She doesn’t read the blog, so I’m allowed to say that Obachan is 92 years old today!  (If she read it, I’d have to shave a few years off her age.) We celebrated a little early last night, with eight of her twelve great-grandchildren with her. We also got a picture of her, myself, and […]

For the last week, while Grandma and Gichan have been enjoying their turn with the Major and Q-Bee in Hawaii, we have been dog-sitting.  It’s been enlightening, to say the least. When Talli first came into our lives, in April of 2014, she was about 5 or 6 months old – a fairly large puppy. […]

After celebrating his actual birthday on Friday, with one present from Mom and Dad… … and getting to go out to dinner with Grandma and Gichan all by himself, we drove down to Nana and Papa’s house for the Jubilee parade (otherwise known as “collect ALL the candy!”) and another birthday present. He got another […]

Yesterday was Baby Cousin’s first birthday!  And Ressis made sure she had a cake all to herself. It took a little convincing for her to try the cake (though she had no problem sticking her hands in it), but once she tasted it… … it was all over for that pretty cake! Happy first birthday, […]