Reflections 2009

Well there is just one more day left in 2009. When I was in school the year 2010 was a science fiction movie theme. We would all be traveling in outer space by this year and wearing space suits, our mode of transportation would be the monorail. Here we are nearing 2010 and the biggest change in our lives has to be electronic devices -no space suits yet. How did we ever survive without cell phones, DVD's, video games, even microwave ovens!? This year we broke down and bought a Wii. For excercise purposes of course. After I had Jacob- my 9 year old grandson, show me how to run it and how to play it I have been using it morning and night. All we have is the sports games that came with it. Now you would think playing those games wouldn't make me sore - I have been doing arobics every morning - but, but, my BUTT hurts, my shoulders hurt, my arm aches and I think I have Tennis elbow already! Does this mean its doing some good. When I first started I was good at bowling, terrible at tennis but now I'm pretty good, Look out Jacob! Then I tried golf, Hey watch out Tiger Woods! I am good! Haven't tried baseball yet. I guess we can just sit around and let the world pass us by or we can jump in and try the new stuff. Life is good, I can't wait to see whats next.

Christmas in the Future

It was a good Christmas I think. If I had one bad thing to say about Christmas it would be that everyone has so many places to go during that time that it makes it hard to all be in the same place at the same time. Some suggestions made: Maybe we could have the huge Cox party every other year or move it to the summer when the kids can run and scream outside to their hearts content. I just know some things are going to have to change. Something to ponder when you get together in your own family groups. We need some feed back. As you know our family isn't getting any smaller in fact we had a new announcement at the Christmas Party. Congratulations Tyson and Vanessa - New baby due July 28th. That will be 51 great grandkids for Grandma Cox. That we know of for now. Thanks Chad for renting the Senior center for us and thanks everyone for cleaning up. Did you know that you have to pay a $300.00 damage deposit along with the $100.00 for the rental. Thanks everyone for chipping in so that Chad could get his money back. It seems we are no longer a family - we are a Corporation. Who knew we would grow this big?!

Cox Family Christmas Party

60 years ago a young handsome man married a beautiful young woman. In those 60 years that cute little couple has evolved into a great big giant massive family. This great big giant massive family love each other very much - but - they cannot all fit into one house. Oh, they can fit, but its not a pretty sight. Now they only want to fit a few times a year but still its alot of family. And alot to ask one home to take. So on Thanksgiving we rented the Sr. Center and it worked very well. So we thought we would try it again for our Christmas Party. A few of us paid for the time at Thanksgiving but this time we are asking everyone to donate a little bit to help pay for the rental of $100.00. Everything else will be the same: Everyone bring finger foods, and a gift for the gift exchange game. One suggestion that was made is that Couples can bring just one gift if they want to and play for one gift. It might help cut down on the time but everyone is welcome to do whatever they want. It will start at 6:00 this year and we hope everyone will help clean up. (P.S. I have heard thru the grapevine there might be a special announcement made that night)

News of an Engagement

I think I was the last one to find out that Abby is engaged! I was gone all day on Sat. and read it on Facebook at 10:00 sat nite. I guess there were rose petals and a rose and a ring on a rose and a guy holding the rose. Pretty much a scene out of the "Bachelor". Congratulations Abby.

Cats In The Attic!

Sounds like a horror movie. But its happening in our house. I was sitting on the couch the other morning reading my scriptures and thought I heard Ed getting up. But no -he was still snoring away so I thought it was just my imagination. The next morning the same thing happened and the thought came to me that someone else was in our house. Since Chessie wasn't all upset I thought I must hearing things. When Ed got up I told him I thought someone was in the attic. He said "yes, there are cats up there - They are getting in through the garage" He said it like he was talking about the weather. I said "well get them out, now, today!!!!" They used to live above the hot tub room and since Ed fed them all summer I guess they decided to move into the house. When I came home from work I found Ed putting together some kind of a wire trap. He went out and set it (I'm not sure where) and in 10 minutes caught the cat. This morning I hear the same sounds coming from the attic. So we have the one in the trap and I don't know how many in the attic. Gayle Noyes wants them at his dairy so I guess Ed will transport each cat as he catches them to the dairy. This is a new problem for us. We've had mice in our houses, bee's and wasps, even birds came down our chimmney one time, but never cats in the attic. Just when you think you've seen everything. Life is always keeping us on our toes.

24 Shopping Days until Christmas!

21 if you don't shop on Sunday! I am barely getting rested up from Black Friday. Yes Ed and I were up before the butt crack of dawn and thought we were getting a real early start on things only to find 500,000 cars and shoppers beat us to Walmart. The lines were backed up to the Garden section with full carts. We finally found someone to ask "where the Laptops were that were to go on sale at 5 am" The kind Walmart helper replied," Oh, those were at the pharmacy and they were gone by 4:15." I guess we didn't get the memo that they don't really stick to the sale rules. We ran into Michael whose eyes were still wild with "sales frenzy"! He had been there since 4 am and did not seem normal to me. We talked for a few minutes and then he was off again. I hope he got home ok. The only thing we were looking for was a laptop for Ed and we found one in the regular aisle for not much more than the one on sale. I looked and looked and really did try to find something to buy but it was too early and my mind was not working properly at that time. They ought to have a "Black Friday Afternoon" for Seniors. One you don't have to fight the crowds and you can look leisurly - even sit for a while and think about it, have a cup of cocoa maybe some cookies or lunch. Well here we go into December - credit cards ablazing. If life gets too crazy - sit down and listen to Christmas music. It really calms the sole.