Happy New Year 2007

From all of us to all of you Happy New Year 2007!

Special Christmas Gift

A couple of years ago, Bethany discovered one of Jan's cross stitch projects. Without Jan's knowledge she decided to complete it for her. Bethany finished it around Thanksgiving. She had it framed and gave it to Jan for Christmas. The next time you come to visit be sure to check it out. It's one of those pieces of art that never ceases to amaze me. I couldn't complete it in a lifetime. We have it hanging in the front room. Thanks Bethany, it's beautiful.

Santa Made It!

Merry Christmas everyone!

HB Julie

Happy Birthday Julie! Hope you don't have to work all day and get a chance to celebrate. Sorry we won't see you today at the Darby Christmas Party.

Hope to see you soon,
Inlaw4 and Outlaw4

Merry Christmas to the Deckers

Merry Christmas to Ken, Debbie, Ryan, Sarah, Judy, Jim, and of course Matt and Bethany.
Go Cubs!!

Happy Belated Birthday Damon

Hope you had a great birthday! Let's see now, are you eight or nine?

Wisconsin & Minnesota Links

Early Dec. 15th & 16th of 2006

Christmas celebration on the Wolf River.

Merry Christmas

to the rest of the clan.

Outlaw 2 and Inlaw 2 will see most of you at the King and Queen's soon.

Inlaw 2's Bcard from Inlaw 4

What Outlaw 2 and Outlaw 4 have to put up with. We're two outlaws that should be nominated for Sainthood.

Sisters

What is really scary is that the future is no longer the future. The FUTURE is NOW!

Another Birthday?

Happy Birthday Inlaw2.

Thought you might be interested to know that you have the same birth date as Ludwig Von Beethoven, Margaret Mead, Jane Austin, England, novelist (Pride and Prejudice), and William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears).

Also,
1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet" in a special preview on "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". The show began officially on January 3, 1952.

1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.

The origin of your first name is Spanish and means "pretty one".

Happy Birthday!! See you in about a week.

Preparing one of our "passengers" for the trip home.

Here is one of the hundreds of deer we did see. It is also one of the 10 we brought back with us.

Some beautiful country in South Dakota. There are no deer in this picture (at least none you can see).

Happy Birthday Outlaw 2

Hope you have a great B-day Outlaw2.

Here are some helpful tips for all of us over 50.

Never attempt bending down, except under strict medical supervision.

Keep a diary – it will be a great source of comfort and a handy reminder of what you did yesterday.

Buy a computer, digital camera and a MP3 player. Although you’re incapable of understanding how to use them at least you’ll appear trendy.

Take the strain off your tired old memory by labelling all household objects – bed, fridge, television etc.

Happy Birthday and we'll see you in a couple weeks.

Home from Hawaii

A few pics from Jack and Kay's recent trip to Honolulu and Molokai...

ENJOY!!!!

Sunset in Honolulu the night they arrived

Missouri/Arizona Memorial in Honolulu

About to get on the plane to head to Molokai...she looks native, almost!!

Overlooking the LEPER colony!!

The house in Molokai they stayed in...

The beach leading up to the house...

We'll be seeing you all soon at the Darby Christmas! We're all looking forward to it!!

Happy snow day!!

-Melissa-

Welcome to December

For the first snowfall of the winter Mother Nature didn't mess around. Inlaw4 had the day off as well as most of the office workers at Greenlee.

Happy Birthday

In case you forgot, today is I3's birthday. Happy Birthday!!

Shopping Divas

Inlaw4 and Lisa went shopping this morning (Friday after Thanksgiving). They went to experience the uniqueness of shopping TDAT. Hope they find what they're looking for. The latest update I have (8:55 AM) is that the lines at Kohls wrap around the store. Yikes!!

Thanksgiving Day

We spent Thanksgiving day at King and Queens. Bethany, Matt and Lisa joined us. As always the Thanksgiving meal was great! Grandpa won both hands of TIC. We didn't watch much football, any updates? Outlaw 2, any luck with deer hunting yet? Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Thanks Inlaw3

Well, as you probably already know, we joined the Saturn clan a couple of weeks ago. Granted we bought King and Queens Saturn in June but I haven't seen that thing for months!! This one is for us. It's a L300 with leather interior and 6 cylinder engine. It's really fun to drive. Inlaw4 drove it to work this week (instead of the van) and I filled it with gas on Saturday morning. Holy cow the bill was $10.50. We'll drive it a couple weeks and check the mileage. CONGRATULATIONS INLAW 3 for tying for first place in Saturns "Walk About Competition". As I understand it, the contestants participated in role playing scenarios explaining / selling / educating prospective customers on Saturn's Aura. Apparently my cell phone connection started to break up while discussing the financial rewards of his victory so I don't have much to disclose on that subject. Again, Congratulations!!!

Louisville

I spent the week in Louisville, KY. and had a chance to visit downtown.

Cary UMC

Last weekend Inlaw4 and I went to her boss's son's wedding in Chicago. The ceremony was held at the Black Orchid near Second City Comedy Club. We stayed over night in Schamburg and the next morning went to Cary UMC. As you can see it is a beautiful church. If you get the chance to attend one of their services take it. We enjoyed it very much. After the service we went to Cheese Burgers in Paradise for lunch where Matt and I were able to occasionally watch the Bears trounce the 49ers. Hope to hear from everyone. Let me know if you need some help posting to the blog.

Melissa's Baby Shower

Jan's pictures of Melissa's baby shower can be seen by clicking on davepics link.

Horicon Marsh / Beaver Dam

Despite the weather, Outlaw4 and Inlaw4 went to Beaver Dam for a photography class taught by Dave Edward of the WI DNR. It rained all day but we drove through Horicon Marsh and took a few photos anyway. Better luck next time!

Lisa visit at U of I

Inlaw4 and I went to Champaign on Friday and spent the night at the Hampton. We had a snack on Friday night with Lisa and caught up with her again on Saturday. We toured the campus which is something we haven't done since her freshman year. It was supposed to rain but the weather turned out to be great. U of I played MSU in MI. THEY WON! It was the first time they've won at MSU in 17 years. Here are a couple pictures of the campus and there are more on Shutterfly (follow the link).

Summer Flowers 2006

This year was a little different from past years. Usually we have our plants in by early June. We didn't get everything planted because the roof was replaced and then the tree was removed. But, as you can see, Jan did a great job with them again.