Dont know how

To post a link on the link part of the blog but here is the link to my little MSN Space with updates and Cassie pics galore! I update about once a week, so check it out! If you could put it in the links section Sandi, that'd be great!

http://designsbydani.spaces.live.com/

Some more pics

A couple more pics it wouldnt let me post on the previous post....

A day of thanks and reflection

Sorry its been a while since we have posted, (three months) life has been really busy as we all know can happen. A quick catch up, Work has been great between my job and side jobs from my father. Copper has been in demand, and so have I. Cassies growing up so fast, she can say the alphabet, count to 15, name her body parts, and identify many animal sounds. Danielle is doing great, and doing a great job teaching Cassie. When I come home from work, something new is always happening. We bought a new used car finally and retired the red mercury sable. The dealership made a mistake and we made out pretty good. Danielle has updated pictures on her MSN Space blog. Since we have been so busy, today was welcomed and enjoyed. We slowed down just a little for a few hours to break bread with Mom and Dad, good food, good company, made a few phone calls to the siblings, and played with Cassie as the food was prepared. Herb and his family stopped in for some delicious dessert and coffee before we had to retire for the evening. Today I thought about everything I have to be thankful for and I came to the conclusion I am thankful for everthing in my Life these days. Even the downs I have experienced this past year made possible the better moments and opportunities that have come. I feel I am truly blessed to have days like today. We love you all, and have a safe Thanksgiving weekend.

Turkey Day

Well it has finally arrived. :) The day where you can eat TURKEY all day long. I just wanted to start a blog and to find out what everyone is doing on their Thanksgiving, and ask everyone what they are most thankful for.

So come on everyone, don't be slackers and start writing.

Sandi's Birthday Day

Well, I think I have finally recovered from celebrating Sandi's birthday yesterday. As is our tradition, we let Sandi pick what she wanted to do for her birthday. Sandi decided that she wanted to have a "Girls Day" and spend it with Mom (April), me (Cathy), Becca, Nyssa, Amy (who unfortunately couldn't make it) and all of us get facials and have our makeup done. To give you an idea on how seriously we take the birthday person's wishes, Nyssa agreed to do this for her Aunt. (Nyssa HATES makeup!) So this was a MAJOR act of love on my daughter's part. Anyways, I of course couldn't leave well enough alone. So I planned several surprises for my OLDer sister. At Orgins (where we had the facials) Nyssa presented Sandi with her 1st gift...a heart chain bracelet with an "I Love You" charm. After everyone was made to look beautiful, we went out to lunch. I gave Sandi her next gift during lunch...a charm that said "Big Sister". Then we windowed shopped a bit and on to the next surprise. I had arranged for us girls to get our pictures taken (why waste a perfect makeup day?). At the photo studio, mom gave Sandi her next present (a charm that said "Daughter"). We had lots of fun getting our pictures taken. The photographer decided that both Becca and Nyssa were my daughters so she kept calling me "Mama", Becca was "Miss Drama", Nyssa was "Miss Grumpy" and mom was "Gramma". She never really came up with a nickname for Sandi. I did like the photographer....especially after she reminded Sandi that she couldn't choke me. When we left Sandi saw a blood mobile and decided that what she really wanted was for Mom, Sandi and I to donate blood together. So a new tradition has been born. Sandi and I have both donated blood before, but mom never has. We had a lot of fun alternating between trying to scare her and reassure her. I don't the blood team will ever recover from us. Then we finally headed home (to my place) where I had a Carvel icecream cake waiting for her. At the house Becca gave Sandi her final charm that said "Mom".
Orlando and PJ had a good time while we were out celebrating. One of our friends had some trees for our yard, so Orlando had PJ drive over to his house to pick them up. Orlando says that PJ is a pretty good driver, just needs some more practice. So all in all I think yesterday was a birthday that none of us will forget. I hope Sandi enjoyed it as much as Nyssa and I did.

Granny,s Trip

Well Granny ( Marion) left N.J. this morning and she arrived safely in Houston. She enjoyed playing Dominos, and had a Salmon dinner at Kelley's. Her next stop will be at Dougs and Leslie's in Louisiana, then on to Tallahassee to Ralph and Lourie's . She will be enjoying Thanksgiving with April and her family then she will be back in N.J, the first week in Dec. Aunt Robin got a good report from her Dr. her hip healed very good. I know everyone is busy I know I am, but if you have not sent your Reunion pics. to Sandi please do this so we can all enjoy your pics. of the Family Gathering, there are a lot of good Pics. still out there. Sandi has a lot of good pics. on her Photo Gallery, the white water ones that Bob took from his Kayak are great, and Sandi took great ones of the train ride. I,m so glad everyone took pictures at the Water Fall, It was almost as good as being able to be there myself, they were just beautiful. From all of us who couldn,t do those trips, Thanks!! Aunt Gail

You Know Your Getting Old When?

1. Grandma Marian's youngest grandchild turns 26.
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How To Post *

I've had a couple of people tell me that they haven't been able to post anything because they've forgotten how to do it. Unless you're on the blog a lot, it can be confusing. So here are some step-by-step directions.

1. To get onto the family blog, just click "sign in" in the upper right corner. This brings you to the sign-in screen. If you prefer, you can click the big "B" (in front of "blogger") that's in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Clicking the "power blogger" button on the bottom of the page works, too.
   
2. On the right of the new screen, you're given two choices: to sign into Blogger or to sign into New Blogger (formerly Blogger Beta). You want the first one (new Blogger), so click on that choice.
3. Then you'll be given a chance to enter your user name (the name you created when you first joined the blog) and your password (which you also created when you first joined). If you have forgotten your user name or password, email me for help. Also, if you don't have a user name yet, email me and I'll send you an invitation to join.
4. If this is the first time you've used the new blogger, you'll have to create a Blogger ID. The screens will walk you through, so just type in the information you're asked for. (Again, if you need specific help with this, just call or email me and I'll walk you through it.)
   
5. After you've entered your username and password, Blogger will bring you to the dashboard. Just click on the big plus sign under "new post" to do a new post.
6. Type your post, and remember to include a Title in the Title box.
7. Add a label to your post in the box along the bottom of the screen. The labels we're using include your name (i.e. Herb and Gail, April, Kelly, Colorado Herb, etc.) as well as "photos." (Don't worry if you don't have a label -- I'll come back and edit it for you.)
   
8. Click on "Publish."

If you just want to comment on a post that someone else has written, you don't have to go through as many steps.

1. All you do is click on the word "people chatting" under the post that is already there.
2. Type your comment.
3. Then add your user name and password in the boxes given.
4. Click on the "log-in and publish" button and you're finished.

I hope this helps. If you still have problems with it, you can always email me. My email is slkilbride(at)gmail.com [change the (at) to @].

*This was updated on 1/26/2007.

Celebrations for October

I finally updated the Celebrations blog for October. Since I'm late, we've missed a couple of birthdays:

Happy Belated Birthday, Ricky! I wish you could have made it to the Family Gathering -- we were looking forward to seeing you and the kids. Please post, and let us know how you all are doing.

Happy Belated Birthday, Cathy. I'm sorry I didn't make it down to Boca yesterday. I would have MUCH rather had spent the day celebrating with you, instead of playing taxi-mom all day for the kids!

Life In Tennessee

I figured I will let you all know what I am upto, since April asked so nicely. I am in my final semester at East Tennessee State University and SUPPOSED to graduate this coming December. I have such a grueling schedule. Mondays are my day off. Tuesday I have Plate Tectonics in the morning, then a strenuous class of Badminton, Two hours off for lunch then my Outdoor Recreation Skills Class, and to end the day my Dance as a Human Experience class. I work in the Mountains of NC on Wednesday's which is more like playing for me, Thursday is pretty much the same as Tuesdays with a Physics Lab II instead of Dance class. I work fridays and Saturdays in NC also. Yeah I know you all feel badly for me with such an intense course load. My Sunday's and Monday's are pretty much taken up with studying or trying to go hiking. I am taking my Land Surveyor In Training test at the end of October. It is the first part of the Test I need to take before I can get my license as a surveyor and it is an 8 hour exam. So I really can't wait for it to be done with. Other then that not too much going on with me.
How is everyone else doing and upto?

Bobby