Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Nicole's Graduation
Nicole graduated on Friday April 11 from boot camp. She is officially in the US Navy and on her way to quartermaster's school at Great Lakes. The above photo is Nicole with her mom, Lorraine Woods and her mother's boyfriend. Patrick rode up with them Thursday afternoon and stayed at a hotel overnight. Friday night they stayed at Lorraine's mother's home. Lorraine said her mother was up cooking for them at 4:00 a.m.! She wanted everything to be perfect! As you can see in the photo, Lorraine is very proud of her daughter. She was just about to bust when she was telling us all the details about the ceremony Saturday afternoon. Patrick looks pretty proud too.
Patrick with Nicole and her mother's boyfriend.
Patrick took these great pictures of the gradutation ceremony. Nicole was able to come back home for 24 hours so we were able to see her on Saturday afternoon. She looked wonderful in her uniform, dress blues. Nicole gave Mom and I a copy of her graduation photo - professionally taken - and a program of the event. Lorraine said it was SRO, the place was packed! A friend of hers was also there to see her daughter graduate, so they got seats up front with her and her family. Her friend is actually in the service too and deployed to Kuwait and she was approved for leave to come back to the states for graduation. This woman, Michelle Pulley, is also Jerri Anne's assistant warden at Henry Hill Correctional Center. There were television cameras everywhere to capture her daughter's reaction. Michelle's daughter did NOT know she was coming to the ceremony. Mom and I saw it on TV. We were trying to find Nicole in the crowd, but didn't. What a surprise. Nicole said she was interviewed for the Navy channel (didn't know they had one) and she said she'd get us a copy of it. We're looking forward to that. Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Jessica McClintock's New Victorian Fragrance
I was in Bergner's at the Shoppes on the Grand Prairie in Peoria last Thursday and tried this new fragrance. It's wonderful! Perfect for Spring. I love it! I was going to purchase a bottle, but there were no bottles available, only the tester. Rats! So, I go shopping online. Guess what? I can't find it in stock anywhere. This perfume must be incredibly popular. I'll keep looking...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Happy Easter Everyone!
What an Easter Sunday we had - it began snowing before we left for church and continued throughout the day. Freaky weather~I don't remember if it has snowed on Easter before.
Here we are having Easter dinner. Menu inclued baked ham, mashed potatoes, asparagus with cheese sauce, 7-layer salad, deviled eggs, vegetable casserole, peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream, key lime pie and turtle pie. We ate way too much! Guests included, Diana, Jerri Anne, Dodie, Aunt Madge, Denver, Aunt Ethel, Christopher, Patrick and Bryce.
Every guest received a treat bags to take home. Cute little peeps! 
Our dear mother, Phyllis Beckmann, Easter Sunday in front of First Christian Church.Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Inspiration
I found this great new website on 2peas that's going to offer scrapbook and card sketches. Take a look at www.triplethesketch.blogspot.com. The first sketch will appear on April 4.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wow! Cosmo Cricket
Very cool scrapbooking and cardmaking kit from Cosmo Cricket. It's the TSV on QVC February 4th. I'm going to get one! Wahoo!!!Thursday, January 17, 2008
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Louisville Kentucky September 2007
Enjoying dinner at Lynn's Paradise Cafe, a retro, kitschy 1950's diner. We loved it!Monday, September 03, 2007
My New Pink Bicycle
Me and my new pink beach cruiser! I got it for my birthday and I love it! It was ordered from Orange County Cycles in California via the Internet. My nephew Patrick put it together for me today. I haven't rode in over 30 years, but I just got on and started riding again. I'll admit I was shaky. Did I say I love it? Thank you!
Sunday, September 02, 2007
New Windsor Rodeo
Wow! Mom and I enjoyed crispy shoestring onion rings created by the local boy scouts. Yum!
Yep, that's me in my cowboy hat enjoying the rodeo. This was my first one. Wahoo!!! Summer Storm of 2007
The storm struck Galesburg on the southeast side of town about 1:07 p.m. on Thursday August 23rd. I was on my way home from work when it hit. I sat in my car in the driveway because I couldn't get out. Debris was flying all around me. I later learned we had 70 mph straight line winds. My car received extensive damage. The storm sucked all the chrome off the back end.
The roof on the house will be replaced. The damage was too much to repair. We also had leaking inside on Mom's bedroom ceiling. The ceiling is going to be replaced too.
The front storm door and some windows were blown out and mangled. It's been replaced. Patrick and Aunt Madge did the work. The porch was soaked from all the rain and littered with leaves, twigs and branches. Jerri Anne and I took the furniture cushions to the laundromat and washed and dried them. Charly loved the fresh clean smell.
Here's all the wrecked stuff we gathered after the storm. We had scavangers going through it within an hour of picking it up. Note we also lost the Rubbermaid shed too.
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