Your Amazing!

Since my mom hasn't posted for over a year. I thought I would
post something on her behalf. First of all she is amazing! She has
climbed many so called "mountains" over the last couple of years.
She has been in so much pain which has resulted in a couple of
surgeries. One being an emergency surgery where they took out
part of her intestines. The other surgery was on her feet.Both
were very hard, yet she still is fighting the battle. Her sweet hubby
almost died with blood clots in his leg and lung. She has supported
him and has taken good care of him. With all that has gone on she
still is a fantastic grandma and a caring mom. I Love her! She
is truly an inspiration of overcoming obstacles while having the love
of God in her heart!

Happy Valentines Day!

Some of the people I love!!!

A Blast from the Past - Halloween with my dad 2006

Reed and Dad

Dad, Phil, Mom (tom's mom) and Rae enjoying each others company, which we often do around this home of ours

First time dad and Tom's mom, Geraldine met
(they sure enjoyed talking with one another)

This is one of many holidays that my dad and I enjoyed together
In his younger days he was the one working and I helping him, this time it was Tom doing the work and me taking pictures

Last but not least, my dad and I liked to tease each other so I put a spider web on his shoulder along with a spider .. The Great Paka looked scared, didn't he?
(kinda like the song, en see weensy spider crawled up the water spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out, up came the sun and dried up all the rain so the en see weensy spider crawled up the spout again ..) Thanks Dad for the great memories ..

A Blast from the Past - Halloween Fun with Friends 2007

The Girl Scouts of America invited us to their Halloween Party... they are preparing themselves to sing the songs (little did they know what we had in store for them)

Paka Tom Played the songs while all of us joined in
(by the way, that is an original music stand holding the music, look familiar?)

So much for the rumor, you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose

Grandma and Paka Tom hang around with the strangest friends!

A Blast From The Past - Halloween 2007

Flash Back Friday

If you have ever wondered what Neapolian Dynamite looked like, you won't have to wonder any more... here he is in the flesh, in Melinda's Living Room ... Look at him go!!! (clue: Rick is sideways in the video for some reason this program turned the video, any ideas why and how to fix it? please let me know .. thanks )

Halloween was full of family fun !

What Grandma and Grandpa look like when the Grandchildren are not around.

Hope you enjoyed the video .. We had 2 out of the 6 of our children come to the party with 5 grand kids (we have a total of 15 grandchildren and one on the way in April 2009) ..

We didn't know we had a theme going on , but we ended up with spooky eyeball plate settings and cupcakes with eyeballs .. funny how that happens ..

All of us had a great time, we ate the taco salad first (tummies first, then games after ) Jeremy watched the ending of the BYU game, along with the rest of us(close game, but they won, yeah! was there any question .. ) The kids made spiders, and the kids got their aggressions out on Micky Mouse (the pinata), Alina brought home made cupcakes (Paka Tom said they were very moist and good) thanks Alina for making them, the kids and adults alike enjoyed them ..

Thanks everyone for bringing the food and cleaning up afterwards .. many hands make light work! Til we meet again ...