Happy Birthday Mom!

Just a public note to wish my mom a Happy Birthday! We won't say how many, although the count-down to retirement is in full swing.

Here is a picture of my mom in grade school, sometime in the early to mid 50's. Aww, isn't she cute!

And here's a picture of our little family sometime in 1965, somewhere around my first birthday? She looks pretty young and she was, not yet 21. I guess we all look pretty young there.

Fast forward 35+ years to our wedding and here we all were with Kelly's family. Mom still looks pretty similar although it is harder to see in the small picture.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Love, Alene

P.S. Here's a list of a few other things today is known for.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone safely celebrated the New Year the other night. We were home by about 9:30 but there were still a few drunk crazies on the road, even at that time. We are close enough to ASU and downtown Tempe to be able to hear the fireworks whenever there was a score at the Insight.com Bowl game. We could also hear the 10 pm fireworks at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Block Party. The delay between when the firework explosions were showing on the news and when we could hear the noise was about 15 seconds. We did not stay up for midnight so we missed those fireworks and the accompanying gun shots in south Phoenix. That's a good thing.

To celebrate New Year's Day we changed the oil in the car and cleaned up in the back yard- raked citrus leaves and skimmed the pool. Talk about excitement, we're the poster children (sarcasm!).

Happy New Year!