Wednesday, December 24, 2008

class Christmas party

Last Friday Ellie's class had their Christmas Party - the kids had so much fun decorating "gingerbread" houses and sugar cookies - neither of which, too me looked very edible, but the kids could hardly wait to bite in to their overly frosted and decorated cookies!




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visiting Santa

We went to see Santa last week - the girls had so much fun telling him just what they wanted.
Here it is . . .
Ellie asked for a candy cane and Hungry Hungry Hippo
Lily asked for a candy cane and Tinkerbell band-aids!
We can't complain with that!!!
Merry Christmas to all!




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Saturday, December 20, 2008

update on Grandma

I have been so bad at blogging lately . . . please forgive me!!! I have been meaning to give an update on Grandma . . . she was in the hospital for about 10 days and finally went home last Friday!!! Yeah!!! She is now at Auntie Pat's house. She has a full-time nurse with her which certainly puts all of our minds at ease - knowing that there is a medical professional with her. I am not certain how long she will have the nurses . . . I think it is just until she gets over this infection. Please continue to pray for her. She is a strong woman, but she isn't used to relying upon so many medications and doctors and such.
We are so blessed to have her in our lives and treasure her greatly!!

Friday, December 5, 2008

grandma cook

Hi there!
If you would take a minute and pray for my sweet grandma - she ended up in the hospital early Wednesday morning. She was having a very difficult time breathing and my parents ended up calling 911 and having her transported to Henry Mayo. They were hoping to have her transported down to Encino-Tarzana near her doctors, but there wasn't any room and grandma seems to be happy where she is. My aunt drove down on Thursday to help with watching grandma. We are so blessed to have such a terrific family and so many who are willing to drop everything and run. Please pray for grandma - she seems to be getting better - as long as she doesn't do anything she is fine (and by "anything" - I mean brush her teeth). Please pray that she gets her strength back and can return home as quickly as possible.

It was so cute - my mom called me Wednesday morning to tell what had happened whilst we slept - I got off the phone and told the girls, then called Flav to let him know. As I was talking to him I looked over and saw the girls sitting at the table praying for their "bammy bape" (grammy great).

I will keep you posted. Thank you for your prayers!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

never a dull moment

Yesterday the girls and I headed down to Palm Desert - Flavio is working down here all week, so we thought we'd skip a few days of school and enjoy the desert. We went to dinner and returned to our friend's house - Steve, the friend, suggested that I park my car in their driveway and that Flavio park his car (actually his parents' car) on the street in front of their house. No problem. Did that. Flav and the girls went to bed around 8:45 and at about 9:15 Steve and I heard this loud sound - kinda like a trash truck going down the street. We went outside to see what happened . . . and well . . . the car that was parked in front of the house was now in the neighbors driveway!!!!!!! In the middle of the street was a man, obviously intoxicated, holding his chest. His $70k F-150 was next to my in-laws Tahoe. According to this gentleman - "the car just jumped out in front of him!" and he told the police officer that he was only going 15mph! That's funny!!! Not only did he propel the Tahoe at least a car length and a half, but he knocked over our friends very substantial mailbox - we are talking all concrete!!! Solid and HUGE!!!! Praise the Lord we hadn't gotten home any later - and weren't getting the girls out of the car. The PGA West patrol came by along with the Sheriff who cuffed the guy and took him off to jail - I've never seen someone handcuffed before.
Well, that was our fun night - hopefully the rest of the week will be uneventful!!!