Emma-Angie's Little One

Here's a fun picture tag. The rules:

1. Go to your documents/pictures

2. Go to your 6th folder

3. Go to your 6th picture

4. Post it, and blog about it

5. Tag 6 people to do the same

6. Name your picture

OK. Chelsea tagged me about four million years ago and I finally got around doing it! I followed the instructions, and this is the picture I got:

I took this picture on New Years Eve 2008. We had gone to Grandma Don's to celebrate the New Year. I was taking pictures and Angie asked me to take a picture of her "baby."

Angie is a wonderful little mother. She has two dolls that she plays a lot with--Emma pictured above and a bigger, cloth doll she has named Deidre (recently renamed from Tracy). In fact, the day before yesterday, she announced that Deidre had just had a baby. Therefore, she (Angie) was a grandmother and I was a great-grandfather. However, Deb was a grandmother also. I'm a little bummed about that!

A little later, Angie told me that Deidre had rode in an ambulance. I asked her why. With a little bit of contempt in her voice she said, "She had her baby!"

Then a few minutes later, Angie asked me if I wanted to see where Deidre had a shot. I said sure. She lifted the doll's dress, and Angie had put on the stretchy stuff that I had for my arm when I had my IV last fall. I asked her what the shot was for (I'm a little dense at times!) and again she informed me that Diedre just had a baby. She then asked me if I wanted to see the "newborn" (her word!). She had wrapped up her smallest doll into a blanket. I asked her what her name was and she said Alyssa.

OK. Why is my little girl growing up so fast! I'm already a great-grandfather for crying out loud!

Now, for the six people I will tag: I don't know if all of these follow my blog, but I tag Amber Smith, Kaiann Womack, Ally Probst, TJ Probst, Jennie Wilding, and Rachelle St. Gelais.

Have fun!

Angie

I was browsing the Internet when I decided to go to Dan Lewis' website. He is an artist living in Downey that has done several church-related paintings. Right after we got Lilli, he asked to paint Angie. The picture on the left is the result. Of course, we were very proud of Angie when she "sat" for the portrait. Actually, Dan had her sit and walk around while he took pictures with his camera. He then painted Angie from one of the pictures. When Dan first showed us the portrait, it was Angie in her Easter dress and little flowers in her hair. He then changed it a made her into a little Pioneer girl. At any rate, I was quite surprised to see Angie's portrait on his home page. To visit his website, go here.

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Jackie become the champion of the Gambles Family NCAA tournament contest. She dominated the field with 1570 points. Deb was second with two of her brackets scoring 1380 points. Nathan was third with 1360 points. Jackie correctly got 99.6% of the games right.

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How All Funerals Should Be

Alright, this is one of the best funerals I have ever seen. I wish all funerals were like this!