Happy New Year!

Christmas was very special for me this year.

I'm going to show and explain,

the BEST present I received.

Trey and I,

 our grandson in Seattle. 

write back and forth to each other.

This way he can practice his penmanship 

and I can have his thoughts.

I sent him a list of things that I love.

He sent back his list, next to my list.

He asked that I read his list 

out loud on Marco Polo.

(video texting),

Here I am opening the letter from Trey.

Mind you, this is a video,

so theses pictures are blurry.

This is part of his letter...

Then I come to the last page and start reading...

(and crying)

I looked up at Tom, still filming, and words couldn't

come out!

Trey's last item on his long list was,

that they are expecting!

Below are pictures take from a video, also.

Kimmy had her kids sit down, while they

 watched the video of me reading Trey's list. 

When they heard Todd and Steph were excepting, 

Ila kept jumping up and down

Lulu had a huge smile on her face.

Levi was clapping and yelling.

Silas jump out of his seat and shouted.

Isaac just kept jumping up and down.

(I don't think he understood but everyone else was jumping so, it was a good excuse to jump on the couch)

Their reaction was so sweet.
They are so happy to be having another cousin!

Todd and Stephanie are expecting a 

BABY!

If anyone is keeping count of how many
grandchildren we have,
this will be #9!

~~~~~*****~~~~~

"Rejoice with those who rejoice; morn with those who morn."

Romans 12:15

Grandchildren at Christmas

 One, I held and kissed...

Four, we blew our kisses and our hugs to, via Skype.

(It won't be long before I will get hugs and kisses in person!)

Tom and I had a very nice Christmas with family.

How was yours?

Tom's Way of Skyping

Tom has the funniest sense of humor.

 One of the reasons I married him.

And probably one of reasons we have been married so long.

(he even has his own blog but it's not for the faint of heart)

When he Skypes with our grandchildren, 

you can never can predict what he will do.

He dresses up in hats, uses props, or plays tricks 

of some sort with the kids.

 Here he is with binoculars.

"Ohh Papa", they all said in unison.

 He has so much fun entertaining them.

This picture was taken off the computer, while skyping.

It was grand kids turn to entertain Papa.

They got dressed in their water vests.

We all laughed at who was funnier!

Here they all are!

Ila May had to take her vest off 

because she couldn't sit down with it on.

We are heading over to Idaho so Tom can meet Silas!

This will be so much fun!

Interesting Facts about Skype:

Founded in August 2003, Skype is the leading global Internet communications company.

Skype is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices in Europe, United States and Asia.

Skype was acquired by eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) in October 2005.

In 2008, Skype posted total revenue of $143 million, representing 46 percent year-over-year growth and delivered the seventh consecutive quarter of profitability

Every day millions of people use Skype software to communicate with others through free voice and video calls, as well as instant messages. 

Skype is a global phenomenon - in  2008, Skype added 32 million users - ending the quarter with more than 370 million users, representing an increase of 51 percent from a year ago.

In  2008, Skype-to-Skype minutes reached nearly 16 billion, a 63 percent increase year over year, and SkypeOut minutes increased 54 percent versus last year to 2.2 billion

Skype's 370 million registered users have made more than 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls.

Skype software is extremely secure, sustainable, and scalable. At peak times, there are over 14 million concurrent users and over 300,000 simultaneous calls. There are more than 100,000 information queries on the network each second.

Skype accounted for 6% of the world's international calling minutes in 2007, according to preliminary data released by TeleGeography Research.

Skype is available in over 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world.

30% of Skype users use Skype for business purposes.

More than 25% of Skype-to-Skype calls include video.

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