Year: 2017

Months from Kevin’s Camera, Part 2

And we pick Kevin’s pictures back up in August … The boys love visiting their grandparents in California. Our end of summer BBQ with friends was really chilly this year!  Usually, we aren’t so bundled up in August! This is what happens when I pull some toys out to give away … they become the […]

Months from Kevin’s Camera, part 1

A few tidbits from Kevin’s phone …  okay.  More than a FEW tidbits … Kevin’s work sponsors a Bees day every May.  The company has a BBQ on site and the family can go to the baseball game. Bobby and I stayed home this year, but Kevin and the big boys had a great time! […]

End of November 2017

More from November … Our Primary Program was uneventful in comparison to other years.  The boys all had their parts memorized, yet chose to read them.  Bobby spoke nice and loudly into the microphone.  We could pick out Billy and Tommy singing, but nothing too loud. The laughing tears came at the very last song.  […]

November begins …

We made it through Halloween… We had about 100 people come to our spook alley this year.  At $2 a person, after paying for the cocoa and donuts, that left $92 profit for the boys.  I told them they could spend it how they wanted – and they voted to buy a trampoline!  I got […]

Halloween 2017

I love Halloween.  Not the gory, super scary, made of nightmares stuff.  But I do love pumpkins and cute costumes and the fun of the spooky scare.   The boys don’t seem to mind celebrating with me! The boys ran our second annual Spook Alley the Friday before Halloween.  We set up several spooky rooms and […]