Fun at Grandma and Grandpa's House!

We are pleased to announce......

Anne and Pat. Guess who is not ready for the day?
Bethany, Nicole, and Tiffany making chocolate chip cookies--fun times and yummy smells

Can OSHA Babe still pass as "one of the girls"?

(your YES, DEFINITELY comments are appreciated)

The old sidewalk

Making "curbs" for the new sidewalk
My amazing contractor and the finished sidewalk

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For the Week Ending October 14, 2007

We are pleased to announce-Peanut! That's him/her riding in the little cart with Norman, Lupe, and Pickles. We have had these little figurines representing our grand-cat and grand-dogs out on the counter for all to admire since we moved into our apt. here in San Antonio. When Buck and Katy told us she was pregnant and showed us the ultrasound picture, the baby was just a little "peanut" shape, so Grandma Babe happily introduced Peanut to the fun to be had at Grandma's house. We are thrilled and proud for them and quite excited for ourselves and the other happy grandparents to be, Bill and Dale. The baby is due about May 1.

2. Nothing else seems quite as blog-worthy but we will try to stay focused and share recent progress. The main project accomplished this past week was a new sidewalk leading up to the house. I have an amazing contractor who came up with the idea to use some of the many old bricks under the shed in back to re-do our front walk. That's him with the broom and standing proudly by the finished walk. The folks who did our foundation work came back to make us a curb on each side of the existing walk and Bo brought in two loads of sand in the back of the pick up truck to fill in. He then placed the bricks in a well thought out design to show off the varying colors and brands. We are most proud of the two D'Hanis bricks from the factory near Uncle Joe in Sabinal. The finished sidewalk now looks like it has always been there which is what we were trying to achieve.

3. Our guests this week included long time friend Anne, back to check on the progress we have made since her last visit six months ago. She was graciously encouraging. We were also thrilled that Bethany, our young college friend from California, wanted to come for the weekend from Abilene with a couple of friends. Her folks, Steve and Sharon, had come down to visit us after getting her settled in August. We hope Bethany will consider this her Texas home away from home while she is in school. She and her friends, Tiffany and Nicole, blessed this old house by singing and laughing, baking cookies, and making the house smell good with all those girly girl smells of shampoo and hairspray. Tiffany is a ranch girl from Dalhart, Texas and it was fun to hear about her barrel racing, pig raising, horse breeding life on the ranch. Nicole and Bethany got to visit her family there a few weeks ago. I would have loved to watch the two California girls on their "snipe hunt"! Here in San Antonio we introduced them to breakfast tacos and the Riverwalk. I think they were more interested in shopping than the Alamo but we had a good time. Come back any time, girls. We loved having you.

NEXT STEPS:

1. Andy and Bethany are coming from Michigan! YAY! We hope to have the painting downstairs done and the floors finished so we can move furniture into those downstairs rooms. Bo has several father-son projects planned. Bethany and I will find ways to stay busy I'm sure-first stop is Shop Ole' where Katy and Rachel are setting up a Bless Your Heart booth for the Junior League show.

2. We need a new finish carpenter. Several projects are still on hold.

3. A door man is coming. Maybe we won't always have to use a crow bar to get in and out the front door.