Grandma Etta's 80th Birthday!

Christopher confessing to Grandma about putting wrapping paper under her couch at the Christmas parties we had at her home. He did this for years with Bobby and probably a few others!

Sons giving their mom a kiss!

The interview...

Rigden slashed his head on a table! Poor baby!

Ron, Mom, and Gary

Some of the great grandkids.

We celebrated Ron's mom's 80th birthday on December 12. We reserved the church so we would have more room. Ron and I went down early and decorated it. Ron, Gary, and Judy went and picked her up and told her that I had to finish something at the church for our Trek To Bethlehem program. They brought her in pretending that they were going to show her something that I had been working on. As she walked in everyone yelled surprise and sang Happy Birthday to her. We all brought Mexican food for dinner and had quite the feast! Afterwards the kids played and sang with each other while we interviewed Etta about her life. Jason taped her and I had asked Traci to ask her the questions. I feel that Etta really enjoyed talking bout her life and sharing it with us. It was fun to all get together and I hope we can do it more often.
Then there is....my enchilada story! After we got home around 10:00 that evening, we had unloaded the car and got my Pjs on. I asked Ron where the left over enchilada's were. He didn't know and then I remembered I had sat them on the trunk of the car when we were looking for the church keys for the umpteen time. We took the broom and dust pan back to the church to clean up the mess since it was in a glass dish. As we got close to turning into the church I saw something in the road. I thought it was the enchilada's. When we got closer I saw that it was my camera...my Canon Rebel camera. I about died!!! Ron picked it up and I took it out of the case and it was alright! Thank goodness! Who cared about the enchilada's and my nice dish any more. I was so thankful that my camera was not broken to pieces!!! The only bad thing was...several days later I was looking for my battery charger. I thought it fell out at the Trek and I had been calling around to see if anyone had found it. They didn't! Then I thought we should look in the road where I found my camera. It was there! Smashed to smithereens! Oh well. better than my expensive camera.