Daily Report
September 12, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Was that my lovely granddaughter, Lainie Beth, that I just viewed, thanks to Buddy’s post? I believe so! Soon to be 16. Everybody put that down on your calendar.
Buddy, thank’s for your report. The children are really busy and I’m glad to hear that Lainie and Bailey’s visits are working out well. The closer all of you grow to each other, the better it is for you, especially the next generation.
Nothing going on here. Carmen painted today down the hall.
Luis has been in a lot of pain. He either has a hernia or prostate trouble. We’ll know when the report on his X-rays come back Friday.
Last night Teyla said the blessing on the food. She blessed everybody in the house (forgot to bless the food) and then said “the end!” and then said “Oh,yes. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen”. Luis said. Did you bless the food, Teyla? She said, “yes”.
Luis and I have to go to Cocoa Beach tomorrow to renew our miliary ID’s.
MOM
OK… the Buddy Clan
September 12, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
We had a great weekend. Lainie and Baily came over on Saturday. We went to the Artwalk woefully sooner than it was open so ended up at the Pepper Place for Ice Cream and fresh tomatoes. Then we went to Brookwood mall where Allie bought a shirt at Wet Seal, Baily bought some webkins charms (she has 17 webkins you know) and Ethan bought a Cork POP rifle at ‘Spots & Dots’. We ate at 5 Brothers Hamburgers and went home so Allie and Baily could get online for a bit.
Adam-Michael had his first football Game on Sept 11. He and his Bengals routed the Panthers 12-0. Adam-Michael is an avid ‘Auburn’ fan (much to his Crimson Tide Mother’s dismay) and plays Wingback and Cornerback. He Assisted on 5 tackles and made 5 himself. As small as he is, (75 lbs, 11 yrs old) he plays on an unlimited weight team where anyone over 105 pounds has to play the line and is ineligible to carry except on a fumble or interception. He has to shuck off some sizeable characters to get to the runner. The Panthers literal had one of Adam’s classmates an 11 yr old 5′6″ 208 lb lineman over Adam on the outside… he says he just ran around him when he needed to make a play:)
Adam also started Saxaphone. Jacob plays Tuba (Souzaphone) in the Spain Park Marching Band and Trumpet in the Jazz Ensemble. Ethan wants to start music this year (4th grade) and is active in his Programmer’s Club at School. Allie is in theater and fashion design classes at school and will be 16 on Oct 2 and is ready to take the highways by storm if she ever gets another copy of her SS card:) Melissa started back to school at UAB, she has 3 more semesters before starting law school in 2009.
That’s it for us…
Bud:)
Daily Report
September 11, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [1]
I think a daily report might be too much to be of interest to everybody, but I’m going to do it until enough interest is generated to get a fire lit under this weblog. It can be such a wonderful way for us to touch each other’s lives, and keep up with the next generations.
They’re growing up faster than we can blink our eyes.
What happened around here today? Not much. I felt too bad to go to the temple. Luis went, of course. I spent the day ironing, and Carmen spent the day getting the walls that go down their side of the house ready to paint. We took all of the pictures down (about 100) and sold the frames in our garage sale, and bought new frames. It’s going to be pretty. Then Jason and me saw a huge, beautiful owl in our yard. He gazed down at me and the cat for a long time. Luis showed up and said that Sister Hansen had returned to the temple. She and her husband went on a trip to Alaska while the temple was closed for two weeks of the summer, and her husband was killed in a car accident. It’s going to be so hard for her, because they worked in the temple together. A fairly young couple in their fifties.
That’s all from here. Now listen…all of you. I want participation. It took me all of ten minutes to do this.
MOM
stake growth map
September 11, 2007 | Check-in, Uncategorized | No Comments
here is the stake growth map . check it out. stop it at any date. mom, stop it at 1966 and look how many stakes were in georgia at the time. www.latterdayblog.com/2005-stake-growth-video.html .
Daily report:
September 10, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I believe I’ll have more time to make reports more frequently on what goes on around this little nest. And any other gossip…..I mean, news….that I hear. Let me remind everyone that Bill’s birthday is next.. on September 14th for anyone who would like to congratulate big brother on making it to the half-century mark. I can’t remember anybody after his….except maybe Melissa on the 17th, I think, but Buddy would have to verify. If other spouses are in September, please let Carmen know.
Then comes October. Miss Alaina Elizabeth (Lainie Beth)’s birthday is on the 2nd (same day as Paw Paw and Nana’s 43rd Wedding Anniversity).
Then comes the Patriarch’s 65th birthday on October 11th, and he is wrinkle free with a head full of silver grey hair.
That’s all for now. MOM
Spiffing the Place Up
September 10, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hey, it’s great to see the place starting to come alive! Although in our minds’ eye(s), the photo on the front of the blog represents our old living room as we remember it, I realize that a more practical approach would be to insert a REAL picture. So, has anyone got any good pix of the house, preferably from the front, on a nice sunny day just after trash collection?
Otherwise I’m certainly going to try and add more bells and whistles, starting with an easy way to add photos. Must…have…photos..!
There is one widget that I’ve seen that’s kinda cool: when you click on the photograph it expands to about twice the size, etc. Neat. Luckily there are a lot of “plugins” out there for the software behind the blog. It sure would be *GREAT* (HINT-HINT!) if some of my more talented siblings would take the initiative to start messing around with things and bringing it up to par. We want to make it “so easy even a Cave-Mom can do it” (remember, I’m probably the only kid who actually remembers Mother riding a Brontosaurus to the grocery store - parking was a real problem in those days, especially handicapped; you had to teach your Bronto to limp).
Anyway, Ciao, y’all.
OKAY! THE MATRIARCH IS IN……….
September 9, 2007 | Check-in | No Comments
Everybody straighten up now, and watch your language. Bill, thank you so very, very much for all of your hours of work in getting this web set up. I know that when we really get going with it, we’re going to enjoy it. I don’t know how to do anything in the photo gallery, but I have brilliant kids that will figure it out. All of us are loaded with projects.
Maria is here this beautiful Sunday afternoon in Debary on September 9th, which is incidentally Grandparent’s Day, and she’s leaving for Tampa later this afternoon for a week of training on her job. She’s driving a nice government car, and she’ll stay in whatever motel she can find close to the training spot.
Totally forgot Lily’s birthday. I’m so sorry. Carmen and I racked our brains, because we knew somebody else’s birthday was in September and we couldn’t remember whose it was! It was Lily, of course! On Brenda’s birthday. How could we have forgotten all of the hullabaloo over that. We’ll get a belated card in the mail tomorrow.
Dad and I will be leaving for Birmingham on September 20th, with expectations of staying with Beth and Paul for a few days, and then we’ll travel on to Ben’s and Julie’s house in Missouri. We’ll be pulling our Dynasty behind the Townhouse, and parking the Dodge at Ben’s. Ben, we just hope it’ll keep running for you, and not fall apart just as we leave. Be sure to pay your tithing. We’ll stay with Ben and Julie two or three days, and then travel on to Bill’s and Nancy’s house where we’ll put on a party hat and WOO-HOO!! CELEBRATE BILL’S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY!!! Bill is going to treat us to two games between the Astros and the Braves. In further celebration of Bill’s birthday, I hope the Braves beat the leaving daylights out of the Astros, because BILL ALMOST KILLED ME FIFTY YEARS AGO!
Thanx again, Bill. Everybody…let’s make good use of this Site. It’s such a please to have.
Much love to all……Mom
September 9, 2007 | Birthdays | No Comments
There are quite a few birthdays this month. Jani’s was the first. She turned 18, Teyla’s is today (3), Brenda’s was the 5th (40ish - and the most beautiful), Bill (50) wow!! this all means mom is old!! Who else has a birthday this month? We should make a calender. Send me the birthdays of EVERYONE in your family (this means 9 kids plus spouses and kids, and Chris’ family) I will see what I (ok, maybe Jason) can do. 
i don’t know when this stuff will post. i wrote them on sept. 7th, but didn’t figure out i had to ‘publish’ until today (sept 9).
Bill’s LivingRoom
September 9, 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]
So Bill, Is that your livingroom on the front of the home page?
Pagans in Missouri
September 8, 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
<>Lily turned 5! We had a supergirlparty/ barbeque. There was tons of good food and the kids had a great time playing together. I had given them some patriotic headbands as a party favor and once they all had them on running around in a pack, it was like a gang, and definitely a Kodak moment.
Little Ben loves to play outside and is finally starting to say more words, especially important ones like, ‘mote’ (remote) and ‘watch’(which means, watch t.v.) Very obvious he is also his father’s son.
<><>Big Ben tries to play raquetball once a week or go get comics with his friend Jim, Star wars role-playing once a week, and babysits for me while I’m at Mutual. He is organizing a team for our Stake softball tournament. And squeezes some time in for me somewhere in there
<><><>The Sylvan learning where I was working got shut down by the owner, so I have more free time to play and work with the kids, which is great! The house is staying clean again and I am more organized as Young Women’s president.
<><><>Love to all and miss you bunches! Julie
About “About”
September 6, 2007 | Meta | Comments [2]
Hey, y’all. Check out the “About 1048 Sunset” page. The link is over there to the right. No, not your right, my right. Yeah, right there!
cool
September 6, 2007 | Check-in | Comments [1]
very cool idea. nothing interesting to say right now except happy birthday to my favorite sis! (Shhhh! don’t tell anyone I said that). What? What?! what do you mean I don’t understand how this blog thing works.
Where In The World Are Mom and Dad?
September 6, 2007 | Travels | No Comments
In case anyone wonders, Mom and Dad are headed up to Missouri at the end of September, to deliver a brand new Lexus to Ben and Julie (at least I think they said “Lexus.” Maybe it was a Dodge K-Car, I get those mixed up).
Anyway, afterward they’re coming to our house (Bill & Nancy) to hang out, listen to the grandkids scream a lot, and go see the Atlanta Braves take on the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on that Friday and Saturday. There are usually a lot of Braves fans present whenever they come to town anyway, so it won’t be weird to see Mom & Dad with ATL gear on. But usually, you don’t see ‘em sitting next to folks with Astros hats on.
Anyway, on that Saturday, our grandson, Isaiah, will be baptized, so “Nana Elaine” and “Papa Luis” will be there to witness that. A fun time sure to be had by all!
Hopefully, people will start posting stuff here when someone visits someone else!
Love, Bill
She Don’t Look A Day Over 41!
September 5, 2007 | Birthdays | No Comments
(Well, maybe a DAY…)
Brenda Luisa Pagan Mathews turns forty-[mmmph!] today! Happy birthday, little sister!
It’s your day! You can do ANYTHING YOU WANT (here on the 1048 blog, at least).
N.B. I’m probably the only kid who remembers Brenda’s first day home from the hospital all those years ago. Ask Mother what I said when I saw here lying there in her bassinet!
Love, Bro. Bill