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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!!!

Hillary singing....such a beautiful voice

My niece, Hillary....singing....so beautiful!

Ringo goes to daycare!

Ringo started doggie daycare this week and he LOVED it. Just look at all of his new friends! They have all kinds of toys and each other to play with. Ringo is in the "big dog" daycare room that happens to have a webcam in it. I took my laptop to work and could view him all day long!

Well, only when they were inside. They have a very structured day! They start out playing outside (weather permitting), then they play inside. At noon, they all go to seperate kennels for lunch. Then they go back outside, then inside, then back out. There is always a human with them, playing, petting, talking to them.

He was so worn out that night. He's used to just vegging on his dog pillow all day long. So now, hopefully, he'll go play with his new friends a few days a week. (This daycare stays completely full, so even if I wanted to send him everyday, I couldn't right now).

Too cute!

I had never heard this song before. Maddison and Mackenzee just could NOT believe that I had never heard this Hannah Montana song before! Wow, am I really missing out or what?

Halloween

Brent, Maddison and Mackenzee working on
Halloween costume projects.

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We bowled in league last night and our team dressed up as black-eyed peas! This is Brent and Kathy Foltz. I don't have any of Scott or I...I wanted one of all four of us...our whole team...but couldn't get anyone to pay attention to me long enough to get the camera and shoot a doggone picture. Oh well...wasn't meant to be I guess.