A few more pics of Lyla and Shawns visit

and OUR DAY AT THE ZOO WITH LYLA AND LIA!

A visit from Florida!!

Shawnster, this post is for you sweetheart! You are probably my only follower on my blog site, and I just want you to know that you and Karla have gifted Dad and I more than you will every know by bringing Ms Lyla here to Indiana to spend a week with us! You have put all your faith and trust in us this week to take care of your precious daughter who stole a piece of our hearts!! She is beautiful and we are so very Blessed! Here are some of my favorite pics of Ms Lyla this week and also of Lyla and Lia who got to meet for the very first time!!! They are both beautiful granddaughters who we are soooo in love with!this picture is the 8 am morning (7 am my time) that I arrived with Lyla in Mishawaka to pick up Lia so that we could visit the ZOO!! Oh did we have fun!

almost 6 months

I have been very lax lately in keeping my blog updated, shame on me!! So I decided this morning it was time to post some of those beautiful photos of my gorgeous granddaughters!! It's so hard to believe that they will be 6 months old this month!! Happy 6 month birthday girls!!!! They are the apple of grampy and my eyes without a doubt! Please click on the link below to see the newest video...It starts out with Lia and alternates back and forth with Lyla!!

almost 6 months

Another Wonderful Sunday Breakfast at Grammys!

A lovely conversation with Ms. Lia today!

Another Daddy's Girl

And here is son Shawn with Ms. Lyla
his pride and joy also!!
And if I can say....
I love the fact that my sons have their
little girls just wrapped around their little fingers!!

Daddy's girl

AJ and Ms Lia...
she is definetly her daddys girl!
And they share the same exact smile!!
When AJ was just a little one, just like his daughter,
he ALWAYS had a smile on his face also!!

2 MONTHS OLD !!

I'm not sure where time has gone, but both of my girls are 2 months old already!! That is soooooo hard to believe!!! Here they are side by side.....aren't they just beautiful!!!

Beautiful Granddaughters

The video starts out with Lia, and alternates back and forth with her and then Lyla all the way through to the end!!! Enjoy, these girls are AWESOME!!!

Granddaughters in their 1st month!!

I'm in love with these little baby girls~~

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Just where did 2009 go??? As I look back throughout the year, and ponder what 2009 brought to us and took away from us, I am exhausted thinking of all the changes that have taken place. God Rest Dad's soul! It's been over 6 months now that he has been gone, and is still missed tremendously! But in his place God sent two beautiful baby girls to us...our granddaughters~

We had a pretty quiet New Years Day, as the weather was brewing up a snow storm, and we are now sitting here on Saturday with over a foot of snow! It's actually beautiful from the inside...haha...haven't ventured out at all!! Mike went out to snowblow the drive and walkways, but I stayed in the warmth!!

We tested out the new Butterball Indoor Turkey Fryer yesterday, and OH MY GOODNESS...We had the BEST turkey ever!!!!!!! And it only took 45 minutes for this turkey to turn out GREAT!! Of course I went ahead and fixed the dressing, potatoes, gravy, corn casserole, etc....for just two of us, so there are lots and lots of leftovers for the week!

And we are starting our goal of getting on the Wii every day!! Wish us lots of luck!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, and I'm just wondering if people with say Twentyten or Two Thousand Ten??? I kind of like Twenty-ten myself!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Christmas 2009 couildn't get any better! We have two beautiful granddaughters to celebrate with this year! Aren't they precious!! We sure missed Ms Lyla (the angel on the right) this Christmas, but Santa was so good to me that he gave me an airplane ticket to visit her in January!! YEAH!! I can't wait to be able to spend a few days with her.

We were lucky to spend part of Christmas Day with Ms Lia and AJ and Gretchen at the Seitz's annual Christmas dinner today. They'll be at our house on Sunday for our own Christmas celebration!!It's amazing how much she changes in just 10 days!! And of course we had to have a family picture taken today...I can't wait for the day when we can have a picture with Shawn, Karla and Lyla also...hopefully this summer!!

It sure is hard having your family far away on holidays! I sure have missed my Dad this Christmas! He loved Christmas almost as much as my Mom did! And he was always sure to have a holdiay family celebration on Christmas Eve! Unfortunately the families have taken different directions this Christmas season, and we were not able to have the "Davidson" get together, but am planning one for after the first of the year, when everyone will be back around. I am hoping and praying that this will work, and that all my family will gather in the spirit of Mom and Dad! It never hurts to hope and pray!

On another cute note, here is my great nephew Jimmy, almost a year old, today at the Christmas festivities! He makes the greatest little Santa's helper, dont' you think???

WELCOME GRANDDAUGHTERS

OH THE JOYS OF BEING A GRANDPARENT!! Both of our girls have arrived, just in time for Christmas, and oh have they stolen our hearts!! Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. ~Ruth Goode

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Baby Updates!!

December 1st is only 5 days away, and that is the due date for Lyla Ann, the daughter of my oldest son Shawn and daughter in law Karla! The doctor has told them for 2 weeks now that she'll be arrivng any day, she's in place, so that has kept us all on pins and needles waiting for word that she's ready! Mike and I are planning on leaving and heading south the minute we know Karla is in labor, or that labor will be induced!

December 11th is the due date for Lia Catherine, daughter of son AJ and daughter in law Gretchen! Ms Lia has decided to turn breech on her mama and dad, and will undergo some massaging on Tuesday to try to turn her back the way she belongs! If that doesn't work out, then plans will be made for her entry to our world via C-section, possibly as soon as next Friday!

So, we'll see how our luck runs, and wonder what the chances are that I become a Grammy twice on the same day, and miss both of them!!!!!

My niece Molly is due to have another son in February, and here is a cute picture of her and Gretchen today at the Thanksgiving festivities

Thanksgiving 2009

It's so hard to believe that it's Thanksgiving Day already, and it's been over a month since I've made a post to my blog!! We had a wonderful day with almost all the family here! Shawn and Karla had to stay in Naples close to the hospital since Ms. Lyla is due any day!! We sure did miss them!! AJ and Gretchen were able to be here though, and we made sure that Ms Lia was fed to her hearts content!!

My brother Gene and little Sister April and MaryLou (Chuck's MOM) were here, and Nichole and Baby Chance made it later (forgot to grab a picture while they were here...shame on me!! Ashley and Rorie made

it for dinner, but hurried out so that they could make it to Kim's in time for dinner there!! I'm just amazed at how grown up Rorie is becoming, such a little lady!! AND I love her glasses...they are PURPLE!!

The entire Seitz family was here including the newest addition Baby Jimmy...his first Turkey Day!!! We enjoyed plaiying some cards, which was something we did all the time at holidays when my parents were alive, and I think that AJ went home the winner tonight!! Here's a pic of AJ and I...hard to believe that this is my baby, who's getting ready to have a baby!! Notice the apron that I wore all day today?? It was my Moms and I'm lucky to have been gifted it by my Dad, and I wear it every holiday, so that she is always near and helping me prepare meals like she did for all thos wonderful years!!

And here is Mike checking out the turkey he cooked on the weber grill!

I'm so thankful today for all of the wonderful things that God has blessed us with! Family, Friends, Jobs, a beautiful home and our health!!