RIP: Uncle John Gross

My dad's older brother, John Gross passed away recently.  It's nice to know that we will have another angel to watch over our families.  Uncle John, the age of 83 joins his wife, Joan, and son, Michael.  He leaves behind, his two daughters, Maureen, Rosemary, and son Brian. 

It's not very often that you get to witness a loving connection between two brothers.  But, I have to say this was definitely the case for my pop and his brother, John.  While Uncle John lived in NY, and pop lived in SC, the distance between them didn't seem to alter their relationship.  They did their best in keeping in touch and remaining brothers til the end.  It's unfortunate that distance, and time removes us from family ties.

May you be at peace Uncle John.  Remember, to keep the beer cold for my pop..;)

Love those glasses Grandma!

One more to miss

Happy Thanksgiving from the Colleran Family!

A couple of more days and we'll be seating down to the traditional Holiday Turkey Dinner.  The Colleran family will be spending it with our Therrien friends this year.  David and Jake will be getting up early Thursday morning to go ice fishing for the first time with friends.  I may or may not go on a Turkey Trot in the morning with friends; all depends on the weather for me..:)

Nick is leaving shortly for California and will be back on Saturday afternoon.   We are hoping to go up to the mountains at some point this week as they have been getting alot of snow.  My only hesitation is that the mountains are saying it is 8 degrees or colder..AAAAAH.  It is a little chilly here in Parker but very little snow has been coming our way.

Jake is off this week as well as David so the house is busy and messy.  David a sweatheart as always helped me with some curtains for the kitchen.  We have another trip back to the store to do the big curtain for the sliding door.   We have so many things to do on our honey to do list..:)

I have so many crafts going on it's stressing me out...ugh!  I'm also in the middle of a very messy dinning room while I attempt to make my very first Sock Monkey.  I thought it would be nice to make for Nick's siblings in California.  David says my monkey is starting to look like a 'brother' ha.  I'm sure he can do much better with all the talent he has deep inside him.

Well, back to the dinning room.  May you and yours have a very blessed Thanksgiving!  Don't eat too much.  Love, Gail, David, Nick, & Jake xxoo

No SNOW YET

It's amazing that we haven't had our first storm yet this fall.  The mountains have been getting snow and I'm quite liking that, stay in the mountains!  Copper and Keystone opened their lifts today.  Not sure when we'll get up to the mountains.  Probably not until Thanksgiving week.  Jake has a full week off so we should be able to enjoy a couple of days.  :(  Nicky will be spending the Turkey holiday in CA.  He'll have to wait until his 2 week x-mas break.

The kids really enjoyed Halloween with the weather in the low 50's.  David spent alot of time this year decorating the windows and creating a spooky, haunted porch for the kiddos.  The tradition of chili and chicken tortelli soup didn't quite hit the spot because it wasn't as cold..lol.  As the men took the kids out trick-o-treating, the moms stayed back to handout the candy. 

It was very comical to hear the young middle schoolers say, "you go first, no, you go first."  No one wanted to come through the entry way covered in black tarp.  David at one point actually had to run out to give out the candy because a little girl was crying and wouldn't come to the door.

Nick, now 14, disappointed to not dressing up and being able to trick-o-treat.  He just went with a few friends as the girls dressed up were able to get a few pieces of candy.  I had to tell the high schoolers that I wouldn't be giving them candy next year.  I'm such the Halloween Scrooge.  I think they are old enough to work and buy their own candy.

Jake is the scarey clown.  I love Jack the Pumpkin (David and Nick helped me make).