11/12/16.. We celebrated Thanksgiving today. What a wonderful day with my wonderful family and friends Charlie and Sue

Vikki, Peyton, Isaac and Rody

Isaac and Peyton picking the dominos up nicely for me

Peyton joyfully went to pick ups these dominos for me, than Isaac came over and helped

Panorama of us all after praying and thanking God for our food

Max, Isaac, Peyton, Hailey, Jacob, Jack, Eli, and Evan

Peyton, Evan, Adam, Hailey, Jacob, Jack, Isaac

Evan, Adam, Hailey,  Jack, Eli and Isaac

Charlie, Bruce, Sue and Bill playing Euchre 

All my beautiful grandchildren except Kenzie.  Peyton, Evan, Jack, Eli, Hailey,  Isaac,  Jacob, Adam and Max

Peyton, Evan, Adam, Hailey, Jack Eli and Isaac

Jacob, Peyton, Max, Evan, Hailey, Adam, Eli, Jack and Isaac getting ready to run and jump in the leaves

Jacob, Peyton, Max, Evan, Hailey, Adam, Eli, Jack and Isaac running to the pile of leaves

Eli, Adam, Jacob and Mocha

Jacob blowing the leaves into a pile

Eli and Adam having fun on the trampoline

The kidss having fun on the trampoline

Papa watching Adam and Eli in the leaves and Jacob blowing the leaves.  Papa has a cane because he broke the bone in the arch of his foot

Eli running into the pile. Jacob in the background

Bill about to give Adam his hatchet

Eli by papa after he gave him his hatchet

Jacob by papa after he gave him his hatchet

Papa and Adam with the hatchet he gave him

Three cute Russell boys in the leaves

Isaac

Love this picture of Kimmy and Isaac

Love this picture of Melissa and Peyton

Two sweet beautiful granddaughters

Peyton playing video.  She is pretty good at it for her first time

Max, Isaac, Peyton, Hailey, Jacob, and Eli

The grandkids all throwing leaves

It was so nice watching them all have so much fun in the leaves

Nice picture of Rody and Vikki

Me and Jacob

Adam, Me, Jacob, and Eli

Hailey left early to go to Celeste's 13th birthday!   Celeste with mustache, Alley with green sun glasses, Hailey with pink hat and wearing sunglasses, Mikayla in pink shirt

Max, Eli and Jack

Isaac on the basement steps.  He had been coughing so hard he was throwing up a little while earlier.  We prayed and in a little while he was playing and not coughing.  Thank You Lord

Adam and Eli

Such a fun day celebrating all the things we are thankful for!  So thankful I am a child of God and so thankful for a wonderful family who continually shows love to one another.  Happy to have all of these grandchildren who are blessings from the Lord and for friends who are like family.  Kimmy, Jared and the boys got here first.  I had ran to the store for some punch ingredients I had forgotten to get and they were here when I got home.  Adam ran out to help carry groceries in without me even having to ask him.  Eli was standing in the door showing me his soccer metal.  I got hugs from all of the boys right away.  The other boys helped with other stuff I needed done before everyone got here. Kimmy was an amazing help putting my groceries away and doing things on my list.  Jared blessed Bill!  He noticed the ladder and asked me why it was on the deck.  When he found out it was for Bill to clean the eves, he got right out there and cleaned them all out while Bill was in the shower.  He blew the leaves in the yard into the pile Bill had started too.  Jacob took over and used the leaf blower and blew more leaves in the pile.  The kids were all so excited when they saw the huge pile and got to jump in it.  It was such a nice day and we had lots of yummy food to enjoy.  Adam and Eli each made a pie and they were so delicious.  Chuck and Sue came and it was very nice having them.  Max bought flowers for Sue with his own money because he wanted to bless her for being so caring and always giving him things that he is interested in. He sure made Sue happy.  Everyone helped get the food out and ready to serve.  Kimmy and Jared did great mashing the potatoes like usual.  While I was sitting by Sue eating, the girls cleared the whole table in the kitchen and put everything away.  Major blessing to me!  Thank you so very much.  I love all of you!  We had dessert later because we were all to full.  Chuck, Sue, Bill, and Bruce played cards and then Jared got in on it too.   The kids were so good and played outside and in the basement.  So happy they are all so close and love being together.  Kenzie texted me in the morning at 4 a.m. and wasn't feeling good so she didn't come.  We were all sad that she wasn't able to come.  Bill gave Jacob, Adam and Eli the hatchets he bought for them.  Our friend Phyllis's, son in law Dave had made them for him.  The boys were pretty excited.
Sue and Charlie gave each of the kids a dollar so they were happy about that.  Such a nice day.  Thanking the Lord for everything he has done and everything he has given us.  We are truly Blessed beyond measure!

11/11/16....Kenzie's 19th Birthday, Veteran's Day

Isaac, Peyton and Lenny stopped over in Vikki's new car

Vikki's Prius she got today

Got ready for our Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow.  Went out to Harvey's in the evening with Charlie and Sue.  Vikki stopped over with Peyton and Isaac in her Prius

11/10/16...Bill was working on the lean too on his shed and fell off the ladder. His foot hit a board and he broke the arch of his foot.

Peyton

Isaac

Filled some cracks in the ceiling and touched them up with paint.  Got a phone call and it was Bill.  He asked if I could come to the back yard and help him because he fell.  He sounded terrible so I about flew making sure I took my phone just in case I had to call 911.  He was out working on the lean to of his little shed and fell off the ladder.  All the pieces of wood he had propped up fell and he fell off the ladder.  His foot hit one of the boards that had fallen.  Prayed over him right away and then went to the shed as fast as I could and got him a chair so he could get up.  He sat for a while.  I took his sock off and didn't really see anything but a little bump.  He said he could tell it wasn't broken because there was no bone sticking out. Ha Ha.   So much for that diagnosis.  He rested and then was determined to finish securing the lean to boards, even getting back up on the ladder, against my advice of course.  I wanted him to come right in and ice it.  Well it wasn't long and he was heading in.  He got ready and said he was going to the VA for the Marine Corp League party.  I told him not to drive that I would take him.  Stubborn Marine....He said he was driving himself.  By the way, it was his right foot that he hurt.  He would let me drive him so headed there.  After going and having a piece of cake, he ended up in urgent care at the VA hospital.  He called me while I was shopping at Kroger.  They took an x-ray and he was waiting for results.  It ended up that he broke his arch.  It was a clean break praise the Lord.  Could have been so much worse.  Vikki and I went there to get him.  He was in a wheelchair, but they did give him any crutches to use even though they told him to stay off from it.   Vikki drove him home in my car and I drove his truck home.  Vikki was an amazing help, getting all the groceries I had in my car hauled in, letting the dog out and helping with her dad.  I got ready for our CMA meeting and so did Bill.  We all headed to Melissa's as she had a pair of crutches that were Vikki and Rody's.  Dropped Vikki off where Rody's car was.  We went to Pizza hut and as Bill got out of the car, I gave him the crutches.  He fell backward but the car door caught him.  Decided the walker was better for him so he took that in.  He was moving like a turtle.
We had a great meeting and elected new officers.  Bill is president, Bill Smith-Vice President, Gayla-Treasurer, Cheryl-Secretary, Luis-chaplain, and Matt is road captain.  I am still the Newsletter Editor, but that isn't an elected position.  I volunteered and they still want me to do it.  We came home and watched the news.
When Bill decided to go to bed, he got the walker, but yelled to me that he couldn't make it and to get him a chair.  I moved fast.  He was dizzy and nauseated.  He had taken his sleeping pills and could hardly move.  I then ran and got the computer chair and took it in there and it took much effort, but we got him slid over to it and then I held on to him and rolled him to the couch.
Sat there a minute and then he was able to slide onto the couch.  I brought him his pillow and covered him up.  I am on call if he needs anything during the night.  Sure did pray for him.  It was pretty scary!

11/8/16...Worked the polls with Vikki from 6 am until 8:30 pm. It was so much fun!

This is Vikki's yummy salad.  One of the ladies brought all this amazing stuff in for us to make delicious salads.  She had so many different things to put on it.  It was delicious.

I got up at 3:38 and got ready to go to the polls.  Started the day on my knees in prayer for our nation.  Met Vikki at Melissa's at 5:40 so she could leave her car there and ride with me.  We got there and met everyone and helped get the room ready.  We started promptly at 8.  I had people fill out the voting application and checked driver's licenses and Vikki checked things at the end and ripped the tops off ballots.  She gave out stickers too.  I enjoyed watching her as she was so friendly to everyone and had that beautiful smile.  I was very proud of her.  Vikki and I were able to take our lunch and dinner breaks together which was very nice.  We had turkey market sandwiches from Arby's that I picked up ahead of time for lunch and had yummy salad for dinner.  We also had fruit that one of the girls brought.  It was delicious too.  The chair person brought his own computer chair that was comfy.  We had hard chairs we sat on all day.  Didn't know we could bring our own chairs or I would have brought my lazy boy ha ha.  It was a fun day and it went by fast.  So happy Vikki was there with me and that all the workers were so nice.  The people voting were all very nice too.  Came home and watched Election Results with Bill.

11/7/16..Kimmy, Vikki, Isaac and Melissa came over

Card Peyton made for me

Debbie's new puppy Shirah

Isaac helping papa bound in staples

Isaac by our beautiful tree

Papa and his buddy Isaac

Kimmy came over in the morning.  Vikki and Isaac came over a little later.  Isaac had diarrhea once so she didn't want to send him to school.  He was fine the rest of the day though.  He sure was a good helper.  We all washed PVC pipes and got marks off from it an he helped till it was done.  He helped carry them too.  He's a hard little worker.   Melissa came over after that and we visited and and ate lunch.  Vikki brought yummy chicken alfredo.  It was so delicious.  Melissa and Bill had a meatloaf sandwich out of the meatloaf I made last night.  Bill took the PVC pipe back and returned it and got the materials for the deck instead.  He started working on it right away.  Lenny was a good boy when he was here.  Vikki left at around 1:50 to go pick up Debbie's new puppy with them.  He is so adorable.  Isaac and I went to pick up Peyton from school.  We stayed at their house until Rody came home.  Peyton made me a beautiful card.  I think she is going to be an artist like Kenzie.  She draws really good.  Picked up snacks for tomorrow while working the polls.  Praying everything goes well and Vikki and I do ok.