Lucky Me

Suzy's friend Judy was in the hospital in Wichita Falls this week and Suzy got to stay with me. We had the best time, sitting by the fire, watching Miss Marple and either knitting or crocheting. She improved my stitch so that I can make a pretty scarf now. We are starting our own "stitch and bitch" group. You may all join us, but bring your own yarn.
Last night, Steve, Suzy and I picked up Hazel and Collie and went out to eat. Such fun.
I'm glad Judy is better, but I miss my Suzy.
Candy

Happy Birthday to John Dowdle

I've always thought that everyone's birthday should be a national holiday, but this year it really came true for Dad! Happy Birthday and Happy Thanksgiving to my hero!

One of my favorite photos of Dad in the Army could not be located for this post: Dad is holding a bazooka and wearing a helmet. Bill and I always liked that pic!

While we were living in Fort Worth, and I was maybe five or six years old, my parents hosted a neighborhood Halloween party at our house. Some neighborhood teenagers turned Bill Dan's room into the "Ghost House," complete with a dummy of the devil lying on the bed; my room was the fortune teller's place, and a girl was dressed as a gypsy to tell your fortune. While a neighbor boy and I were in the Ghost House, and about to "feel the devil's brains" (aka jello), we heard a scratching at the window. Well, this kid and I could not get out of there fast enough! We about ran into Dad, who it turns out, was outside rigging a paperclip to the screen to "enhance the Ghost House experience"! That was 5o years ago, and I'm still tainted!

I remember going to Texas Tech games from childhood to adulthood; I was with Dad at the SMU-Tech game (in the 80's) that Tech (we thought) had won from top-ranked SMU. SMU took a punt or kickoff from us; Dad was sitting down putting his binoculars away and blessedly missed the return for a SMU TD and victory. Later at supper he could only say, "Stick a fork in me; I'm done."

Happy Birthday, Dad! We love you mostest!! Diane, Don, Paul, Maddie, & Callie (arf, arf)

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NEW HOUSE !!!!! And Happy Birthday Madison Catherine Boda!

After a very, very, very, v-e-r-y long time, the Boda/Leming clan has just closed on a house!!!
We don't have photos at the moment, but we will soon. It's a four bedroom, two bath house with a nice sized dining room, a huge living room and a small livingroom downstairs for the kids to share. They'll kinda have their own 'apartment' with a livingroom in the middle and a bedroom on each side. We also have something that is hard to come by in ND, an attached two car garage! No idea when we'll move in, because we want to paint the living room and Buster is on location and will be for a long time, so we are doing this all by ourselves! EEK!
Anyway, we're excited, glad that is over and we are anxious to get going on making the place 'ours'.
We'll send you our address when it's getting close to moving time.  
Madison got a house for her birthday...no lie! We also gave her an Nintendo DS (a red one) and some games. Mom and I took our relator, Linda out to AppleBee's to celebrate Mad's bday and to say WHOOOHOO about the house. We had a great time. Buster got to come home for an hour to see Madison and watch her open her gifts. Here's some pics:

                                 Madison was thrilled with her Nintendo DS AND her Daddy!

                          The gang at AppleBee's sang to her and she turned RED!

                            Mom (with new hairdo) and our friend and relator, Linda partying it up at AppleBee's!

Love you all,
Keri

Happy Birthdays!!

Yes, that's plural! Just noticed that yesterday was Mark's birthday - so a belated one to you, Mark. I hope it was fun! Today is Madison's birthday and Keri mentioned on the facebook site that she is turning 13! Wow! A teenager! Knowing her mom and grandmom, I'm guessing the obvious - there will be cake! Hope it's a great day!

catching up with the cousins

Since I'm a captive in my own home for awhile, I'm trying to catch up with things I've neglected---one of them is staying in touch! I had foot surgery last Friday to repair and rebuild two painful arthritic joints. The artiritis had caused a stress fracture, so I've been wearing a boot for about a month. Once the fracture was healed, I was able to have the surgery on my joints. It was day surgery, and now I can't put any weight on my foot until I get the stitches out next Wednesday. Then I'll have a boot again for about 6 more weeks. Getting old is not for sissies!

I'll have to share a couple of pics of my beautiful granddaughter Maci. She's six months old now, and we're thoroughly enjoying her.

Love you guys, Martha

Mom's Computer

It's dead.....so if ya wanna talk to her, give her a call when you have time. If you need her to, she'll return your call since we have unlimited long distance and we wouldn't want you to run up a high phone bill. LOL!

For that matter, anytime anyone has time, do that,otherwise, we are in our 'fog' and not paying attention that we haven't called anyone! 

Well, I am going to get back to my 'fog'....sorry but I'm too distracted by Glee to post much.
 
Love you all!!!!!!

Keri

As Promised

Here is a picture of a sleeping Isla. She is precious. Rachel says that Isla really has that sleeping down...except at night. She has a onesy that says, "I love the night life" and that's not far from true.

Here's a picture of Owen the rocker. I'm sorry he's fuzzy...but it's hard to capture him being still. He likes this guitar because "it doesn't make a LOT of noise".

Here's Granny Hazel showing us that grannie touch. Isla snuggled right in to her arms.

The Cusenbary girls (ones that were present) with Baby Isla.

Susan, me, Isla, Owen and Uncle Collie all around his chair.

Uncle Collie shows off Baby Isla.

This picture isn't as good as it could have been, but once again, Owen is a moving target. And I don't shoot very well.

Isla in my lap staring at her Momma.

It was a wonderful weekend and so much more went on than is captured in the pics, but you get the general idea.

Relax, Bula, I'll mail you some copies.

Love you all,

Candy