Kamden with SOME of his birthday cake - yum! yum!

Kamden and Daddy in the Birthday Party room

Sheena with Kamden's "Monkey" cake she made.

Sheena modeling her scarecrow & pumpkin apron.

October - Utah Trip ;o)

On October 11, Grandpa & I started our trip to Layton, UT to spend two weeks with Greg & April and their families. We had a wonderful time, safe travels, good food, lots of hugs and kisses and the whole nine yards! We got to help our little great grandson, Kamden, celebrate his 1st birthday. His Mama made the cutest monkey birthday cake and the party was held at Kamden's Grandpa & Grandma Terry's house. He is such a little sweetheart. ;o) We also got to keep him by ourselves while his Mama got her hair fixed. The next birthday party was for April and that was also fun. This was held at Brittany and Patrick's apartment. The last birthday we celebrated was an early party for Grandpa Terry (Doug). We had this at Greg & April's house. Soooo, we made homemade icecream THREE times and it sure was good each and every time! Greg & April and Doug & I spent four days in Moab, UT and we had a blast. We toured the Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park and saw so many beautiful sights. The red rocks are in all sizes and shapes and are awesome. We had picnic lunches when we got hungry and then always ate supper in town at one of the many, many good restaurants. We would eat breakfast at the condo we stayed at. The highlight of the Moab trip was an AIRPLANE RIDE OVER THE CANYONLANDS. It was definitely something else and I wasn't scared. The pilot was very experienced - 20 some years! One time when he was making a turn, I had kind of a funny feeling, but all in all, it was a lot of fun. We took lots of pics of the Moab trip, plus lots of pics of our whole UT trip. I'm having a little trouble in getting the icon to come up for posting pics so will have to work on that. I sure hope I can get the pics deal figured out so everybody can see them.

News from Gramps & Gram ;o)

Uncle Claude and his daughter, Bonnie

Beth with her cake
My cousin, Larry, and his wife, JoAnn

Birthday, Beth, with crown from Aunt Jan

Jan and Gene

Hi everyone. Just to let you know we are alive and kickin'. We are officially into Fall and we have sure had some beautiful Indian Summer days. I've been saying "goodbye" to a lot of my flowers. Some of them were getting pretty ugly. Since we will be leaving for Utah on Oct. 11, I wanted to get a lot of garden and flowerbed cleaning up done. That way we don't have to come home to a big mess.



Last week, we went to Topeka for Doug to attend a Wind Energy Conference. I got to visit my 92 year old Uncle Claude and his daughter, Bonnie which was really great. We both got to visit with another cousin, Larry and his wife, JoAnn. I really enjoyed seeing some of my cousins.



After the Topeka meeting, we went to Kansas City for Grandpa's Dr. appointment which went very well. He got to stop one of his medications and had to increase his beta blocker to two pills per day. The next appointment will be in 2 - 3 months when he may get to stop ALL his meds. Wouldn't that be great! I'm happy for him.



From Kansas City, we went to Salina to stay until Sat. when we celebrated Beth's 16th birthday with a picnic at one of the city parks. That was a lot of fun and then we drove to Hill City and it was nice to get home after being gone all week.



I'll attempt to post some pics now so here goes.

A Good Homecoming!

"I'm home"!!!
Celebrating my June 9th birthday!

Just relaxing.......

Shane, Zach & a glimpse Beth

Joe #61!!!!

Here are some pics of Daniel as he is now home from Iraq, Joe's football game(s) and family & friends. Interesting side note - I've had problems getting a Security Update on the computer forever, so I called Microsoft again. This time it was successful with the assistance of a man from India whom I was connected with for 1 1/2 hrs via phone. Yes, it was an 800 #. Have a good afternoon everybody. ;o)



Love,

Grandpa & Grandma Terry ;o)

Trip to Tony & Debbie's

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Long Time No Hear ;o)

Oh my, it has been so long since I wrote a message that I had to figure out how to do it. This might get kind of long, so get prepared.

In August, we spent two weeks with Debbie & Tony in Iron River, MI from Aug. 10 - Aug. 23. We had a wonderful - fun time. The drive was good and the weather was perfect. What more could we ask for. We got to see all of our grandchildren except for David. We also missed seeing Tony's daughter, Amber's husband; and Tony's daughter, Angi and her son, Austin. All the families are doing well. ;o)

Debbie jogs - walks and works out on the bow flex machine every day before she goes to work. A lot of the days, I walked on Gibbs City Road and Dad walked a couple days or so. Since Debbie had to work most of the days, I did a lot of crocheting and Dad did a lot of reading, but it was just so relaxing for us.

The grandchildren (great grands) are growing so fast. When they are together, they have a lot of fun and they are all so close in ages. They'll have a lot of fun the older they become, too. Right now one of the hi-lights for them when they go to their Cristan grandparents is the HUGE sand pile. When Grandpa Cristan has the floor poured in the pole garage, well the sand pile will disappear! How will Lane be "King of the Mountain"!

Grandma Cristan got to take her grandson, Lane, to the fair and that was sure a lot of fun. Lane really loved riding on the rides, playing the ducks game, the fun house and seeing all of the animals.

One morning, we went to Gaastra and Debbie took us to breakfast. Yum! Yum! Then we went across the street to a wood place and ordered wood to redo the walls in our family room. The drive to Gaastra was beautiful. Gaastra is a little town right by Iron River.

Tony's Mom is in the Rest Home and we always go to see her. She is doing good and she was getting ready to go with the residents to the fair. ;o)

The Demo Derby was lots of fun as always. Tony was in a couple of heats and Little Tony made it to the finals. They have so much fun. What good memories for father and son through all the years they have spent working together on their demo cars and, hopefully, many more years to come.

Debbie took us to their camp site and we sure were happy to see all of that area. Now when they talk about going to camp, we know what it looks like. It is fun to drive through the forest and see all of the trees. (We saw one deer in Tony & Debbie's yard on our trip this year.) On this trip, Debbie took us to a couple of lakes near the cabin area.

One day was spent driving to and from Appleton when we saw Dana. She is doing well and working at a very large Interior & Outside Decorating and Nursery Store. I think the name is Stietz. She likes her job and is happy. ;o) We went to Olive Garden for lunch and just had a real good time together.

Doug & I took a little road trip one day to Geegobic Lake and Lake Superior. We couldn't see Geegobic Lake for ALL of the trees, but found a large rest area with a dock and the view from there was great! ;o) We ate lunch at a restaurant in Ontonogon and had huge ice cream cones on our way home at Kenton. They were hand dipped. ummm - ummm!

Debbie had lots of good meals for us and the night before we left, she and Tony took us to Woods Inn for a laraping good supper. We all had some type of fish - sea food.

As you can tell, we had a wonderful trip and we were so thankful to see most of our northern family.

We were back home for about a week before our grandson, Daniel, arrived in Salina after serving a six month tour of duty in Iraq. ;o) Of course we went to Salina to see him and celebrate his June 9th birthday. We also got to see our grandson, Joe, in his JV game with Newton. ;o)

Now we are enjoying the produce from the garden. We have sure been blessed with many beautiful end of the summer days. Fall begins Sept. 22nd. Hope ole' man frost stays away for a while as we have lots of food continuing to ripen in the garden.

I'll try to post some pics for all of you. Hope this finds all of you wonderful family doing well and we love you all.

New Potatoes & Peas

Hi Everybody,

I know, I know, long time no news from us. Naomi has been here for about two weeks so does that count for a reason to not write on our blog site. She will probably be going home on Fri. and we will miss her. We are having lots of fun. She is a very good helper and no problem at all. All is well here. The garden is doing great. Naomi picked our first tomatoes. ;o) We were blessed with 2+" of rain on Mon. night so that was great. Oh, here is a pic of some of our new potatoes and peas creamed together and they were very yummy!! We love everybody.

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Just Some Pics of Grandpa & Flowers

Babies Breath, Petunias & Live Forever

Peas
Tomatoes
Butternut Squash
Hollyhocks
Susie Dolly or something like that!!

Stella Daora Lilies
Yarrow

Potatoes
Pansies w/my little pet bunny!! ;o)

Ivy Gerainium
Wave Petunia
Shasta Daises
Straw Flower
Indian Blanket

GRANDPA REALLY WORKING!!! ;o)

These are pics I just took this past week-end of my flowers and there is even one of Grandpa WORKING!! ;o) All is well here. I'm helping with the First Grade at VBS this week and that is fun. We have a good group of kids and they are so cute. We just have VBS in the mornings Mon. through Fri. Well guess I'll add the pics now. We love you all. ;o)

The Last for This Time!

This all for this time, I think!