening I finished decorating. Then Ralph tells me the tree is leaning a little bit, so we made one more adjustment with another set of wood blocks.
Much to my surprise, when I got up on Tuesday morning (we are now closing in on Christmas Day- 7 days and counting) there is my Christmas tree laying in the middle of the living room floor. Ralph is gone and I call him- "did you know the tree was on the floor?" Yes, he said, it fell over while I was eating breakfast and I knew it would take two of us to get it back up. "
Tuesday night we made another trip to our local handy dandy Wal Mart to buy a new Christmas tree stand that could screw into the trunk of the tree. I now had two Christmas trees stands valued at $60, broken ornaments and a sopping wet carpet (the tree was well watered and was standing in 2 gallons of water that now was watering my carpet.) We got the tree up on Tuesday night but had to move the tree out into the middle of the living room floor so the carpet under the stand could dry out. And four days before we could put presents under it because the carpet was so wet for several days. I wanted to just throw the presents on the tree while it was on the floor and call it good but I know Santa Clause might think I was acting like Scrooge if I did.
And here is a picture of my tree:
That is my story and I am sticking to it. Needless to say, these are the ONLY pictures I took in all of December.
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