Today it’s Jeff’s 40th birthday!

Today Jeff’s dad Ken and Elena are coming over to celebrate. They said they want to take him out to dinner where ever or whatever he wants. Hmmm what would Jeff choose? Kidding! Of course pizza. Jeff is a pizza fiend.  We are ordering Pizza Hut and having cake later.

I can’t believe Jeff is 40. He said he can’t either. I remember cerebrating his 30th with him. In fact it I remember well. I think I remember so well because I was nervous being with his parents as I have only met them a couple of times before. I remember his mom making a big deal about his birthday the way it should be. I remember my mom making a big deal on birthday now not so much.  Every year Jeff’s mom would make a deal about it. Jeff would get a bunch of birthday cards in the mail from her and emails as well. It was cool.

I can’t believe it has been ten years already that is crazy how time goes so fast.

Rick Grimes turned out to be awesome! I am so happy with it and I got it done in time.  We have place here in town that makes glass to size. Jeff did the framing as he always does a good job at it. Happy birthday babe! I love you!

Happy belated Easter everyone.

Easter wasn’t too bad this year. It wasn’t a gob of people at my mom’s house which is what I like. It was my Aunt Sue, Aunt Joanne, Uncle Dan, Uncle Paul, Jared, Corey, Kim and Crayne. Crayne is a good kid and doesn’t really fuss like the other two kids. He was funny during dinner because he had an audience. Silly kid.

I always enjoy seeing Aunt Sue she is different and I like that. She always has funny stories and she is Alice’s mom. So when I write Alice I like to tell her about what her mom shares with us. I have to share this warning gross. Aunt Sue shared with us she doesn’t like brushing her teeth and for years she didn’t. Yet she has good teeth. First how does that work? Secondly gross. The look on my Aunt Joanne’s face was priceless. The horror look so was funny.

Depending on the mood of Aunt Joanne she can either be pleasant or not. This Easter she was pleasant when I see her in July she may not be. We had a good conversation about nothing.  However finally found out what her daughter Kathy’s boyfriend’s rap name is Heck Da Kid. Jeff and I listened to the only song he was out there on YouTube called Irregular. I would say I am not a huge rap fan but I do like some rap artists and I thought his song was good.

Corey and family left after dinner. Like always Kim didn’t give Jeff a hug goodbye. What is up with that?

I tried hard to play games with mom because she wanted to but ended up not understanding them and talking so I gave up. Oh well.

All in all a good time.

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!

We made Christmas cookies and it wasn’t that bad as last year. Actually had fun making them this year. We used some vivid colors this year too.

I got new cookie cutters too:

Christmas Eve we are going to my parent’s house. I will show pics later. Then Christmas Day my parents are coming to our house for meatloaf. Adam is in WI this week and he is going to stay over. It will be fun.

Cute husband rolling out dough.

Today is Labor Day. Today many people get the day off. It’s great! We usually do nothing on Labor Day and this Labor Day is no different.

But yesterday we celebrated my mom’s sixtieth birthday. I was nervous going because there was going to be family there I haven’t seen in about five years. And they way my mom was talking is that this party was going to have a lot of people there.

Jeff and I are always the first one at my parent’s house and guess what? We were the first ones there. As people started to come in there weren’t that many people as my mom said. There were few of my mom’s co-workers and they were very nice people.

I saw aunt’s and uncle’s I haven’t seen in a long time and it’s funny they really haven’t changed. Who changed was me. They seem older. And my Aunt Kathy I never really have anything in common with her and her husband Dave was always strange to me. But now as I am older they are still strange but not as strange.

Everyone was just having fun. Mom was all over the place but that is okay. Jeff and I made cake for her birthday. Mom wanted confetti cake with cherry frosting. We also made chocolate marble cake as well.

It was good day.

On July 4 2015 we celebrated our Independence!

On this day we went my Aunt Sue’s and Uncle Dan’s condo. We have never been there before. Wow! It’s very nice. It’s only about forty five minutes where we live. So not that long of a drive. It was neat to see everyone.

My cousin Alice and her family came up from Utah. And my Aunt Jeanne came from Florida. I haven’t seen her in a very long time. She still looks the same. Very tan! My cousin Rebecca was there. Rebeca has a form of autism and I am one of her favorite people. It was very nice to see her and she acted great this time.

My brother Corey and his family was there. Guess what? Didn’t have anything to say to me. Which you know I don’t really care at this point. Jeff and I always giggle a little when they leave which they had to leave early this time. We laugh because Corey’s wife Kim never, NEVER gives Jeff a hug goodbye. And we can’t figure out why. She most of the time gives me a hug goodbye. Strange they are.

We were there for a long time. We got there around one and stayed till almost seven thirty. It was fun just to hang out. Until and I don’t know why this always happens. But someone has to bring up politics. During this time I go to my mind castle and play around. Because I usually disagree on what they have to say but don’t really want to get into it.

I have to say almost every time we get together with my dad side of the family a poker game breaks out. Sometimes I play and sometimes I do not. Depends if I am in the mood. But Jeff loves so to play with the guys. Unless it’s Thanksgiving and my cousin Julie plays. It’s usually us two girls who play but mostly guys. Poker games are traditional on that side and can be fun. We play for very low money, nickels! But some games can get big. We also like to play local games than just the traditional pokers games. Like Bonduel auction which is named after a small town in Wisconsin. That is when you buy your hand. It’s fun!

But this time I really wanted to hang out with my cousin Alice. And I did! She is fun and funny. I took some pictures of the get together. Covertly. Ha! They are a good looking bunch!

Happy Birthday America!

Featuring: Cousin Reuben, cousin Ellis, nephew Crayne, Cousin Alice, Cousin Andi, Cousin Rebecca, Aunt Judie, Aunt Joanne, Aunt Jeanne, Cousin Jeff, Cousin Jared, Jim Poker in session