12.19--Daughter Supper

So many o' you may aware that we enjoy housing Juniata College students for a week before school starts each semester. It's so much fun to have the extra company and we hope they enjoy staying with us. It's so interesting to hear about different cultures and it's been great getting to know each o' the girls! Over the fall semester, we had a very sweet young lady, Shan, stay with us for the week. She is such a sweetie. She will often call me to see about getting together for supper and games. I love that she brings her friends over to meet her "parents" and it's awesome getting to meet her friends! Well, before they all left for Christmas, we all got together, it was soo much fun. Did you know that in China they don't celebrate Christmas? Here are the pictures from our Christmas Get-Together. Shan, our daughter, brought her friend, Penny (also from China), and her roommate, Lola (from Africa).

Lola, Me, Shan, Penny.



They are so much fun!!



All o' us again with the tree.



We made yummy stuffed shells.



Don't they look DELISH!?!



Gotta have garlic bread...



For the vegetable...SALAD!!

After we ate, the girls offered to do the dishes. This was particularly a HUGE blessing to me. We had fun singing, talking, laughing, and telling stories while we did the dishes. Can you believe that doing all this work is fun? Well, it was...

Doing the dishes.

Can't wait till our next get together!

THE END!!!

12.17--Amy Jill Bash!

There's nothing I like better than hanging out with friends and eating. So before you look down thru these pictures, I didn't do a good job o' taking pictures o' all my friends. There's not a single picture with people in it, but you can see the wonderful job we did on decorating for our Amy-Jill Bash!!

The extra seating...



Amy did such a wonderful job, right?



SHRIMP...(as long as I don't have to eat this.)



Yummy Chicken...



Corn-on-the-cob...delish!!
Holy crap, do I love my friends!!

THE END!!!

12.25--Our 2nd Christmas!

Can't believe that this is our second Christmas together. Ahh....what a great Christmas--spending it with my honey!!

I know this one is blurry; however, it's cozy.



Christmas Morning!!

Our super awesome stockings? Cool, right?

Us getting ready to unwrap presents.

Can't you tell I an excited!?

Adam had to unwrap every one o' these!

All o' Adam's presents!!

All o' my presents!! (:

I just love Christmas time!! (:

THE END!!!

12.11--Christmas Pictures.

We really needed some pictures for our Christmas cards; however, we didn't have an updated one and any o' them that really looked good. So we got a good friend, Nicole Snare, to take a few pictures for us for our cards. Let me just tell you that she did such a wonderful job. She's only 15, but she has such an eye for what would be great pictures and great backgrounds. We also had a great time taking pictures.

So I really really wanted snow for our pictures (since they are our Christmas pictures), so I prayed for snow that morning. Haha...at work on Friday, it started to snow, I said, "You know everyone, it's cause I prayed for snow..." It was funny, and there wasn't as much snow as I wanted for the pictures, but there was enough to tell there was snow.

So here are our pictures...

Kissing under the Mistletoe...
(even though you can't really see it.)


Being careful to not get hit by a train!


The beautiful collage Nicole made.

There's something about brick pictures.


Peeking at each other...


I love the way he looks at me...


One o' my all-time favorites!


We could be the cover to a Western magazine.


I still get butterflies...


Black and white...


...more black and white...


Haha...this is the greatest picture ever!


Pretty Christmas Tree.


Love this one...


Jumping ones...


Love the faces in this picture...


We went to Narnia...


SNOWING...


Pole at the train station...


Look like a Rockefeller Painting?


He makes me laugh...


Never realized how bad my crow's feet are!!


Looking at the "Love Tunnel"...


Footprints in the snow... Happily married...

What a grand time, hope you all enjoyed the pictures! We sure had fun taking them!! Nicole did such a wonderful job taking the pictures. I would totally recommend her if you want pictures taken!! Hope everyone had a safe and Merry Christmas with family!!

THE END!!!

10.22--JC Blair Hospital (FRI)

Friday October 22, 2010.

While everyone get's so excited and says, "It's Finally Friday!" or "I'm so happy it's Friday!" Well, today was a lot better for me, pain wise; however, I'm ready for Tuesday!! I'm scheduled for my surgery here on the 26th to do another round o' lithotripsy to break more o' the stones up! My mother stopped by at lunch time after she finished teaching her classes. It wasn't real long because it's deer season so she had to rush home.

I didn't have any visitors all day that stopped by, just my nurses and doctors. So the next few pictures are my nurses from second shift, I figured I better get my picture quota for the day!! Haha...so here are:

My Medical Personnel

My Urologist...Spencer Long, M.D.

My Awesome Nurses on Second Shift.

Michelle, R.N.

Misty, R.N.

Kristen, R.N.

Finally Some Visitors

The Donnelly family stopped by for a Friday late night visit. Boy, did we have a great time. They are such a precious family. They were such a blessing, and they were super sweet! That visit meant SO much to me, especially cause they stayed till pretty late! Thanks for stopping by, visiting me, bringing the sweet gifts, and singing for me. You guys were really amazing and super fantastic!!

David & Katrina with their goodies they got me.

Kelsy coloring some signs for my door.

Kara and Me. She's growing up so fast.

Jenny, thanks darling for stopping by!

Our visit--Kelsey, David, Kara, and Me.
Please note Katrina in the background with Ace.

Kara and Me...Seriously, we're so cute!

Katrina coloring with Ace.

She is such a flirt!! (:

Katrina has always had a crush on Ace for the longest time. At church, she continually flirts with him. One day as we were walking into church and Katrina was walking passed us headed the opposite way, they started flirting. She smiled and giggled at him, so he smiled at her, she acted bashful and hid her face behind her shoulder. BAM!! She tripped an fell straight on her face. Poor girl was screaming. We thought for sure that she'd smashed her face and broken either her nose or knocked out a tooth.

Well as her and Ace were coloring together, we opened a bag o' Swedish fish that they had gotten as a present for me. These kids LOVE those li'l fishes. So Katrina walked over to the other side o' my bed where the bag o' fish were, she grabbed a handful o' fish, started to walk away, and then turn around to get another handful, but not before asking me a question. She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and said, "Miss Jill, can I get some for your dad?" I started dying laughing. Haha...she thought Ace was my dad! Haha...how cute. I said that she could totally have a handful o' fish...for my dad!! She is such a dollface!

How am I supposed to compete with her?!?

Right before they left, they sang a song.
(You can see how late it was...check out the clock!)

What was left from the BIG bag o' Swedish Fish.

Haha...the kids really loved the fishes!

That's ok...less calories to go to my hips!

A sweet present from my daughter, Shaun.

Kiley came for a visit...
(Had a great time talking...MUAH!)

Us playing with some ketchup and a straw.
(It looks like we are lookin' at a pregnancy test.)

Haha...we look so funny! Love silly faces!

Kiley love you and am so proud o' you!

I'm so thankful that God gave me such a wonderful husband. I couldn't have asked for a better guy, for real! Don't know if Ace realized what he was getting into when he married me, and he's probably rethinking everything. He's had probably enough excitement o' me on my death bed and 6 hospitalizations in our first year o' marriage! Again, God knew exactly what he was doing when he picked him out for me. Love you, baby!

Ace & Me.

Me & My Honey! MUAH...LOVE HIM!!

Jesse stopped by the hospital to visit me around 10:30 or 11:00. When he got to the hospital the doors were locked, so he had to go in through the Emergency Room Entrance and then he just walked right in up to my room! My nurses were cool about him stopping by. He stayed around here till almost 1:00 a.m. Good times with the li'l brudder!! Love him!

Word Homie!! Yo-yo-yo playa!!

My Li'l Brudder and Me...GOOFY!!

So earlier in the day, I was a li'l bit depressed that I didn't get any visitors, but they were just here later. My first visitor came around 5:30 and last one left around 1 a.m.

SUM-UP:

• Nurses.
• Doctor.
• Visitors.
• Just pain management.
  

THE END!!!