Merry Christmas to all!

Wishing all our family and friends
a blessed and happy holiday season and coming year!

This was a year of crazy change for us ...

The condensed version:

• We're empty nesters ...
• We love spending time with our kids and grandkids ...
• We moved our "baby" to school in Boston ...
• Our third grandchild was born ...
• We all traveled to Ohio for an awesome Guyer reunion ...
• We're workin hard to fix up our empty nest...
• Sandy enjoyed traveling (3 trips to Boston & 4 to Cincinnati) to see her kids!
• Tim keeps working hard at Boeing ...

We are truely blessed! 

So thankful for each of you and the grace of God in our lives!

Blessed Holidays!

(To know more about anything just read on
or click on any links
or click on Lots of Pics!)

What a great November!

Our third grandbaby, Emsley Aven McInturff,
was born on November 11th  at 12:57 am.
She was 7 lbs 4 oz and  19 " long!

Great job Clay and Rachel!

It is just such a joy to be grandparents ... nothing like it!

We were so thrilled to have Adah come spend two nights with us

while her parents were busy having her baby sister :)

She was such a pleasure to have around! 

She had so much fun playing with all the "old" toys saved from by-gone years

and watching Veggie Tales on the big TV! 

Adah turned 2 on November 19th! 

Rachel and Clay were amazing to have a special birthday party for her

just 8 days after baby sister Emsley was born!

Her four grandparents loved celebrating with her! 

I had just enough time to squeeze in a trip to Ohio, 11/16-18,  

to see James perform in his first mainstage show at school! 

I flew into Indianapolis where my sister Lisa picked me up. 

We had an awesome drive together to Cincinnati, ate at The Outback,

where brother Steve works on Tuesday evening. Then we visited with our special

sister-in-law, Christine, and Steve before meeting James at his house!

Mom and Dad met us in Cinci the next day... 

we had dinner together and I got to see my three adorable nephews ... 

then all went to see Evita at CCM! 

Wow, what a treat!  It was just an awesome production!

I was just so happy to be able to go see my boy AND lots of my family, too!

Thanksgiving was pretty quiet this year. 

We had a great time celebrating with Jonah, Deb and Owen!

We decided that whatever the year brings,

as far as who can get together, it is very special and we are truely blessed!

Our "Little Pumpkin" Owen before bedtime!

We're so thankful for all our blessings! 

pics!

Fixin' up the empty nest!

After 27+ years of kids in our house we find ourselves home alone!  

During those busy years we couldn't imagine this time ever coming ...
but to be honest we are thoroughly enjoying it! 
We love and miss all our kids, mind you, but it's time! 

Time to have quiet...time to get things in order...time to fix things up...
time to have time together :)

So since August we've had a new roof put on ... with a lifetime warrenty!

Had ceiling repaired that the old leaky roof ruined...

Painted ceilings, walls and cleaned out all the kitchen cupboards

to make room for the new dishes Tim gave me for my birthday!

Cleaned and re-decorated Beka's room...

Now we are in the process of painting the outside of the house - ourselves! 

It's actually fun ... covering the peach & teal with beautiful shades of brown!

We reward ourselves by enjoying many special evenings
 with yummy simple meals like this!

 

Almost feels like a second honeymoon ...
 32+ years later and a bit more tired :)
More pics of all our labors.