Casey had basketball practice Saturday and Keith & I went to watch. Actually it was a scrimage. Her team won both games they played. She is a really good player, always on the move. She is getting so she doesn't want her picture taken, but I got a good one. Chrisy and Cayla were there and Cayla is always ready to have her picture taken! She got a little bored when the second game started and she and Grandpa went and did a little grocery shopping. Casey will play at the half time of the varsity high school game Wednesday (last night) but the roads were so bad and Keith wasn't home, so I didn't go, but I called and told her I would go to the next one.

Flat Tire

Well, Thursday was a really busy day at work. I usually get off work at 4 on Thursday, but I was there until 5:15 and had to get home, feed the chickens, and back to Etta's for dominos club at 6. As I pulled out of my parking space at work, I had the radio on but the car seemed to be making a noise, so I shut off the radio and the thump, thump made me realize I had a flat tire. Of course Keith was in Toledo. First I called Etta to let her know I would be late and then planned to call AAA. She told me to call Mike that he was in Bryan and would help me. I called and he said he could be there in half an hour and I said I would call AAA and see if they could get there sooner. But, it would take them an hour so I called Mike and asked if he minded. He said he would come, I tried to call AAA to cancel the call, but my cell phone wouldn't work so I went into the pizza shop (I was in their parking lot) and asked to use their phone. I must have dialed wrong, because I got a sex call!!! I hung up right away and told them if there was a charge for that to let me know. Their phone rang and it was the sex call!!! The young girl working there listened awhile and laughed before she hung up! Anyway, I got ahold of AAA and canceled the call and Mike got there. It was getting dark, so we decided he would just give me a ride home, and I left the car there with the pizza shop's permission and would come back and take care of it in the morning. Keith said to just call AAA that's what we pay for. So Mike & Etta, Keith & I met for breakfast and then Etta took me down to Zandra's for my haircut and then to Bryan. I called AAA. They came and changed the tire. I talked to Keith on the phone and the guy recommended that I at least by two new tires, the other one in front was dry rot too. So Keith had me take it to Wal-Mart to get four new tires. He talked to them on the phone, because I don't know anything about tires. Anyway, Etta had work to do at the shop and I did not want to stay at Wal-Mart for three hours, so I asked her to take me to JoAnn's. They were to call me when they were done. Over four hours later, I called and they said oh they had been done for probably an hour!! Anyway, JoAnn wanted me to stay for supper, so I called Keith and he and Mike came when they got home from Toledo and we went out for supper. Etta had went to some play in Fort Wayne. Anyway, I left home at 7:30 am and didn't get home till around ten pm. Wasn't really how I planned to spend my day off and it was pretty expensive, but it was good to spend some time with JoAnn.

I am back in my office!!!

It is so great to be back in my office! I have been in a cramped little space in the main library while the water damage was repaired, new carpet laid, walls painted and new ceiling tile installed. It just feels so good to be back. Today was my first full day in my office. I went a little crazy taking pictures, and some are not so good. My camera flash seems to reflect on everything. I really like the "coffee bean" wall. The loon picture above the chair pulls the blue from my chairs and the brown from the wall together. Just wanted to share the pictures.

Cold-but Beautiful

I took this picture yesterday from my bedroom window. It is really beautiful outside. But I will enjoy it from the inside. It was 15 degrees below zero this morning with a windchill of 28 below!!

Water Damage at Work

After Kevin and Sarah left Sunday, I asked Keith to take me over to the library where I work. The director had called to let me know that the ice melting on the roof had no where to go and the drain froze up so it came through the roof into our offices. The first picture is of the hallway where all the ceiling tile got soaked and fell in. The next two are of my office. Only one or two ceiling tiles fell in, but water ran down my one wall and the carpet was soaked and a lot of the papers on my desk were ruined by water. The last picture is of what you saw when you stepped off the elevator. The ceiling tile in the lobby fell in and they had put buckets everywere to catch the leaks. All the ceiling tile needed to be removed and all the carpet torn up. The smell was awful. We had to move all the offices to the main library (very crowded). We had to pack up all of our things and empty all the desks so that they could tear up the carpet. Just what I needed with end of year, W2s, 1099's etc. All things considered things are going pretty well. They came in Thursday and sprayed for mold. Friday they did some painting. While it was torn up, I had them paint one of my walls as an accent. (Coffee Bean). They will be starting to lay the new carpet Monday and hopefully they will get the new ceiling tile in so that we can move back in sometime next week. This happened in the middle of an over $400,000 project on the first floor. Some of the water went through and stained the new ceiling tile and freshly painted walls downstairs, but this has all been repaired. I will take my camera to work again and take some pictures of my office when I get moved back in.

Sunday December 28, 2009

As Kevin mentioned in my last post, they started home the day after the Whitman Christmas. Here are some pictures of Libby with Grandpa and Libby with me we took that morning. Also one of Libby at the table while we had lunch before they left. We really hated to see them go home. It was a fun visit getting to know Libby some more. She grows so much and changes so much between visits. But we are lucky compared to Sarah's Dad and Candy.

Whitman Christmas & Four Generation

These are pictures taken at the Whitman Family Christmas December 27th. First is the four generation picture of Keith's mother, Keith, Kevin and Libby. Next is a picture of cousin Kraig holding Libby, then a cute picture of Chloe (love her haircut) and Aunt Christy holding Libby.

We had a good time there and lots of good food. Kevin and Sarah went home that afternoon. We had a fun visit with them. Kurt's left a little earlier than we did as Cayla had to go to her best friend's birthday party.

Our Christmas with our family

I am posting quite a few pictures from our Christmas. The first is of Kevin helping Libby open one of her gifts as Chloe and Cayla wait patiently to open one of theirs. There is one of Kraig and Casey clowning around. One of me with Libby and Kraig, one of Sarah with Libby, one of Libby as our centerpiece with Kurt, Kevin, Keith and Christy, and one of Aunt Christy with Libby. We had a wonderful Christmas with our family. It was a fun time of togetherness and we went through some of my scrapbooks and reviewed our Christmas together since 1995. (That's all I have done so far) It was amazing to see how our family changed every year. We are truly blessed to have each other. Happy New Year to you all. I will try to post the Whitman Christmas tomorrow.

Christmas Day 2008-Gingerbread House!

Keith & I stayed home Christmas Day and had a relaxing holiday together. In the afternoon, Kurt called and they stopped in on their way home from her Grandma Mavis's. They had been without electricity for awhile the day before and the kids made us a gingerbread house! It is really cute and yummy. I am posting pictures of it and one with the kids. I will try to post something everyday to get caught up, but this is really the busiest time of the year for me at work and doing the cemetery bookwork. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas.