He does NOT like to see you coming at him with a tissue. His poor little red nose.....
I think he was making a face because I used the flash.
He loves to sit in a laundry basket and play with toys.
The pictures really don't do them justice. Could they have found a brighter color?
Coach Beasley keeping an eye on Morgan.
Girls acting silly.
Morgan placed third in her weight class. We have a couple of weeks break before going to Reicher on the 14th.
Brenda was very uncooperative this morning. She would not wear her tiara or beads for a picture. So we got the monkey instead. Her office was filled with black balloons and streamers. Don't know who did that either.......
I hijacked this picture from Jeremy's blog. It makes me laugh....the leaning back, the arm on the edge of the basket, and the expression on his face.....Jonathan looks like he is waiting for a bus....
I found some Fredericksburg peaches in the freezer so made a peach cobbler.
Now all we need is some vanilla ice cream.......
She likes to sleep. I don't know that I have truly seen her eyes yet....
I had to include this picture. She looks like she is laughing.
I changed the white balance on the camera at this point and it gave the pictures a bit less red tint. I just had to unwrap her and look at her again. And that was when she began to stretch.
She looks so peaceful here. I haven't heard her do much more than squeak a time or two.
Not a care in the world. She knows mom will be here shortly to feed her.
We are so blessed!!
Morgan won third place in her weight class. Way to go Morgan!!
Papa even held her for a bit......
Isn't this just the cutest thing?????
Can't wait for Charley to come home so that life gets a bit easier for her mom and dad.
Charley slept through the whole thing but we certainly enjoyed our visit!!
Look at all that hair!!
Samantha was a real trooper! She looked great after Charlotte was born.
I can hardly wait to hold her. Only mom and dad have gotten to so far.
Samantha is doing so well that she is hoping they will let her go very soon, although if Charley stays for a few days, it will certainly be easier if Samantha can be at the hospital too. Guess we will just have to wait and see.
We are so thankful that the delivery went well and the new grandbaby and her mom and dad are fine.
After dinner tonight, Greg was working on a test for his kids at his laptop and I pulled a couple of family recipe books to look through. I LOVE recipes and have tons of them. Millie and I discussed just how we could organize them but we didn't come up with anything. Anyway, I was looking in the Kelly cookbook and I turned a page and did a double take. Wait, that guy on the back row, in the middle, it looked just like Greg!!! I knew it had to be his dad because of the resemblance. I called him in to look at it and he confirmed that it was indeed his dad. It was really a bit eerie, it was like looking at Greg in an old picture. (This picture just didn't scan as good as I would have liked, but take it from me, it could be Greg standing there, no mustache, flat top/hairline and all.)
The supervisor got me this plant for my birthday. My coworker, The Wife, informed me that she had to bring it back to life while I was out during the holidays. It appears to be a bit touchy where water is concerned. I thought it was called zebra plant but it has been a long time since I have really studied on my plant names. Googled it and sure enough, my memory was right this time!!!
Yesterday, I was trying desperately to figure out ways to use up the shrimp and oysters that we had left. Morgan's friend, Shane, was coming over and she wanted him to try halfshells so Greg shucked about three dozen or so. I searched the internet for some type of seafood stew/gumbo/soup and the final product wasn't too bad. I didn't have okra, which would have made it gumbo, so we will just call it seafood stew. It had carrots, bell pepper, garlic, onions sauteed in bacon, stewed tomatoes, a small amount of white wine, rice, shrimp, and oysters. I went a bit light on the seasonings as I didn't want it to be too hot. It was good, but lacking. Today, when I reheated it for lunch, I added a can of rotel tomatoes with chilis and a couple more pinches of cayenne pepper. Now we were talking!! Yum!!
Whew!! We made it two years!! And what did we do to celebrate? Would you believe watch a high school basketball game? Someone didn't scratch the date and was assigned a couple of games to referee. When Greg asked me how many more years I thought I could put up with him, I told him that there were times when he might want to count in minutes rather than years....... :)
Today has been spent doing things around the house. Still trying to get organized and things put away from Christmas. I have un-decorated the tree already but need to find a box or bag for our tree as the box was in such bad shape that we threw it away. I soaked black eyed peas last night and started cooking them mid-morning. I threw in a few things and they were really good. Greg bragged that they were the best I had ever made!! We had orange juice so added some champagne for mimosas, toasting in the New Year. We only let Morgan have one glass since she was going to work after lunch!! We are just chilling out at the house now. Hope to wash the vehicles before dark, then will probably have more seafood for dinner.
