Fifty is Nifty!

 

We celebrated my 50th Birthday on Sunday with cake and lunch with all the relatives.  I had a real enjoyable day with all the kids helping out.

55 Years

Mom and Dad Brower celebrated their 55th Anniversary in November with their brothers and sisters.  We had a celebration with their children and grandchildren on December 30 at the  Sierra Village Center.

Mom and Dad Brower with their grandchildren.

Mom and Dad with their children.  Jeanette and Duane TeVelde were not able to be there.

Back Row, L - R: Renee, Janine, Nathan, Keith, Margaret, and Lorissa Haveman.

Front Row: Edna and Ed Brower

It Can Get Cold

It gets chilly in our house at times.  Here is Janine trying to fashionably combat the cold.

Gift wrap

 

Like I said previously, we love to reuse gift bags.  Since I had used so many of the larger bags, Nathan had to use this combination of bags to wrap his gift to me.  The gift was a candle holder that he made in his Forging & Welding class.  Isn't this a nice candle holder?

Sunset

We have had some beautiful sunsets in the past week due to the clouds.  It is hard to get a good picture though; our horizon is quite cluttered with poles.

It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas

I got most of my shopping done and the gifts are bagged (I wrap exclusively in recycled gift bags, doing my part to be green).  The kids decorated a few weeks ago, but I still need to start those Christmas cards.  But the best thing is that both Janine and Keith are arriving home this evening.  Keith spent the past week in Claymont, Deleware, for work, escaping just before a major snow storm blows in.  Janine comes home from Covenant College for her Christmas break.  We last saw her for about a week in August, since she spent most of the summer in Washington state.

Nathan's Hobby

Nathan likes to work on computers, in fact, he took one computer class this past semester and will be taking four computer classes next semester.  He was right in the middle of a major project, pulling out all these saved parts and cords when he got sick.  First a cold and low-grade-fever hit him, and then it progressed to a stomach virus.  Needless to say, all of his projects came to a halt for two weeks with all this stuff cluttering up the den.  Oh well, I did get an upgraded computer out of it.  He got a computer from his instructor that he could not use, and made Nathan refurbished it into a better computer than what I had.