It's been way too long....

Easter girl! and AJ, Lia and Gretchen (and Ms Kendal is there too) enjoying a beautiful beautiful Easter Sunday!

Ms Lia likes to rule the roost at Nana and Papas house, that's for sure! Would we as grandparents have it any other way????

Shawn, Lyla and Karla during our March visit to Naples, which was an awesome time spent with them! Below is Ms Lyla ready to go bike riding! This little girl LOVES the outdoors and would spend all of her time out there.

Shawn is walking Gizzmo while Lyla is walking Spike...this is a memorable moment in a mothers eyes!

Granddaughters Lyla and Lia are enjoying the smell of peonies that MY MOTHER planted when she was still with us many years ago at her home on Berry Rd! We took the girls to visit and the girls headed straight for Mom's yard, and crawled up on this bench!

The BOAT.....Mike and I bought a pontoon this year, and finally got rid of the speed boat, which was almost useless on a "NO WAKE" lake! The pontoon is perfect for the girls to enjoy and that they did!

NANA....PAPA....please take us outside to swim and play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shame on me to have left my blog just floating out there in open space! So much has happened and I haven't shared much, shame on me!

My life has been BLESSED tremendously over the last 20 months with the beautiful granddaughters Lyla and Lia being a part of our lives, and this Friday Ms Kendal Jane will join our family.

I'm not sure why I've neglected this website...I can come up with many excuses, but that's exactly what they are EXCUSES, so why bother trying to explain. I can't even say that I've been so busy working because that isn't the reason either...I left my job in sales in March, and haven't done much of anything since then. I've done a few websites, sold some ad specialties, but for the most part played on this damn computer, and watched soap operas, minus the bonbons!

Life must change! I am making a committment to myself that this will happen! I will make a much more concentrated effort at job searching, and contracts jobs. I will work harder to put myself in a greater physical shape, as well as mental.

And to make this post a happier post, UP ABOVE are a few of my favorite pictures of my beautiful granddaughters from this summer together....

oh my goodness....where has the time gone....

Here I go agian! 5 months, almost 6 months of no posting!! It's all FACEBOOKS fault you know! Well, Im off to Florida in 4 days! Friday morning at 6 AM, my flight leaves the cold city of South Bend to head to the warm Naples Florida for 4 glorious days of spoiling my oldest granddaughter as she turns 1YEAR OLD!! I'm looking forward to seeing you Lyla bean!! AND you too Shawnster and Karla!!



Santa POPPOP arrives in LaPorte agian! That's my hubby!! He is sooooo awesome to donate his time to the wonderful little ones in LaPorte! But this year he had an extra special reason to enjoy his Santa time, and that would be a special little girl out there in the crowd named Lia!! HIS GRANDDAUGHTER!!

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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