Our little Skyler turned 6 months old yesterday!  He continues to make conquests everywhere he goes.  Carol, his babysitter is as smitten as the rest of us.  Michelle is working at Bed, Bath and Beyond, it may be only temporary, or it may turn into part-time work.  She's helping set up the new store - they are moving a mile down the road.  It's a bigger location, but still.  The expense of moving must be enormous!

I guess I'd better take a picture of him the next time he's here - on Sunday.

We now have unlimited text messaging on our five cell phones.  Not that my husband will ever use his.  My mil might use the picture option once we upgrade her phone - then Michelle can send her pictures of the boys via cellphone!  We (read I) did that when my current bill went up $50 in a month due to "data usage".  I did a little research and discovered that Ken, who had a 250 text plan, had used 750 texts, the additional costing $.10 each.  So I unblocked Michelle's texting and just went for it on all phones.  That was actually cheaper than adding it piecemeal.  I only text Ken and now Michelle.  If any of you have cell phones and would like to text me, just let me know!  LOL

I'm trying to catch up on life.  I spent the entire day yesterday scanning recipes for our next creative cooking meeting on Tuesday only to discover that I had used too high of a resolution so none of them would send through the email.  So I had to rescan them all (there were 9) - it went so much faster at a lower setting!  Live and learn.

It's snowing prettily outside.  I can say that since I'm inside with no plans to leave.  I need to clean today.  And reorganize.  My reed difuser spontaniously tipped on my dresser (it's been in the same place for over 6 months with no problems, when all of a sudden it tips over - I wasn't anywhere near it and neither was anyone else) so Ken and I had to sop it all up before it ruined the finish on my dresser.  I had a difficult time falling asleep last night due to the very strong smell.

I must pull myself away from here and DO SOME WORK!

Another wedding.  Those of you who were there can scroll through all the pictures in my photos.  I'll just post a few here.

It was one of the loveliest, well-thought-out, and meaningful weddings I've ever been to.  Ben is planning to be a preacher, so he was very atune to details.  He did a great job in planning the service.

And, amazingly, our group closed down the hall!  We were talking so much that I was totally shocked when I looked around and found - no one else was there!  LOL.  The old fogies outlasted all the young kids!

The cake.

The grooms parents (with the brides father in the background - I thought I edited him out, but aparently not) - Doesn't Sue look stunning?

Our gang.  Again, I lightened this.  Argg.  I wonder where those photos go?

The bride and groom.  Belamie.  Think Bradula.

This is better.

With our spouses.

I cried.  I think we all did.  We could all remember Ben as a baby and also his growing up years.  There's still a few more weddings with all the kids represented here!  Three of us are grandparents with four grandchildren between us.  The rest just have to catch up!

What a nice time was had by all.  God will surely shine upon their union.  May they be blessed with many long and happy years together!

This is our day of normalcy in between two weddings.  Yesterday my niece Ruth got married.  It was a lovely wedding and reception.  I just uploaded 2 videos which won't be of any interest to anyone except for junglewife, Ruth's sister, who wasn't able to attend since she and her husband are missionaries in Indonesia. 

Tomorrow we are attending the wedding of Ben, son of coolmom56.  Ben is one of Ken's oldest friends so he's looking forward to it too.

Mom and dad left this morning so they can get warm again.  She left her boots behind for Michelle, who is thrilled.

Some pictures, since I'm behind with that.

My birthday cake, courtesy of Michelle.

Isn't it neat?  She's so creative.  It was a double-decker, 2 sheet panas so it was huge!  We couldn't eat it all, although we tried.

Barney is watching Kaden's train wizz by.

I think mom and dad had a good time.  We enjoyed having them.   Good memories shared by all.

Mom's new boyfriend.  She was head-over-heals for Skyler!

Kaden is now vocal enough to trade barbs with great-grandpa.  They both enjoyed bantering back and forth about "Joe from Kokomo".  Kaden was still saying it today. along with how silly great-grandpa is.  Which is true.

I hope your second day of 2009 is going well!  I spent part of my Hobby Lobby gift cards on wrapping paper and half-off stamps!  That was very fun.

Oh yeah.  I also learned from my dr cousin that we are among the fortunate 1% who take statin drugs and who also need to take coenzime Q10 so that our hands don't keep going numb at night.  Apparently doctors should know about this problem but they don't think about that reaction because it's so uncommon.  Lucky us.  I've been suffering from numb hands at night for years.  Quitodoc happened to say something about losing sleep last night because of his not taking a vitamin becuase of a drug interaction, and so that's how I found out what it was.  It's been happening to me for so long that I forget about it during the day.  I think I thought there was nothing that could be done and that it was normal for me.  I am hoping this makes my sleep last longer!  It's all in the genes!