Grandma

We celebrated cute little Emma's 1st birthday about a week ago. Nice to have both grandmas there.

As I've been planning and preparing for Thanksgiving dinner this week, I've thought about last year spending it in Minnesota at Julie and Todd's with Mason, Sarah, and tiny one-week old Emma. She was a beautiful little doll then. Now she's almost walking, still awfully cute, and is grandchild number 11.

All 11 of them are very precious, busy, smart kids. I think this is a good time to be thankful for this blessing in my life. Being a grandma is great! So fun to drive up to their houses for a visit and they come out glad to see you and give you hugs. What more could a grandma want!

Leaves

I love the Fall colors and the cooler temperatures. October was just beautiful! .....But all those leaves have to come down, all how many billion of them. Three times the back yard has been raked up and there's still more and more leaves every day. My last clean up was Saturday. It doesn't look like I've touched it. Well.....I know what I'll be doing again this weekend. Good thing Fall is so pretty....that makes up for the full garbage cans of leaves.