My College Girls!!

Alex has a blog, Alex has a blog.

http://alexoutandabout.blogspot.com/

Lorie now has a cast. :(
Right hand not healing well.... cast for 4 weeks.

A Few Pics I took Before The Girls Left Me!

We Have Electricity and Repair of Yard is Underway!

Most of you have read Paula and Greg's Blog and saw that we were hit by the winds of the hurricane. It was quite funny that we were watching and hoping they wouldn't get hit too bad, and they only got a half inch of rain. Then the winds made it up here and did major damage. Quite rediculous, actually.

Schools were closed today and will be closed tomorrow also. Even I didn't have to go to work and I ALWAYS have to go to work. There is always office work to do at schools, but if there is NO electricity and NO phone, there is really nothing we can do.

We were the lucky few. Our electricity came back on at 4:30 this morning. They said there were over 300,000 without electircity yesterday. They restored 85,000 and there are still 215,000 without electricity. 62 out of 90 electrical substations have been damaged. Many of our friends still do not have electricity. We gave Ed and Francey our generator and they loaned us their chainsaw and help today. John's chainsaw broke and we definitely needed one. Some of our neighbor men also came over and helped cut down and pile up branches and trees. CJ was an amazing help. As you can see even little Talley was really helpful.

We did not get an ounce of rain, it was weird. Funny this thing gave us as much trouble as we had in the past in Florida. Thank God we didn't get hit full force by the big thing.

Okay, family in Indiana and

Cincinnati, how are you doing? Were you hit bad?

My Excuse

My excuse for not blogging is my handicapped hands.

Quick explanation of my stupidity.

Picture this.

Lorie, on her cell phone talking to Dani.

Lorie needing a cookbook off a shelf.

Lorie pushing the rolling chair to stand on it as a step stool.

Chair rolling away, Lorie cussing, dropping the phone, falling and landing on both hands.

Dani screaming on the phone, Alex and CJ running to see what all the crying was about.

A trip to the ER with a smirking husband.

Doctors telling me nothing was broken for 4 weeks, until after an MRI, when she was told one hand was broken.

Trip to hand specialist where she was told one hand was broken and the other wrist was broken.

Oh brother, I am still doing everything, it is just slower going. I have braces on both hands, they are hoping I won;t need casts.

Am I forgiven for not blogging, please.........

Missing Some Little Girls

Some New Pics Finally

Okay, I have been out of it because I had a freak accident a week ago Wednesday. I was trying to get to a cookbook on a shelf and I stood on a rolling desk chair. Yep, you guessed it, it rolled and I fell. I landed on both hands and sprained them very badly. They xrayed them twice thinking they might be broken. I have been wearing a brace on both hands and haven't been able to drive or do much of anything. I couldn't even hold a blowdryer in my hands (picture John or CJ holding a blowdryer in the air while I try to blowdry my hair.) Today is much better and I was actually able to download my pics from my surprise quick trip to Florida.

My trip came about one morning when I heard from Uncle Ed that he was going to surprise my Mom and drive down to see her. I asked if he had 2 more seats available and Cj and I hitchhiked. It was a quick but great visit and I came back with a few cute pics. I didn't take as many as usual, since I wasn't there that long.

Most of you know the gorgeous babies in the pics. More pics on my other site.

Will try to be better.

This makes me smile!!

Congrats Alex!!

Alex graduated last Saturday.

Can't believe my baby is all grown up!!

A Letter From Granny

I know, it is a title that makes you wonder. But, it is true. In cleaning my desk, I came across a letter I received from Granny in 1991. Alex was only 8 months old. I have read it throughout the years and often thought I should share it with others. Some of you may have never rec'd a letter from Granny since you lived near her, but I just want you to know, Granny's letters were always something to look forward to. Even as a little girl, I remember loving a Granny letter to arrive in the mail. She just said what she was thinking at the time, jumping from one subject to the next. I love looking at her handwriting, it brings back so many memories!!

(In this letter, she signs it "Stella", which I find kind of funny also. I don't think this is her memory going, I just think that one was a slip. I can promise you I never called her Stella.)

So, even though this letter is written to John and me, I hope it makes you smile. If you click on the picture, it will make it bigger and you can read it.

I love you Granny!!

Logan

Okay, we had a great day at the "Walk" on Saturday. Hopefully, a lot of money was raised for Juvenile Diabetes.

I took lots of pics before and during the walk, but especially afterwards at the park. Of course, we were focusing our attention on one particular little girl, but if I saw cool Team Logan tshirts during the day, I snapped some pics. The pic looked exactly like Logan!! Have a look and see if you know anybody.

But please, do excuse all the pics of little blond girl.

http://lorie.smugmug.com

Happy Birthday Kendall!!

Well, I was going to wait and let Ashley post a picture from Kendall's bday party, but she hasn't yet, so I will.

She was 3 year's old on Sunday. She was such a sweetie and thanked everybody nicely and even let her friend help her unwrap some things.

The theme was obviously Dora cause, I mean, what else would it be?

Lots of Happenings

Okay, since my long ago post, much has been going on.

CJ turned 14. Got his cast off and can play soccer again.

Dani came home from College.

Alex had senior prom last night. Big news .... she got crowned Prom Queen!

I made her dress, I think it turned out pretty nicely!

CJ got confirmed last night also ... busy night.

Ummm.... Ashley tried to take a picture with John's camera. Ummm, good one Ashley. ha