Easter

Doug and I were talking about Easter, and wondering if anybody had plans whether they be in Bakersfield, Woodville or wherever. Easter Sunday this year is March 27. So it's just over four weeks away. Well if anyone knows what is going on feel free to share it here. Otherwise I think fishing and BBQ may be in order.


By the way I sent out some emails to become contributing members of this blog. If you want to become a contributor with your own username and didn't get an email let me know. I'm trying to get more members of the family involved. Thanks to everyone who has posted or sent me an email to post here.

Mark

Group Emails

I sent a mass email to everyone I had on my list about an idea from Nate. Hopefully everybody recieved one. If you didn't I either don't have your address, or you have some time of spam filter that would block it. So check your spam email folder just in case. I don't want to get into specifics here about the email so if you didn't get it you can contact me or Nate to find out what he wants to do.
Let me know if you didn't recieve anything, because I'm still lacking some email addresses and would like to add more to my list.
Mark

Happy Birthday Dr. Bones

Happy Birthday Man! Nate Grimsley notches another year today.
If you're reading this than I hope to tell you that I have my fishing license now so I can try to catch up to you this year. How many do you have so far this year? Take it easy Nate, hope you enjoy your B-Day.
Mark

Here's a nice picture of Andrea. Thanks Suzi.  

Connor Making Tortillas 

Here's a picture of Gabe, Lisa, and Josh Meneses 

Cathi and Connie making Burritos 

Everett and Connor are playing with Uncle Mike. 

Baby Shower for Lisa Meneses

In case you haven't heard, or need an update, we are going to throw a shower for Lisa. All of the Meneses ladies are invited to attend and we hope you'll be there. The info is as follows:
Monday February 21st, President's Day
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Connie's house
We're going to have a nice dinner together to celbrate Lisa and Gabe's upcoming edition.
For gift ideas, Lisa and Gabe don't really need any clothes thanks to generous friends and Josh's extensive wardrobe. What they do need are diapers in all sizes, Lisa prefers to use HUGGIES and Josh is in a size six right now. They would also appreciate gift cards to places like Target, WalMart or SaveMart.
Another great thing you could do for them, and we hope you will, is to offer to bring over a frozen dinner, or a hot meal after the baby is born so that Lisa and Gabe can spend more time taking care of eachother and their children.
Please RSVP to Allison or Caroline, or you can respond right here on the blog. Take care everyone! See you there!

Happy Birthday Elvia Grimsley

Today is Aunt Elvia's Birthday. It's always the easiest day for me to remember. Hope you are doing well and enjoying your day. Take care Aunt Elvia, see you soon.
Mark

Here's a great picture of Josh and Grandma Rachel. 

Cathi and I just found out Wednesday morning that we'll be having a Boy! Come on, what else could it have been? 

Congrats to the Grimsleys!

I hear that Veronica and Scott Grimsley are also expecting a second baby this year. Alli told me that Veronica is due in the beginning of October. Well that's great news, what a year!

Congratulations Scott and Veronica! Good luck with the new addition. The holidays should be very cheerful and . . . well, noisy this year.
Mark

Work Day Success

Thanks to everybody who came out and helped out at Grandpa's House on Saturday. Everything went pretty well. Most of the backyard is cleared out so Grandpa can grow a garden or do whatever he wants to do back there. Jim Koontz came all the way down from Turlock and Ron, John, and Jae came up from Shafter. Gabe managed to bring out a trailer that we could load with lots of doors and wood, and later a ton of cement blocks.
I think we got up about 48 feet of fence, so one side is just about all fenced off. Sooner or later we're going to have to do the other side. We also removed the big almond tree from the backyard. Thankfully nobody and nothing was damaged when that came down. While there is still more that can be done, I'd have to say the day was a success. BBQ was a good lunch that almost ended the day before we finished up by hauling off a trailer load of cement off. So I'd assume we were all sore today, but it was worth it to get everything done.

Patter of little Feet

Hi, Everyone.
Well, it is almost Valentine's Day and there is certainly a lot of love in the air. Today we got a great Valentine card signed We love you, Rudy, Raquel, Daniella and (cute pair of little baby feet). Yup, it's true. There will be another little one joining the family in July. If you have a chance, call and congratulate Rudy and Raquel. They are hoping to come down our way in a couple of weeks. Also, Carlos passed his cooking test yesterday, and no the house did not catch on fire. He also got his first progress report. He is doing really well. Thanks to all the prayers.