Happy Birthday, Jesus!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!  This year has been one of the best ever.  We spent Christmas Eve with Heather, James, Sammie and Hayley, Dave, Nicole, Cheryl, Robert, Austin, Emma, Eden; Aunts Mary, Annie & Lyn; Kevin, Damon, Tim and dear ol' wonderful Dad.  And Christmas Day, Dad is hosting a sumptuous feast at the Village where he lives.  We are so blessed and thankful for the wonderful gifts of love and family that the Lord has given us.  I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart.  Feliz Navidad.

Thanksgiving Travels with Bruce

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving.  

Before we left Vegas, we took a tour via the monorail service.  They are just wonderful.  Clean, quiet, fast and time saving.  Saw replicas of the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower,  MGM's Gold Lion, the Brooklyn Bridge the Luxor Pyramid, Stratosphere and much, much more.  Bruce was in photographers heaven.  We were going to gamble $20 but after Bruce lost $5 in the first few minutes and I won $11+ in as many, we lost interest.  No wonder I'm called the black cat in Vegas.  The casinos will never get rich on us.  We came for family and won really big time!!!! 

Sunday morning we left for Oregon via Bishop, The Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Death Valley.  Not necessarily in that order.  Then on the fast I-5 the rest of the way.  Death Valley is a strange, unusual,  almost eerie place.  I'd love to see it when the wildflowers are in bloom in Spring.  It's not a place to put on our annual vacation list tho'.  We saw maybe six cars until we reach the hiway 50.  Traffic was never heavy on the whole trip.  All in all, a beautiful, leisurely ride.    

Got to Larry and Clara's (Putlitz) Tuesday afternoon. We hugged, laughed, visited....all the usual family stuff that makes holidays so special.  Got home on Saturday and crashed!!!!  We had the most enjoyable and leisurely Thanksgiving trip ever.  

Love and God bless.

Grammy's on Drugs

Hi Folks,  Finally went to the doctor about this awful cough I've had for the last 2 months.  My asthma was set off by something and I couldn't shake it on my own.  I thought it would go away but doctor said only Prednisone will clear up the infection in the lower part of my lungs.  I'm not contagious.  But when you see me I might be puffed up like the Poppin' Fresh Dough Grammy LOL, shaky and maybe a bit testy.  I'll do my best to be my old self but like Sis Mary says Prednisone is like PMS in a pill.  By Christmas I'll be on a much lower dosage.  Hope it reduces the bad side effects.  Hope you are all enjoying the Christmas festivities and preparations.  Love and God bless you all.