First of all though, let me show you the progress on the baby sampler. It’s not going quickly but it is coming along. I’m working on that blob of yellow in the corner right now. If you can’t guess, it is the sun. The empty square on the right will have a monkey in it. In the middle will be the baby’s name and birthdate. My fingers are itching, itching to feel some yarn running through them though and I have patterns running through my mind all of the time.
The baby should be arriving any day now. We are getting very excited to see pictures of her and find out her name. Great Grandma and I did a little shopping yesterday and we picked up three outfits. Little girl clothes are the sweetest. We will be taking them to London with us when we go next month.
You have all heard about our friends Paul and Lori in Spokane. Their puppy Izzy is the one that gave me puppy fever after our visit and led us to getting our Zoey. Paul and Izzy went on a motorcycle camping trip together last weekend in Washington. Here is a little Izzy with her helmet on in her motorcycle carrier. She looks like she’s all bundled up against the cold weather.
And they’re ready to go! Paul pulls a little trailer behind the motorcycle, that pops up into a nice size camping trailer. I had a picture of it, but in blogger it just shows up as a completely black photo. I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong with that and post it later. Apparently the trip went wonderfully. Izzy loved it! You can just see her little head there behind Paul‘s back.
Then yesterday, we went and picked up a trailer for Dennis’s cousin Curt and his wife Barb. If you’ll recall our ancient history, we went on our first date with Curt and Barb back when I was 15 years old! We have always been good friends and that relationship has been rekindled since we moved back to Omaha. They have bought a pick-up truck but won’t take delivery of it until Friday, so we went to the dealer with our truck and picked up their new camper. This is an A-frame camper. Two sides come up and it forms an “A”. It has no canvas on it, just hard sides. They want to do more camping in the national forests, and a lot of places you can’t take pop-up tent trailers with canvas because of bear. Curt retired at the end of December. We’re hoping to be able to take a lot of camping trips with them in the future. Wouldn’t you love to see that Montana fifth wheel behind the truck? They are like houses on wheels!
A little bit closer view so you can see the size. The trailer is 21 feet long.
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And here we are with our truck hooked up and almost ready to go. Dennis sure loves driving his truck and pulling trailers! He jumped at the chance to go pick this up for them.
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Here are the guys on the roof of our trailer. We took theirs to the same storage facility. Dennis was explaining the solar power on our roof to Curt when they spotted a herd of deer and wild turkey. The storage facility is located in a very beautiful area. Pretty good looking guys aren’t they, for two men that are pushing 70!😏💜
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On Sunday Dennis and I took Zoey for a long walk around the cemetery by our house. We love walking over there. This is one of the several war memorials around the cemetery. There are a lot of soldiers buried at Forest Lawn.
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Dennis’s grandparents are buried very close to this particular memorial. Just two rows down.
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Levi and Mary are his grandmother Alice’s parents and they are buried right next to Grandma and Grandpa Queen. There are four generations of his family that we know of that currently buried at Forest Lawn. Our headstone is already in place as it has been for the last 40 years!
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Dennis’s Dad and little sister are buried below this hill. His other set of grandparents are just a few rows behind them. My parents are across the road and up a hill and there are lots and lots of aunts and uncles and cousins in the same area.
And here we are with our truck hooked up and almost ready to go. Dennis sure loves driving his truck and pulling trailers! He jumped at the chance to go pick this up for them.
Here are the guys on the roof of our trailer. We took theirs to the same storage facility. Dennis was explaining the solar power on our roof to Curt when they spotted a herd of deer and wild turkey. The storage facility is located in a very beautiful area. Pretty good looking guys aren’t they, for two men that are pushing 70!😏💜
On Sunday Dennis and I took Zoey for a long walk around the cemetery by our house. We love walking over there. This is one of the several war memorials around the cemetery. There are a lot of soldiers buried at Forest Lawn.
Dennis’s grandparents are buried very close to this particular memorial. Just two rows down.
Levi and Mary are his grandmother Alice’s parents and they are buried right next to Grandma and Grandpa Queen. There are four generations of his family that we know of that currently buried at Forest Lawn. Our headstone is already in place as it has been for the last 40 years!
Dennis’s Dad and little sister are buried below this hill. His other set of grandparents are just a few rows behind them. My parents are across the road and up a hill and there are lots and lots of aunts and uncles and cousins in the same area.
Family. We have a lot of family history here. Although we have family in Spokane, they are just not legally family. However, they are blood family. We are all covered by the blood of Jesus.
That’s about it. Our day-to-day lives are fairly quiet at this point. We’re in between seasons. Yesterday was 75° and today the high is only supposed to be 45°. Dennis will be retiring at the end of March and a whole new world will open up to us. More adjustments, more learning what retirement means to us. We are taking each day as it comes and spending a lot of time in prayer for the people of Ukraine. May God bless each one of you and watch over you and your families.
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Blessings and hugs,
That’s about it. Our day-to-day lives are fairly quiet at this point. We’re in between seasons. Yesterday was 75° and today the high is only supposed to be 45°. Dennis will be retiring at the end of March and a whole new world will open up to us. More adjustments, more learning what retirement means to us. We are taking each day as it comes and spending a lot of time in prayer for the people of Ukraine. May God bless each one of you and watch over you and your families.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
Your sweet cross sitting is coming along nicely. Cross stitching is fun, but boy it can really suck time away. But you are left with a lovely picture that marks the birth of a sweet little one and that will always remind her of you. So hang in there sweet friend. Every thing you turn you hand to do, is always so lovely. Blessings always dear sweet friend. :)
ReplyDeleteYour sampler is just lovely! I bet you can't wait to travel back to London and meet her! Baby girls are so fun to buy for.
ReplyDeleteIzzy in her helmet! I can't even! That is the cutest thing ever! She isn't spoiled at all, is she?
I love to walk in cemeteries too. This summer I have plans to take my school aged grandchildren with me. My family goes back many generations in this county but we are scattered in small farm and township cemeteries from one end to the other. I think we will try to visit everyone. We put up our stone about ten years ago. They opened a new section at our church and we bought one and two. We are under the shade tree at the beginning of the driveway and right across from where the guys barbeque chicken at our festival. We will know everything going on at that church forever after.
What fun to have camping buddies! Dennis will love retirement. My husband wondered what he would do with himself. Now he wonders how he had time to go to work!
The sampler is really coming along Betsy! It won't be long till you are flying across the ocean!! I bet you and Dennis are so excited.
ReplyDeleteYour cross stitch is coming along nicely! It will be a treasure! Thanks for the photos of Forest Lawn, I have always wanted to see it. What a nice camper the cousins got, I bet you will have lots of fun camping with them. How exciting that Dennis is retiring in just a few days!
ReplyDeleteES TAN BELLO LO QUE ESTAS HACIENDO PARA TU NUEVA NIETA, SE VE ADORABLE¡¡¡ DEBES ESTAR MUY ANCIOSA, LLEGARA EL DIA Y PODRAS ABRAZARLA Y DARLE MUCHOS BESOS. LA CASA RODANTE SE VE ESPECTACULAR, SIEMPRE ME GUSTO SALIR DE VIAJE EN UNA DE ESAS GRANDES, PERO LAMENTABLEMENTE, MI PAIS ES UN CAOS ECONOMICO, A PENAS SI TENEMOS PARA LO MAS NECESARIO, NO ME QUEJO, DIOS SIEMPRE ES FIEL. SIGUE CUIDANDOTE DULCE HERMANA, QUE DIOS LOS PROTEJA Y SEGUIMOS ORANDO POR EL PUEBLO DE UKRANIA, CUANTA MALDAD QUE HAY EN ESTE MUNDO, OH SEÑOR JESUS VEN PRONTO¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
ReplyDeleteIT IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR YOUR NEW GRANDDAUGHTER, SHE LOOKS ADORABLE, YOU MUST BE VERY ANXIOUS, THE DAY WILL COME AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HUG HER AND GIVE HER LOTS OF KISSES. THE MOTOR HOME LOOKS SPECTACULAR, I ALWAYS LIKED TO GO ON A TRIP IN ONE OF THOSE BIG ONES, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, MY COUNTRY IS AN ECONOMIC CHAOS, WE BARELY HAVE ENOUGH FOR THE MOST NECESSARY THINGS, I AM NOT COMPLAINING, GOD IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL. CONTINUE TAKING CARE OF YOU SWEET SISTER, MAY GOD PROTECT YOU AND WE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE, HOW MUCH EVIL THERE IS IN THIS WORLD, OH LORD JESUS COME SOON¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
DeleteYou are making great progress on your cross stitch. It's so cute. You must be so excited about going to see that new grandbaby! We are getting the camping bug now that the weather is nice. We haven't been in two years so we are hoping to get some good time in this year.
ReplyDeleteYour stitching project is flying along! I am so impressed with all that filling. I can only do one block at a time or I would go crazy.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbors have a trailer like that one and they just got back from a long trip to Florida. I have crazy trailer envy but The Mister just won't go for it. That pup on a motorcycle is just too cute. I have to say I've seen a lot of motorcycles in my time but none with a dog on the back.
My but you and Dennis have a lot of relatives buried in that cemetery!I always check on the date of death on the stones and see how many years women were alone (widowed).
ReplyDeleteYou must be so excited about all the changes in your lives. Retirement for Dennis, the new baby and the trip to the UK, not to mention all the camping that warm weather will bring.
You’ll have the sampler finished well before your trip. It sure is cute! The pop up camper has tiny tires.
ReplyDeleteYour cross stitch project is getting closer to finished. I'm glad you're able to fly to London again. We have quite a lot of family members at one cemetery. I need to go check out where an uncle and aunt are buried soon. Retirement ahead is good and maybe have for time out and about. Blessings and peace, Becky
ReplyDeleteI miss camping so much. Jerry and I always tent camped since we couldn't afford a trailer of any kind, and that always included hiking and fishing. I used to take him with me to my cousins' farm near Newton as they had horses and he would ride with me, and we would set up a tent on their back land, too. He didn't know I was a horse girl when he first met me... should have seen his face when he realized I could completely put everything on the horse (saddle, bridle, etc.) to ride, and had to do his for him. 😆 But those kinds of things have been too hard for him to do for a very long time. I will camp by proxy through you guys lol so take loads of photos! Hugs and blessinsgs, dear Betsy!
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness! The photo of Izzy wearing the helmet is so cute. I think camping as you're planning to do would be wonderful, and so much fun. I like walking through cemeteries and reading headstones. So much history. Hugs.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun in the camping season is just around the corner for you guys! That sampler is gorgeous
ReplyDeleteOh, how wonderful that Dennis will be retiring soon! And your new grandbaby will be coming any day! Lots of fun and excitement in your near future, sweet friend! God is so good.
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