FEBRUARY 27, 2009

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO VICTORIA ROSE

HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 5 YEARS HAVE PASSED SO QUICKLY. FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WAS TORI:









AND THIS IS TORI NOW:

SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY PRETTY GRANDDAUGHTER. I LOVE YOU AND SO DID YOUR POPPI.

MICHIGAN IN THE FALL

Jonathan, Poppi would have called you a tree hugger!

If you click on these pictures your will get a better view!

Lake Michigan & Ludington Lighthouse

WHAT WILL MATTER?

Someone sent this to me. So true:

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built;not what you got, but what you gave.What will matter is not your success, but your significance.What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.What will matter is not how many people you knew,but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.Choose to live a life that matters.
~ by Michael Josephson ~

Poppi's Memorial Video

LONG LIVE THE KING

This was taken back in November I believe. Big gang of family all went to Ian's Madrigal. It was wonderful. Everyone did a great job, but of course we all thought the King was fabulous!!

Happy Valentine's Day to All!

Do something nice for your best sweetie.

Love you all.

More Pictures

So it is a rainy, grey day here in Ludington. Am hoping that this rain will wash away some pretty horrid looking dirty snow. I have a day off and am still sitting here at around 11:00 am in my jammies. Who cares?

Believe I owe Julie an apology. She sent me a bunch of pictures for the calendar. I could not open some and just gave up. Well today I went back and for some reason was able to open them. I'm so sorry Julie, it is heck to get old!! So here are some of the missing pictures:

Pretty Sarah - are you dancing??

All the pretty girls.

And more pretty girls. Actually bathing beauties would be a better description of this one!

Believe this is taken outside the Atlanta Falcons stadium.

What do you think? Do you think Eric is beginning to look more and more like Poppi? I do.

So that is about it for now. Time to get dressed and accomplish something today.

Pictures that did not make the calendar.

Bobby III sent these photos to me in their Christmas card - too late to make calendar. so thought you might all like to see them. Believe they were taken last summer on their way to Michigan.

Bob, Devon, Allison and Avery stopped in Atlanta on way to Michigan and spent some time with Eric and family. Believe they all went to Seven Flags or some place like that.

As I remember they said it was very hot that day. They look hot!

Action Shot!!

Bob III, Jennifer and Ryan with Grandpa Archey at Bob and Sue's house last summer.

SOME PICTURES THAT DID NOT MAKE THE CALENDAR THIS YEAR

Decided to post a few pictures that I rec'd too late to put into calendar this year or some that I did not have room for. Some from Eric, and some from Bob III, some I rec'd and some from Elie's photos.

Sorry about this one, just couldn't resist!!

Now to the real pictures!

Christmas in Atlanta. Boy oh boy everyone is getting so TALL Just look at Camp. Wow!!

They really do love each other!!

See there they are all happy as a box of birds. Don't the girls look pretty?

Oh and Camp looks pretty dapper also!

Another good looking Johnston family that lives in Iowa.

Now I could add some more family pictures, but you can find some on Traci's and Karen's blogs. I would not want to be redundant!

Well I still have some more, but will add them later. This is all for now. Need to get some cleaning done around here. Love ya all.

SO I BET YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH BLOGGING

Surprise, surprise - I am back. Been awhile. Sorry bout that. But just look, I at long last have figured out how to add music. Aren't ya proud of me? Am having a little problem tho. I wanted to add a couple more songs after downloading this thing and now I can't seem to add to them. Bummer.

I wanted to post a really cool picture that Elie took, but she is so busy with new job and all, she has had no time to download her pictures for me. So as of now this post shall remain pictureless.

Some of you know that the Georgia Johnston's gave me a really cool GPS system for Christmas. Do believe I need to travel somewhere besides Gramp's house and the Red Cross to really get the full use of it. Right now all it seems to want to do is recalculate. Someone told me I had to name the woman that speaks on it. I have come up with a couple - let me know what you think.
#1 Sally Forth #2 Miley. Am also open for more suggestions.

Today I decided to drive to Scottville and try to find their post office. Old Sally or Miley did a mighty fine job. Of course you must keep in mind that the downtown of Scottville is only two blocks long!!

We actually had a sunny day today and some of that stuff that builds up around your tires and wheel wells actually fell off. Yeah!! My poor car is a wholly mess. Can't wait to wash it inside and out.

It is getting way past my bedtime so guess I had better close for now. Love ya all.