I know, I know...it's been too long!

I haven't posted a thing since NOVEMBER!

How on earth did that happen?

Oh, I know, I discovered facebook and have been totally engrossed in finding old friends and relatives! I get on it - start looking for people or reading their pages and an hour as passed by.


Ok...here's a little update on what's been going on:


I am still at First Federal (8 years), but I am now downtown in the Customer Support Center. I love it and I'm close to home. I don't miss those goofy schedules changing constantly, I don't miss counting that nasty money...I don't miss balancing...well, you get the idea.


Webber is still at Wal-Mart - nothing new there. He will work on the Greenville I.S.D. Band and Flash Floor Show again this next month. This makes 32 years that he's worked for them on this. It's a lot of hard work and late nights for 8 days - but he loves it and that's what matters.


Larry is now working at Children's Medical Center in Dallas. He LOVES it. It's a very positive working environment and good benefits. It is a longer drive for him, but he doesn't mind it. (He comes to visit once a month or so - not enough for his Mommy!)

Lucy, our chiweenigie (cute as a button and WILD) and Ricky the cat are both in the house and keep me entertained. They run and wrestle with each other like kids.

Oreo, my grand-dog, had puppies in October.....5 of them! We gave 3 away at Christmas. So, Fred and Ethel are with us - but if anyone needs a good guard dog - they are available for employment!

November is.....

I'm So Excited and I Just Can't Hide It!

I went for my 6 month check-up today. My diabetes is TOTALLY in control....AND.....I still don't have to take meds for it!

Can I just tell you how excited I am....did I tell you that I'm excited?

This is MAJOR for me, cause I was always such a "junk food junkie!" and I've tried so hard to keep my levels down!

I still get to have my Sonic and my chocolate....I just have to be careful and watch how much, etc.

Grandfriends @ Trunk or Treat

Kate & Jack Hogue

The Pretty Fairy & Robin Hood

Katie Keele
The Coolest Cheerleader

Maddie
What a cute 50's girl

Catlynn Cooke & Mommy

She was such a beautiful spider

Ridge with Mommy & Daddy

( Mommy was a kitty cat, Ridge a duck and Daddy was ???)

Payden The Race Car Driver

This picture was taken about 5 minutes before little Payden broke his left leg. He broke it from the knee to the ankle in a spiral! But, our little Payden is still smiling!

Me and Pirate Gibson

Aubrie McCarter was very tired Little Bo Peep

This is Tyler Benedick.....a little Monkey

Don't have a clue who this little girl is...

but doesn't she look like she could be one of those Anne Geddes babies?

Miss Lucy was sitting with my friend Janet and every time a child would come by, they wanted to pet her. This precious little boy wanted to kiss and Miss Lucy obliged him!

Trunk or Treat

This past Friday night we had Trunk or Treat at our church, Lamar Avenue Church of Christ. We had so much fun...the weather was perfect!

This is my Jeep - full of Twizzlers!

For Halloween, we dressed up as if we were having a Slumber Party at work. So, this made it easy to go from work to T or T to BED! haha! If you can't see the front of my shirt, it says "Good Morning Sunshine"!

Clay Hanley aka Rockin' Dude

These folks are dressed pretty scary.

The couple on the left are Cleve & Sharon Fendley (Elder & Elderette)

The couple on the right is Marcelino & Elda Rodriguez (Hispanic Minister)

From left, Dr. Meredith Grey (Lexie Barnett), Dr. McSteamy (Jason McGee)

and Dr. McDreamy (Joel McGee).

The Bank Robber (Janet Christ) and the Beautiful Witch (Margaret Lough)

Mother and Daughter Fairies

Sabrina and her Mom Terri

Fairy Stacey Wood

The 3 Amigos

Molly, Loretta & Kathy

Loretta is dressed as Betty Rubble ..not quite sure why she isn't smiling!

Kathy was dressed as.......

This Old Man (Tanya Welch)

Debra Usry with a car full of Oreos!

The Cute Pumpkin (Tammy Huffman)

Scary Dude & Elvira (Ronny & Gail Usry)

Abby from CSI (Kristi Garrett) and her Teenager (Landon)

The Garrett's Pumpkin Patch

Sponge Bob's Luau...Kim Hanley

Mr. Halloween himself (Webber) and

The Beverly Hills Chiuahua (Miss Lucy)!

Destiny & Amy's B'day Cook-out

My great-niece, Destiny Theye, my niece-in-law, Amy McMillan, and Sharon's husband, Chris Bailey, all celebrated their birthdays with a cook-out at "Theye-Land". (Pronounced TIE...that's from my "yankee" nephew-in-law.)

It was a great night for a fire...just a little chilly....
This is Destiny with her best friend Peyton

Just a random picture of Lisa, being the gracious hostess, as always.

This just looks "fall-e" doesn't it? Ok, now for the rest of the story.

The butterfly was DOA after colliding with the grill of my Jeep...Isabella couldn't stand to prounounce it dead....so we had a photo-op with the butterfly! RIP!

Me and my beautiful great-niece Megan.

And....the precious Isabella....Miss Izzy!

This was a cool gift that Aunt Dee gave Destiny...when you punch a button on the stand of the flag, it plays all sorts of patriotic music and the flag waves.

Made me want to get up and march!

Beautiful N.I.L. Amy

Enjoying visiting....from left to right

Karen (N.I.L.), Nicci (Lisa's best friend), Aunt Dee (who has moved to Arlington)

and Granny Jarrell.

The birthday honorees and their yummy cake!

Yes, thank you, I do enjoy sitting at the kids' table.

From left to right:

Great-niece Cayla, great-nephew Trenton, me, my grand-friend Abby, and Izzy.

Dogs & Cats Sleeping Together!

I'd like to introduce the newest member of our family....this is RICKY. He's 6 weeks old and I can NOT get a picture of him by himself because he and Lucy are best buds.
We've had Miss Lucy for about 2 months now...it was time for a "friend". So, we got Ricky this past Thursday. Didn't know how they'd get along...but as you can see they get along just fine!

LARRY GOES SKYDIVING!

This past Saturday, Larry went for his first skydive! He's wanted to do this since he was a little boy, so to check it off his "list" we were off to Skydive Dallas in Whitewright....WAY out in the country. It was so calm watching the jumpers coming down from the beautiful blue sky. You can go to their website here: http://skydivedallas.com/ It was the most incredible, awesome, serene, nerve-wracking, fun time! WOW...did that take care of all the emotions that his Mom went through? I'm ready to do it now!

This is Larry with his Papaw Sprinkle. Papaw was the inspiration that Larry always had about jumping. Papaw was a paratrooper in the Korean War and has a really cool tattoo with a parachuting skull. Papaw even gave up watching the Texas OU game on Saturday to watch his oldest grandson jump....he did listen to it though. (How 'bout them HORNS?)
Larry and Papaw talking things over before the jump.

There were lots of us there to watch him jump....

Me and my "baby" before he jumped.

Larry, his Dad (Steve), and his sweet girlfriend Jill. In this picture, we are in the training class with him. I thought that was pretty cool that they let us go in for that also. (It was also pretty funny too!) Speaking of pretty funny....Steve decided to do his Three Stooges football impression.

Larry with Dad and Mamaw Sprinkle

Larry with Steve's sister, Karen and her daughter Kristie

And Larry with his friend Susan. She came all the way from Blossom to watch!

Yep....he's gonna jump from all the way UP there.

Have they jumped yet????

Larry and his tandem instructor DJ right as they were about to jump out the door!

You can tell by Larry's facial expression in this picture that he is having the time of his life.

Right before they landed.

Right after they did a stand-up landing....absolutely perfect! Larry and DJ landed right on the mark and flat-footed! No "sliding" in for these 2! It looked as though they stepped out of the air.

DJ gave Larry his report on the jump! WoooHOOOO!