Thirteen years ago today, Jeremy was born on his Aunt Teresa's birthday! Wow! It was like we all got a special present for her birthday and it's one that keeps on giving.
Here is Jeremy, pictorially, through the years.
That was Jeremy pictorially through the years and here are a few other things that are interesting about Jeremy. He loves his sisters.
Both of them. He loves his family - all of them.
Including his niece and newphews.
And his cousins - He loves to fish. Play games.
And play baseball.
He also loves animals.
Is a good student!
And is in the school marching band. In addition to all that, and most importantly, he's one of the best kids you could ever meet. He's kind and loving, hard working, honest and just an all around awesome person.
Jeremy, we couldn't be prouder of you. We hope your birthday has been absolutely awesome and that your whole year follows suit!
Last week, Amy and her husband, Tracy, went camping on a lake near Coldwater, Michigan. Harry and I visited them Friday evening and then the next day drove on to the Detroit area to have lunch with our granddaughter, Amber, for her 22nd birthday.
Anyway, I'm really here to talk about our fishing trip. We had barely started fishing when I started the evening catching this nice rock bass:
Then Harry caught this nice large mouth bass. He was probably feeling pretty pleased with himself until........
I caught my BIG OL' PIG:
Then I caught this nice large mouth.
And Amy and I caught these two at the same time:
Amy caught one next:
Then I caught another nice little rock bass. I thought it was appropriate that I started and ended my night with two rock basses .... but wait..............
One more large mouth for me!
Here I am with a catch I made many years ago:
So you can see I had an amazingly successful night. It's only right though because all I caught last year was pictures of everybody elses fish!
I've missed my blogsites and I worry about what I haven't recorded in my blog/journal and that I will forget some important (to me) details.
Friday, in the early afternoon, my two brothers came over and we spent a good deal of time going through the picture albums that I have created for them and that they didn't even know about. When I take or receive through email or find in old albums, pictures of people, I try to file them in an album for each person in chronological order. If the picture has two or more people in it, I copy it with the names of each person at the beginning of the label. For example a picture that I took on August 7th at 6:23 p.m. with my brother Steve, me and my brother Andy in it would be labeled like so: Steve 20090807 1823 Nikon 2101 Steve Mary Andy. And there would be one for each of us with the prefix changing by first name.
But I digress. This weekend the reason my baby brother Andy was in town was because his only child, Andrew, got married. I only wish my sister would have been able to make it over for this picture. It's a rare day when we get a picture of the four of us together.
Saturday, my oldest daughter Lori and her family came to town, we went to the wedding, and the reception in the evening.
We stopped at the casino for an hour after the reception so that our son-in-law could parlay his $50 birthday gift into $200 (how awesome) and we all got to bed late.
Sunday we went to lunch at a local restaurant to celebrate our son-in-law's birthday and spend some time with the kids before they headed out of town.
After they left, Mr. Right and I packed up and headed to Michigan to have dinner with our second daughter at what she calls (and I tend to agree) the Best Mexican Restaurant in the world.
We actually got to eat in one of the "rooms of our own" at the top of the stairs.
We spent the night in Michigan, then headed to the lakeside campsite where our daughter and son-in-law were staying. It was too windy to go fishing early so we went to the county fair where I collected some action shots for Beth's You Capture this week.
Since the wind had quieted in the evening, we fished until after nine o'clock where everybody caught a fish except me (but I really caught them all with my Nikon D40X lol)
My daughter and son-in-law caught lots of fish but Mr. Right only caught one so I hate that I only got blurry pictures of his. I wasn't jealous. HONEST!!!
Anyway, Mr. Right and I headed for home at almost 9:30 p.m. It was a solid two hour drive and we finally got home (after picking up Taco Bell for dinner) at 11:30. Whew!
Today, I'm going to try to get back on track with posting, walking, and daily routines that I'm trying to establish for my retirement.
My passions include my family and taking and organizing pictures of them and everything else I think is picture-worthy. I have been married for 50 years to my best friend and with six of the world's best children, 21 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren, I've been blessed beyond measure. I'm fairly active, recently retired, trying to learn to golf, and hope to remain active enough and busy enough to make these sunset years some of the best years of my life.
He loves his family - all of them.
He loves to fish.
Play games.
