Christmas is almost here

Christmas is getting closer. We are not going to have our grandchildren on Christmas Day, but we will get to see John, Kristen, Lola and little Johnny-Mike.

Great Gram's 96th Birthday

Sorry I'm late with this post. Mom turned 96 on Dec 8th so we had a celebration for her last Sunday. We all went to Bonefish Restaurant (Mom's choice) and we had a great dinner. It was nice to have our local family members there to help celebrate.

Bella on the PC

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Bella visits Santa

We took Bella to the mall today along with Great Gram (Happy 96th Birthday Great Gram!). Today was special because 1) it's Great Gram's Birthday and 2) Bella was in the mood to visit Santa. She was all smiles and was actually happy to see Santa.

Joe Traci & Bella

We are so proud!

Happy Halloween

Here's Bella, our little Angel for Halloween.

Clark & Dex Visit - Unbelievable!!!

Rich, Lindsay, Clark & Dex came to Florida on 9/20 to start their visit with us.

We had the best time ever with our special 2 little guys.

Richie stayed a week and Linday stayed for 2 weeks. The boys were with us for 3 weeks.

Then, Janis and I flew the boys back on 10/12 and we stayed in St Louis a week.

I will post pictures a little at a time as there is so many to choose from. Please be patient.

Enjoy as much as we did.

6th Annual Hometown Harvest

We took Bella to the 6th Annual Hometown harvest

in Winter Springs tonight. She had a great time

seeing all the people and listening to music.

Hanging with A+

A+ is pretty cool

Shopping Day

Today, Saturday 8/13/2011, it's 96 degrees out there, but we needed to get out and do something after Bella's morning / afternoon nap.

So we went to lunch at Big Boys in Sanford and then headed to Old Navy to do some clothes exchanging. This happens to be "Tax Free" weekend in Florida and the last weekend before school starts for a lot of kids down here. So we encountered a pretty busy store, but as usual our little princess was as good as could be. Here are some pictures from our day.

Bella with the "Big Boy"

Grandma, I'm ready to go shopping!

In her Big Girl Booster Seat - Coloring

A Grandpa - Bella moment

Looking at pictures on Mommy & Daddy

Aunt Joan & Uncle Stan Visit - July 2011

Aunt Joan & Uncle Stan came to visit us in HOT, sunny Florida.

The weather surprisingly held up. Sunny Skies most days.

On Friday we went to PF Changs and visited with Mikey.

Aunt Joan & Uncle Stan just love the food, drink and atmosphere

at Changs. Mikey.... you're the best!!!!

On Saturday we had Bella-Boo all day. She was the life of the party.

We went shopping with her and had the best spare ribs for dinner on

Saturday. Thank you Aunt Joan for your fabulous Spare Ribe Sauce and

recipe for cooking the ribs. The best ribs ever!!!!

On Sunday we went to Fisbones Seafood Restaurant for dinner. Traci almost

made it to join us. She was there momentarily but was called away for work.

We were disappointed she couldn't stay. Great Gram also stayed home. She

just wasn't up to going out.

We had a fabulous dinner. As expected Bella was a little angel and we just

had a great time. But we did miss Traci and Great Gram.

Aunt Joan and Uncle Stan are off the The Villages on Monday and will stay

there until Thursday. Janis and I plan on going to visit them at The

Villages on Wednesday. We'll try to update the blog with the rest of the

visit.

Aunt Joan & Bella get to know each other again

Helping in the kitchen

I like helping in the kitchen

Juice break

Planning my next move

Bella, Don't eat the crayons!!!

When's the food coming?

I like hamming it up for the camera!

Eating out is so much fun

I like those earings Aunt Joan

I like playing dress-up with Aunt Joan

How do I look?