Ellie feeds Chuck a chunk of wedding cake

Over the weekend of September 17, my brother-in-law, Chuck tied the knot with Ellie on Block Island (RI). Of course, feeding the new spouse wedding cake continues to be quite the event! Quick, but fun weekend seeing a place, visiting with family and of course, celebrating with the new bride and groom.

I’m finding my little point and shoot Nikon to be a bit frustrating — a bit slow to respond, never sure where my focus is most clear. I am spoiled with my Canon 50D, but it is a bit large to carry on a plane, especially for a short weekend trip. Oh well.

Aren’t smart phones like the iPhone or Droid neat? Kevin sends us the “Picture of the Day” from his iPhone several times a week. When we were up in Birmingham last week we noticed that Genevieve works hard to free her hands before she settles in to sleep. Hence, “The Sleepy Claw!” I can see how much she has grown because I know which little gown this is, and how much she fills it up now, where before she was rather lost in it.

You go girl!

4 generations: Genevieve and great-grandmother Martha; Beth and Marie

I hope Genevieve will know all four generations: Martha (great-grandmother), me (grandmother, Martha’s oldest), Marie (mother and my daughter) and of course, Genevieve. My grandmother (Martha’s mother) was really big on multigenerational photos — so we are carrying on the tradition. I’m also beginning to wonder if Genevieve’s generation will ever include any boys — so far it’s all girls on both sides of the aisle.

The Barnett children — as young children

My brother has a nice scanner, and has been scanning some old photos of late. These were taken in front of “the little house” in Florence. I am the oldest, with Leah 2 years younger and Bob 2 years younger than Leah… so, these look to be somewhere around the fall of 1957.

beth-leah-daddy

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From left to right, me, my father and my sister on the front porch. Maybe we are 4 and 2 or 5 and 3

I have to say that this was a most wonderful and delightful Christmas. Everyone (all three of my children plus a son-in-law and daughter-in-law and my granddaughter!) came for Christmas. What fun to have a one year old to inspect the tree, harvest candy canes and generally keep us moving for several days. The delight was back in Christmas! What a reminder that God walked (and still walks) among us as a child.

I’ve got one scrapbook page done — I’ll post the other’s on my Picasaweb account along with this one.

She’s very petite and very lively…

Last week (May 12) I spent the day in Tuscaloosa (and Northport) celebrating Marie’s completion of her RN program. While I’m not sure how much she wanted to go through it beforehand, I know from watching her smile, that she was so very glad that she did go through the ceremony — with Kevin, Jeanne, Charlie and me to cheer her on.

After graduation we retreated to their house and enjoyed lunch before returning to the school for the Pinning Ceremony. I found that to be a lovely, rather intimate event – just the nursing students, faculty and guests. The speaker talked about how important the nurses have been for his young daughter’s cancer treatment – and how important they could be.

It was well worth the late return to Auburn to have been able to stay and share in the whole day.

The rest of the pictures are out on my Picasaweb

Looks like Lily is going to enjoy living in Florida…

Metro fare card: $10
Museum admission: $20
Dinner for 2 at a nice place in Manhattan: $130
Hailing a cab to get back to Queens immediately upon exiting the restaurant: PRICELESS

When I landed at LaGuardia on Saturday I was pleasantly surprised to find the temperature in the 50′s. Didn’t last! Yesterday Bruce Krause and I headed out to the Met -wind chill had it down in the single digits, I do believe. Picture a couple of diehard southerners in that kind of weather trying to hail a cab on 5th Avenue at 5 pm. We did finally get one, but not before my face was stinging with cold.

There’s a wonderful exhibit of Tiffany glass on thru May 20th – so the trip was worth it.

The only video from Marie and Kevin’s wedding: