This is my grandson, Parker Lee, at 24 weeks. He's got his mouth open and it looks like he was trying to fit his fist into it! Such a cute little nose already too! We'll get to see him for real on May 13!

Pics from Ricky

This work dog found these.

Your bad day suddenly doesn't seem so bad, does it?

Happy New Year!

We had a very nice New Year's Eve celebration with friends and family at Kathy and Scott Foltz' house. Kathy and Scott, their son Joey, their daughter Amanda and her significant other Chris with their little one Chloe and their little guy on the way were all there. Bowling friends, Rick & DJ, Mike & Suzanne, Jeff and Chris were there. Brent and I along with Sara, Maddison and Mackenzee (and baby grandson on the way) were all there and Laurel even made an appearance!


There was plenty of food and fun. We had ping-pong and cards going on out in the garage, pool in the game room and Guitar Hero in the livingroom. We all made it until midnight....kids and old people (me) alike!



Scott, at regular intervals, brought out his jello shots. I turned them all down except for this one below! eeeewwwww

Here's Joey playing Guitar Hero...
Here's Sara, Mackenzee and DJ

Here's Kathy and Suzanne

Sara, DJ, Amanada

Brent (cheesin' and feelin' no pain!) and Jeff



Maddison, Chloe and Mackenzee had a blast...

Chloe wrestling with Maddison

We were all out quite late, so no one even stirred until about 9:00 this morning (that would be me and Mackenzee....usually both always up before dawn). Brent came down and the three of us were enjoying some Spanish conversation with Mackenzee (she was teaching us!) when we heard screams coming from upstairs. Brent and I wondered what in the world was going on, but Mackenzee knew right away....she exclaimed "Maddi lost her tooth!!!". Maddison's top teeth have been quite loose for weeks. Just before Christmas we were all sure that one of them would just fall right out....but nooooooooooooo. Brent tried working on it, we tried getting Maddison to get it out (and I told her that night, if she pulled it out, I would give her all the change in my coin bank).

Well................she finally got it out this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is her tooth and the hole it left in her mouth! She has a pretty little tooth fairy pillow to put it in for tonight.

And on her lap on the left is my change bank!!!

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Fun in Kalamazoo!

On a whim, Brent and I headed for Kalamazoo on Saturday afternoon. I've read on a few of the facebooks and alumni sites that the PNHS alumni meets on the day after Christmas at Burdick's. So we decided to go. By the time we hit Battle Creek, it had begun snowing and 30 minutes later, we were being pummeled. That was okay, though, we were staying right there so didn't have to drive anywhere.

I hadn't seen any of these people in 25-30 years! We had a really good time. We had a really nice room, had dinner up there last night and came down for a nice breakfast at Burdick's this morning.

This Santa Claus on the Kalamazoo Mall, downtown, has been a part of Kalamazoo history since before I was born so many years ago!

In the lobby of the Raddison at the Kalamazoo Center.

And here's a picture of the two of us. We had a good weekend.

Christmas

We had a good Christmas with all the girls....Laurel, Sara, Maddison and Mackenzee.

Maddison was way into her new Leapster game!














Silver was pretty worn out from the whole thing!

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Nelson Resemblances

This is Ricky (on the left, of course!)


















This is his Uncle Monte

















Look at their right eyes........do you see how they are the same???



This is Ricky with his gun....yeah, makes a Momma proud! :(


































This is his Uncle Monte and HIS gun!!!!

I think it's all genetic!!!

The Nelson boys!!!