Happy Happy News!

My Dear Family and Friends - I have been patiently waiting for my wonderful daughter-in-law to post this on their blog first - but I just can't wait any longer! I have told most of Cass County and now am starting on strangers including sales clerks and cash wash attendants. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I'm crazy. So it's time to scream it on my blog. We are going to be grandparents!!! Whoo Hoooo! We were so excited to learn a couple Saturdays ago that Andrew and Meagan are expecting a baby in early February. They told us by giving us a book named "A New Barker In The House", and the tears started flowing instantly! We were having Billie and Mark's anniversary party at the lake house so they told us in the morning and then told everyone else later on that afternoon. There was such excitement on the deck when they gave the same book to the new great-grandparents to be! We are all so thrilled. Tears were flowing then too. It's been since Connor that we have had a baby in this family so do you think he or she might be a bit loved (spoiled in a good way!!)?? I pretty sure of it. Can't wait to watch Meagan grow and glow, and to see what a beautiful baby they will have. The anticipation is the best part!!

We had a beautiful day for the 30th anniversary party and it was so nice to have the house and yard full of people. The spread of food on the table was amazing and the company was the best. Congrats again to the wonderful couple on 30 years!! It was great to have Aunt Jo, Les and Chris at Munson to help them celebrate too!! A good time was had by all I believe.

This past weekend we had a few good hours of sunshine on Sat and got to spend some time on the pontoon finally! Then the awful clouds moved in and we were at our house in case the basement was needed. It was kinda scary for awhile! We did manage to get the pork chops done in spite of the weather!! This Friday Jenn, Greg and I, Tim, Julie and Kristin Keckler are going to Omaha NE to see two games of the college world series. Mike has connections thru work and gets tickets almost every year if he wants them. Mike and Dave (Kristin's fiance) can't go so the rest of us are. Tim was given the tickets on Father's Day as a surprise and I guess he is really excited! He has always wanted to go so it should be fun. The weather sounds great and baseball is my second favorite sport (Bison FB first of course!) so what could be better than baseball, sun, cold beer, and good friends. Looking forward to it. Will post some pics when we get back.

Have a great weekend everyone - Love from Grandma Becky :) HEE HEE Love the sound of that!!!

Summer has officially started!!

Hi everyone - I was giving my nieces so much crap the other night about never updating their blogs I figured I'd better update mine right away so they couldn't give me a hard time too! It was a great weekend at the lake - the area was certainally busier as people move back to the lake for the summer! The top pics are of the goose that has been visiting our lawn and leaving us reminders of such visits! Lovely - we are used to dog poop but now goose poop too!! Yuck. Our wonderful "neighbors" Mark, Dad, and Connor came to help Greg with the dock on Sat. It was so windy and cold on our side of the lake!! Greg really appreciated the help! The weather was ever changing, but we got a beautiful day on Sunday and I'm sure Deanne and Scott were thankful for that as they hosted Ashley's grad party at their beautiful house. It was decorated so cute and the food was wonderful! Thanks for inviting us and congrats to Ashley! It's nice to have everyone back at the cabin and we had a wonderful meal of free salmon (given to me) and free steak (won by me at the Pub Fri night) on Sat nite. We are all such good cooks!! Jenn and Mike and Briggs, and Kristin and Dave stayed at our house on Sat too. They looked a bit hungover on Sun morn as they were at the Sandbar listening to 32 Below. It sounded like they had a great time! Sunday nite after we had supper at Shoreham, we had a fire with our favorite people and only went to bed because the weather switched again and got cold!! It was a great night! This week will be extremely busy - we always pay for a day off at the bank by being extra busy on Tuesday, but my saving grace is I only have to work 2 days this week - Thursday and Friday off!! Whoo Hoo!! I know I should be thrilled to be having another birthday because the alternative is not good at all, but 50?!?! Geez.....how the hell did this happen? 30 was hard, 40 a piece of cake, 50?? a few martinis will be necessary!! Take care everyone! Have a great week. Love you. Becky

Great Weekend!

It was so nice to see everyone at Nate and Anna's wedding on Sat - What fun we had! The Bride and Groom looked so happy and a great time was had by all! It's great when the families get together for a fun occasion for a change! The dance floor was filled with so many great moments, its hard to pick a favorite, but here are a few of mine. Cute Colin dancing up a storm (not just "watching the folks dance!); Jenn, Mandy, and Dad dancing together; screaming the extra lyrics to Mony, Mony (always a favorite!!); and last but not least, the Full Moon compliments of my craziest cousin but the crowd favorite Scott!! I don't think I've had so much fun for a long time!

The weather was so much nicer too - not perfect cause the wind was kinda cold both days, but a marked improvement over the weekend before! It was a beautiful sunrise on Munson Lake Sat and Sunday morning! That is my favorite time of day at the house. I love it. After a little recovery time and breakfast at the 611 Pit - everyone left for home and I stayed awhile and read and slept a little. Greg (poor guy) had to go home and work - actually got started in the field and is going strong planting. Keep your fingers crossed for no rain for about 2 weeks! That would be wonderful! Well, everyone have a great week and for all the mothers I won't see, but love none the less, Have a wonderful Mothers Day on Sunday! Becky

Time to Reflect

Hi everyone - I want to thank everyone for their kind words and thoughts. The prayer service and funeral were packed with people and it was so nice to have people around. Greg is doing better although no one seems to understand yet what really happened. We got the preliminary results back from the autopsy, but it didn't show much. We are waiting on the final results. A "non-heart attack event" whatever that means!!

On Saturday Greg just wanted to get out of Dodge to "our happy place" so we left for the lake about 1:00 - and drove into terrible roads about Hawley. We could not believe the snow at our house!! It was crazy! There was more snow in front of the garage on Sat than there had been all year!! The deck was inpassable - we did go out for supper quick on Sat nite, but then right back home. There were no plows as I'm sure they were waiting for the Sunday Sun to melt things off. We also got to take care of our "grandpuppy" Briggs for the weekend. Jenn and Mike went to the cities. He is soooo cute as you can see and he and Riley are getting along better. Andrew and Meagan came home Sunday nite from Florida to their impassable driveway! By all reports though they had a great time, but were really sorry to miss the funeral. Couldn't be avoided. We are now looking forward to the Anderson wedding on Saturday. Will be great to get together for a happy occasion for a change!! Have a good week everyone and we will see you all soon.

Are we dreaming?

As you all probably know by now, Greg's brother Brian passed away on Saturday night and we are all reeling. As we sat across the table yesterday morning, trying to make plans just 11 months after Cecil died, the feelings of "why Brian, why us, what the hell is happening" were overwhelming. The shock of someone so young dying is unbelievable. Please keep us all in your prayers as we get thru this week - especially Sue. She is a wreck - she doesn't know where to turn next. They were together as a couple for almost 20 years. And we haven't seen BJ yet, but I'm sure that is going to be awful! I am so thankful that Brian and Greg worked together last year and a little this year farming - their relationship survived that test and actually improved alot! Taking a page from Meagan - live every day to the fullest - tell people who are important to you that you love them every day - and enjoy every moment you are given on this earth. We never know what day might be the last. Love to all of you, Becky

What the heck happened?!?!?

Ok - Friday 56 degrees - Saturday, cleaning out the garage at the lake in our shortsleeve shirts (so we can get is sheetrocked) and Saturday nite the sky started falling?? Good God - we went for supper with Andrew and Meagan and at 9:00 it started raining, by 10PM the flakes were so big I couldn't see the road!! Woke us Sunday morning to what looked like a foot of snow! Jeez - I was ready to put my new spring flower display out on the deck with my new cool yellow chairs and this happens! Gotta love ND/MN!! Anyway, the supper was great - we went to Spankys on Rose Lake and had a great meal - the kids had never been there before so they were impressed. It was a nice evening. Other than that the weekend was pretty quiet - I started a new book, we watched a couple movies, and Greg watched the race. We wanted to have supper with Jenn and Mike in Dilworth, but the snow stopped us from going home Sunday nite. We left the house at 6:15 Monday morning and I finally made it to Harwood about 8:10! Whew! I know why I don't like to drive that during the winter. Summer fine - great trip - but not on icy-rutted roads! I got to wear jeans to work though since I wasn't planning on staying Sunday nite. Not complaining though - I never want to leave the lake so one more nite was just fine with me!! Have a great week everyone - will post again soon!

OK - Ready to try Again!

Hi everyone! Since I posted last we now have high speed internet service at home thanks to Verizon Wireless (DAMN Qwest and their dial up service to Hell!!) so I can try this at home. Whenever I started to post at work I would get interrupted. Huh - what?? I have to work at work? Oh, who knew? Oh well, since the last post, Greg and I have been traveling - to the lake most every weekend, Mexico in January on the KFGO trip, and we just got back from Vegas with our favorite traveling companions Billie and Mark. We had a blast!! A great time was had by all, and 3 out of the 4 of us were winners. I was hoping to call in to work on Monday "rich" but alas, I was the unlucky one and my alarm will be set before going to bed tonite! Crap! Anyway, we saw alot of new sites including the Voodoo Lounge where these pics were taken. Alot of walking, drinking, laughing, and fun. Hard to come home to the cold wind and snow, even though alot has melted, it was 75 to 80 and sunny in Vegas! Thanks to Andrew and Meagan for taking care of Riley for us, I'm sure he had fun with the cats and Andrew and Meagan spoiling him rotten!

and as you can see, we also have a new puppy in the family. Jenn has added Briggs to her family and we got to take care of him while Jenn and Mike were doing their own traveling to Montana for skiing and Mexico for a trip Mike won for work. He is adorable and it was hard to see him go home. I was quite attached! Riley was not though and was dancing in circles as he watched the kennel being carried out on Easter Sunday. He is now happily settled

back in his home biting everything and everyone, including Mike's

son Jack who I hear is not to happy about it! Hopefully he will grow out of that soon!! Well, these four pics and writing this has taken me way to long - hopefully I will get better at it and do more, but don't expect miracles. I am kind of challenged in the computer department sometimes!! Anyway, thanks for reading!! Becky