Saturday, February 25, 2017

2017 February Happenings


 Just showing the view at 5:20am going to Seminary.  I've enjoyed teaching much more than I thought I would and I just love the students, we have such a great class!  Getting up at 4:45 took a bit of getting used to and I definately have to head to by by 9:30 at night or I struggle remembering anything the next morning, but it's been worth it.

Troy and I attend the Superbowl festivities in Houston this month and Troy found a great burro rescue that we were able to go and visit and feed carrots to the burros.  There were 100's of them and 30 or so horses.  We road around in a golf course to see the ranch that houses them and to meet a few in person.  Ethan got kissed by a very talented horse that can count and give kisses!  Loved it.  The woman who gave us the tour said horses are like cats and do their own thing and burros are like dogs, they want to come say hi and be petted.  It was so true, the horses fought and pushed each other around for the carrots, but could have otherwise cared less that we were there, but the burros saw the golf cart coming and the just headed over and stuck their heads in and wanted to say hi and get a little head scratch along with the carrots.  We all had a great time, we'll probably go back again some time.

This month we also had New Beginnings for Morgan and Ana, with a super hero theme.  It was really fun and creative and the girls were adorable.  Ana's ROTC group had a Bingo Night as a fundraiser, a tad long, but enjoyable and Morgan took home a basket of goodies as she was one of the very first winners!  We celebrated Valentines day, there are some more random dog, seminary and eating out with Morgan pictures.  Ethan played on a city basket ball league, it was fun to watch him play.  Last year he rowed with a youth rowing team, but not really knowing any of the kids decided to do basket ball instead this year. 

The pictures of Grant as a little boy we had found and sent to Grandma Keller on her birthday.  The one with Aly and McCall was taken in Troy's office in the World Trade Center!  We had just moved a year before the attacks that took down the two towers.  A very sad day.






















































Monday, January 30, 2017

Baby Laila was born on January 30th, 2017

 Today we welcome into the world and our lives our first grandbaby, Laila Jane Keller.  She looks so big in these pictures!  She and Victor share January as a birth month.  We are excited to go out and see her in March or April.








Friday, January 20, 2017

Ringing in 2017

 Back to Texas and getting back on my bike.  Learning to ride the streets with Troy as my guide :)  We also have a grand baby coming this month.  Victor and MJ are due to have a little girl at the end of the month.

Other pictures include a conference Troy attended, waffles and ice cream, me crocheting baby blankets and Jennifer Irish and I going to The Big Barn antiques market where I bought the cabinet under the TV (which Troy thinks looks like it came out of a grandmas basement, well give it a month and it will be in a grandmas house!)  Morgan played one of the violas for the school HS production of Les Miserable.  It was a lot of hard work, took a lot of practicing and sight reading, but a wonderful experience.  Music plays for the entire piece and so it's about 2 1/2 hours of continuous playing.  It was wonderful to watch and listen too.