ABC'S then and now

Saw this on my friend Pearlie's site this morning and wanted to share it.

The amazing part was how many of the New Age Technology I knew!!!!! And, the one's I didn't Aric did.

Have a great day... we are, and we are so glad to have our grandson back with us this Wednesday after his trip to St. Louis & Indiana. In St. Louis he, Oksana, Marc & Deann all got to go up on the Arch, visited a museum and took a River Boat Dinner Cruise up the Mississippi. Oksana & Aric meet their mother the next day and she took then to Indiana to spend 2 weeks with her. They spent a lot of time at the swimming pool and came home brown as berries!!!! Marc drove back up to St. Louis this past Sunday to pick them up.

Oksana Lee Joyce - Our Granddaughter-Part II

Here is Oksana and her very proud dad, Marc.

Marc was awarded a cow bell, that had been painted Edison's green, that said "Pom Dad". Wasn't that the cutest!!!! Wish we'd taken a picture of it. :o(

Here you can see some of the girls behind the many trophies that Edison won. This Banquet was honoring the 6th, 7th & 8th grade squads. Oksana is the one in the green top. By the way, the plaid shorts were one of the gifts given to the girls, along with a white top that had "POM" in green sequins. The girls slipped the shorts on over their slacks!!

The girl hugging Oksana is her "Big Me", Aubri.

During try-outs each, going to be, 6th grader is assigned to a 7th grader as her "Big Me". This older, more experienced girl, helps the new ones learn and is just there to support them in any way. Oksana was so blessed to have Aubri as her "Big Me". The girls have developed a strong bond and friendship that I am sure will last for years. Isn't that a great idea? Now as Oksana is a "pro" she will be assigned as a "Big Me" to a new 6th grader coming in.

Official Pom photo of Oksana Lee Joyce, 6th Grade Pom Squad, Edison High School, 2006-07

Oksana Lee Joyce - Our Granddaughter-Part I

Last night Grandpa & Grandma were privilidged to attend this Pom Banquet with our granddaughter, Oksana, and our son and her dad, Marc.

She is a member of the 6th Grade Pom Squad at Edison Middle School in Tulsa. If you can read the small print you will see these girls won 4th at the UDA Competition, at the beginning of the season, and 1st (yes FIRST) at State!!!

It's been a very eventful year for Oksana and we are so very proud of her

Grandparents Day With Aric

Mickey and I had the privilege last Friday to attend Grandparents Day at Skelly Elementary in Tulsa with our grandson, Aric.

Here are Aric and I walking from his classroom into the cafeteria for a boxed lunch........................
We've already had our prayer and Grandpa is opening his drink can and making preparations to eat. If you look closely you can see that Aric has already opened his cookie and is proceeding to eat it first. Hmmmmm.....bet if Dad

were here he wouldn't be doing that!! But you know how grandparents are :o)
With the cookie partially eaten Aric proceeds to unwrap his submarine sandwich and prepare to eat.
Here's two of the favorite guys in my life. Grandpa Mickey and Aric just before he goes back to his class to finish out his day.

It was a fun time and we are so thankful to be a part of Aric's life and activities.

2nd Grade Student of the Month

Here's Aric with his folder with his award certificate, lots of coupons for various eatteries , his new pencil and most importantly his medal. One very happy and proud 8 year old!

2nd Grade Student of the Month

Meet my grandson, Aric. His name has just been called out as one of 2 from his class of 2nd graders for Student of the Month at Skelly Elementary in Tulsa. He had no idea this was coming so was totally surprised and delighted.

That's me in the background to his left and his dad, Marc, to his right. Grandpa is taking the picture!! Wanted to start introducing you to some of our wonderful family.

I have another picture I wanted to get on this page too but couldn't do it. I'll have to post in following this separately. I'll be so glad when I get better at this! Can you tell how frustrated I get. I'm not accustomed to struggling so much trying to learn something new.

A Very Special Occasion

It's the little, totally unexpected, things of life that make for such joy. Such was a recent event with my almost 12 year old granddaughter.

It began last Sunday afternoon when she called me. The conversation went like this: "Hi Grandma. You know a friend of mind is having a birthday celebration and you know, kinda like, we are all dressing up in formals and going, you know, kinda like, to a fancy hotel to spend the night. It's going to be such fun, you know. Well, you know we wanted to have a limo pick us up and you know, take us there. But you know, it's kinda too expensive, you know, to do that".

In case you haven't heard a tweeny talk lately this is the normal form of conversation!!!! At this point I'm thinking, "I'm about to get hit up for the cost of a limo or at least to go in on one" and of course I am prepared to say "No way". The conversation proceeds: "But, you know, we can;t afford that but we, kinda want to go in a really nice car, and I told them "My grandmother has a red Cadillac that is, you know, like a reeeeally nice car" So, you know, grandma, will you pick us all up in your Cadillac?"

To say I was thrilled would be putting it mildly. Here she is asking her "fuddy-duddy OLD Grandmother, who is TOTALLY out of it in ALL things" to drive them on their exciting sleep-over. Naturally, I was going to do it, but said "I'll talk to Grandpa and get back with you".

Friday night my 1993 (yes that's right!!!! my 14 year old) red, 2 door Cadillac Eldorado had the distinct privilege of taking 5, very excited and totally beautiful young 11-12 years old on a very special outing.

It truly was one of those very special times in a grandmother's life and I savored the joy of it for the entire 6 days from the Sunday request to the actual occasion. God is so good:)