Where Have I Been?

Wow! No post since January! Where have I been? Not sure, but I guess I've been pretty busy.

• Grandkid Birthdays: Grandkid birthdays are so much fun. Part of the reason is that someone else is doing all the planning and stuff...I just go and have fun with the grandkids and take pictures....and sometimes make a cake! Connor kicks off the grandkid birthday season in November, and Caleb follows in December. Then we skip January...January is the ONLY month we don't celebrate a birthday in our huge blended family of 20! Then Aidan's is in February...can't believe he and Caleb are 5, but then there are 4 grandkids younge and one more on the way, so I guess they have to be! So we went to Plano to celebrate with him at the Airplane Museum near Love Field.

• Tater turned 3 in March. We made mini cupcakes and took them up to Glenn and had lunch with his mommy. Then we celebrated his birthday last Saturday at the park. He had a Diego-themed party, and I made his cake, my first cupcake cake!

• Annaliese and Jordan both have birthdays in April. We'll go to Plano the weekend after Easter and celebrate Annaliese's 2nd birthday. Jordan will have his birthday party in May after his mommy gets through with school. THEN, it will be just about time for the BIRTH day of our newest grandchild...toward the end of May. YAY! I can't wait to meet him and hold him and spoil him right along with the rest of them! And now that Samm is here, we'll have her birthday to celebrate in September!

• Besides grandkids' birthdays, I've been doing quite a bit with the church. I'm still working on the completion of the church directory we started back last November...that's a l-o-n-g story. With the help of a ministry team, I have started a women's ministry called Blessings from the Heart. I don't mean "I" started it...as in created it...I mean I helped get it organized in our church. It is a wonderful ministry put out by Grace Products, and we have 12 ladies in the Sunday afternoon group (which I lead) and 20 ladies in the Thursday evening group. In addition to all of that, I am doing the publicity for our upcoming revival which starts the week after Easter.

• Last Saturday, after the birthday party, Caleb had his first T-ball game. What fun! That is a post all in itself!

• Saturday we are getting together with all the kids/grandkids for an Easter egg hunt at Bill & Carey's...hopefully I'll post a separate blog on that, too.

• I'll close out these bullets with this....Tater had his Easter egg hunt at MDO today. When I picked him up, and he got his Easter basket to show me, he picked out one of those big candy marshmallow-center eggs. "Look, Nana! It's a BIG jelly bean!"