May 12, 2014 (pictures below)


Good Morning Everyone,


We have stayed busy visiting family and friends and celebrating birthdays and Mother's Day with barbeques.  I have an awesome family and I will not be able to get enough of them before we leave.  We were able to spend an evening with Jim Norton (Jim's friend from his Pacific Telephone days) and his wife Bobbie.  We had a great time catching up as it has been at least 25 years since we have seen Jim.


We also had dinner with our friends Cindy and Mike.  I have known Cindy since elementary school.
We had not seen each other since high school, but like Cindy said catching up was like never being apart.  Again a memory that will last us a life time. 




Saturday my niece Cheri had a barbeque for Mother's Day, my nephew Mitchell's 22nd birthday and Jim's 67th birthday.  I promised my nephew Greg that I would bring him a steak from Pettys (our meat market) and I kept that promise.   Jim made mushrooms, I made brochette, and my niece made pasta, artichoke dip (which was out of this world) and Jim's birthday cake. We had a great time catching up, telling stories and reminiscing. 




Yesterday we picked up my sister Merrill and drove to Valley Springs where my niece Tanay lives with her husband Ryan and their 3 boys, Jacob, Brandon and Andrew.  They love living in the country.  The boys spend their time riding their bikes and helping Ryan ticker with cars, lawnmowers and go cart.  Ryan is redoing a 51 Ford and will be teaching the boys the art of restoring a car.  Ryan and Tanay have the art of parenting down as the boys are gentlemen's. 


We hope everyone is doing well.  


Enjoy your day,
Jim and Debbie