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Austyn's baseball photos...???? click here on the photos to go and see more...

Oh my goodness....

more things happening than I can shake a stick at. I starting spraying the big bad thistles yesterday and need to finish up spraying them. The garden needs hoeing, the yard needs sprayed and fertilized and mowed, the home needs cleaned up, the roadside needs mowed, and we have a house full of family coming on Sunday, so we need to make a trip to Grocery Store, and to Atwoods to get Chicken feed for the babies... and some things we need for the weekend, I need to shop for Ann (I guess, huh, since Sunday is for her.. haha... oh my guess I had better get busy!) Lots to do... I guess we have some extra help to get ready for Sunday... starting now... Heather and Paul are going fishing and camping out this weekend.... and we have the kiddos coming to stay. Ann just got a call to run to Andrew's school and pick him up because he got sick to his stomach... so I guess we are off to the races... I guess Madison and Andrew are staying with us till Sunday night.... Wow, how cool to be Grandparents!!! The very best things that happen in our lives happen because of our wonderful family. How richly blessed Ann and I are!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I know we will!

I promise Dad and Mom, I will drive safely. see... here I am practicing driving my new corvette you will get me when I am 16... my left foot is on

on the gas and my left hand is on the wheel and I am checking my rear view mirror... so can I have my vette soon????? ah... come on daddieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Isabella has just discovered e=mc2.... or something close to it... the bulb has went off...

Ok...now I am using my tongue... come on folks...

ok more like it... food is on the WAY

well maybe not quite fast enough.. where is my food... i think i am dying... but Grandpa, you said you would bring me food...

HOT DOG... food is on the way... hehe

you want to bring me some dinner .... or not???

who won??? hehe

Sign of the times....

My youngest son Jacob... Jake has a welding business. Moffat Welding LLC and he is working for Goober Drilling in Stillwater, OK. and is helping them repair a bunch of rigs as they change location. They will start building new rigs later in the late summer of early fall. He just filled up his truck with diesel and his welding machine and it cost 198.00 to do so, and this is his fuel bill for one week. Can you imagine that what it would be if he lived further than 2 miles to work? So of the other welders drive from OKC and other places daily to work... wow... and Jake's truck only goes to location and back, not one extra trip. This is up about 75.00 over where it was a year and half ago when he was in Woodward working with Billy Keys working for Bronco Drilling.

This is indeed a sign of the times... This Sunday we are all getting together to celebrate Mother's Day with Ann who was traveling last weekend... This might be our last time to do such as a family this summer ~ with the price of fuel being what it is... Doesn't take a nat's brain to figure out what these types of prices are doing to the family budget. Most folks are not taking vacations, or if they do, are taking them very close to home... less eating out, most restaurants are telling us this. Tires are out of site, oil changes have about doubled, car sales are lagging, and this is just the start...

but on a nice note... last evening Isabella came over for Ann and I to watch while Jake and Trisha helped Jake's team (He is a coach in little league in Perkins) have a game. We did not get to go to Stillwater and watch the grandson's like we had planned, but ... it was a nice trade off. She is such a sweet little girl... she is now starting to hold her head up and look around and pay attention to noises, etc. and lets you know when things are not quite right... haha...

have a great day.... s