TOOF-LESS

Hello. Hope all are doing well. This has been a very busy for us all. Between family get togethers...work....school and road travel.....this week has flown by. Carolina lost a front tooth Thanksgiving. It was way past due to come out.

This photo is from our get together last year at Christmas. Carolina, Ivan (blue shirt), Andrew (green) and my sister Carol.

IT'S LATE......

It's late right now......I should be in the bed.....but for some reason now is a good time to BLOG. Pretty much my days have consisted of working on a house off of South 6th Street here in Gadsden. Today I pretty much finished up my work. I'm really surprised at how nice the duplex turned out. Hopefully the new tenants will feel the same.....but regardless.....it's done and how sweet it is to say it so. Now I look forward to a few days of spending time with my wife and our favorite little girl in the whole wide world. I know that I have lots of work to do around the house, but right now that's on the back-burner.


So what's going on with us? We're hoping that Peppers (our chihuahua) is pregnant and on her way to a litter of puppies. Time will tell. She's only about 4 months old here in this picture. She's now just over a year old. The father (of the soon to be born puppies) belongs to Denise's sister Vicki. She lives in Huntsville. JR (the father) is a Yorkie. These should be really cute puppies. F.Y.I......we no longer have those pillows in the background of this photo. They were systematically disassembled by Peppers over the last year. There were 3 originally.....now we only have 1......which she sleeps on. I remember her being so little that we would have to help her up onto the couch or the day bed.....now she jumps like a little rabbit.


What else? I'm preparing to take the Alabama Home Builder's exam here in the next 2 months. Hopefully soon I'll be a licensed Contractor.


Here's a side thought. I'm really thankful for photo's. You just don't realize how much people change until you see a photo of them from years ago. Carolina for example....... this photo was from about 4 years ago. To see this amazes me......she's grown so much. I remember her being this little......but it's still unbelievable. I'm certain you understand what I mean.
Her most recent school picture. How amazing is that!?!? Time really does go by so fast. Hopefully I'll stop and think about 'it' more often.....look at people....pay attention to details......before they are thoughts and memories. I guess it boils down (for me) to being thankful for what I have and those who are in my life. With all the stuff going on in my life....it's easy for me to just let the days go by. Once they're gone......just gone. Something to really be thankful for this Thanksgiving. -JGR

NOVEMBER

Greetings! So what's new in our lives? Thanksgiving break! HORRRAY! A well needed break. We're all doing well. I've been so busy.....that my BLOG was neglected the whole month of October....and so far this month. Most of my hindrances involved my internet not working. And when it did work......I never knew when it was going to cut off. Kind of like playing roulette.....it was a risk to get involved in something over the net....not knowing whether it would be completed or not. I will give Bellsouth/AT&T credit......they stuck it out and seemingly have fixed the problem. We're all glad here my house to have a working connection to the 'net'.

Carolina just got her school pictures back this week. I hope to have one up in the next couple of days. They turned out really nice. Of course...I am partial to the girl.

Denise had her class draw book covers for a contest that the Gadsden Public Library had a few weeks ago. As it turned out......they were the only ones who entered the contest. So, everyone was recognized in the classroom and given a certificate and a prize. They were so happy. I took pictures of the children...I'll try to have that here in the next few days as well.

As far as I go......I've been focusing my time on finishing up a couple of projects I have had going for the Beck's. I'll be so glad when they are done. Denise and I are trying to get our house in order. I've done some minor remodeling and our house is pretty cluttered. I'm planning to build a storage building behind my house. That will free up a bunch of room and unclutter our living quarters. I hope to do this over the next 2 weeks.

I'm looking forward to catching up on 'things' around the house this next week. I hope all goes as planned.

By the way....yesterday was Denise's birthday. I got her an electric guitar. I'll put some pics of it up. It was a shell of a guitar when I bought it......I purchased replacement parts from Stewart-MacDonald. It rebuild nicely. I changed the pick guard and knobs to pearl. Very nice. She really liked it. She's been learning to play the guitar for a while now. I'm proud of her playing and her progress. She's a natural.

INDIAN PRINCESS

Fitting......at a time between Halloween and Thanksgiving.....to introduce to you our resident Indian Princess......Carolina....(A.K.A. Pocahontas). She had a wonderful time this year 'raking' in the candy.