FELIZ NAVIDAD

Christmas was wonderful as usual and here are my pictures, I am a little late but hey what else can I say. . .

The one important part of our Christmas was my mom and dad, the Patriarch and Matriarch of the familia. It did make a major difference with them not here. My dad was sick so they stayed home.

It makes you ponder things and how precious life is and how important family is and savor the moments you have. This year we gained two new little additions to the clan.

In our little family alone we gained a little addition to our family named Sawyer (soy bean, little monkey) James Peacock, whereas the year before it was Kyle James Peacock our son in law who we love dearly. We are so blessed with him. Prayers do come true! Who know what next year will bring?

Our two new additions to our clan this year. Sawyer and Teague Bradley Blanchfield (a week old)

We are playing are traditional white elephant exchange

My sister talking about mom and dad

and the rest of the gang

Megan has become a Jazz Fan Junkie
and wants to marry D-Will she just has to tell his wife now

Erikah loves books and is ready to dive in

Soy Bean has no clue what is going on, just gimme food

Open our PJ's (we went green this year and didn't wrap them) we just threw them their PJ's in the bag we bought them in we are environmentally conscious (lazy)

Grandma and Grandpa had fun shopping for Soy Bean

We got the coolest gift and of course my Christmas cold so I look like a beauty

WHERE DID I GO??? MOURNING THE LOSS OF A MEMORY

Well hello and a fine how do you do. . . I am back among the living. Sorry I checked out but life got a little hectic and Thanksgiving came and gone. I had the funniest pictures to post but funny how one strike of a delete key can really screw things up. I tried to retrieve the pictures from my recycle bin but didn't know how to do that either so they are somewhere out in computer space waiting to be found.

IT HAPPENED!!! I HAVE MOURNED A DEEP LOSS OF MY LUMINA (BLUEMINA)

She was a good ol' gal, she took us all over the Pacific Northwest. She was a Beauty as you can see in the two pictures. Yes it was time to sell her and buy myself a new car. I have a Nissan Murano now and what do you think the color is? In remembrance of Bluemina it is Blue. (no not really I just like the color) It's pretty sweet it has a Navigation system so I won't get lost when I go to my moms house.

My 1991 Lumina went through all the girls throughout their high school much to their protest. Megan of course is elated. She gets the Camry now. I truly think she kept praying that the old gal would take her last breath. We sold her to a sweet lady who just needed a car to get her by for a couple of years.

When she came and picked up ol' blue I just couldn't watch as she drove out of sight. Boyd said "Lovey there she goes, come and see and I ran to my computer to keep myself busy so I wouldn't break down and cry. But I just sat there with tears glistening as they rolled down my face. Megan came home from school and saw that I had been crying a good part of the day (only 10 minutes but it seemed like all day) and rushed over and threw her arms around me and sensitively asked "mom what is the matter? Are you okay"? Erikah came out of her room and rushed over in haste and put her arms around me as well. I of course wiped the tears out of the corners of my eyes and told them of my loss and the girls with their sensitivity sat there in amazement and then started to laugh (rotten girls). During dinner I got a little choked up again and Tarah thought I needed to get a grip (another rotten daughter).

You see I may sound a little whacked in the head, a bit of a nut crack but it is about the memories that this car gave me. Megan was a newborn when we bought this car. Each girl has a story that goes along with the car. When we lived in Oak Harbor Washington we would take trips back home to Utah more memories would follow. Each girl has funny High School stories about the car. I could go on and on. But that is what it is really all about.

THE MEMORIES.