New Years Eve

            HAPPY  NEW  YEAR.

2014........I hope all of you will be safe, healthy, happy and prosperous this year and years to come. Time goes by so quickly......let us treasure each and every moment we have with our family and friends.

My daughter-in-law and grandchildren were here yesterday so I asked them if they would each give me a New Year's message to add to our post.  Their quotes are so true and so sweet.

Garrett  - " I send you a message of Happy New Year from someone to everyone."

Amelia - " Happy New Year and have a good life each day."

Julie -  " May everyone have a Happy New Year and make a memory each day."

I thought New Year's Eve would be a good time to add photos of the favorite men in my life.They are all so loved, so handsome and so sweet.. I don't know how I was so lucky to have them and these rare photographs as some of us do not like to have our pictures taken.....   we had rather be on the other side of the camera. Billy will be smiling looking at this page....  we do miss him so very  much...it's been almost twenty years now since he went to meet his Heavenly Father.  It's really not  hard to believe that all our children and grandchildren have Billy's great sense of humor and his love of caring for others. He was one of a kind... I have been so blessed.

                HAPPY NEW YEAR...............................GOD BLESS AMERICA

                                                       

the puppy's mom did not make it.
Billy brought him home...our new baby

Billy was a person who was always there 

when anyone needed help

                                                               Jeanette    Junior     Wayne
        This photo was made not long after mine and Wayne's brother Junior had his heart transplant

                                                          Our Three Sons - 2002

Merry Christmas

I hope you enjoy these wonderful Christmas outdoor displays at Wayne and Brenda's home.  My brother and sister-in-law put so much effort into their place each year to give all of us a beautiful experience of Christmas.  It is about giving, and they always do their part.

Scott's childhood playmates..

let's go play at your house next door...

Happy Birthday

we are the neighbors

this movie is very interesting

sweet boys who are cousins

Christmas moments from the past

two happy brothers...Bryan and Mark

Penny - Suzanne - Danny

Scott

Steve was so proud of his red work table

Lisa and Matt

Christmas Photos

A Christmas Card from the past

So what do we play with first - Keith & Steve

Christmas in the 60's -  Steve

Scott & Troy -   Mid to late 70's

Christmas in the 80's -   Bryan, Sr. & Tonya

Scott and Steve - 1973

a message from Steve

Our son Steve was just a little fellow when he wrote us a very special Christmas letter.  This message would have to be 40 plus years old, but it seems like it was only yesterday.  It just has so much meaning, and it is a keepsake...

I will say it again...I am so blessed and so thankful for our three sons.  They are fine young men who have never forgot where they came from, and that makes me feel so humble and so proud of each one of them.

When I was reading this, a thought came to me.....the Bible verse..."And a child shall lead them."..Sometimes  we just need to listen...

Steve with his PaPa and his Daddy

Steve

Steve with his Uncle Junior

Our Centerpiece

A special time of year..that would be Christmas..we celebrate the birth of Jesus...I remember being in a Christmas play at church every year from the age of five on up to the time you were too old, and then you sang in the choir....this was special.....
We would go to the homes of members in our church on a cold winter night and sing Christmas carols...they would come to the door or out on the porch and be so moved....this was special....
On the Sunday before Christmas at church - after the worship service - everyone got a "treat" - nuts, fruit and candy in a brown paper bag...this was special....
When I was older and in the choir, we would have been practicing for about a month on the Christmas Cantata to sing in church ...and this was very special....
I know we all have so many Christmas memories as a child and as a grown-up....Most of these good
memories are when we are giving to others in whatever way we can.

This is one of my favorite Christmas memories...two of our sons (Scott had not come along yet)   looking so happy and propping up on the cocktail table that has a very special centerpiece that Mama and Daddy made.  I mentioned before that Daddy worked at Adams Millis Hosiery, and there was always lots of empty yarn cones.  They would glue these together to make a circle, spray them with snow; and add the red Christmas balls to each cone. In the center, they would put a round piece of styrofoam and add poinsettias and a candle.  Everyone always wanted one...it was time consuming, but they really enjoyed making these. I don't know who thought of this creative idea, but they made a beautiful centerpiece.

Steve and Keith