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A Boat Proposal
The years just seem to speed by quicker than ever and here we are in 2019. January has flown by and we are up to our necks in wedding plans because our daughter is getting married! Just a few years ago… And now… My future son-in-law Austin, planned a most fun and romantic proposal. Here’s how it went. Russell, Serenity and I dropped Austin at the airport. He was supposedly flying out. Instead of doing that, his mom and grandparents on his dad’s side flew in. Russell was supposedly taking Serenity and me on a weekend getaway. We had a nice day shopping in Phoenix and then headed for our…
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7 Tips for Taking Your Grandchildren on an Outing
My husband, being the awesome grandpa and uncle that he is, decided we should take our 2 grandchildren and some of their cousins on an outing. We live near Out of Africa, a very well-known but privately owned wildlife park, and that’s where we decided to take all the little munchkins. Shalom was so excited! Unfortunately, Hudson was ill and unable to come. They may look oh, so quiet but I can reassure you THEY WERE NOT!! It was a very noisy but fun ride to our destination! Shalom and her cousin were quite happy to be together. Here we come to my first tip. Tip…
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Putting Our Vehicles Through All Kinds of Tests
Finally we reached a decision on what outing we wanted to do with some young people that were staying at our place. We had headed out the door, leaving behind our 4WD Open-top Blazer that is sitting in a sad state since it is not working properly at the moment. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with it but it’s something rather serious like the steering wheel shaft is broken. Yeah, not so good. So off we go in 2 trucks. Less than 2 miles from our house, Seth’s ball joint on the axle broke. The whole axle fell – plop! – right in the middle of the road. …
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The Day I Met the Police
We had a perfectly good freeway intersection where we could enter and exit with ease. Back a few years ago they decided it needed reworked. No one can figure out why. It’s quite confusing and it doesn’t even make sense. Money wasted. Case in point about how confusing it can be to us locals… I was headed to the town adjacent to the freeway junction and came to the sign that said Phoenix straight ahead or Flagstaff to the right. The little town I wanted is not on the sign and not thinking, I took the Phoenix route. It was a wrong decision. Flagstaff was the road that would…
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A Baby Born
Happy New Year! 2018 started off pretty special for us because we had another little granddaughter born! Tirza LeAnne was born on Wednesday, January 3 of this new year 2018 Tirza(pronounced “tear-zuh”) means “she is my delight and LeAnne means “princess”. Such a precious beautiful little thing with a fair bit of hair already which is a change after having two that didn’t have much. 8lbs 1oz and 20.5″ long The miracle of life. And Grammy is delighted with this princess.
