Well, here's one of the first posts on the Christmas we just had. Here is a video of Elise opening her present from Jason and what a nice surprise that was. Unfortunately I didn't get it started soon enough. Way to go son! The road to a woman's heart is through a good sewing machine. Just kidding.

And here is a photo with my eternal companion. She loves to read.....



More to come later.

Tradition

Each year at Christmas time we have a tradition for our grand daughter. Kori was born with a chromosome defect and passed away three days after she was born. She will always be known as our first grand daughter.

In Kori's memory, we decided to select a toy that would be appropriate for what her age would be that current year. So three days ago, Sharon and I went out to a Target store and found a toy that Kori would probably like to play with. Then we donate that toy to the Fire Department so that some young girl, around Kori's age, would be blessed with a toy to play with on Christmas day.

We started this tradition last year but this year we thought we would take a picture of this toy just to remember what we got and what we did. Kori will always be in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Christmas is Coming!!!!

Wow. I didn't realize it's been so long since I last updated this. I have been using Skype to talk with my mom which she is real excited about because of the video. My uncle Tommy in Scotland has been trying to use Skype but we keep getting disconnected. He'll need to try and upgrade his internet account and get a bigger bandwidth. I think that will solve the problem and then he can talk to his big sister and see her at the same time. Skype is really great and it's free!

It's Christmas and we are looking forward to having family over to celebrate it with us and to enjoy our grandchildren. I will have to add photos in my next post.

One unexpected Christmas gift we had to make was to repair our Camry at the cost of $1,186 But keeping the proper perspective, it's better than having a $20,000 loan for a new car to pay off!

We read a report about a flying accident recently and it's going to make a lot of children sad. Santa had an accident on one of his practice runs and this is what happened...



But I think he will recover. The pilots will just have to watch out for Santa when he is making those left hand turns next time!

Our Sister Paula

My wife, Sharon, has 4 sisters and Paula is the oldest. Paula wrote us an email recently and sent us a photo of her. It also includes her 5 grand kids.

Here's a picture of her so everyone can now know who she is when Sharon or I talk about her. And boy do we talk about her.... in a loving way of course!

I'm guessing that Jim, her husband, was taking the picture. They are at Pirates Cove somewhere in Denver and she looks like she's having a lot of fun!

Get Well Gift

After my mom's surgery, my beautiful wife, Sharon, came by and gave my mom a get well gift. It is a statue of the famous "The Christus". Because it is white it really stands out on her entertainment stand. Once my mom gets her eyesight back to normal she will really enjoy it then.

Sharon also brought her, her favorite Sees candy; all soft centers. The road to a mother-in-laws heart is always good chocolate! Great choice!

The care taker, that's me, got a big kiss. Now that's a beautiful present. Yippie!!!! Unfortunately no photos of that one.

Mom's 60th Anniversary

Here is a photo of my mom celebrating her 60th wedding anniversary. She had to keep her head down because of her surgery. With her are Christina and her boyfriend Eric. Both are great friends and they make a great couple! It's a pleasure knowing them!

Christina made a anniversary cake for her and it tasted great and the flowers are from her and Eric!

Mom's Surgery

On Tuesday, August 11, 2009, my mom had surgery on her left eye. She did well and when it was over it didn't hurt. She started to feel her left eye had water. We called the doctor and Dr. Shelton said it was the gas bubble she was seeing and that she needed to keep her head facing down so the bubble is pressing the back of the eye to help heal the retina. It's hard to have her keep her head all the way down.

The next morning, 4:00 a.m. she had nausea and did not sleep all night. I took her to her schedule appointment the next morning at 8:30 a.m. Her eye had high pressure. The doctor did not say give any measurement and I failed to ask at the time. So I don't know what it was. She did a minor operation to take out some of the gas. The eye still had high pressure. She had to do it again and was told it was down to normal. We were given 4 different eye drops to give her to lower her eye pressure or maybe they meant to say to keep it low.

On Thursday, her follow up appointment at 8:30 a.m. seemed to go okay. The pressure was still normal and to continue on 3 of the 4 eye drops this time. I'm concerned about her eye sight. The assistant had her read the chart with just the bad eye and she couldn't see a thing probably because of the gas bubble.

Here she is on one of those recovery chairs to help keep her head down. She has a mirror on her table so she can watch the t.v. and her Angels baseball games!