"The begining"

" So here it goes the beginning of My first Blog"

I'm still learning so try to be patient because I know there

will be lots of mistakes. Cory and I have now been married for

30 years as of Feb 15, 2009, We celebrated on a Western

Caribbean Cruise with Family and friends and had a

wonderful trip. My Mother was able to go with us and that

was a great experience for her as well. We started our

first day out at sea on her and Dad's 59th Anniversary and two days

later my dad's 81st birthday. So needless to say she was a

little melancholy and sad, it's been almost two years now since my dad's

death and we all missed him and wished he would have been here

to share this special time with us, but felt his spirit greatly.

One of my favorite highlights of the trip was swimming with the

stingrays. Anyone who knows me well knows I'm scared to death of

the water little lone the ocean especially. It was by far the

most frightening but most fun thing I have ever accomplished in my

life. I concerned the fear of being in the ocean and also was

able to snorkel and actually have fun doing it. I so enjoyed being

with family and reminiscing all of our good times we have

shared through out the years. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful

husband who has taken such great care of me and our three

wonderful children, what a blessing they are in my life, along with my two

daughter-in-laws and one son-in-law, and five grand babies. We love

being grandma and grandpa, it's life's greatest blessing for trying to develop

patience with my on children and never really achieving it. Boy I'm

quite patient with these grandchildren and give in to them a lot more then

I ever did my own. It seems I've learned a lot the past 30 some odd years and

probably will continue to learn the older I get. Anyways I have one

great life and family, and have been greatly blessed through the years.

I hope I can continue to have improving health so I can continue to watch my

little family go to a big family some day and to be able to experience

the love of family as my parents have in the many years of marriage they

had together. I love you Mom and Dad, and miss you dad.