Wade Does Like Grandpa Gene After Aall

The other night we got to have some one-on-one time with Wade. The other three kids went to Fallon with Dorothy. Gene always says, "Wade really doesn't like me very much," but we have proof, that he really does.

It doesn't really look that Gene is all that into playing here but they had had a lot of fun running and chasing each other around.

I think Wade still has a lot more energy and it looks like he got he best of Grandpa.

Julie's Birthday

Tonight we celebrated Julie's birthday at Buca di Beppo, a really fun italian resturant where you order family style. We all went, minus the 3 older Stockard kids, who are in Fallon.

I asked our professional photographer, Kevin to take some pictures because he was at the end of the table by my purse with my camera in it. Sadly he only got a few good shots. I can't understand why, we're all so photogenic.

Her's the birthday girl with her complimentry birthday cake and candlabra with candles for blowing out. There's cute Wade at the end of the table, he really didn't like being that far away from the action.

Brandi and Dane, horsing around, imagine that, guess who won . . . Dane says that he won, because his mom quit. I wonder what his mom would say.

Aren't they all so cute?

This was the first picture Kevin took,

I just couldn't resist when they both wanted to sit on my lap.

Swimming fun

Today I had 6 of our 10 grandchildren together for a few hours and of course they wanted to swim. You can see that Ema and Dane have already spent a full week in the sun at their annul summer trip to Clearlake with the Romberg family. You can see that we aren't too worried about those two getting sun burned. But the poor Stockards got a pretty bad sun burn last week on one of the very first really sunny days, that they spent at the park. That caused getting into the pool this summer to get off to a slower start. We wait all winter for the few months that our pool gets a really good work out. We have so much fun and have some really good swimmers. On this day we only had Wade (2) who was a non-swimmer. We still need to keep careful eyes on Abby and Ella too, but they were home with their mommy today.

This is one of the only pictures that I got with Dane and Weston. They were all over the pool horsing around, and I guess I was mostly focusing on Wade. I need some more practice with my new camera.

Here's cute Payton who's 4 1/2, she can swim "just like Arial" really, she's a great swimmer, she's safe in any part of the pool.
Ema was really cute with Wade, he loves the pool so we really need to get him safe in it quickly.
Here he had jumped in from the side, gone under the water and up into Ema's waiting arms.
There's Kylie, she was hard to capture too. They don't hold very still when they're playing in the pool. Someone is always within arms length of Wade, right now!
There's Kylie and Payton just having fun in the sun in Grandma's pool.
Waders, hopefully before the end of the summer we will have him swimming on his own, that is between good swimmers, of course.
Ema (12) is growing up too quickly. Here's another picture of the boys, Wes (6 1/2) is closer to Ema and Dane (11) is further out. Boy those two could pass for brothers. Wes is catching up to Dane in size very quickly too.
Now for any of you who may be thinking, "they have 10 grand kids and have a pool in their back yard, man they are just asking for an accident!" We do have a fence that is normally around the pool making our backyard and home with a pool safe for our loved ones!!! It is removable, but it's normally up and keeping everyone safe!

My Own Lap Top

I'm so excited because I finally have my own lap top. Dustin and Julie are such computer techies, and they are always up-grading their systems, so they offered me one they no longer needed. They spent a lot of time fixing it all up for me with programs that they thought I would like and be comfortable with. As with anything new there's always a transition period. I have Gene's lap top all fixed up to my liking with my games and pictures and favorites. Much to his dismay, he's been so kind to share with me and let me play when he needed to work. But now I have my own and need to fix it up too. It will be a challenge but I'm sure I can do it.
Gee thanks you guys, you're the best, I love you both!

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