Here are some of my favorites pictures from Sunday afternoon. I think they turned out really nice. I should have taken more. Sharon, when do we get to see some of yours?

Here is the Master at work. I talked her into making the pie crust for the pumpkin pies. She did a good job too.
Here is the results. That is Terry's birthday card from his mom in the back. I don't usually put the marshmallows on the pie but Terry wanted it that way. It was good too,
Here are the happy campers. I had Mom cook the turkey at Bea's since my oven doesn't work, while I cooked everything else. I took her some of everything when I went to pick up the turkey, so she had dinner too.
We had turkey, dressing, mashed taters, gravy, green beans, cranberry and pumpkin pie with Sparkling Grape Juice.
Nothing left but the cleaning up. Not looking forward to that. I have washed enough dishes today but still have more. The dogs are looking really interested back there.


Terry went under the house again today, looking for the leak but still cannot find anything. He is a bit flustergated with the whole thing. He has been under the house at least half a dozen times, trying to find the leak but says it is dry as a chip under there and he can't hear a thing. Well, now what?

I have been having fun with a new page I found. Check it out. If you can type at all you will get addicted. I am able to touch type about 230 characters per minute according to this.

Jeana sent me these pictures from Alaska a couple weeks ago. I thought I would put them here so you guys can see them too.

Sharon, I made your beans in the crock pot this morning. I haven't go to taste them yet because I am at Bea's but Terry said they were good. Looking forward to tasting them.

Here are some cute kids that live in Alaska! What does this make me, a great aunt? Thanks April for sharing the with us.

This one is for Jessica's birthday, per her request. It is the name of her little dog.

This little guy was so busy this morning, just running back and forth for about an hour, burying walnuts or hickory nuts all over Bea's back yard. Does he ever remember where he buried them?

Isn't it funny, how gaining weight messes with your mind. I don't know if anybody else ever felt this way but, I have thought about this a lot lately. When I was younger and weighed 120-130 lbs., I was a very confident person. Out in the workforce every day, I new I was doing a good job. I was confident and friendly and creative. I got pregnant in the summer of '93 and quit my job that fall. I loved staying at home and raising my child, keeping house and cooking good food. Over the next 5 years that good food got the best of me and I managed to gain 30 lbs. With my baby in school by then I realised it was time to go back to work and started looking for work. Here is where I started noticing how much 5 years and 30 more lbs. makes a big difference. I did get a job as a bus driver and child care worker. I know that this is all in my own mind but I remember feeling that, because I was a 'big girl', nobody cared what I was thinking and
nobody wanted to hear what I had to say. I tried to stay in the background, stay quiet and just be invisable. I remember hating the fact that I had to even go out in public, wishing I never had to deal with people again. I wanted to go home and never leave home again. That is so different then the way I was back when I was younger and skinnier. It even amazed me then that I felt that way. I still struggle with that somewhat even though I have lost 15-20 lbs (depends on what day I weigh in). I do feel better about myself but still have to have a talk with myself once in a while and tell my stupid self that none of that is true. It is all in my head.
How did it effect you guys? Anything like this? Am I just crazy?

Beautiful day for a walk this morning! Wish you could have gone with me. It is still warm enough to enjoy the walk and the colors are really beautiful.

I was just reading in my diary from this week in November in 1986 and the temps were in the single digits at night. Brrrrr! I'll take this weather any day. I was also noticing that that time was the last time that we were all together as a family. Us girls had just moved to Indiana and nobody had jobs yet so we were able to get up and eat breakfast together and each seemed to spend the day on project of their own. Mom looked at a lot of magazines, Sharon worked in the barn, Lois made wood projects in the workshop, I built dog pens or duck pens or chick pens and also spent a lot of time drawing. Sarah had her school to do. Sharon and Mom fixed good suppers and had them on the table and ready to eat when Daddy walked in the door. We usually spent the remainder of the daylight helping Dad with one of his projects. After dark and the dishes, with no tv, time was spent knitting, reading, drawing, piano practice or just enjoying conversations with each other. Usually someone would pop some popcorn and Mom would sometimes eat hers in buttermilk. YUCK! My diary is full of job hunting during this time and soon every body found jobs. For the next 5 years there was a lot of coming and going with all the jobs and those long winter evenings faded into just memories. Then the men started coming around and the girls started leaving one by one and starting memories of their own. Isn't life good? I know I am having a ball!

A thank you to the best Mom and Dad ever!

Just a note to say thank you to the best Mom and Dad in the world! I want to say thanks for the good job you did as in raising your girls. Thank you for having a stable home. Thank you Dad for loving Mom and thank you Mom for loving Dad. Thank you both for showing us what love looks like and being an example for me to show our child what a loving relationship looks like. Thank you for the guidance and yes, for the discipline, that you gave us throughout our lives. I know that is is because of you both and the teaching and loving we had from you that we can all still be such good friends. I hear about families that are always fighting and not speaking to each other and I always want to say thank you again for not raising us like that. Now that I am the mother of a teenage girl I am so thankful, Mom, that I have you as a role model and am always thinking, how would Mom have handled this? Or what did Mom tell me when I ask these kind of questions?" I so appreciate it that I have that to draw on when I need it. I thank you that your diligence kept me out of trouble and I can hold my head up and be proud of my past and not have to apologize to my daughter for things I might have done if it wasn't for Mom and Dad and your prayers.
I want to thank you, Mom and Dad, for raising us in a Christian home and teaching us Christian values. For living what you believe and showing us how to have confidence in living our beliefs. They always say that we may not like it then but will thank you for it later and they were so right!
Thank you Dad for reading Bible stories to us when we were little and Mom, every time I hear you read something, even now, it always takes be back to when you would read to me while the bigger girls were in school and it was just you and me at home. One of my favorite memories of that time too, is eating fresh tomatoes from the garden with you, with mayo and salt. Dad I remember you let me be the first one to get a ride in the 'The Cart' when you got it put together at Whetstone. I remember how each holiday that came was not a day of rest but it was a 'Work Day" for us girls to help Dad. Thank you for teaching us the joy of a good day's work. There are so many good memories that I could list but I wont. I just hope that I am successful in teaching Sarah Beth as you have taught us, and leaving her with as many wonderful memories and I have.
I thank God I was born into this family and I thank you again, Mom and Dad for all your hard work, teaching, caring and loving. You may not have won the Nobel Prize, discovered a cure for a disease or had a planet named after you but you did raise some beautiful, well adjusted, compassionate, caring, girls and we will pass that legacy down to our children. So you, Mom and Dad, have made this a better world for you just being in it and I cannot thank you enough! Words here cannot convey how thankful I am so I'll just give you a big hug the next time I see you.

1960-65

Here is another album. You can see all of the albums by clicking on the Public Gallery in Picasa.

1952-59

I have started to upload all the old pictures to my Picasa photo albums so all of you can just go there to see them. I tried to start at the beginning and keep them in order. If you see any dates that are out of order just let me know so I can correct it. Just click on the album above to see the photos in that album and all the others. I will continue adding albums as I have time.

Lets put some names to these cute little faces.

Left to right,

Sharon #1, (in Indiana) Rachel #4 (in Kentucky), Lois #3 (in Indiana)

Ruth #5( in Indiana) and Rhoda #2 (deceased)

Here is the next batch, off to new homes.

We went to here the Southern Gospel group called the McKamey's tonight in Marengo. They have a 13 year old boy that plays guitar and sings with them, see him below. He had a kidney transplant just a month ago and Becky wanted to get him a gift.

Remember the little cedar guitar I made last week? This is where it went.

The picture below shows Patty, Janie and Dub's daughter playing the piano, her husband on the mandolin and some Beasley boys doing some good pickin and singing.

1963
Are we just too cute, or what?