The Rasmussen Family Established 1971

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter 2011

Audree and Adylin... Just being Girls...

Cousins Play

Cousins Laugh

Cousins Hop, Skip, and Jump

Some jump high
Some jump low

But Cousins
Can have Fun
Where ever they go

Saturday, March 26, 2011

The fun part of grandkids is the bath... Oh these two cracked me up. I was in socks and my pj's so I was trying to stay out of the fray. Bennett was attached to his water spout from the second he saw it at the store. So it went into the bath. I put a few towels down prior to the getting into part. I added a towel during the bath. When done... and toys out.... I needed another towel to wipe the green water spout dry.

Bennett went to bed with it... and cried great big tears when we got ready to go home and was told he needed to leave it here to water grandma's flowers. So... as a good grandma I went into the house and got it for him. I'm sure his parents didn't want it at home, but wasn't going to play the bad guy... That is what parents are for. hehehe

I had to crop almost all the pictures due to Bennett standing up, but those also show his joy... Ady got as good as she gave. The two of them had a really great time. The floor, not so good, but the carpet dries if you put enough towels down.

Getting the part of the carpets... sigh... I hate carpet in the bathroom especially infront of the comode... Can you believe it? Oh it's a good thing we are renting or else we would be on wood floor until enough money to replace it with tile or linolium...

Oh well... kids don't think of that... when it's not done intentionally (Matt) it's workable. These two never once just poured water over the side. I'm sure each drop was an accident especially if you ask Adylin... Most of the things she does are accidents.

I didn't get pictures of them doing the sun catchers... I needed all my faculties just to keep the 'paint' on the tablecloth or the sun catcher. They turned out very cute and I was so lucky to be sending them home for the family to enjoy.

I love them being off track. We get to have them on sleepover's during the week, as well as on weekends. I'm thinking our next sleepover will be Tanner before he goes back to school.

Life as Grandma is really truely the best thing in the whole world. They wear me to a frazzle and I get grumpy cuz I get tired, but I wouldn't trade a moment for anything. This time passes so quickly as I have learned with a 16 yr old granddaughter... SIGH... So, it's enjoy this while in the moment.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Genealogy, I am doing it...

GENEALOGY

I finally got the lazy out... and pulled in all the totes from around the house and garage that hold our 'special' things... Photos, group sheets, family histories, personal histories... etc.

We are up to 8 totes and still searching. We are trying to sort this into 5 families... Mike's Mom's and Dad's, my Mom's and Dad's and then Ours... Along with photos and other important papers. It's been so cold to get out in the garage to look, that Spring will have to be the time I add to my office clutter.

Mike and I started the genealogy class at church and we have been able to connect us as ONE family on the new family search https://new.familysearch.org . If you copy and paste this into your browser... it will bring it up... use the sign on your use for your ward... or create one if you do not have one created yet. Try to tie our families together... Let's see what we can accomplish in the year 2011. I only shows the dead's info not the living... so it's safe.

When you are the keeper of the family jewels, I have found this to be a pretty overwhelming job. The amount of stuff, what to do with the stuff, how to best preserve the stuff... etc.

Can I ask a dumb question? Why were the 'old' photo album sheets black? Why did they 'glue' them in and put the cute little corners on too?? Then they wrote in like a white ink under the photo. To get the photos out I have to cut them out and then try to remove the majority of the paper. Notice I said majority... cuz you can't get it all off due to the lovely glue.

I sounds like am complaining... I am not. I feel fortunate to have so many jewel blessings. The enormity of the job is just a tad overwhelming, that's all. I called a cousin (thanks Jani for coming and bringing your box of jewels) thinking that we would have the same jewels, and found we did not. So we are sharing and trying to figure things out between us, since our mother's are sisters.

So far this is what we have... No work done on Bobbie Dean Lindsay, and Mike and I not showing our temple sealing date... not sure where to put it... guess I will ask the teacher on Sunday... We have our 4 generations done. Thanks to other family members. So I thought I can organize what we have, make copies, share and update our current family info.

Sound good to you? It does to me. I now get to spend hours scanning photos and documents into a flash drive and burning media disc's to hold the info...

I am do it...

Slowly but surely. (Shirley no pun intended)

So, it's Genealogy...

I am working on it...

our genealogy

: ) .....

Monday, January 03, 2011

Is Randomness a word??? September

This is just a random post... Nothing much to say...

All is same o same o here...

Summer is almost over... Autumn is fast approaching ...
with winter running close behind...

Didn't winter just get over and summer just start...
Oh man... I'm sure of it LOL

We are still in the rental property of Holly's playing the waiting game...
I don't know if Mike wants to wait it out or move before winter sets in?
I don't know where we are going? I don't know who is going to live with us?
My life is full of unknowns ... again.

I took a few photos and thought they would make a cute update for me on here.

December 2010

I usually love the holidays. This year wasn't depressing, but wasn't the greatest...

We haven't seen Alexis, Seth, Audree, or Dylan for the holidays... Sigh

Didn't know about Lexie's surgery for tonsils and adenoids... was happy to hear it went well and she is now on the road to getting better and over the illnesses that have kept her down this past few years... Hugs Honey

Seth is a sweetheart... He calls me and texts me and keeps my in his loop. I love cell phones and IM's , and FB (facebook).

Kirk moved the first of Dec. From Jess' condo to an apt that leaks.... Guess he has pots and bowls keeping the drips at bay!!

Holly had her baby on Dec 5. Warren Andrew Strong. Oh boy, she has her hands full. Seems to handle it better than I do and did. WaWa is so cute. Bennett's name for him. We are adapting sounds to him for better communication tools. His speech therapist comes in 2x's a month to work with him. It is helping. Matt is a pill... stinker... and a love bug... Ady is constant... helpful... loud... sweet... I'm so glad her name is Adylin and not Constance... whew... she whistles as I do and it annoys others like I do... It's funny and cute and sweet... Tanner is just growing up. I can't believe he will be 10 this year. It makes sense, Holly and Davis will be married 11 yrs in Sept. hm

With both Al and John living with us... it gets crazy sometimes.. but on the whole I like it. It is fun to develop a relationship with your grown children that I never thought I'd have. We talk and converse... run errands together and annoy each other in a funny positive way.

Life is good!!

2011 has the potential to be a great year... It's new and fresh... Time to put last year behind us and learn from our errors. I wish I were perfect, error free... But I am not. That would only work in a perfect world and we do not have that... Not even close!! We have the opportunity to take a class... plant something new... develop a talent... cook something new (I already did this... Navy Bean soup like my mom's) and keep it up... Failure is required!! Sounds bad but it is not... it's growth...

Happy 2011...
Some pix's from Nov thru Dec and up to Jan.. Enjoy!!

Made a hat and blanket for Warren...
Pretty small... fit for a day... Kid is not teeny...