Friday, December 31, 2010

Well kids, this is it....one whole year of blog...every day since 1/1/10. I hope you've enjoyed learning a little bit about our life in Kentucky and the things we find fun and interesting. This is us at a New Year's Eve party. We were actually home at midnight to see the fireworks from the sundeck! We love all of you and hope that 2011 is the best year yet. We'll see you A's in May and you C's in June...until then.....call us, text us, e-mail us, facebook us...communicate! We want to hear all about your lives and what makes you smile and what you find interesting. bye 2010....hello 2011....a very good year to look forward to.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Almost a whole year now....only one more post after tonight and 2010 for the A's and C's is over. Look at you...are you not the most beautiful five grandkids in the whole world....we've enjoyed talking to you in this form for the past year and hope that some day you'll look back at some of the posts and realize how much we love you five. It's been a busy, fun, sad, exciting year with lots of changes. I'm sure the next year will bring an equal amount of fun and excitement and change. We love you five...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Happy Birthday Christian...18 years old today. We have such fun memories of when you were little, and a few since you've been not so little. My favorite is remembering your papa v. lapping your mama Matlock down the hall at the hospital to get to you first....you were all wrapped up like a football and papa v just grabbed you out of your mommy's arms....he was so excited to become a papa! We hope you have a fantastic day and remember all the people who love you who are not there to celebrate like we were the year you turned 5 (picture above, of course).

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

I'm on a Maggie Smith kick...I love Maggie Smith so I rented a bunch of Maggie Smith movies from the library and have been watching them over the week. Tonight was Tea with Mussolini. The fun thing about this movie is that it takes place mostly in Florence Italy. A lot of the places you see during the first half of the movie are places we have either walked by or visited. In fact, there are quite a number of scenes that show the big door of the apartment we stayed in last summer....I think I may have to watch this one again.

Monday, December 27, 2010

This is the book I'm listening to on my iPod Touch....it's a very long book...if it were on cd it would be 30 discs. whew! I've been listening to it almost a month now...Since it's been so cold and there's ice on the bridge, I have to take the bus...that only lasts about 7 minutes, so I don't get to read as long as I used to when I walked. Anyway this book is about the history of New York and it's really fun to read since we lived in New York when we were younger and my parents lived in New York before they were married. Lots of the names and places in the book make me smile since I know the place they're talking about. It's been a long book to listen to but very interesting and fun. Edward Rutherfurd has written several other long books that I've enjoyed...Sarum, London and the New Forest. Maybe some day you'll have time to read a long book for fun!

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Lucy wanted to see the ornaments on the tree. She tries to stand up at the bottom to swat those that are hanging down...and sometimes she jumps up on the counter and tries to reach over to get a few....this evening I decided to put her out of her misery and let her get up close and personal with all the shiny things on the tree. She was VERY interested. I think she could see there were a lot of cat ornaments. She also liked the gold balls...they made a funny noise when she hit them! I think she's satisfied now...I hope so since the tree will be coming down soon.

Christmas Day, December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas Day. We had a very lazy wonderful morning...coffee and sweet roll and a fire on the tv...Christmas carols on the Ipod and presents ready to open. We made some telephone calls and received some telephone calls and then we sat and watched the fire for a bunch of hours and decided it was a good day! We had friends over for supper this evening and then we watched a basketball game....we hope your day was equally as wonderful.