Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): White Christmas, Sad Christmas

Thursday, December 25, 2008

White Christmas, Sad Christmas

We woke up this morning to heavy snowfall...AGAIN!

We're supposed to have a family over for dinner this afternoon. More shoveling!

Sad news...My dad passed away late yesterday afternoon in Phoenix Baptist Hospital. He was 86 (and a half) years old. More details later.

5 comments:

The J's said...: So sorry about your dad! Sending you warm thoughts!; December 25, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Troy, Lisa, and Braden said...: Sorry to hear about your dad, Shirley. We'll be thinking of you.

Hope you continue to enjoy the snow! Happy white holidays to you, too!; December 25, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Wanda, Melania & Mishayla said...: Thinking of you. I must say I've not seen so much snow in WA!; December 26, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Darin, Jean, Samson & Sydney said...: Hi Shirley - so sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. You'll be in our thoughts and prayers.; December 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Hall's said...: So sorry to hear about your Dad Shirley. I don't get around to reading the blogs much so just learned it today. Please know my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.; January 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"