Home Sweet Home

What a great time down in Florida!  Now I am trying to get into my routine and  get the household back to normal.  :-)
 Here are a few pics from the trip, will share more later.

Kelly and Colton~ Disney

Colton and his fish!

Me with my grandbabies!

My parents and the kids!

and us!

We shopped for a short time at the Ellenton Outlet!

Braedon and Colton after a fun day/evening at Disney World~Magic Kingdom

Happy February everyone, will visit soon!

Florida..here we come!

Soon we will be in Florida spending time with far away family and friends. It will be a nice vacation for us. We are really looking forward to seeing my son Jeremy, his wife Sabrina and the two grandboys, Colton and Braedon! It's been too long since we have seen them.  SO excited! We will be going Disney World, of course!!  We are spending one day at Disney~Magic Kingdom. Other then that, swimming, fishing, going to the park, shopping, all kinds of fun stuff!  I am going to be taking so many pics and videos, I don't know what I will do with them all!

When we are in Orlando we will be able to see our friend Diane and her family, can't wait!  Diane and I have been friends for nearly 30 years. I will get to meet her little grandsons for the first time!

I don't know how much online time I will have, but I hope to post at least once while we are away.

 Take care & God bless 

Lots of love

xoxo

 

It's a new year and lots going on

I know..it's been a while since I have posted. Hope everyone's 2012 is off to a great start!
  We are going to Florida this month to see our kids/grandsons who live down there! YAY! It's been way too long, 2 years since we have seen them.  My parents are coming with us and Kelly will come for a few days.   Of course we are taking them to Disney World~Magic Kingdom while we are there.  We are very excited, looking forward to spending time with Jeremy, Sabrina, Colton and Braedon.  :-)

When we are in Orlando (Disney), we will stay with my dear friend Diane, Diane and I have been friends for nearly 30 years. I lived in Florida years ago when the boys were little and Diane and I lived in the same neighborhood.

Below is a pic of Diane and me in 2010.This is at Dragon Lake, where Dan and I were on vacation. Diane came up from Florida to join us. It was a fun time.

Well, I must go for now. I am off to church to teach my class, Rainbows, ages 3-5.

I will catch up with you all soon.

much love

 

Happy New Year!

Dan is working tonight and Kelly is out with friends, so it's me and the doggies ringing in the New Year!

~Patch~

and Bentley

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve!

Blessings for 2012

love,

Pam



Planning..

 Lots of plannning going on here. We are taking a trip to Florida in January!!! YAY! We finally will be able to spend time with my son Jeremy, daughter in law Sabrina and our two little grandsons! My parents are coming with us and Kelly is trying to get a couple days off work and fly down for a long weekend while we are there. We have rented a vacation house near Clearwater which will work out so much better (and cheaper) then a hotel.  We are also going to  Orlando to take the kids to Disney World~Magic Kingdom. We are just doing one day at Disney and boy am I having trouble finding inexpensive tickets. Oh well, it will still be so fun to take them there!

Thought I'd share these funny pics of Kelly & Patch on Christmas morning. She was trying to get him to pose in front of the Christmas tree. ha ha!

She calls him over there and he lays down..

She forces him to sit up and he is stiff as a board and won't look at me!!

We both got a good laugh out of it!

Took this pic the other day of the railing going upstairs.

I wish the lights in the garland would have showed up.

Dan has tonight off, so we are going out for the day with my parents and brother Tim and his wife Jen to check out some antiques stores.  I think I've mentioned it before, but Tim and Jen have a large, historical home that they are making into a Bed and Breakfast. They are always on the look out for things to put in their house.

Happy Friday!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas has come and gone and it was a lovely time with family and friends.
  Thursday, Dan and I went to The Toledo Zoo for the Lights Before Christmas.

We met up with our dear friends, Debbi & Steve there, after a long wait in traffic!

I thought the wait was worth it, not so sure about Dan, he was kind of stressed out by the time we walked through the Zoo's entrance gates. ;-)

Steve & Debbi

Dan & me

 I took a lot more pics of the lights, but don't want to go overboard sharing them here!

 We spent most of Christmas day/evening at my sister's house.

It was a time of family, fun and food!  Of course I took tons of pics, here is a sample.

With three of my children. Randy, Kelly and Chris

Mom & me

I am wearing the sweater and scarf Kelly gave me for Christmas. :-)

Kelly & Brooklyn

Mom & Dad opening gifts

Chris & my brother Brian

My brother Ed & Randy

Dan & Kelly

Daddy & Daughter

Christmas morning, 2011

Dan had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Dan, Kelly and I opened gifts when he came home from work Christmas morning. So I was able to get a few pics of him. Sadly he couldn't come with us to my sister's house Christmas afternoon/evening for the family festivities. We are hoping and praying Dan will be able to retire this spring. It will be so nice to have him be with us at all of the family functions.

 Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. 

 Love & Blessings

Christmas Decorations~part II

Around the house~~



 Coming into our little town~~

Can't believe Christmas is so close.

Be blessed!

Christmas Decorations

 It's been a busy day. This morning I went to my ladies bible study Christmas brunch. It was very nice. I took photos but haven't edited them yet. This evening was my Rainbows class. The kids made a couple different Christmas decorations and I brought them snowman shaped icecream for a treat!  I didn't get to take any pics becaue the memory card in my camera was full. BOO HOO!
 Anyway thought I'd share some pics of some of the decorations around the house.

 ~lights on the Jade Plant~

Next few are  of myThomas Kincaid Christmas Village.

Snoopy, countdown to Christmas!

As you may be able to tell, I took this pic several days ago!

New Winter mugs!

Tomorrow I will try to post pics of the Christmas tree and few other decorations.

I am tired tonight, so good night and sweet dreams!