a sweet picture and a photo bomb

So sweet.

Not all that sweet:

It was a great weekend.  love you all, MOM aka GRANDMA

a few quick pictures from the weekend

 Here they are, with all of us, waiting for our food at the chinese take-out place.

"It will be 30 minutes. We have to make more rice."

Okay.

Well, all those containers of plain white rice went in the wastebasket today as we were packing the coolers to leave the lake.

Nevermind.

It was a great weekend at the lake, lots of laughing and food, one-card poker and nonsense.

Perfect.

Onward.  With love forever, Val, aka Grandma, aka MOM

instagram week

love, Val

friends in may

 This girl and her mom came to stay for a long weekend.

Ahhh, friends, and family.  And summer.

So glad your'e here.  love, Val

memorial day 1985

 Back in the day, on Memorial Day weekend, my mom's parents and sisters would all rent cabins at the lake where we have our cabin now.

We'd take up a whole resort for four or five days and have fun fishing and swimming.

It was film cameras back then so I have only a handful of photos from all those Memorial Days.

  Often it rained and the kids were bored and we had no Ipads to pass the time.  We had no portable VCR movies to entertain them. (That's the downside of the good old days.)

 My cute cousins, Tammy holding Heidi.

Onward, the summer of 2015 is before us.

love you all, Val

a few pictures for fun

 I came across these on Facebook yesterday, had never seen them before.

And these ones on Instagram made me laugh.

And that brings us to the end of a pretty fine Saturday night.

Onward.

love you all so,  MOM

two weeks old

 Here she is, in a very pretty picture Heidi took, perfect little lips, perfect little toes.

Here's Heidi making the most of her maternity leave, sacked out in the recliner in the living room, p.j. off playing Barbies with Julia, far enough away so we don't have to overhear their arguing.

 Here's my girl hugging her baby sister.   I teased her today as I kissed her cheeks, "You have not come to my house and watched George or warmed up my back for WEEKS now.  We used to do that every DAY."  She laughed, told me she loved me.

These are the Little and Scrunched pictures.

It's easy to get those of a newborn.  I admire photographers who get them to sleep and then pose them and take fancy pictures that capture their perfect miniature toes and eyelashes.

Newborns are hard to get good pictures of.   This little girl is so completely delectable, but here she looks just little and scrunched.

 Awww.

Sweetness everywhere.

This little baby sister is such a little morsel.

And her cousin babies born this winter are turning into PEOPLE already.

This spring is once in a lifetime.

love all you crazy little tiny girls, Grandma