Whew, made it to the middle of the week! We've been having thunder storms here and the benefit is the rain...we need it. Maybe we have storms come into our lives that we don't enjoy, but the BENEFIT...is we receive what we need to grow.

October!

Hello Everyone!
Just wondering how it actually got to be October already.  This year has definitely flown by!  I haven't been blogging much but recently I attended an online Affiliate Marketing conference and I was so inspired to help my fellow bloggers with this new business.  Many of us are "stay-at-home" people who just need a little extra income for our coffee!  Hence, I have started a business blog which I invite you to sign up at if you are interested in recieving free info on home businesses.  My new blog is EG Consultants at:
http://www.egconsultantinfo.wordpress.com/
I admit I have tons to learn, but perhaps we could start this journey together since many hands make light work...what would many minds make?!! :)
My first online seller (which is a huge bargain at this price) is a step by step Affiliate Marketing "How to" ebook.  It's very affordable and contains the links and steps that we need to begin.  You can purchase it at
http://bit.ly/egconlt
Just use your paypal account and it is only $9.95.  There is a wealth of information in this book.
I'll add some photos and hope to meet with you at the next blog post!
Meanwhile, Build A Bridge, NOT A Wall!

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The Trellis

The trellis needed some color so for our birthday's Mom ordered us 2 climbing rose bushes.  They arrived as brown stalks and Errol dug a whole day to make the holes worthy of these roses.  Looks like it was worth all of his hard work!

May

Now it is May.  The month of flowers and sunshine and wonderful temperatures.  The roses are blooming, I'll try to remember to take a photo.  It's an awesome time of year.

We had a very special time with Garry.  He and Errol have the same Uncle so they call themselves cousins.  I will gladly adopt Garry as our cousin.  He labors in Sri Lanka and has been there 18 years now.  We hope to visit him there some time soon.

Here's a couple of photos from the fun we had while he was here.  I managed to lose our snapshot camera a month ago, so the photos have been fewer  than normal.  So, here's the proof of the fun we had...

We stopped to photograph Lake Mead on our way to The Grand Canyon...

Here's the Hoover Dam...

Awww...the Grand Canyon

Owly looking at you!

Majestic Eagle

Hoover Dam on the way home.  The bridge is getting closer to finished.

Visitors

Found this picture on our Camera Card.  Lyle & Evelyn were with us a couple of nights a week ago on their way home from Arizona.  We did lots of fun things but seemed to leave the camera at home each time!  This photo was taken when we went to the Elephant Bar for lunch on Sunday (a week ago). 

This last week-end Errol & I both ended up sick.  This time of year is terrible for allergies and I can't decide whether mine was an allergy to the epinepheran from the crown I had to get OR from the season.  Either way, it hasn't been pretty here at our place the past 5 days and Errol is struggelling to even breathe.  Things should be lots better in a month or two...LOL!

Monday

Jhett stopped by today when Errol was having some soup for lunch.  Jhett decided he was hungry too, so he sat on Errol's lap and had some.  He kept saying "Yumm...good"  Just love this kid!

February Celebrations

It's time to get caught up to the fun February Celebrations! Errol's birthday was Sunday, so in preparation for the exciting event, we had steak and crab legs at home on Friday night.

Next, we went to dinner Saturday night at McCormick & Schmick's. We had an awesome dinner while it poured rain outside, BUT, we forgot the camera like true professional photogaphers!!
Sunday was a very busy day with our morning meeting being in Boulder City, so we came home for lunch and I made us shrimp salads as pictured here:

After gospel meeting that evening, James & Bre brought Errol a DQ birthday ice cream cake.  After I managed to drop it on the floor while getting it to the table, James fixed it up so we could enjoy it as these pictures will show you!

Monday was our 36th Anniversary and we managed to just work the whole day right up until the evening, so decided since we'd been married 36 years it would probably be ok if we didn't go out on the town celebrating.  We opted to stay home and have a delicious dinner and then got on the computer and talked to Errol's sister Joan & Vic in Canada and then our daughter's in-laws in Australia.  It was a perfect evening with no photos again.

Today, Mom decided we "Girls" should go out to an early Valentine Lunch since Karen will be in Washington on Sunday.  I managed to get a few pictures of this delicious event:

All of this fun and it isn't even the middle of the month yet!

We're wondering if we should have built an Ark last month since it is still raining here tonight and we are DEFINITELY doing our part to get Lake Mead a little fuller. 

Hope your February is wonderful as well.

It Is January!

Can't believe it is past the middle of January already!  I've had an awesome Birthday...WEEK!  My birthday was celebrated with a luncheon with the ladies at my favorite Thai restaurant.  Sorry I don't have any photos...just didn't think about the camera.  Mom, Karen, Esther, Kara, Bree, Jessica & Jhett made the  birthday party delightful. Continued the celebrating in the next few days by:

• Shopping at the Outlet Mall
• Spending half a day at the book store
• Looking for bargains at Stein Mart
• Celebrating at PF Changs
• Celebrating at Outback Steakhouse
• Spending an afternoon in the sun reading my book
• Drinking numerous latte's

As you can see, it was a great week.  Hope to have a more productive week next week but no week could be this much fun, could it?

Thank you to everyone who made it so amazing. 

December Birthday Breakfast

It's been a whole week ago, now.  Last Saturday.  The family gathered at Lyle & Karen's for a delicious birthday breakfast. We celebrated Lyle and Shannon's birthdays in style!   I wrote about it in the "Too Much To Do" blog so here's the photos from the fun morning. 

Lyle enjoying the fun

Shannon loving the gifts

Some of the group.   The kids are the entertainment..Elly finding the greatest toy to be her car seat   Notice Bryan is having so much fun that he's reading the newspaper!!

Jhett & Bree playing some game

Jhett loved the wrapping paper

And Jhett tried to get Elly to understand that they weren't in the car so she didn't HAVE to be in her car seat

Bree got Grandpa Lyle a present herself (well, with Grandma Karen's help) so she had to open the card for Grandpa Lyle and hurry him along a little

Elly is just so gorgeous

The breakfast birthday was a success

Photos of Thanksgiving 2009

Finally!  Here's a few photos from our Fabulous Thanksgiving week-end.  We had a FEAST but somehow, the only thing we have a photo of is the desert table.  LOL! 

After eating there was an evening of games, talking, reading, and time on the computers.  Then of course, there was more eating!

We went for a walk in the park on Friday...good thing, because it rained on Saturday making it PERFECT for raquet ball, shopping, or watching the games.

Now we look forward to our next family time together in December.