Baby Shower for Preggers

Glowing mamma-to-be

Champagne: always a must.

California Girls!

Mom city

LitCHix

How big is the belly????

Hmmmm........ pretty big

Christmas is coming. Let's hope Kenny doesn't steal the outfit.

Wedding dance on the TV in the background!

What happens when I'm not holding down the fort.

I had to stand the Bend Over Butt Lady back up. Thankfully, she was not injured.

Nature calls.....

The pig is fine too.

Hardly ANY roots were holding up this bad boy!

Rochester. MN

Since I have a big case of PTSD about this town, I figured I would stay at a NICE place

The cool TV swivels!

Coffee and tea

Nice design...too bad I don't have any more bathrooms to remodel

Cedar Rapids

Moving up in the world

all the way to Cedar Rapids, Ioway

Mt. Vernon IA

Yum... dinner, vegetarian style

Home of Cornell College, part of niece Lily's  college shopping trip

Nice view!

Thank heavens I'm only sharing with my sister

The sole reason for this room is to hold the 4 cup coffee maker.

PARTAAYYY

Finally, we got to have the midwestern celebration of the upcoming birth of grandbaby #1.
Excited friends and family came from as far as both coasts, and as near as next door.
Niece KT was the official photog...did you know if you are the photographer, there are no pictures taken of yourself? But she is immortalized right here:

Set up was fun with the help of devoted family

Champagne glasses, a must

Flowers

Sign the card

Lily-on-the-spot, adding the finishing touches

Nice Work, daughter o' mine!

The Bump!

Elk Cologne Big Boy has been found and is safe!

Oh Happy Day!

Gettin' a bit restless

G'bye summer (and Good Riddance)

I have nothing to say, Naperville Now says it for me
http://napervillenow.blogspot.com/

Half empty in Lincoln

The view has certainly changed in the last 2 days...

Yee-Haw It's Laramie!

So, Laramie, we meet again?

Hopefully comfy room (just saw a school bus of kids checking in. Horrors!)

Yeah. Been here. Done that.

Crazy Hikers

Naperville Now asks about the piles of stones that one sees along Fred's dad's walks up mountains.
These area called Cairns

Cairn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Cairn (disambiguation).

A cairn (carn in Irish, carnedd in Welsh, càrn in Scots Gaelic) is a human-made pile of stones, often in conical form. They are usually found inuplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, or near waterways.

These craaazzzzy a** hikers, who do strange things like climb up mountains to see what's there?????? Huh? 

Easy answer. The top of the mountain. Duh.

But they leave strange things to show they were there to the next crazy a** hiker who also climbs up there to see 

what's there.

Wow. God Bless America!

Whaaa?

The wackiest of all