Update to August 14th post

Can you imagine me wanting it a shade of blue??

Check out this once rusty sprocket!

Dave has spent many many hours redoing a bike for me. I got a new one in a 24 inch and found it was a hard one to ride, so we went to a pawn shop and bought an old rusty, yukky 24" three speed and now you can see the wonderful job that he did fixing it up for me! I am very excited about it. Now to just get out and ride it!!!

Have a good week!

August 14, 2010

Pat, Ray and Lillian with Larry in front
Pat and Mavis

Barb and Dave

Wow, it has been a long, long time since I updated this blog, so where do I start?? We currently are in Billings and have spent some time in Great Falls. On Tuesday or Weds. we will be heading to Minnesota to see the grand-kids. Yeah!

While we were in Great Falls we shared time with my sister, Mavis and her family and also time with Dave's sister. We took Barb out to an old ranch where they had many a fond memory of time spent there with old family friends. The house is now empty, but one of the daughters

had restored the house to the original with furnishings and curtains etc for her father's memorial service. It brought many many memories back for both Barb and Dave.

Time spent with Mavis was a little quieter as she is recovering from surgery. She is doing extremely well, but still is not her strong self. We did manage to get her to the fair a couple of times while we were there, so that we could eat some of that good fattening food.

Thursday night we had a family dinner here at Lillian's in honor of our brother, Larry. He was flying out the next day to California to be closer to his children. One of his sons, Phillip was here with him and to take him to the plane to meet yet another son for flying back. He has been very ill and needs to be closer to his children. His wife will be going there to join him the end of next week. We hope that all goes well for them.

Happy 15th Birthday, our dear Tiana

Fifteen years that I have been a grandma. The day that Tiana was born, I was about to head out to work when I got the call that she was born. The rest of the day, I walked on air! Happy, happy birthday!

July 4th Cody, Wyoming

Happy 4th to you all! Beautiful here in Cody and we have seen lots of sun! Feels so great!

June 28, 2010

On Monday, we went to spend a little time with my brother, Larry. We were lucky to get to see his daughter,Diana, whom I hadn't seen since 1990! She lives in California and had brought her daughter and niece with her. They are working on packing Larry and Sue to move them to California to be nearer her and two of her brothers. The one in the picture with me is Tricia, sort of named after me. That was special to finally meet her! We will miss having Larry in Wyoming, but he and his wife do need to be nearer their children.

June 20, 2010

We have arrived safely in Billings. Billings hasn't been so safe and so we are kind of glad that we didn't arrive any sooner. A funnel cloud touched down and did a tremendous amount of damage in the Heights of Billings. It did lots of raining here on the end of town where my family live, but no hail nor tornadoes. Here are some pictures of the water around. All for tonight so that I can get up early in the morning to take our trailer into the RV Service center.

June 19, 2010

Albany gave us a promise if we should return.....










Pixie caught "one of the few sun rays" in Albany!










We are on the road again!
Heading for Montana/Wyoming at this time. First stop Billings and then on to Cody for Convention. My wonderful sister-in-law agreed to take care of Pixie while we are at convention, so we know that Pixie will be well taken care of. Our first night in Montana offered us a beautiful sunset and I tried to capture it, but the picture doesn't do it justice.