1950's Christmas, Thanks Naperville Now

Such a lovely post by Naperville Now

http://napervillenow.blogspot.com/2010/12/1950-all-over-again.html

I had to add my own two cents!

Winter Wonderland 2010

Ohh, Ladies..........

Boca firefighter calendar on sale at fire station

Kathi got quite an eyeful when Dizey showed her some of the calendar's contents

The Boca Grande Fire Department will be the place to get your 2011 Boca Grande Fire Department Firefighters Association calendar.

They are $15 each and feature a different firefighter for every month of the year. As an added bonus, you also get a cover shot and two special collage pages with random shots of all the guys (specially created by the talented Nancy Coleman). The calendar month shots were taken by local photographic legend Skip “Thief of Soul” Perry.

Some of the firefighters will be signing calendars on Saturday, Oct. 23 in front of the Loose Caboose.
Call Nancy at the fire station, 964-2908 for more info.

From The Boca Beacon

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!