Painting the House

Well Ifigured out how to put this page on my blog. Hope it works so that you can all see it. If you can't let me know and I will do it the old way.

Route 66 Fun Run

On Friday May 1st Grandpa and I went up to Chino Valley and spent the night at Uncle Mikes and Aunt Joyce's. We attended their ballroom dance class with them, but with my bad legs and Dad's bad knee all we did was watch.

Next morning (Saturday) we were up and left for Seligman, Arizona by seven a.m.. We spent a couple of hours walking around looking at old cars. Grandpa was in seventh heaven. He loves old cars. At ten they started the procession of cars on the fun run. We watched cars go by for a solid 45 minutes and then they stragfgled by for another 15. Uncle Art and Strad drove Uncle Art's 1965 or 66 Dodge and went on the run to Kingman. Uncle Mike, Aunt Joyce and Paige drove up In Uncle Mike's 1967 Ford F100 Ranger Pickup, but didn't go on the run.

We went back to Uncle Mike's and Aunt Joyce's and had a wonderful lunch, and then we made the long trip down the hill.

Kiandra Marissa Thomas

Kim had her baby on Thursday, March 26th, (which also happens to be Camille's birthday). She was born at 6:39 p.m. She weighed 7# 5 oz. and was 19 3/4 inches long. She has lots of dark hair. Kim is doing well and will be home tomorrow.

Washington Calhoun's come to visit

Kevin, Tanya, Jordan, Erin and Nathan came to visit us February 14th-to Feb. 23rd. We had a wonderful time and were so happy to see them. We were busy the whole time and had so much fun. We went to the zoo, we picked lemons and made lemonade, we had a birthday party at our house for Keanu with at least 30 people there. We played in the park and Tanya and I (Grandma) went garage saleing. Jordan and Erin just couldn't resist that pool either although it was quite cold. It was wonderful and we were so glad they came.

Christmas 2008

Well I'm really late in getting this done, but we had a wonderful Christmas. Camille, Shane,

Sam, Zac and Joe came to spend the holiday with us. They arrived at about 5:30 Monday morning after driving all night.

We got together several times with everyone here in Phoenix, Summer fixed a meal for us on Tuesday evening and we all had the mexican dinner at grandma and grandpa's on Christmas Eve. Followed by Bingo!!!! Everyone had fun and won lots of prizes. After which we had a small program with Sam, Noel, Zac, Joe and Alyssa singing for us. They sang Jingle Bells, and Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Christmas morning the boys were anxious to get to the presents, Santa had been very good to them and the tree was loaded. But they were very patient. When Mom and Dad were ready so were they.

Around noon Kim and her family and Summer and her family came and more presents were opened and then we had the big turkey feast. We all had such a wonderful Christmas.

We really enjoyed haveing Camille, Shane and the boys here with us, of course, it wasn't long enough, it never is.

Christmas Helper

This year when we put up our Christmas decorations we had a little help. Alyssa had to be part of everything from putting up the lights and decorations outside to helping decorate the tree inside. She is not camera shy either!!! Had to have her picture taken with every thing.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was to be a relaxing, stress free one and it was!! Everyone helped so very much, they all just pitched in and helped. We had 35 of us together for this wonderful day.