Getting Together!!

I can't believe that I never posted this post!! I must have gone to the library and uploaded the photos BEFORE I got HIGH-SPEED internet! Imagine that! :-)

Anyhoooo.....these are pictures of a little lunchdate I had with my sisters, niece Bethany, her two beautiful children and my pride and joy (that would be my son!) Daniel!!!

You would not believe what I went through to spend a few minutes with this group and so they could spend some time with each other!

First, I picked up my sister Bev. She's wearing the black and gray sweater.

Then we got my sister Debbie. She's the one with the oxygen!

We drove to Lancaster where I dropped Debbie of at her doctor's appointment.

Then I took Bev to the nearby Wendy's where she met up with her daughter Bethany and her two little ones.

In the meantime, I drove out and picked up Daniel from his work so he could join us on his lunch hour.

I no sooner got back to Wendy's than Debbie called and said she was done at the doctor's office.

So I hopped back in my car, picked her up and we went back to Wendy's where we joined everyone for a time of food and reconnecting, as much as you can in a limited amount of time!

But I just think it is so important for us to grab these moments when we can!

Daniel and Bethany grew up together and seldom get to see eachother now that they are married and have families and live so far apart.

Oh, but we did laugh and share some wonderful memories of those growing-up years!!! :-) And I love to see my sister Bev with her grandbabies! How she loves them!!

AND, of course, my favorite picture is the last one!! Me and the handsome young man I am so proud to call "Son"!   Oh, and if anyone knows how to photoshop my sister Debbie's finger out of this picture, please help me!! :-) 

Cuteness Alert!! :-)

You have been warned! :-)

Below are some pictures of who else, but my two little grandsons, Jaxon and Jaylon!

First is Jaxon, with those chubby little cheeks that I love to kiss! :-) He is soooo adorable and such a good baby! Daniel and Erin have been so blessed to have two good babies!




These next pictures are of Jaylon all decked out at church one Sunday evening. He's pictured with his favorite girl, Katie!! :-) And the other pictures are of him and his Pawpaw, Lew Dunnells, who pastors in Nelsonville. So thankful for the wonderful in-laws that Daniel has.






A few weeks ago, Daniel and Erin's church had a prayer breakfast on Saturday morning. We decided to join them and I captured these pictures during that time.
I was sitting on the pew praying when I happened to look down and see little Jaylon beside me praying. I HAD to take his picture! I know you understand, all of you fellow grandmothers! :-) AND I had to use the flash because the lights were dimmed! (That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!) LOL
Later, as we enjoyed a delicious breakfast I snapped these photos of little Jaxon and his Mawmaw and Pawpaw and Jaylon having breakfast with his Pawpaw!!
God is soooo good!! Thankful, again, for the godly family that Daniel married into! We are blessed!!





Well, I need to post this and get some things accomplished here at home!

Wednesday Hodgepodge!!! :-)

1. Did March come in like a lion or was it something less ferocious in your neck of the woods?
March came in like a lamb but it has been a pretty wild ride since then! Whew! Snow, rain, sunshine, blue skies......take your pick! :-) But, thankfully, no tornadoes!

2. Speaking of lions, which one's your film favorite...The Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz), Mufasa (The Lion King), Elsa (Born Free), or Alex (Madagascar)? You may notice I left Aslan off the list. Including him would have made this question way too easy for many of you.
I am most familiar with The Cowardly Lion, having watched the Wizard of Ox seventeen hundred and fifty four thousand times. Okay, well, that might be an overstatement, BUT I HAVE watched it ALOT, okay? :-)

3. What's your favorite spot from which to view the sunrise or sunset?
Our church parking lot is the best place around to watch the sun set. Oh my. I wish I had a picture one from there to show you!

This picture was taken about a half mile from our church, which would be straight ahead and up on a knoll, where it is wide open space and you can see the horizon, unobstructed, so you can imagine what this would have looked like from there!


4. To what extent is knowledge power and to what extent is truth power? What's the difference? WHAT? I am just not up to answering this today other than to say knowledge is definitely power, as is truth.

5. What's something peculiar you've seen recently?
Okay....I hope my new, temporary nieghbors don't read my blog. ;-) Last week, we sold Daniel and Erin's previous mobile home, which sets next door to ours. A very young couple bought it and will be living there for approximately three months, until they get their land upgraded whereby they will be moving the mobile home there.

Well, I was out on our back porch grilling out. I happened to glance over and these two sweet young-marrieds were literally making out on their back porch!

COME ON!!!

I had just been conversing with them the last time I stepped out to check on the grill. They had to know that I would be coming back out.

I mean, it isn't that we live THAT close BUT ....THEY HAVE A BEDROOM....AN ENTIRE HOUSE, for that matter! TAKE IT INSIDE!!!

They ARE the sweetest kids......gosh, that makes me sound so old, doesn't it?......I just don't understand these things sometimes. Oh, and these "kids" are in their early 20's.

So, chalk it up to my age if we must...... but I just thought this was a bit peculiar. :-)



6. Bottled water...your thoughts?
Well, I do like the convenience of bottled water but think it is a bit of a cost to keep buying MORE bottled water, so we reuse the bottles alot. I prefer the Dasani bottles because the blue tint of the bottle "seems" to make the water taste better and colder. :-) (It's all psychological, I know.)


7. What's your strongest sense?
It would have to be smell, cause my sight is failing, my hearing is diminishing, arthritis has come to my fingers. Taste? Still pretty good. I mean, look at me. :-) I'm still proportionately healthy. (That's one way of putting it, hm? *grin*)

Oh, but just imagine if you couldn't smell? I know their are some really yucky smells but forgetting those, think of all the wondrous smells that there ARE! Freshly mowed grass in the spring. Honeysuckle, with its vines laced all about what would otherwise be brush and gnarly bushes and trees, making everything smell so sweet and beautiful, as you sit on the porch and a new breeze carries the scent past you, causing you to breathe in deeply. *ahhhhhh*

Or the smell of clean, soft, warm grandbabies. The smell of dinner in the oven when you arrive home from church on early Sunday afternoon. I could go on and on! :-)

Oh, and the aroma of freshly baked bread! Oh my!!


8. Insert your own random thought here.
A confession: Facebook has really taken me away from my blog. And, yet, it is not the same as blogging because it is just snippets of me, while blogging is more like journaling memories. Now that I have high-speed, I am hoping to get back to blogging more because it doesn't take nearly as long to do what I normally do on the web AND little Jaylon is no longer here every day, requiring much of my time (though I am taking him to the park later!). :-)
I've been endeavoring to get around to my favorite blogs to catch up and comment!
Soooo, here's hoping I can get back in the blogging groove!!

The boys!! :-) Need I say more? :-)

Here are some recent pictures of Jaylon and little Jaxon.

Jaylon isn't too crazy about me paying attention Jaxon! Oh my! Whenever I try to pay attention to Jaxon, Jaylon tells me, "No, Beh! Away!"

I've had to be a bit firm with him and tell him that Grandma is just going to talk to little Jaxon for a few minutes. *sigh*

Now that I don't have Jaylon every day, I find I'm not taking nearly so many pictures of him, so I am just going to have to remedy that somehow! I do have a few on my computer at home that Erin has taken so I'll upload those in the next few days! Oh, but they are sooo good!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!
I am getting high-speed internet and Wi-fi THURSDAY! THIS WEEK!!! I can hardly believe it! Actually, I won't believe it unti it actually is done! AND working!!

This means I can now get a laptop!!! Yeeehaaa!!! I've used Daniel and Erin's Ipad quite a bit. Enough to know that I don't want one. I like a regular keyboard and mouse. So, when I get a laptop, I'll still use a wireless mouse!

I am soooooo excited!!! I hope everything goes as planned!!! I can't even imagine how nice it is going to be to surf the web without dial-up! Oh, but I'll adjust. I'll adjust! :-)

Enjoy the pics of the boys!! :-)

Randomness! :-)

Here is a picture of Ed's "first hold" of little baby Jaxon! :-) A month and a week later, little Jaxon is so much bigger already!!


And this is Jaylon playing some drums at a music shop he and his parents visited! He loves the drums!!! Just like his daddy!1 :-)

The next two pictures are of Jaylon having breakfast with Papa! :-) I take Jaylon to evening storytime at the library on Tuesday evenings. Then he spends the night with us and the next morning we always have breakfast together!! Makin' memories!! :-)


Oh, and Grandma, aka "Beh-Beh", (that would be ME!! LOL) lets Jaylon play in the water in her kitchen sink. I made him a bunch of bubbles and he looked at me and said, "Beh! Snow!!" And I said, "Yes, it does kind of look like snow, hm?" And we blow bubbles and just have fun!!! Does he have me wrapped around his little finger or what? ;-)

What we did this past weekend! :-)

About 1/4-1/2 inch of freezing rain fell overnight this past Friday in our little valley....well, actually, in most of Ohio, for that matter! :-/
Thankfully, we didn't lose the electricity but we couldn't anywhere until the sun came out and melted the ice on our driveway. Ed tried chipping away at it but to no avail and we didn't have enough salt to really do any good.
Anywayyy....we spent a cozy day inside, cooking, reading, eating, watching a movie, cooking, napping. You get the picture! :-)
Here is some of what we whipped up:


Apple Crisp with Caramel Sauce




Apple Crisp




Cabbage with Onions, Diced Potatoes and Smoked Sausage




Peanut Butter Fudge

At Monster Jam with my favorite guys!!

I've always wanted to go to Monster Jam, though back when Daniel was just a baby and they held it at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Coliseum, I don't think it was called Monster Jam.
BUT, Ed didn't seem interested in going and as Daniel got older, he didn't really seem interested in going either. He was always into sports.
But, nowwww....allllll of these years later, I have a little grandson who LOOOOOVES monster trucks!!!
We think he discovered them through YouTube. You see, he was watching construction vehicle videos on his parents' IPad and happened upon monster truck videos which were displayed on the sidebar. And that is how it all started! :-)
Soooooo, when they started advertising Monster Jam, I just knew we had to take Jaylon and go! We had such an awesome time and Jaylon looooooved it!
Jaylon especially likes Gravedigger, pictured below! :-) (I do, too!) :-)

Oh, and we can't forget Monster Mutt! We love the red tongue! :-)

And one more picture to share:

This was taken on one of the train cars down at Rocky Boots in Nelsonville! We had eaten lunch there with the kids earlier and Jaylon was in the mood to have his picture taken!

Here I am holding my newest little bundle of joy....Jaxon Nathaniel! He is the most precious little thing. Already, he's making little baby sounds and looking around.

I had to stop by today and give him hugs and kisses and also, hug and kiss on Jay, though he needs some persuasion nowadays because he is on the move! AND he has better "boy" things to be doing than hugging and kissing on grandma!

And here's little Jaxon sacked out on a pillow. Erin says he loves to lay like this! :-)


When we were going to the hospital to see Erin, Daniel and little Jaxon, Jaylon just loved all of the Christmas trees at the hospital and had to have his picture taken with them:


When he was younger, he didn't like having his picture taken but now he has gotten to be a "poser". :-) Not that his grandma minds one bit! :-)

Well, this grandma is going to take a shower and tuck myself into bed. I'll not be staying up to see the new year in, so may I now wish you a blessed new year!!! Good night!!