Miss Pebbles

I read somewhere that cats sleep up to 20 hours a day. What a life! I found Pebbs sleeping on my bed the other day and I thought how cute she looked. I grabbed my camera and clicked off a few pix, she didn't make a move....not a twitch. It would be nice to sleep so soundly.

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A Late Christmas...

New Years Day was also the day we opened gifts with our grand daughter Bailey. They came in for a visit and arrived New Years Eve. Here are just a few pix of that evening.

This is Megan and Chris, while in Illinois for Thanksgiving, Bailey and I went out and took some pix.....I surprised her parents with a storyboard of four of the pix we took. I loved how it turned out and have to print one for us. Now I have to work on Ethan and Grace so I can have storyboards of all the grand kids.

Peeps

My Peeps!

Thanks Kimmy, they were delicious!

Can't wait for the Easter Peeps!

Radar Dog

This has been a tough year for Radar. He is nearly 10 now and last summer his behavior began changing in odd ways. I asked the vet if dogs get senile. We learned in a since they do. We put Radar on a medicine the vet recommended and within two weeks many of the odd behaviors were nearly gone. Radars hips have been an issue and as of late we have been catching him on the sofa in the living room. He was never really one to get on the furniture but I know how bad his hips bother him and what a comfort he must feel on the soft sofa. I really don't have the heart to get on him for this. I think he knows I'm a softy on this issue.

Radar has really gotten gray (white) over the past few years.

He is such a sweet dog.

He looks to comfortable to make him move...
I laughed when I came upon this shot, he yawned just as I snapped the pix.
He looks like a mad dog without the foaming mouth.

Behind on Blogging......

I'm behind on blogging, I since New Years Day I really haven't even taking many pix....one here and there.....I need to take care of that!
Here are a few pix from New Years Day. My daughter Kimmy tried to get a kick ball game rounded up but just couldn't find enough players whose head wouldn't explode when they kicked the ball...haha. Chris and I took Bailey out to watch the game, but ended up kicking some balls around since 6 people don't make a good match for a game. We had fun anyway and the weather was beautiful for January 1.

Happy New Years - 2009!

New Years Eve 2008

Papa and Bailey playing Wii Baseball

Another New Years together

Wouldn't have it any other way (pix from Kimmy)

Kimmy & Bailey - Party Time (pix from Kimmy)

Playing Apples to Apples

Sara and Kimmy (pix from Kimmy)

Sara and Dax (first new years as a married couple)

Oh and Baby Andress will make an appearance sometime in May.

(pix from Kimmy)

Megan - She won't likely forget the next morning too soon.

May this next year bring us all a lot of happiness and peace.

Christmas 2008

Wow, now that the holidays are over for 2008 I can catch up on my blogging. It was a quite Christmas morning in the Lemke house. Our youngest got here from Kansas around 3 in the morning and we opened our presents together late morning. It was wonderful, but still a quite and relaxed day "The Ham Master" YummyKimmy got a Budweiser Checkers Game - Lots of fun.

Christmas has always been a fun day for us to just relax and play games. Just enjoy each others company.

Christmas Parade

While my husband and I were in Illinois recently the Saturday after Thanksgiving we went to Olney for the Christmas Parade. It was very cold but a lot of fun.

Waiting for the parade to start....Very Cold!

Lots of pretty lighted floats.

This Semi was all decorated with my husbands favorite!
His Favorite...Tools!

This is my husbands cousin and hunting bud - Lloyd

And finally coming to town the man himself...Santa!

Ornaments and Memories

I thought I would post a few pix of some of my favorite ornaments. For many years we collected Hallmark Ornaments. It was a lot of fun when the kids were little to share this together, picking out the ones we would want to get each year. It was a lot of fun and it is a part of them being small and here with us I miss about the holiday's.

Our pretty tree.

This is the very first Hallmark Ornament we bought - Reindoggy 1988

I even remember going to the store with the kids and buying him, we couldn't wait to get home to put him up. He was the start of it all.

Mouse in a Nutshell Sail Boat

Fishin' Santa

Butter Cup - First in Series "Mary's Angels" 1988

This little mouse in a nutshell tub - Too Cute!

Noah's Ark w/ movement
I think this one is just fun!

A First in a Series 1991 - 1957 Vet

Coke Cola Santa - This is one of my faves.
We have a beautiful tree and each ornament on it has a special story. This year I had to decorate the tree all my self, and I thought as I handled each ornament about it's story. This year it will be the first time my husband and I won't have any kids at home on Christmas morning. It will be different for sure, but by afternoon our youngest will arrive and a few day's after that our oldest will arrive with her family. One Christmas I hope to have all four kids and their families here. It will be a house full but wouldn't that be wonderful.