We are going to be the proud grandparents of Noah Ryan Hoffner in January 2012!!!!  Thank you Ryan and Julee.  We are praying for your growth (physically as well as mentally) :)  We know that you are going to be great parents, and when you need help remember you have tons of it really close by :) 

Kristen's Graduation

Our beautiful daughter-in-law Kristen graduated from ASU on Saturday, May 14, 2011. We are so proud of her and Kevin (for his support which he can't reveal in front of his parents :). Now she is an official Elementary School teacher!! Nice job Kristen. We love you.

We went to our nephew Brian's wedding yesterday, March 17, 2011. It was really beautiful, the wedding as well as the bride :) All of our kids got to attend Yea!!

Skin Cancer update

Went in for my quarterly skin check-up and the fabulous Dr. Ko took 4 biopsies and froze 6 other areas on my arms. Three biopsies were fine but on one he had to go back and take enough skin for eight inner stitches and 8 outer stitches. I am itching a lot... hopefully healing and not allergic reaction to bandaids :) I'll get some photos on tomorrow when I can clean it.

We got to watch Deklan for a few hours tonight :)!!! He and Al are watching the Suns lose in Detroit.

Have to postpone the Creative Memories weekend due to very sad news in regard to my consultant's family. Her sister-in-law passed away Wednesday. Not a good time for celebrating with friends working on photo albums :(

Hopefully all will heal and be ready to get together February 11-13.

Beautiful niece Camille's baby daughter is due Feb. 13th so I hope she will wait until I get home to arrive (Camille, see what you can do to hold off on that delivery because, of course, it is all about me!)

Kristen got assigned a school/classroom for her student teaching that begins later this month. She will be in a 7-8th grade math class in the Peoria School District. She is going to be a great teacher for these kids because she believes 13-14 year-olds are people too :) I think she hopes to get a younger grade when she gets a job, but I will stake my 30 years experience on the fact that she will be great wherever she goes. Love you Kristen!

Next weekend I am going to my annual Creative Memories retreat in Flagstaff and as I was looking through my photos, choosing which ones to print from 2010, I decided on 568 pictures. This does not include Kevin and Kristen's over 200 wedding photos that I already have. I think I have my work cut out for me :)