Christmas Day 2010

Christmas Day at our house! wonderful.........

Christmas Eve 2010

After we all attend our Christmas Eve Church services, we gather at Nick and Betsy's home for the annual Family Christmas Eve Party....We enjoy goodies baked by Betsy play a game (this year was Christmas Pictionary) and we have our white elephant DVD exchange. Nick and Betsy's family all agree we LOVE our little tradition.

JESUS CHRIST is born

Luke 2:11

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you,

he is

CHRIST THE LORD

The Dunlap Family Christmas Quilt

I had made the kids all new stockings a couple of years ago, so all 7 of them have matching stockings! I had enough fabric left over to make a quilt for them, I quilted in all of their names and other words for them to find while snuggled in the quilt. I LOVE YOU, Kevin, Codi, Kaden, Kylor, Kendall, Kyson and Kelson~ It makes me so happy to see all of you under the quilt.....

Secret Garden Christmas Party

This group of friends really know how to treat ourselves to a great Christmas Party.... We bring gifts and then steal them from each other...making for some really funny pictures...I love these ladies!~ my gift this year were the pots with succulents, I painted chalkboard paint on the rims and then wrote their names, made for terrific place cards on the table. Merry Christmas, Ann, Sue, Sue, Cathy, Helen,Liz, Elsie and Carole, can't wait for next year!

Old Tucson 2010

We were invited to Old Tucson for an event for a Company starting in Tucson, AZ....it had been years since either one of us had been there. We had a great time wandering around and enjoying the beautiful day.

What will this become?

We were running around town today doing our "to do list" and saw this wonderful sign

FOR FREE

some really great wood from broken pallets,

we stopped and picked through the pile

we "scored" some great "messed-up" wood....

Mike is in the shop right now

creating

can't wait to see what he makes from this "throw-away" wood....

Cookie Baking Season

Let the FUN begin.....

Christmas in progress

We are making lots of our gifts this year

Pecan Fire Wood

We needed firewood,

we took off after church a few weeks ago and

went down to Sahuarita to the Pecan Farms.

we loaded up the truck .

We have been enjoying the fruits of our Labor

the past few days with the temps in the 20's

From Lucious Lawn to Maintenance Free Rock!

Prepared for rock

3 tons of Rock

delivered to the front and had to be moved to the back!

Done, looks nice and we are excited to not have the water bill and mowing to take care of.

Sahuaro High School Class of 1970 REUNION TIME

Mike and I

The 90 or so of us who attended the Reunion
out of a little over 500 who graduated

Those of us who also attended Lizzy Brown Elementary together
l-r
David Ashcraft, Steve Owens,Mark Machen
?, Myself and Sherrie Hessick Standish

40th High School Reunion

Senior Picture

Over 500 graduates from the First Class of Sahuaro High School

The Baum family...
Fred, Clayton, myself, Margaret, Jimmy

Colorado Springs with The Smith's

Great Friends

Beautiful Sites

Food, Football, Shopping

All in 48 hours!

Now this was a BLESSING...

thank you, Dave and LouAnne

Nick and Katie, not so long ago?

going through some old pictures last weekend,

found this precious one of

Nick and Katie

taking a nap on their Dad's chair

both Sucking their thumbs.

Not so very long ago (in my memory)

how cute and sweet.

Memories are often BLESSINGS!

Birthday Celebration

I had such a wonderful Day on Saturday Sept. 4th

My Birthday

58 years old ( oh my goodness)

I received a wonderful call from the Grandkids singing Happy Birthday to me

lovely cards and some really awesome gifts.

I am so blessed with family and friends!

Mike took the day and drove me around to the Quilt Stores

where I received discounts because it was my birthday.

we met up with Katie and she went with us to Sahuarita and two Quilt Stores down there.

I enjoyed the ride and the day.

They took me out to dinner to

Maynard's

in downtown Tucson!

such a treat.

THANK YOU

How to start a new Wool project

Take a beautiful stack of dyed wool

and an adorable bunny pattern

designed by my friend

Cathy Skow

put them all together

and

start stitching!

I will need to go to The West to get some more

Perle Cotton ..

fun fun fun

Today we celebrate Katie's 28th Birthday

Mommy and Katie
Happy Baby Katie!

Big brothers

Kevin and Nicholas

Katie loved her thumb!

17th Birthday Tea

Amy and Megan and Katie

Hoss and Katie

celebrate Katie's 17th

Happy "Gotcha Day", Kevin Michael

33 years ago

today

We welcomed Kevin to our family.

We are Thankful to our Lord for the blessing of being Kevin's Parents.

HAPPY "Gotcha Day"!

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, NICHOLAS ANTHONY

"Big Brother" Kevin holding his baby brother

Papa Baum Holding his Grandson

Aunt Becky holding baby Nicholas

Happy Happy 30th Birthday to Nick!

You have brought great joy to our family!