Monday, April 7, 2014

Just Life

First off I want to congratulate my oldest daughter Jessie for winning 2nd place at the chili cookoff we were at this weekend.











Yes, the student has now become the teacher. I only got 7th place with my chili and my beans only made 4th. Candy's chili got 13th and out of the group we were cooking with, only one other placed. It was a tough group we were cooking against but I think we made a great showing. 




Saturday night I took some of the family and met the rest of them at the yearly Crawl Fish Boil a guy we know has every year. About three thousand folks showed up and like always, the food was amazing. It took a while, but I did get full.












We had a huge storm blow through Thursday night that caused a lot of damage. We spent Friday afternoon fixing all that and then it rained all day Sunday. We sure needed the rain and it was a good one. A lot of runoff came from it and should fill the lake up at least 6" or so.

I have one more picture I want to show. This just came to me today from my middle daughter Hannah.

  This is the face of my grand baby, Rebecca. I cannot wait to pinch those little chubby cheeks. Only 1 1/2 more months to go.
This is truly amazing, I am blessed 

14 comments:

  1. Grandparenting is it's own kind of wonderful! Hugs to all!!

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    1. Thanks horsenmule, I am really wanting to see how I handle it.

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  2. MDR,

    Cute!!! Now you're going to have to figure out what you want to be called by the little one. Grandpa, Grand Dad, there are just all kinds of names you can come up with.

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    1. Thanks Sandy, I came up with GPOP, short for Grand Pop.

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  3. Adorable :)

    NOTHING beats grandparenthood!

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  4. Wow! The ultrasound picture is amazing! I remember mine people were like what am I looking at an alien, lol!!!!
    Rebecca is already adorable. You are going to be a wonderful Gpop :)
    Congratulations to Jessie! Look out she's headed to first place next time!!!!

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  5. buddy - a big giant congratulations to Jessie, and to all of you! you always make these chili cook-offs sound so much fun - i really want to go to one! i am glad that you got the rain since you need it. let me know if you need more and i'll mail you some of this &^%$$# snow!!! as for being a grandfather - just look at how you raised those gorgeous girls! you are gonna be one rockin' GPOP! i'm already jealous of baby Rebecca! hey could you grandfatherly adopt me and jam? bahahahahah! much love to all of you!

    your friend,
    kymber

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    1. Thanks Kymber,
      In the past few days we have got about 2 1/2" of rain. Much needed but we still need more.
      I plan to spoil that little girl, then send her home. Hannah is going to hate me when this is all done.

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  6. Congrats to all and God speed.

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