December 24 & 25, 2013

I have been lax or lazy is probably the more appropriate word in posting to my blog.  I have many excuses so I won’t even begin to offer any.  

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends.

Yesterday the 24th was our 46th Wedding Anniversary.  It’s unbelievable how quickly time goes by.  It seems like yesterday and also like forever!  This is what HE looked like when I first met HIM:

 

 This was after he trimmed his hair and beard. 

This is what I looked like then:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then our engagement:

Then our wedding(he cleaned up nicely):

After a few years, we looked like this:

 

         Then we began to GROW:

We became Grandparents and Great grandparents.  The above photo is our grandkids minus our Ella who was in the oven at that time.

And here she is:

 

 

 

We are blessed beyond measure!

                                  (I have Thanksgiving to blog yet, backwards, I know!)

 

 

 

 

This was our Anniversary-Christmas Eve dinner at home, Cornish game hens, yams, green bean casserole, dressing and fresh cranberry relish with Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (all GOOD CARBS) : 

 

Time with the GRANDS…

Grandsons Micah and Gavin have gone back home!   The house is quiet again (not that they were noisy).  We enjoyed our time with them.  I had to work but Grandpa Bud went with them to the Smokies from Thursday – Saturday late.  He had a wonderful time keeping the GRANDS entertained with his corny grandpa jokes.  Just ask our oldest grandson Brian about the “grandpa jokes”! 

My handsome grandsons and son, relaxing at the cabin.

 

 

Father & son at the top of the tower.

Getting ready to tube down the river.  But first we’ve got to get Dad’s

blown up!!! Grandpa BUD did NOT go tubing.  He kept the home fires burning and watched out for them coming back down the river past the cabin!  He had to whistle at them or they’d have kept  floating on by!

I think Marc had a hard time getting his tube aired up…

Just one of the quaint sights to see!

 

A NEW friend finishing the uneaten breakfast…

 

The lane leading to the cabin on the river.

 

 

 

 

Overlook stops on the way to Klingman’s Dome.

  

Dad and his boys! They are growing up way to fast.  Micah is almost as tall as me!!  Gavin looked like he had grown a foot since I last saw him!

 

 

It was time to say Good Byes and that is the hardest part of the visit…good byes are not fun! The car is packed, the granddogs and grandsons are all securely in the car… and now it’s time to….

WAVE good bye!

Until another time…

 

 

I have hundreds of photos that Marc, Bud and Micah took … some beautiful scenery and I’ll save those for another blog.  Bud is anxious to take me there now… we’ll see.  I don’t think I’ll float down the river though!  That would be a sight or NOT!

Grandkids are God’s extreme blessings for grandparents! 

A Wonderful Surprise Visit…

Well, I got to see my youngest son (36) Marc, and his wife Shenyle and my grandsons, Micah and Gavin.  What a nice surprise!!!  They had told us they might come down for a visit and then Friday night late we get this call that they are in Nashville.  Whoohoo!!!!!

Here’s some photos:

 

Micah and Gavin having fun on the stairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eating chocolate cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poppy Wilson taking a nap on the porch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dressed up for Church Sunday evening.  Aren’t they handsome?!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our family after church Sunday evening.  We had a good time!

 

We just had a good time visiting, didn’t go anywhere special.  The kids went downtown to the Walk Bridge for the Fireworks Saturday night.  We “old folk” just stayed home and got ready for Sunday.  They said there was a huge crowd.  This is downtown Chattanooga and people come from all over and also bring their boats to the downtown dock area and watch from their boats.  Marc said there were a lot of boats there this year.  They almost didn’t find a place to park.  When we lived downtown we could see the fireworks over the tree tops and hear them.  We only lived about 1/2 mile from the Walk Bridge.  Sometimes I miss living downtown.  I had a huge living room and in one of our house services we had almost 30 in our living room.  Those were good times.  We had several Cambodia young people coming, Bud used to see some of them at the hospital where he worked…they worked there also.  But now they’ve grown up and married and have kids!!!  Time goes on … quickly!

The house is once again quiet and the dogs are moping around (almost depressed LOL) because now they don’t have anyone to play with them!  They love the boys!  Scrappy really misses them!   Me too!  Until next time…