More Scrapbooking

On Friday and Saturday I managed to find some time to myself and I did some scrapbooking. 

In the top page has a picture of my great uncle Herbert.  His granddaughter in England is my Genealogy research buddy. We meet on Ancestry.com and we have really enjoyed each others friendship as we search for the stores of our family.

Herbert was a Vice President at Canada Dry Ginger Ale company back in the day.  This is his second wife Gertrude.  I have ship passenger lists with their names on the list.

 

 

These are also a great uncle and great aunt.  They are on a tarmac ready to board a plan off to some great adventure.  I don't know a lot about them, other than they were first cousins that married but had no children.

My first cousin sent me these pictures.

 

Well this kid is now a young man of 28.  These are some of his school pictures and of course only one picture has the year and age on it.  He wrote it himself.  Funny how much they change from year to year.  He is a great kid. 

 

Well that's all folks! Be happy and enjoy whatever you are doing!

 

 

Family History Pages

On this first page, I have my grandmother on her graduating from nursing school.  I hate it when I finish a page, and see one of my page elements is crooked.  I never see it until it is on my computer screen.  Anyway, she was a nurse, so was my Mom who raised me was a nurse and I worked as a nurse for 46 years, making our combined history of nursing in my family a 107 years old. 

 

 

Below is my younger brother, his wife Kathy & their first son Kevin.  Good looking family.

 

 

There are also some pictures of the younger me, making an appearance as Aunt Mary.

 

Hanging with Aunt Mary!

 

 

 

More Pages

 

Do you remember when I designed this page? Click Here to read the post.  I finally have my picture to add to the page.  We had one of the kids took it after church on Sunday.  We are still going strong 21 years later. 

 

 I also did some pages from back I 1959, when we first moved to Fort Lauderdale Florida. Here are my Mom and brothers.  She was expecting Eddie the youngest of us Hartmann Kids.  

 

 

 

The Story for my Family History Book.

  

Good Bye Uncle Bobbie

Well this has really been a hard and sad time in our family lately. On Friday the 19th we said good by to Uncle Bobbie. I was just thinking I don't remember when I first meet him, since he lives here in Mesa, I'm sure it was at my wedding to Richard or just before. Once you have meet Uncle Bobbie you don't forget him. In a word he was a character. He was funny, he lightened up the party, he had jokes and stories to tell, he had hugs and kisses for all the kids and all the girls of any age. Bear hugs for all the guys. He loved music and could play any song with lots of gusto. He had a way of making you feel special.
He children and two granddaughters did a special job at the funeral. Two of the sons did a medley of old time religion type hymns accompanied by guitar sung in a very country and western style because that is the way Uncle Bobbie would have liked it. His granddaughter who have wonder voices sang Be Still My Soul which was enough to move anyone to tears.
As much as we miss him here, I'm sure he is up in Heaven harmonizing with his sister Polly and his brother Bill (Richard's Dad), they liked to do that a lot here on earth, so I'm sure that hasn't changed.
Good Bye Uncle Bobbie, until we meet again!

Good Bye Aunt Polly

On Feb 14 Richard's Aunt Polly left this world and went on to the next stage of her eternal life. As her obit by her daughter Betty said she is now waltzing with her husband Paul and with her two sons again. She had a service in Sandy Utah on Saturday the 20th. On Saturday the 27th there was a funeral & burial in San Diego CA, where she lived for all of her adult life except for the last 7 years. Richard & I travel to San Diego on Friday to be there for the family. It was a very nice funeral. There were two tables full of pictures from her life, they were wonderful to see. Everyone of them had a wonderful smile, which she was glad to share. It had been raining a lot in San Diego and I guess the family plan was the sun had to be shining for the burial. Guess what the sun came out long enough for the burial. As a testimony of the kind of person she was the chapel was full on a wet and cold San Diego day and she hadn't lived there for 7 years.

When Richard & I married we went on our honeymoon to CA, we went to Hollywood and San Diego and many other place. We visited his aunt and that was the first time I meet her. She was warm and friendly and I liked her right off the bat. We always loved to see her when she came to AZ which was almost every year.
Aunt Polly you will be missed.

A Busy Social Week

On Wednesday evening I took two of my great Nieces to dinner to celebrate our birthdays. I use to take them one at a time but life is busy when you are in school so a few years ago I started doing them together. Amy's birthday is 1/27, Heather's is 2/5 and mine is 2/12 so we celebrate our birthdays together. We always have a good time and we almost always eat fish since we all like it. Here is a picture of me with my new great great nephew, James.

Here is Amy with her son. I didn't get a picture of Heather who is also a beautiful young lady.

On Friday we had a little farewell dinner for Rob who is going to a different department in the same company.

This is Rob in the front.

Glenda is our social director and money counter. We all had cash, that's amazing.

I also went out to lunch on Saturday with Glenda, Kay, Gwen & Barb. I do enjoy those social times!

Christmas Has Started

Tonight we had dinner with Kierra and her husband, their first Christmas in their home. They are both working on Christmas & Will works tomorrow. So she had us over for dinner tonight. We had hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans and salad. The best was cheese cake for desert. They didn't have a tree because of their puppy (a doberman), so we piled our gifts on the coffee table and watched them open each one. Will's parents were also present and took this picture of all of us. Left to right: Richard, Kierra, Will, Kinsen and me.

Twice this afternoon before we drove over there, I reminded myself to bring my camera and twice I didn't get up and put it in my purse. The third time I remembered we were in the car driving to Kierra's house. So these pictures are taken with my phone, so they aren't very good, but they are better than nothing.



Kierra is kind of fun to buy gifts for, I just get her anything Halloween and she is happy. She loved these See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil skeletons I purchased for her. She also liked the spider web table cloth and the skull cups. But these were her favorite. She also liked the Will & Kierra's First Christmas 2009 ornament I got for them. She wasn't sure she wanted it because they weren't going to have a tree, after she saw it she like it a bunch. Will was a little confused when he opened the plastic box with the stuff to make his stockings. It had the fabric, the embroidery thread and even my magnet board I use to hold the pattern on. He said, "I guess this needs to go back home with you". Later he said good by to the "Temporary Stocking".

It was a nice evening.

Have a Merry Christmas!!

Video of the wedding

Kierra's & Will's Wedding

We have arrived home safe & sound! The wedding has occurred, the happy couple are now married. I have posted pictures on my webshots album. I'll post some here tomorrow but this will do for tonight. Kierra's & Will's Wedding.

I'm going to try a slide show here. It works, but you can't see my comments or captions for the pictures. Oh Well, if you want to see the captions, use the link above.


Kierra’s Wedding

OK let's see...

...how long it takes for Richard to notice his fall curtains are up over his desk. He is out tonight and I finished the fall valences and curtains and hung them at the window by his desk. I'm going to wait and see how long it takes him to notice.
Here they are from the kitchen.

Also here is a close up of the green valence in the living room. I really like this fabric.

Every once in a while...

...a husband can surprise you. He just noticed my new curtains in the Hobby room. He wanted to know when and how I put them up. I mean I did walk right by him with the fabric in my hands, but he was watching TV and he does get lost in TV. I even got the step ladder out to reach over my desk and even them out. I mean he was in the family room, just 10 feet away.
Any way the best part is he said they look nice. It's nice when they appreciate the feminine touch we add to make a house a home. Then he looks to his window on his end of the room and noticed he doesn't have his new ones yet. That is for tomorrow night.

It is so hard..

...to be a talented artistic type person and live with or know others who have no artistic anything.
Our daughter Kierra has a window in the living room by the front door. I offered to make a little quilt for it, to cover it, since she has it covered with a plastic bag. Her colors are black and red. I took pictures of my stash of black & red, I draw up a quick little bargello quilt in EQ6. I sent her the pictures and this is what she wants. Double Click on it to see the larger imagine.

I tell this to my husband who has no understanding as to why I would call this the ugliest quilt I will ever make. He also told me I should cut it up and sew it back together again as if it would have had different colors. Of course I'm thinking he is a little off his rocker with this idea. He thinks I don't get it because I won't cut it up and sew it together like a quilt.
So since this what the kid wants that is what she will get, I'll quilt it with a straight lines cross hatching and call it done. It will service it's purpose to cover a window and she will know I care because I made her something how she wants and likes.
Meanwhile I will know she could have had something nicer and I did my best...

Here is how it would look in black & gray. As well as the black & red version.

I guess that is why they make 31 flavors of ice cream we all have different tastes.

Vacation Day 5 Lauderdale by the Sea, Visit with Don & Kathy

Saturday May 9 found Linda and us in Fort Lauderdale.

I moved to Fort Lauderdale when my Dad retired from the NYC fire department in 1959 when I was 11. Here is a picture of me and my then 2 brother George 9 & Donald 7 in front of our home. Unfortunately we can't see our house. That first year in Florida was very interesting. My Dad always wanted to move to Florida after he was a caddy at Aurthur Godfrey's golf course in Miami Beach when he was in his 20, so we moved. It was very much an adventure for me. We stayed in a motel in Pompano Beach for a week until my parents found a house to buy and a school to enroll us in. I remember my Dad saying that was the fastest he ever bought a house. They paid $12,500 for it, you can't buy a car for that now. Anyway my parents weren't sure if they liked it in Florida or not, one day my Mom won't like it, another day by Dad won't like it. If they had ever not liked it on the same day we would have been back in Whitestone NY. About a year after we moved into the house my parents finally bought curtains for all the windows, they had decided to stay.
As a kid I loved it, my Dad worked a job that had him home by 3 PM and we went to the beach everyday. In the summer the winter visitors left town and if you saw 3 cars on US 1, that was a lot of cars. Friday nights my Dad would take us to a drive in movies. My Mom was pregnant with my youngest brother and I'm sure she enjoyed the peace and quite. For a couple of years when I was in high school we joined a Beach Club to swim at all summer long. We were living it up. We didn't have air in the house for a long time, my Dad did add it.

Here I am my Senior Year Sept of 64 in front of the house. I went to Cardinal Gibbons High School.



So Linda took us by my old house, but it has changed. Here is how it looks today.

We had lunch at a restaurant right on the beach by Lauderdale by the Sea. After lunch we walled on the pier.

Linda took me to a quilt shop, Richard stayed in the car. The poor guy has been to every quilt shop in AZ, and several now in FL, CO, CA. He is defiantly a quilt widower.

Next stop my brother Donald's house. He is 5 years younger than me. Here is a picture of him on his wedding day and a picture of us now. They were married in 1981. We had a great visit catching up and remembering our childhood.




Well I half way through my vacation and I'm going to take a break and do some sewing, something I haven't done in a few weeks. More to come. I hope this isn't too boring for you all but I'm also doing this for my kids so they have a little record of my childhood.

Our 17th Wedding Anniversary part 2

Here is my other favorite wedding picture. The kids are Kierra age 11, Klint age 10 & Kinsen age 7. Aren't they just so cute?

Our 17th Wedding Anniversary

Friday the 13th of March 1992, 17 years ago we were married in the Mesa Arizona Temple. So today is also Friday the 13, we always think it is special when our anniversary lands on a Friday. I had plans to post a couple of our wedding pictures and one of us today. Here is one of my favorite ones of us. I also have this picture in a little heart shaped frame I keep on my desk. She how much younger we were. I was 44 & Richard was 37. I know, I robbed the cradle.

The other favorite one I have is at work in a frame hanging on my cubical wall. I thought I had another copy of it here but I can't find it. My other favorite picture is of us with Richard's kids at our open house (reception). They were so cute. I'll add it Monday after work.

We were going to go out to dinner to celebrate but I had a cold all week and Richard now has it and was miserable by this evening. So we stayed home and had Chinese take out. Works for me. So no now pictures.

That first year was so stressful for me, can you imagine being single for so long and then to have 4 other people move into my space! It was a challenge and fun. The kids moved in about 5 months after we had been married. We lived in a two bedroom town house, a big 920 sq feet. The boys sleep in the hide away bed in the living room. Kierra had the small bedroom and I gave her my tall dresser for her cloths and put my cloths from the dresser in a file cabinet I took from her room and put it in my closet. The boys have fun memories of going to sleep while I studied for a national Oncology Nursing certification on the computer.
The next February we moved into the house we are in now. It seemed so large after that town house.

It has been an adventure, my husband told me before we married he would add adventure to my life, he sure did! I would do it all over again! He is a keeper and a good guy.

Happy Anniversary Honey!
Love,

Klint & Krystal

On Feb 12th my Dear Husband drove up to Star Valley AZ to pick up Klint. Klint needed to come to Phoenix to take a bus trip to Salt Lake City. He will be in training for a truck driving job for the next 3 weeks. While up in Star Valley Richard took some pictures of Klint & Krystal's spread. Klint built the goat house all by himself. He likes to build, fix things and has a natural ability. They both love the animals. Krystal love to ride and write fantasy stories. Richard said she just jumped right up on that horse's back. They have been married for three years and hate to be apart, but this job is a good opportunity for Klint. Krystal has a lot to keep her busy with 2 goats, 1 horse, 2 cats and a rodent of some kind. Mean while we are praying for Klint to do well on his new job and for safety while he is driving across the country. Right now he is in Georgia.
Richard just sent the pictures to me yesterday.
Enjoy the pictures.

Kierra's & Will's Home

Here is Kierraa's home and some pictures of the kids and our winter weather.