Seda is 7 1/2 months old.

Seda can sit up by herself.

Look at her big eyes!

A three-generation photo.

Grandma Heath and Seda

What's this that I'm eating?

During the Christmas Holiday Time, we played in the snow, went on a sleighride drawn by two horses, made doughnuts, and a lot of other things.

Amelie and Janelle

Me and Amelie eating a cake doughnut that she and I made

Little Miss Amelie ready to go to church

Rick plays and sings a song that he and Brenden arranged.

The owner and operator of the sleighride

Raisa and Brended on sleighride

Ben helps his daughter Amelie prepare for the out-of-doors.

We had a great Christmas.  My oldest son and his two children were here as well as my youngest son and his family.

Grandson Brenden, Rick, and Granddaughter Raisa

Ben, Granddaughter Amelie, and Daughter-in-law Janelle

Brenden, Rick, and Raisa

Mary Lease and Judy Heath

Granddaughter Amelie decorates her grandpa

Dick's Birthday

Dick and I celebrated his birthday on December 5th this year.

Dick driving the car to our Lake Home.

Some of my lady-friends and I surprised Dick on his birthday.

Another surprise for Dick at John & Connie's home.

Don, Dick, & John celebrate Dick's birthday.

Our back yard in Saint Cloud.

Another view of our back yard.

A Wedding in Sioux Falls

Dick and I went to Sioux Falls in October for the wedding of our granddaughter, Arianna.

Arianna and husband Michael, with Aden

Alyssa with fiance

The father, Rob, with Aden

Siblings:  Arianna, Justin, and Alyssa

Dick and me with our son, Rob

Dick and I went to River Falls, Wisconsin, to attend our Granddaughter Raisa's graduation from high school.

Here is Raisa waiting to receive her diploma.

Raisa walks back from the stage after receiving her diploma.

Raisa and her father

Raisa with me, her grandmother, and her grandfather

My niece, Mindy, holds her son at the Espey reunion.

My older sister, Iva, at the Espey reunion

Some of my activities in June included a get-together with friends at the Lake Home and driving to Collinsville, Mississippi, for an Espey Family reunion.

The wives at our annual get-together at the Lake Home.

The husbands, all retired professors from SCSU.

I picked close to 50 of these caterpillars off my flowers.

Dick and I drove to Mississippi for a family reunion; we are somewhere in Wis.

Went to a Red Hatter's meeting with my sister-in-law.

Dick and my brother are shelling purple-hull peas.

Here I am shelling purple-hull peas.

Spring 2012 Flowers

Here are some of the flowers growing around the Saint Cloud home.

Tulips, daffodils and others.

Presidential Clematis

Blue Lambonese

Daffodils and tulips

Bush Cherry

Blue Shamstones

Lilacs

Poppies

Close up of poppies

Popcorn Tree