Richard's Blessing Day

December 6, 2008

We blessed cute baby Richard. For family blessings my mother makes blessing gowns/outfits and they are amazing. She has a great gift. I gave my mom a list of things I wanted on the blessing outfit. Richards blessing outfit looked like a little horse jocky. The blue booties he is wearing in the pictures are the same booties my father was blessed in. It was orignal and cute.
Afterwards we had ham and scalloped potatoes. Then we had a jam sesson of Guitar Hero. My mom got really into it. She was the band groupy. My Dad slept on the couch during the whole thing. I don't know how he could sleep with all that noise, he must have been REALLY tired. It was really fun. I love having so many great brothers and sisters and their spouses. The grandkids had fun in our dungeon of a basement. They don't care that it isn't finished and cold. They were just happy to be together.

The grass is always greener

Sometimes I wish I was a cat. I envy their daily 20 hours of sleep. Their simple way of life- eat- sleep- eat- sleep- run around crazy like then -eat -sleep -eat - sleep. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Then other days I think "how can you stand such a boring life?!"

We have 2 Persian cats. This is a picture of Luka, who is half the size of her son Charlie but has twice the you know whats. Actually Charlie is neutered and has no you know whats. When Luka was a kitten she had a skin mite problem. She lost her fur and was refered to as the "ugly one." We decided she needed a name so named her "Luke" because she looked liked she had leukemia. But then to our dismay we discovered that she was a "she" and not a "he." So we renamed her Luka. When I see pictures of her like the ones above, where she is fluffy and lazy, I just have to squeeze her. These are my babies that I had before my babies.