My Mom and Dad Gatlin at work in Arizona

3/22/2012 6:01:00 AM Organizations: Laureate-Quilt Laureate Beta Epsilon

Courtesy Laureate-Quilt Laureate Beta Epsilon: The Laureate Beta Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority presented an Arizona Centennial Quilt to the Mohave Museum of History and Arts to be used as a fundraising project. All proceeds of the raffle will be used to improve the Museum's outdoor exhibits. The quilt was created by Marsha Gatlin, president of the Laureate Beta Epsilon, and her husband Bud. It features official Arizona Centennial materials with cactus blossoms, saguaro cactus and Arizona State flags. The quilt is on display at the Mohave Museum of History and Arts, 400 W. Beale St., Kingman. Raffle tickets are available in the Museum Gift Shop and from sorority members. The drawing will be held at the annual Mohave Museum Wine and Cheese Tasting event on Friday, Nov. 2. (Need not be present to win.) Displaying the quilt during the presentation are officers of the sorority chapter and members of the Mohave Museum Board of Directors. Left to right are: Bud Gatlin; Bill Porter, board president; JoAnn Reisbeck, sorority treasurer; Corliss Foley, sorority vice president; Ruthie Burford, board member; and Marsha Gatlin, sorority president. I am so proud of my parents!!! They are doing so much with their retirement and their daily lives. Mom has had much medical problems that she over comes and goes forward. Wish I were there to give them each a great big hug. Oh yeah they are both standing in front on each side. :)

Record Breaking Snow March 21, 2012 in Willamette Valley, Oregon at my house :)

 Today was wild, Snowed all day long at 34 degrees a really wet snow, that melted away alot. Tonight is a different story it is heavy dryer snow. Still 34 degrees. It is alot more fun tonight such huge snow flakes.. sorry the pics are dark but hey it is 11:00pm. So that is that... May you all sleep tight tonight and Warm!!!

Snow

Miss Brighton loving the snow. Just like her Mama use to. 

Snow Angel Practice in the Winter of 2012

Wednesday's Weather

Windy Wendesday... that is the forecast here in  Highland, Illinois. My cousin is coming up tomorrow so we can celebrate Brighton's 4th birthday it isn't in real life until March 3rd. But, who cares, cake will be there. So far she is having fun on this trip. Really enjoying her Great Grandparents, Great Aunt, Cousins and whomever else stops by. It was a large event tonight Bonnie, Jake's Lady stopped by and painted B's toes and fingers for her. A happy four year old.  Aunt Jayne is sick with the flu, my mom is pulling in second. I really hope the rest of us don't get this thing. 


It's is hard sleeping in this house...you hear everything but nothing at the sametime....I need white noise.... not, dead silence that is so loud one could scream or so many creeks in this house making noise and such I don't know how to explain it...it just is. 


Life has been weird lately adjusting to the Grandparents being gone. My mom and aunt are pretty sad about it. Not sure how to cheer them up. I mean seriously. I have no idea what to do for them. 

Music?

Some reason I like this little song. now particular...just a feeling...

Grandma and Grandpa's Final Resting Place

Here we are the night before at a place in Folsom called Chicago Fire... It was Okay.. Jake grabbed my camera and took a few pics.  Above is Pinky my son... with a screwball face on. Next to him is Aunt Jayne

 Then it is me. My hair is short from being sick and it started falling out...but now it is growing back :)

 The gang of yea hoo's they raisied... from left to right, Tashia, Pinky, Callie, Kim, Jayne, Jake, Pat, Richey, Denny... Joanne was in Illinois taking care of lewis her husband he ain't doing well. Allie and Reno, Jakes kids and Briley his Grand daughter stayed home. Kim's Daughters Kalea and Lola were in Alabama their other grandma. Juhn Kim's other half was about and around here somewhere, Tashia's husband was somewhere around here. My husband was at work in Lebanon, Oregon. My Daughter was at work in Portland. Pat husband Bob was at work in las Vegas...oh yeah my Grandkids Brighton and Jack were with there Dad's. If I forgot someone I am sorry I have a 3 year old underfoot of me right now. 

 Kim, Pat, Jayne

 Wes, Jake, Pinky

 Jake and I making a feeble attempt to keep it together while talking about our grandparents. Jake lost it and I had taken a sedative so I wouldn't get all crying and such...I walked more like the funeral Drunk... GREAT :( but i didn't want to break down and cry...instead I was wobbly...

 Granny's final bed

 the on looking of the burial plot

the worst part, when they lower them in the ground more later

A month of Letters

Go Check the site out and see how it works, I think it might be a hoot! I am gonna go for it ;)

A month of Letters

this is how to get to this great site with the following idea.
Hope to see you all there :......and life goes on....da da di da do....

A Dying Fact

So when my Grandpa was bed ridden last year we had gotten some new t-shirts and cut them up the back so it was easy on him to put fresh clothes on him everyday. Well, I just found out that my mom and aunt were putting these same old shirts on my Grandmother in her dying bed. Well, I don't know but I got pissed off.

I think if and old woman of 89 years old is bed ridden she should at least have some flowered t-shirts. Not her husbands old blue, red, orange, green and brown dying shirts. So I texted my Mom, My Aunt and My Brother and chewed them all out. This picture above is the result. My granny will now be laying in her dying bed in a fashionable way... Flowers and Purple. I love it. Thank you so much family for listening to me.

Let it be known if I end up in a dying bed... I want flowers and purple also and some make up and someone combs my hair and washes me everyday and puts some makeup on my face and brushes my teeth and if I have some crazy hairs on my face. I want the crazy things pulled and any black heads Squeeze away!!! Sorry to be so direct but wouldn't you want the same?

Peanut, Flooding and Granny

So yeah I am suppose to be updating this site, my blog... LOL, I am doing so good at it. Don't ya think? Don't come here if you are looking for Grammar... it doesn't exist here! ha ha

Anyway. Granny is still chugging along. She keeps having strokes. She is in the bed almost all the time now.. Get's in the wheel chair a few minutes every day...

Well, I live in Oregon and we are having this gigantic flooding again. It is terrible... We have lost 2 lives so far that I am aware of and some homes.. I don't remember it raining so hard, so much, for just a few days causing all this mess. Washington State is in a freeze.. I have a friend that just moved there...what a welcome she got.

This picture was taken by Pamela Hayes... it has been passed all around Facebook today.. I have no idea whom she is but I would like to personally thank her for this picture. She has taken many that express the tragedy unfolding...

Oh and by the way My Family Dog Peanut passed away on Jan 16, 2012. She passed from complications from Diabetes and overall a dislike for feeling like shit and having to wear diapers and get stuck with needles... it was degrading to her.. Seriously she was so unhappy... I love you my little "Woo Woo" girl. Her most favorite person in the whole world.. my son "Pinky"... "I am sorry your dog passed son".

Peanut is the silver one... Ozzie is the black...he is now 3... When Peanut lost her mom she needed a companion so that is when Ozzie came into the home... I must say Ozzie is so sad about losing Peanut... But, I just can't get another little one right now. So that is life today! :)