Rest In Peace Aunt Evelyn

My grandfather's sister Evelyn passed away Saturday at the age of 97. Her twin sister Charlotte is still living. As you can see from the obit below - she had a large family that will miss her - children, grand children, great grandchildren and even great great grandchildren. And that does not even count all the nieces, nephews, and greats of all of those. Rest in peace Aunt Evelyn. You can finally be with Uncle Bob and Forrest again.

Mary Evelyn (Douthat) Young, 97, of Belton, MO, passed away March 14, 2009. Visitation will be held from 4-6 p.m., Sunday, March 15, 2009, at the Park Lawn Chapel, Hillcrest Road at 83rd Street, Kansas City. Private entombment will be Monday in Memorial Park Cemetery. Evelyn was born August 22, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Claud and Maggie Douthat. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert H. Young in 1986, a son, Forrest "Bubbie" Young in 1951, and a great grandson, Jacob Parrish Trussell, in 1986. Survivors include her daughters, Judy Rader (Richard) of Peculiar, MO, and Barbara Yu of Laramie, WY; her twin sister, Charlotte Marietta of Belton, MO; five grandchildren, Scott Tafel (Ruth), Dennis Rader (Lisa), Kim Standley (Mike), Cindi Trussell, and Kristy Jones (Mark); twelve great grandchildren, and three great- great grandchildren.

Happy Birthday Taryn!

Happy Birthday to our beautiful daughter!

Portraits

Winter or Spring?

Saturday we had the lovely snow fall. Yesterday it was 81!!
Today it was in the seventies and a gorgeous day.
I am glad we had one last snowfall but am loving this spring weather.

a detour on the way to Spring

Well I guess we get to see a bit more winter before the buds and blossoms.
We went from brown to WHITE!

Spring is on the way..

It is hard to believe that February is almost over. It has been a very mild winter here in Blue Springs. Only about 3 more weeks and it will be spring! Yeah! I am sooo ready for the trees to to bud and flowers to bloom. I want to see green! Currently everything is an ugly brown.



Michael has been here for 2 1/2 weeks now. It has been nice getting to know him a bit better. I hope he is feeling at home here with us.

Other than that - things have been pretty routine. Work, school, scouts, Tae Kwon Do, piano etc. I am enjoying school. Mostly I have learned how much I don't know. There is a lot to learn!

Just some pics

The newest member of our household

Birthday Party Pics

Party at Lunar Mini Golf



Party at Grandpa and Grandma's - the pinata

the cupcakes

giant balloon that is now in our entry way stuck to the ceiling until it loses its helium


Birthday morning cinnamon rolls - The 4+5 instead of 9 candles was his idea. He loves math!


The other birthday boy :)

Our baby is turning 9!

Happy Birthday to Alec on Saturday!
Love you kiddo!

Happy Birthday to my hubby!

and many more!!!!
I love you!

History is being made this week...

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Tomorrow is the inauguration of our first black president. Dr. King would have been very pleased. Congratulations to President Obama!

In the Glascock household - it is a pretty quiet week. All my boys have been enjoying their day off lounging around the house. I went to a movie and lunch with Carla. It was nice to see her. I miss seeing her since we don't work together anymore. We saw 'Last Chance Harvey' with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. It was pretty good.

My first two days of school were uneventful. I am the oldest student in the class - but that's okay (I guess). I think it will be a good class. I have been finding out how much I don't know!

I reconnected with a couple of old friends on Facebook this week. I know some people think Facebook is silly - or just for teenagers - but it's not. I really enjoy checking in with my 'friends' everyday.

I guess that is it for now. Time to do something productive.

Jake and Jill's party at Grandma and Grandpa's house

Happy Birthday to my nephew!

Happy 17th Birthday Jake!

I guess that last time I really updated this was 12/30.
Let's see what's been going on.....
New Year's Eve was very quiet. It was just the 4 of us at home this year. We all made it to midnight and toasted with sparkling grape juice.
It was back to scouts on the 5th, school on the 6th and TaeKwonDo on the 7th. Then on the 8th Alec started piano lessons. He is a busy boy. He wants drums for Christmas next year. I told him if he could stick with piano for a year - he could have them. The middle school requires piano lessons before you can play percussion in the band - so it seemed like a good place to start. He really liked his first lesson and even made up his own little song today. It is actually pretty good! He is a nut.
Both boys got their grade cards this week. Alec got all A's and +'s. Jason got all A's and B's and gets to attend the academic recognition ceremony for the third year in a row for having a GPA over 3.5!

I guess that is about it. I start school on Wednesday! I am a little nervous about going to school with all the youngsters! :)

I got this from my mom and dad for Christmas. Isn't it pretty?

Happy Birthday to my niece

and watch out on the roads - she has her learner's permit! :)
Happy Birthday Jilly!

Happy 2009!

It has been a busy last few weeks. Although I complain a lot about them - I do enjoy the holidays. But I also breathe a big sigh of relief when they are over for another year.

We had a very nice Christmas. We went to my mom and dad's on Christmas Eve as is our tradition. We had a few presents for the kids, ate chili and a lot of sweets, and had a good time just being together.
On Christmas Day we stayed home. The boys didn't get up until 8:30 or so - believe it or not. We lazed around and enjoyed the day. My parents and sister came by later in the day for a short visit.
Around 8:00pm Christmas night - Michael, Taryn, Brady, Hunter and Autumn arrived. We had a nice visit and we're glad everyone could make it. We took a family picture which I posted a few days ago. They went back to South Dakota on Sunday afternoon. It has been very quiet around here since then.
Brad has been working and the boys and I have mostly been hanging around the house. We did go see the movie "Bedtime Stories" with Lucia, Sabrina and Marissa on Monday. It was cute. The weather has been in the upper 50s for the last couple days - so boys have spent a lot of time outside. I am very glad that they haven't spent their whole Christmas Break on the computer. Alec has gotten very good on the pogo stick he got from Gram and Gramps and Jason has been riding his new Ripstick. (He already was very good at riding it. His old one just got run over by a car.)

Here is the front and back of the calendar Alec made me for Christmas. I like Brad's gray hair and how skinny I look ;)
Happy New Year to all!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Family

Our family




Trent and family

Snow...

I am sitting here watching it snow and thankful I am at home.
The kids are out of school due to the snow and Brad is working from home.
Alec's spelling bee was supposed to be this morning. I think he was actually a little disappointed that there was not school today. Not sure when they will reschedule it for. They only have 3 more days of school until Christmas break.
The boys also had a snow day last Wednesday. At this rate they will be going to school until mid June.
My last day of work on Friday was kind of sad - but I am not sad today! This is my official first day of 'retirement'. And what a wonderful day to be at home!
I went to Warrensburg yesterday to meet with an advisor and get enrolled for classes. School starts January 14. I have one class on Mon, Wed, Fri and one on Mondays only. I am really looking forward to learning more about photography. I did find out that I will need a new camera - darn! ;) I am really good with that except for the $$$.

Happy belated Birthday to my 'baby' brother!

Other big news this week.....

Alec won his class spelling bee and will be in the school spelling bee on Dec 16. He is very excited!

Thanksgiving

We took our annual trip to Pineville, LA. Brad's parents are always kind enough to have us all there for Thanksgiving. Normally, we go, as well as Brad's brother Bryan, his sister Tami and their families. Bryan and family could not make it this year. Brad's other sister Teresa and family usually have other plans.
All of our boys have fun playing together over the long weekend - and the rest of us enjoy visiting and eating :)
Here are the boys in 2002 - Alec, Seth, Trevor, Jason and Ryne.

And now - 6 years later.....(Trevor couldn't make it this year)

Here they are acting silly with Aunt Tami looking at the Christmas lights.


It seems to have taken me a week to get caught up on everything - and I am not quite there yet. This coming week is going to be busy - but after that I guess I will have a lot more time! My last day of work is December 12. That day will be exactly 25 years from when I started working in the retirement plan business.