Family and Friends

Sometimes, what we care about most goes away never to return. While we have it...it's best we love it...and care for it...and fix it when it's broken...and heal it when it's sick. There are just some people that make life important...Good friends and family are like stars...You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.


I read this on a friends post and I thought it said it all so I wanted to keep it close so every once in awhile I could look back on this and re read it when I need it in my life, to remember.

Fun day at the Candy Dance Days

We went to the Candy Dance Days in Genoa and it has been several years since the last time I went. Del, Maura, Marina and myself all went and had a wonderful day spending it together. I found little girl dresses just like the way Nana used to make for my girls when they were little, all frilly and fufu like, we got two of them, one for VE and one for JadaLynn. They are sooooooooooooo cute, a older Mexican lady made all the dresses and I fell in love with them. One of the dresses has a pinafore over a pink dress and the other one was pinky/peachy color with lacy edges and just frilly with under petticoats. Love them....That event has grown so much they had over 300 venders, anything you could think of, it was there, food, yum, candy, music, oh my gosh, it took us 45 min to go 1/2 mile down the road just so we could park but it was worth the time it took us. Also this weekend they had what is called weekend vivations, they expected approx 30,000 motorcyles in town and believe me they were here and to the joy of Hwy Patrol, local police, they had a field day handing out speeding tickets, I bet they made their year operating monies, hahahah...it was something to see.

It is so much fun to be able to spend time with my girls, going out, shopping, doing lunches, going to movies, love the time I get with them.

5 Months ago we moved back to Northern Nevada and I have not regretted a day of the move, it was an adjustment moving with my one daughter and her husband but we have done great and I think it is a good move for us, love the company, we have gone and we have done more here in the 5 months than the whole 4 years in Alaska. Don't get me wrong, I love Alaska but it did not like us very well. Our health has improved vastly. I do miss my daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter we had to leave behind in Alaska but that is where they belong and where they are doing do great.

Love living life.

Fall is here

oh my gosh, where has this year gone? today is the first full day of Fall or Autum, which ever you may call it, I like Autum, I love the smells, I love the changing of the colors, I love the mums that bloom in Fall/Autum, I love the fall veggies, and I love Fall/Autum because it is the start of the holiday seasons and the time of the year that will bring families together.

Just Sharing.

more reflections

I was thinking that life can really bring you lot of challenges, I think that is what makes a person either strong or weak depending on how they handle the challenges that come their way. In my family I think it shows how much love, strenght and caring we have. As in all families we have our ups and our downs, but because of the way we are it seems we always come out stronger. I have the best daughters, the best grandchildren and the best of great grandchildren a person could ever ask for. We are a mixture of all people, we have Asian, Hispanic, Black, white, you name it and we have it in our family. I am just rambling, not thinking of where this blog is going, just jotting down thoughts. I was reading one of my granddaughters blog and it made me cry for the pain they are feeling and I cannot do anything to help, actually I was reading two blogs, and they both have pain, but you know what? one of them is going to be just fine because of the love in her heart for her family, her child, her husband. Her heavely Father has blessed her and he will go on blessing her, she and her family have so much love in their hearts, that I think he put them here on this earth so they can teach other families what it means to love and care and to share. He has given them a challenge and I know they will meet that challenge and because of that this world will be a better place for having them here. The other granddaughter is so young and she has faced so much sorrow in her young life, but you know what? she will grow and she will find what she is seeking when she least expects it. She will always have her family to help her, listen to her, give her the hugs she needs and maybe just maybe, she will open her eyes to what is around her and realize what a fantastic life she really has and what is there for her in the future. We all say things in the heat of the moment that sometimes we wish we would never had said, but that is another life learning moment, hopfully we will find peace with what ever we made have said or done and go on learning. It is hard to let go of thoughts, you try to push them out but they have a way of sneaking up on you and popping in your head when you least want to remember. Maybe that is nature's way of reminding oneself of where you do not want to be and you change your path and go where you should be.

Like I said these are just random thoughts that really go no where, but I just felt like jotting them down. Just thinking, just wishing, and just praying.

We went to a beautiful wedding of our granddaughter

I thought I would write a short blog on a beautiful wedding on Sept 4, 2010. Our granddaughter Maura LeAnn became Mrs Snyder and blended a beautiful family. Brian has twin daughters who are 5 years old and Maura has a daughter who is 5 years old, we call them the triplets. They were married and now are a family of five. It was a wedding filled with love, respect, and friendship and happiness. I am so happy that they were brought together to share their lives. They are a great family.

My Birthday

Today marks my 48th anniversary of my 21st birthday. I had a wonderful day, it started off very early at the Dept of Motor Vehicles to register my birthday car, I love it, then it was off to the Car Dealership to order a key, then we headed out for breakfast, then some shopping, car wash, and then off to the movies, after the movies we indulged in Ice cream, yum, then headed home. It may not sound like a lot of fun to you, but to me it was wonderful because I got to send it with my better half of myself. I love my husband so very much and after over 51 years he still makes my heart go pitter patter and my chest feels like it wants to burst with all the love I have for him. So that is why this birthday is so wonderful.

Just random thoughts

It has been a rough week but we have made it through. I have come to terms with it and now I will move on.

We left Dayton NV on Wed to go to Sacramento to put Olivia on her flight home to Alaska, then we headed off to San Diego to see family and to celebrate my sister-in-law's 70th birthday. It took us 2 1/2 days because we took our time and stopped here and there and to reflect on events that happened this past week and to come to terms and move on.

We had a bbq Saturday and we had a wonerful time meeting up with family, enjoying life, and realize what a great husband and soulmate I have, wonderful grandchildren, and children. My thoughts are, be happy, love your family no matter what, and try never to say harsh words that can never be taken back.