Matthew's Movie Part 1

The Hunt for the Eggs.....

Amanda's Belated Birthday

Savannah Dancing

Happy Birthday Times Three

And here's the slide show of photos.

Brrrr.....

So, did everyone keep warm? Pellett stove did us proud. House was at 68 Friday morning. With -37 real temp, can't ask more than that. Picture of deer taken last week end. There were six of them. Others taken Wednesday a.m. Also, Keegan and Savannah are in the cab of pickup with Kirk.

Happy New Year

Monticello Christmas Visits

Christmas Visits

On Monday, Dad and I went to Iowa City to visit Brandon and Amanda, Steph and Steve, and stopped off at Mike and Natalie's on the way home. I've added more photos from our travels to the Christmas 2008 Album, which is linked to the photo of Keegan and David with their bikes.

More Christmas Photos

On Sunday, the weather finally improved and we made the trip to Grandma Elsie's to deliver her computer. Grandma was pleased, the computer worked. We even loaded some Christmas music for Grandma. We'll upload some photos for her also, as soon as I get a new CD burner so I can copy them to a CD.

Congratulations Brandon and Amanda

Music For the Moment Click on this link if you'd like a theme song. This will bring up Real Player. Just minimize it and you can continue looking at the blog,slide show, etc. Also, click on this link if you'd like to see the Graduation Slide Show, hit your browser's back button twice after viewing slide show and it will take you back to blog.

Graduation Day

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed." ~ by Erma Bombeck

So when I resort to borrowed quotes, am I getting lazy or just tired. In either case, the quote just seems to fit (except for the 22 years bit, it's been a bit longer in our case.)

It certainly seems to have been hard on Dad. When we came home, he fussed with the pellet stove for an hour or so, came and looked over my shoulder at the pictures of Brandon and Amanda, said something like 'our last one is really grown up now', and has been sound asleep on the sofa since. I need to remind myself that Dad puts on a gruff show much of the time, but that's just a coverup.

And before I fall alseep at the computer, just want Brandon and Amanda to know how proud we are of them. They really have worked hard for this -- summer classes, winter break classes, and heavy course loads. Also want the rest of you to know how greatful I'm am that you were able to make it to our little celebration, with the nasty weather and all. I know Steve and Steph wanted to be there too, but the streets and roads in IC are really unbelievably awful. I'm just hoping the weather gives us a break so we can all be together on Christmas. And now, I'm off to bed, hopefully to sleep for hours and wake up with enough energy to get all the shopping and wrapping done before Thursday.

Love you all.

Mom

And the answer is ...

Yes -- everything's closed.

Snow Day???

Well .... Can't even bring up the cancellation sites -- do you suppose that means they've just closed everything?

Mom/Grandma Desperately Seeking Christmas Lists

Help everyone ......