Shooting Stars and Family

Last night I saw a shooting star...and immediately thought of my brother Eddie.

It was awesome!!

I was on the front porch, waiting for hubby to come back from the trash run (we have haul it up the hill and out to the road, no curb side pick up in the country).  I was star gazing when I saw it.  At first, I thought it might be a plane, but the pattern was to erratic and the lights were simmery - then it just flashed and burned out!!!

It brought my brother to mind as we were star gazing when the family was here for Thanksgiving. Eddie said he wanted to see a falling star and thought we could see them better up here.  He was right!!  I called him this morning to tell him, he can hardly wait to come back.  He and the girls (his daughters, my nieces) are coming up for spring break and I am already trying to plan fun things to do.  

Family at thanksiving in picture below to left of table standing, brother Gordon and wife Becky, seated brother Eddie, at head of table me and Jim, on right brother in law David, nieces Mady and Kate, big brother George.

We have so much fun when we are together.  When we go to my sisters house, we usually play guitar heros but I got a karoake machine for up here.  We are going to use for my birthday this weekend.  My sister and aunt are bringing momma home and will stay till Tuesday. 

Now, I promised dorky shots of my family so here goes.  We dared my nephew Clayton to eat his pumpkin pie like a dog and he did. He got so sick from eating so much, he threw up shortly after this picture (love you little buddy)!

One of my families favorite things about my new house is the speak easy in the front door.  This is NOT one of my favorite as I can't see out of the darn thing!!  I am short and my husband forgets that from time to time and puts things to high for me - even on tippy toes I can't see out of it.  The family teased me about needing a sock puppet to look out for me.  Here is Kate looking through the speak easy.

When looking for photos of us at Thanksgiving, I found some from a Christmas a few years ago at my mom's house.  We love Christmas crackers - the things you pull and they pop and prizes and stuff come out.  This year we wore the crowns we got ias prizes most of the day.

Now here we are after the picture just doing our thing:

Even hubby gets into the spirit (most people wouldn't think this about him).  He wore his crown all day too, even when helping Paw Paw on the computer!!

Well, need to go get busy on my day. 

Tomorrow's post - will be about my old job life.