Ryan's Birthday

Ryan celebrating his 6th birthday. Kind of a football theme since we were waiting for the Colts and Titans game to see if the Titans go to the playoffs.
It just happens that Ryan got a Titans helmet and uniform along with other gifts. I think Nate and Jenny are going to sign him up for football this year so we need to start knocking him down to get him in shape. Ahh.... I'm not sure what Nadalie is trying to do , but we're just glad she's such a young girl.

Happy Birthday Ryan.

Christmas

Sorry this is late . but I was having some computer problems. Other than that all went well. The pictures are of some of the controlled frenzy when the gifts are handed out.
Not too sure what pissed Barry off in this one , but someone must have said the wrong thing.

Everybody tries to find a corner so that they don't get their gifts mixed up with others.

First you open as many presents as you can and then you go back through to see what you got.

Of course some have some assembly required.

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year.

ITSA Live

We finally got Barry's bike together and running. You can believe me when I say that he couldn't wait to take it for a spin. So we went to Troy's for a little trial run. It had been raining earlier in the week so the woods where nice and slick to ride in.
After trying the TY out on some of the flatter stuff we determined that all was well and would move on to bigger and better things.

That's when we found this bank. Not much you say ? This bank is probably a 30 degree bank with wet tree roots handing out of it. If you miss the turn on the right is a sink hole to catch you. In this picture Barry is about to have a sit down because his back tire is on a slick root and so is his front tire.

In this picture Peewee has his front tire in perfect position below the root to get turned up the bank. We spent about 2 hours trying to make this corner. Peewee went back to the house twice to get more beer. The combined group only made the corner 4 times without dabbing or falling. That's about 50 or 60 tries. We laughed at each other like little school girls the whole time. How much fun is that? ITSA ball.

More Birthdays

OK , we got Birthdays coming out of our ears this month. First it was Patsy and then on the 9th it's Brooklyn. Shown below with a few gifts . A trip to Chuck-E-Cheese was also part of the festivities. This is her 4th Birthday , but seems like her 17th.
Then tomorrow is Nate's Birthday. He will be 29. We had a small party for him last weekend at his house. Shown here with the cake that Jenny made for him. I know the cake is a little flat chested , but that was planned.

Happy Birthday Brooklyn and Nate.

Half a century

Thats right , Miss Patsy turned 50 Tuesday. A half century , look at the joy in her face!
All the Kids and grandkids came over for the big event. Jenny baked the cake that had Black homemade frosting on it that was to die for. It was good , but made your teeth and tongue blue. Nate thought he would have to take her to the hospital from patting herself on the back.

Now , you put 5 grandkids in a small house someone is going to get in trouble.

Guess who ? Nothing major and she got over it pretty fast.

Here is Nanna ( as she likes to be called ) with all the Girls.
L to R Brooklyn, Cassie, Natalie and Erin. Happy Birthday Gramma.