TRYING TO BE POSITIVE…THESE THINGS MAKE ME SMILE..

  Before I forget, I just noticed that we have 3 new followers of this circus I call a blog…Welcome to my “adventures in writing” to Denis and Sandy, Julie and Tom, and New Age Nomad…Normally we would be somewhere warm, so if you are going to hang with us , get out your mukluks and parkas…it’s a dreadful Illinois February..and be forewarned that I AM CRABBY, and MAXINE is my heroine.

Dennis and I are trying to adjust to this pond sucking, skunky, nasty, damp and dreary, wet and crappy, gray and dismal, chilling and bone busting Illinois weather…So, I am trying  my darned best to have some semblance of fun with this blog…(If you and make it to the end of this blog, there is a musical surprise…)

As you may know, our son, Kelly is a Lieutenant with the Oswego, IL Fire Dept….He is one big man…6’3” and very scary up close..just sayin’…

Well, one of our good friends who use to be the Sandwich IL Chief of Police, Rick Olson, is running for mayor of Sandwich, IL…Kelly attended a fund raiser for him where two of the former 1986 Chicago Bears came out to support him…Kelly had his picture taken with Kurt Becker and Keith Van Horn..Keep in mind that Kelly is a very big man…and just look at him in comparison to those other two….Kelly looks like a dwarf next to them…

 

 

I thought our son was a big man until I saw this photo….Kel is the middle man…wholly schlamoly.!

 

 

 

 

Oh…by the way, Dan Hampton, another famous Chicago Bear, is MY friend on Facebook…(If you don’t know who Dan Hampton is, you are NOT an NFL fan…or… you are under 30 years old!)

 

 

 

This family tries to find fun where ever possible and lately I need all the fun I can get…I may have posted a few of these before, but bear with me…they make me smile..

I refuse to say who that is laying and spinning on the bar stool in the photo on the right…suffice to say it IS a family member…Don’t look so surprised!

 

 

 

Left is a picture of our 2 son-in-laws, Tim Heiser and John Wolff…They ran out of the indoor pool at the Holiday Inn, Dec. 2011, went outside in the cold, and made “angels in the snow”….I know, I know…makes a mother-in-law proud…

 

 

 

 

 

So now for my last photo…it is really a video…Taylor and her brother, Peyton doing a duet…Tay is singing and Pey is “beat boxing”…Beat boxing is making drum like sounds with your mouth…..This video is only a little over one minute long..The picture quality sucks,it was done on Terrie’s phone to be patient… but the sound is great!!….Turn up your sound and enjoy!!!!…

Taylor and Peyton making music

…Thanks soooo much for tolerating my need for a few smiles today….I feel much better now!!

“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
~Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (Deluxe Edition)