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Showers of Blessings

What a wonderful shower it was...a baby shower for my neice, Candice. So many helped with it. Ann-Marie had planned the games..when people begin to arrive they were given a new name associated with a baby. For instance my name was bottle. For the entire evening, you were to call me bottle not Juliet. If anyone heard you say my real name they had to take off their name tag. Plus, you were also given a colored clothes pin and attached it to clothes. If you used the word BABY...you had to give your clothes pin to that person. The person with the most clothes pins at the end of the evening, won a prize. So we all had to be very careful in our conversations with one another.

The two other fun games were the regular bowl of cotton balls...with eyes shut, you would try to spoon them into a large bowl on your head from the spoon placed in the bowl on your lap. Remember that game? The other game was really funny. Everyone got a blank sheet of paper and after folding, put it behind their back and tried to cut out a baby figure with their own hands. You should have seen the different babies...skinny, fat, and of course some of them looked like a teddy bear.

Gifts, Gifts and more Gifts... so many great clothes, bed, beddings, highchair, etc. That wonderful child to come with certainly be well dressed. Candice, we all are so happy that a new member of our family will be coming soon. ...and a girl at that.

We had great food too! Fruit salad, Veggie tray, Turkey and Ham Wraps, Punch and especially the cake from good old Hilanders.

Thanks to everyone who took part...Betty Boehm, (Candice's Aunt in Texas), Charity and Colleen (Candice's sisters from TN) Cousin Ann-Marie and even Candice herself.

I'm looking forward to being a GREAT-AUNT AGAIN! Enjoy the slide show from the shower!

It's ALL over

WOW...64 people in all. First off I apologize for not getting everyones pictures. It's been a long time since I was in charge of a little one...my wonderful great adorable neice, Madyson. We had fun!! But now I know why moms don't get to take many pictures...your hands are not free to even hold a camera. Just enjoy the video and perhaps others that were there can show pictures of other family members. (We had so many that we had to hire an FBI Agent...AKA Brett) Thanks goes to Uncle Jimmy (Bob's brother) for the wonderful FBI caps he sent to Ann-Marie and Brett.

As always our Christmas Eve starts out with family members who can go, met at brother Scott's house to go caroling @ 4:00. Meanwhile back at the ranch..actually the church in Beloit, others prepare for the crowd. Tables and chairs to be set up, table cloths to be put on the tables, food to put out...etc. Thanks to Louise and Jeanine Gibson they kept us all in line and told us what to do and also what not to do.

When everyone finally arrive...we eat alot (more than we should). I especially like Judy telling her son Justin who had a plate in his hand..."Justin, remember there are people behind you!" I guess teens need to be remined of this on ocassions...such as this. Well anyway, we talk, we eat again and then we just kept talking. In between all of this there is the picture taking of anyone willing to having their picture taken.

Clean up is always fun...and Venita and Judy are two of the faithful few to actually stick around to clean the kitchen up. But this year we had great help from everyone.

In the video...Aiden is Brad and Paula's son...and I think Brad and Paula could be pictured on just about any magazine.

As always Santa appears bringing gifts for all the kids! Mother at 90 still reads the Christmas story...what Christmas is all about.

We all join in as Scott leads us in Christmas Carols...ending with "We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Lots and Lots of FOOD - FUN - FELLOWSHIP but never enough time to visit eveyone. POOF!! I'S OVER...that is until next year!!!

Christmas morning, Ann-Marie, Brett, Gary and I have a Quiet breakfast brunch. Open our gifts and just enjoyed the day. Brett and Ann-Marie headed off to Geneva to celebrate the rest of the day with his family. We sometime go, but this year we didn't. That's all folks. May the Lord richly bless us as we serve Him in the year 2008.

P.S. For more pictures, just click on BJ Blog. Thanks.

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Grandmother - Granddaughter

The other day my mother, Agnes Rehfeldt, phoned me to tell me that she had recieved a copy of the Rockford Woman magazine. "What a surprize it was to me to see my granddaughter, Ann-Marie sharing the same magazine with me."

Jeneice Smith had interviewed my mother for the magazine. So I just want to pass along to you these two different articles. Just go to http://www.rockfordwoman.com/ and read about these Famous people in my life. Click on Animal Magnetism for Ann-Marie and Children and Churches for my mom....you'll have to scroll a little before you see my mother's quotes.

P.S...the picture behind Ann-Marie was one I cross-stitched for her when she was in high school. I enjoyed doing it, but the bunnies ear gave me a hard time with those half-stitches.

Cousins

Having come from such a large family, I didn't know my first cousins very much. The only two I remember well were cousin Joyce and cousin George.

Our youngest brother, Timothy and his wife Judi have the youngest first cousins who are still in school. Awhile back I wanted to let other first cousins that don't live in town to see a newspaper clipping of Jeffery and Justin. But as you all know my scanner wasn't working. This clipping was taken in the fall. Jeffery is only 6'4" and Justin is shorter...6'2". They are both great in sports. Last night Gary and I were watching the sports...low and behold they said Justin name..slaughter the pronouncing of the name Rehfeldt...it was a basketball game. Rockford Christian against Maranatha School. Rockford Christian won!!!

Enjoy the photo! Justin is in front and Jeffery is to the right.

Help is on the Way

The other day I got two e-mail from paypal, saying two different people were sending me money. "Hurray" should have been my first response...but I'm thinking, "I have nothing on e-bay to sell."

A hurried call to my neice, Candice, who help me set up both my accounts with paypal and EBay, telling her I didn't know what to do...that really nothing new to most people. Since she works on the weekend was was able to come to my rescue and clear the matter up for me. We think it may have been a scam of some sort and paypal will check that part out.

While we were working on the problem, Gary came in the computer room and asked Candice if she wanted to stay for supper. We were just having meatloaf and I wasn't sure she would like it. But it turns out that she does.

While getting the supper ready, I asked Candice if BJ, her brother would be free to join us for supper. She phoned him and he was able to join us. Now since I have my computer geek nephew here....I'm thinking...I have a scanner which I can't seem to get it to work. "Hey BJ, could you take a look at my scanner and see if you could get it to work?" Now what GEEK would say NO when you offer them to look at your scanner and computer.

Well to make a long story short, he got my scanner to work and also did other geekish things to my computer. (I don't know if geekish is a word, but it my word.)

I just want to thanks to my neice, Candice and nephew BJ for helping out their old aunt.

In the pictures from the scanner....for those who don't know Candice and BJ..Candice is the good looking blonde in the first picture and in the other pictures...BJ is standing in the middle.

Snow Bunny

Yesterday the snow was just beginning to come down. It was just starting to get a little dark out. I decided to lower the blinds...just outside the computer room window I saw this rabbit just standing there. I wondered if I got my camera would he still be there? When I got back he was still standing there like a little statue...he even looked my way as if to say "What are you up to?"

Well, I actually think that he was posing just for the camera. I know that Ann-Marie will enjoy this picture. It would make a great Hallmark card.

Trip to Missouri

Jan and I had such a good time at Michael and Danielle's. It was so good to see them and the wonderful new addition to their family Makayla. She is so sweet and cute. Bryant was in school all day and Mackenzie went only half a day. We got to spend alot of time with Danielle, Bryce, Madyson and baby Makayla. My sister has go much eneregy...I couldn't of done all that she had done. First I'm not a cook and she did all the cooking. And as always the food was so GOOD! She loves being a GRANDMA! She enjoy reading and singing to her Grandkids and they love every bit of it. I on the other hand would sneak away to read or get in an afternoon nap. However on Thursday, I told Mackenzie ,"I'm going to make Grandma take a nap while you and I do a craft."
She was willing and Jan finally got a well deserved nap. Michael is such a great dad...at night I felt like I was off duty. He just takes over with the help of his Mom. Danielle was such a great help to me when Jan went on a field with Bryant. I guess I'm the one that is helpless without the help of other people.

I did enjoyed the time I got alone with Madyson and Bryce...and especially when I got to hold Makayla. They are all fun to be around. Mackenzie and I had fun playing soccer ball..of course our way of playing it. Bryant reminds me of Michael..I love Bryant's facial expressions! We would have stayed another day longer, but Darryl phoned and said the weather would be bad for traveling on Saturday.

All in all the trip went GREAT. The only drawback was me getting a bad cold. I'm still not to full recovery but I would make that trip again.

Thanks to Danielle and Michael for always opening their home to Gramdma and Aunt Juliet. We always have fun. Plus we got to celebrate Mackenzie 6th Birthday!!