Monday June 2 2008

Clayton and Shane blow out their candles

Five Birthday People,

Tayler, Stacey, Clayton, Tyler and Shane

My Family,

Granddaughter Tayler, Daughter Debbie,

Grandsons Clay and Shane, Granny, Daughter Beverly

Betty was feeling better this morning but still not totally up to snuff. Hope she continues to get well soon. It was pretty worrisome to be sick that way. We visited until Debbie got there and sat outside in the courtyard for a while amongst the plants and flowers - I had my yogurt and orange juice out there. I want to put a few pictures of Betty's place in the blog as soon as I get time.

Today Debbie came to Betty's to pick me up and take me to Vegas. It's about an hour drive. My car is staying at Betty's until I go home, and then Debbie is going back to the ranch with me. We ate lunch at Marie Calender's and went in to Walmart for birthday cards, then home to Debbie's. Debbie made BBQ beans for the birthday party.

About 5 p.m. Debbie, Curtis and I went over to Beverly and Brent's for a big family birthday party and barbecue. Tayler and her boyfriend Jeremy went too. Jeremy seems very nice. Clay and Shane are Beverly's sons, Tayler is Debbie's daughter, and Stacy and Tyler are Brent's sister and brother. There were about 25 or so who came to the party. Brent cooked burgers and hot dogs on his new father's day grill, and Beverly and Debbie did the rest. I really enjoyed the evening. The weather was perfect to sit out in the back yard.

I was glad to get several photos of our family together. It seems like that doesn't happen often enough. I got good pictures of the party and might add a few more tomorrow. Grandson Justin had to work and wasn't there. Brent's got a big family and a lot of them were there, his mom and dad, and lots of cousins, aunts and uncles.

We have good news and that is that Shane and Andrea are going to have a baby. She might be a little more than two months. They showed me an album of their pictures of the sonograms. So those are pictures of my first little great grandchild.

My sister Gloria will get here on Wednesday morning so will get to see her for a few days. She lives down south of Tucson in Green Valley. <P>Judi wrote and told me Pinedaleonline's server in TX had an explosion that blew out WALLS of their building. Caused by high voltage wires catching fire. The server won't be back to full power for several months, but with generators they hope to have pinedaleonline up and running tonight or tomorrow! (Yes it's back tonight - it's been offline for maybe three days.)