January 2, 2007

Happy New Year!
We went up to Chicago to see my daughter and her family, this is a picture of Szuki (I probably spelled it wrong!) Our grandchildren Ari, Austin, and Camille are all growing up so fast. Austin likes to run and has several trophies and medals.. He and his dad run together. Camille is going to go to Paris and Belgium this Spring on a school trip. Better than when I was a kid, our big school trip was a trip on a train to Brookfield Zoo. Arianna is eight years old and reads better than a lot of adults I know.

We celebrated Christmas at our house on Christmas eve and had all the family from Florissant there. Everyone had a good time. The girls were giving Brian a hard time because of his Christmas vest. He and a buddy bought them by the womens department and the girls were saying it was a girls vest. I thought it looked ok. I've posted a picture on my web site.
Tuesday we went up to Chicago, (Mokena), to visit for a couple days and saw my Aunt Lavergne and my cousins Bev, and Geneva too. Came back Thursday and celebrated the New Year at our house with our good friends Joe and Pat.

Lois has had a tough time since July 06. First her kidneys almost quit and she had to go in the hospital for a few days, then the meds she had to take to cure that messed up her diabetes and made her feel bad. Then after Thanksgiving her back went out and she has been having trouble ever since. Maybe once we get her back fixed she'll be over all this nonsense.
We had a really bad ice storm in December, the second time this year the power was out in some places for over a week. We lucked out this time and had power, only was out for 2 hours. My daughter Roberta was not so lucky, her power was out for 3 days and she had to stay with us. Her and her husband Mike and her two dogs! What fun!!! I'm glad we were able to help her out and no damage was done to her home.
I wish everyone a healthy and happy new year for the whole year.
John G.
http://www.grandpag.com