happy birthday joe

Cutest cake ever!

It's been a lot of years of all of us together in this family, and you're definitely one of the good parts.

Happy Birthday, and all our love and good wishes in the year ahead.   Love, Val and Jay and Everybody

a fun place

Have a new listing coming up soon, a loft in this old building converted to condos.

This huge room has a view of the city from every side.

Love, Val

 

well october

October arrived warm and foggy.

After a surprisingly gloomy September, it is just fine.

We get what we get.

These guys were happy with the Halloween decorations, which is sweet.

And a happy little lunch was eaten.  Dani knows where to be during a meal.

Grandpa and his buddies.  When he started babysitting a year ago there were some chaotic days of baby stunts and Grandpa overwhelmed moments.

Not anymore.  The baby is a tiny bit less wild and they've all figured each other out.   At this point the baby tolerates me, but he really wants his Grandpa.

He takes such a nice snoozy nap cuddled up with Grandpa on that couch.

October?

We're ready for you.

Love, Val

who is eight?

 

Look at you!

And that doll with the purple braid sang!  I had no idea, and boy did she sing and sing.

Awwww.

You are just the greatest girl and we are so lucky you're ours.

Love you forever and always, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

happy birthday bennie

 It's been a fun year, getting to know you, spending time together at the lake too.

Hope it was a wonderful birthday and best wishes in the year ahead.

Love, Val, Jay, and Everybody

rainy evening

The light was so pretty before it turned dark tonight.

Last week I bought that bread machine at the second hand store and it didn't work. The spinning thing that stirs the bread dough wasn't working and then it just kind of smelled like burning.

Into the trash.

But today Bibles for Missions is open late and there was a bread machine for ten dollars!

The manual with recipes was found online and was even able to be printed out from my phone, and there's bread in there now, doing the bread thing.  The instructions were explicit: Do NOT open the lid.

Okay, not touching anything.

Love, Val

moving on

 This early darkness has me ready to move on from summer.

Fall decorations help.

Love, Val