Catching Up, Forever Catching Up

I am must catching up on about four months of Blog entries, so what have I been doing that I have gotten so far behind?  Well, for one thing, I have been depressed and trying to pull myself out of it without much luck.  Last night, Linda gave me quite a good encouraging pep talk and I realize I am silly to get so down, I have so many blessings, I love my home, I love the quiet lovely place I live, I am healthy, and I have so many wonderful things to think about, write about and do, I just have no time for such nonsense as depression and feeling lonely!!  I also started knitted, if I ever finish this project and it looks at all decent, I will take a pix...  Also...

There was Christmas and getting ready for Christmas.  I made about 15 fleece blankets which I hope the recipients enjoyed.  I enjoyed doing it, tried to find material that personalized them but then the material I would choose would not be available so that did not always work.

Then there was Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I decided to fly to San Diego for Thanksgiving week and that turned out really fun.  And Maria's family, all but Matt, came for Christmas the week before Christmas.  They were only here a few days but that worked out really well.  We had such a great time and played such interesting games and ate such good food.

And then there has been the snow every since.  It seems that most of my day is just taking care of me, Sadie and the house and the steps and deck.  And it snows and snows.  Luckily I have had such great service from Nathan's Handyman Service.  They have been wonderful.  Sometimes not getting to me till it was getting dark but always seeing that I had wood on my deck and my deck, stairs and driveway clean.  I also have a new home teacher, Joe.  He and his wife Monica have been wonderful to me and he has cleaned my driveway several times and even took my broken mailbox home and fixed it.

So I need to start uploading the pictures from the past few months.  I am going to run out of time in my life, the way the months just fly by and I had my 84th birthday.

Oh, yes, and then there has been the books, I have listened to so many books.  I listen to more books than I watch tv, though I also do that.  Although I have stopped watching the news since the election, it is all such negative atmosphere since before and after...I just don't want to deal with it, especially since we have no control over anything anyway.

And then there have been the power outages this winter, about four so far I think.  Snow, power out, snow power out...such is my life.  And my eyes get so dry and hurt, seems I am always dousing them with Systane, is there another problem?

Oh, How They Grow Up--James Hardy Family

Pictures of Lea and her boyfriend at the beach at sunset.

  Is this neat or what!

Jacob and his date for Prom.

Missing Her Husband on Valentine's Day!

Amy, the Nurse with Smoky Joe in bottom corner.

Pretty Lea

Lea and a girlfriend ham it up.

Melissa and Maria Celebrate Valentines Day in San Francisco

Keira Turns 6!!!

I wasn't there but Keira celebrated her birthday six wearing a dragon costume and her Grandpa held a balloon for her to punch and graffiti fell all around her.

February Snow for the Stewart Children

Kristi and her children came up on Sunday and have found the snow is delightful to play in.  That is, except Molly, the little one, who does not like to wear winter gloves and hats and all those things that keep you warm.

The children were delightful to have around and Kristi has them all well in tow.  Kristi did most of the cooking and she left my house looking better than when they arrived!!!  Here is hoping they will come and visit me again.

P S They live outside Las Vegas but were in Reno visiting Mike's family...lucky for me.  Why didn't I do more with my hair and makeup that day ???  I get lazy living alone.

Brynn

Ryan

Molly

Kate

Pretty Mermaids

Maria is always looking for interesting things to do in her search for JOY this past year and so she and Linda ended up in this Mermaid exercise class at the Hotel Del Coronado.  They said it was great fun and don't they look beautiful!  

Great Grandchildren Rule

The Stewart children go hiking with Grandma and Grandpa Pulsipher and Craig and Sarah in Carlsbad.

Meagan felt it was very important for her daughters to be at the Womens March on January 21 so here they are with Nico in toe and Dad to help and a Love sign to show their allegiance.  

 These will be cute pictures for them to look back upon someday and say, "I was there."

Eden gets the blue eyes and fair Irish skin and both the girls have the same kind of freckles I did.  So cute.

Snow, Snow, Snow

Today we took a walk in the snow and it was so beautiful.

I stopped by the wall of snow from the snowplows and it is way above my head already.

84 Years Old!

Carole sent me a throw for my bed, love it!!  And I got money, one of my favorite things and a cute little shawl topper.

And the Snow Descends!

Along Came Bill

This was interesting on Facebook.  Bill's daughter Sara had a repeat of her wedding with all the family present, looks like it was a wonderful celebration.  

The lady in the green short dress is Bill's first wife and the lady in black, second to end on the right, is his third wife and the lady in black next to him in the center is his second wife and mother of the bride, Sara.  I think Bill has dementia or ? as the last few times I talked to him in 2012 or 2013 he was confusing me with the other women in his life.

He had six children, three boys with first wife, one daughter with second wife and daughter and son with third wife and they are all friends...wives, children and so on,  so this is a very interesting family picture.  Beautiful people and Bill had a beautiful soul.  The last time I saw him in early 1990s he was divorced from second wife and about to make the leap to third wife.  The last time I was talking to him he was on the way to divorce but not sure it ever happened.  He is probably about 85 or 86 now.  He once told me that his two first wives were both millionaires and friends with his third wife.  He told me I was very lucky I had escaped...

Christmas Pictures 2016 Catching Up With Relatives

2016 Christmas pictures taken from Instagram or my Christmas mail. 

 This is my dear friends the Blackhams who sang at Richard's funeral.  I worked with Helen in Family History and Brian was my realtor as well as I worked with him doing mortgages for his clients.  They are going on their fourth mission, but this time it is in the United States...Atlanta, working with those who speak Portuguese.

Marilyn's son Bobby who married after Christmas such a pretty bride Staci and here they are enjoying holding one of his grandchildren.

This is Marilyn's grandson.

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This is Carole's son Jon with his wife Bethany, twins Raina and Sage and son Finn.

 

This is a picture of the Pulsipher family plus... somewhere in Nevada doing I am not sure what, but looks like they are enjoying each other.

This is my brother Dick's daughter Kathy with her husband Myron and they live in Lander, Wyoming.

Here is Carole's son Hunter with his wife Toni and her daughter.  They live in Florida.

Early Christmas

All Maria's family but Matt came for an early Christmas, so Melissa, Mike and Dave flew in from North Carolina and Bahia and Mitch drove up from Fresno, and Maria and Johnny drove up from San Diego.

No snow which made things a lot easier and these are some pictures from my back 40.

Me, with My Daughter Maria and three of her children, Mitch, Melissa, and Mike.

Mother and Daughter Picture.

Three Generation picture, Melissa, Maria and Me.

Bahia and Mitch, Dave and Melissa and Mike (in back) with Sadie, Johnny and Maria and Me.

So happy they came to spend time with me.  Love my little home here.

Thanksgiving Week 2016, Christmas Letter

I flew to San Diego on Tuesday the 22nd and stayed at James and Camber's house in Del Mar for a week.  It was a lovely time.  We had the White Elephant Christmas party with the Masseys and Pulsiphers and Hardys.

The Hardys all dressed in their Ugly Christmas Sweaters.

Eden patiently waits her turn while Keira hopes to hang on to her prize, which she did.

I think I ended up with the puzzle that is in Matt's hands.  I didn't get too well acquainted with Nico yet.

Amy got the Ginch Costume and looked so cute in it.

 I look like a feeble old lady the way I am holding my hand...don't know why I did that!

Camber posed this picture and it turned out really cute I think.  Grandma with 6 of her 15 grandchildren and 3 of her 7 great grandchildren.

 On Thanksgiving Day we had Maria and Johnny, Camber's parents and her niece and a cousin, and James' Assistant and his mother plus the missionaries.  It was a great dinner and Mary had a fun question and dart game for us after.    

Above was sent out with the Christmas goodie packages that got mailed to some.