All by myself

Charlotte is at Monya's this afternoon and before I start on the paper work I have to do I decided to take a moment for myself and update my blog. Monya loves having Charlotte and Charlotte loves being at Monya's so it is a win, win situation. She is convinced she isn't going to have a grandchildren of her own so Charlotte is her baby fix. Her daughter Rachel even thanked me for letting Monya get her baby fix, that way she stops bugging her to have a baby.

So Charlotte is almost a year old and I can hardly believe how fast time has went. She is trying to walk everywhere. She thinks it is so funny though that she usually ends up falling down laughing. She has her top two teeth in and is working on two more. She now points to everything, and wants you to tell her what it is. She loves to look at photo albums of Jim, myself, and of course Charlotte. She loves to look at herself in the pictures. Her new words are "at" for cat and "uppy" for puppy. She seems to forget the first letter of the words. It is cute, but we keep trying to get her to say it right. Jim has taught her to do the angry face. It is so funny. She scrunches up her face and she thinks she is so funny when she does it.

As far as the rest of my life it has been filled with pictures and movies and slides. I am really getting tired of scanning pictures. I want to be done with it so I can move onto researching and putting together the rest of the Allen book. I am really hoping to get the movies done by Christmas but if the transfer unit doesn't get here soon that isn't going to happen. I am hoping it will be sometime this week or next. I started to go through the movies and it is surreal to watch my grandparents and mom. I wish for one more day with them both. This is going to be such a gift to our family. I really don't know how to thank my Uncle Rick and Aunt Cecil enough for trusting me with these movies long enough to get them transferred. This is going to allow these movies and slides to be preserved for generations to come. It is really awesome.

The picture below is what I woke up to the other morning. It was the first snow fall of the year. I always love the first snow fall. It is one of the reasons I have come to like living in Wisconsin. You go to bed one night and the world is grey and brown and everything looks dead and then you wake up the next morning to this...... It is beautiful, white and clean. It is like a fresh start. Of course any snow falls after the first are not so nice or really necessary in my book. I really do hate winter, but the first snow fall is the best. Charlotte was pretty amazed at the outside world too. It is so much fun to see everything for the first time through her eyes. Every single thing in this world is new to her. It so awesome to experience.

Jim went hunting opening weekend and he dressed Charlotte up in some of his clothes. Little did he know that she would be the only "Dear" he would see. I really feel bad for him. There are two things that Jim loves (Besides myself & Charlotte) Racing and Hunting. Every year as this time of year comes around he gets depressed. He use to go hunting with a guy he worked with at Cardinal Glass, but then he moved to Washington, well since then Jim really has no place to hunt. It kills him every year to drive through town and see everyone with their deer. Right now he hunts on our neighbors property by Briggsville but it is a very small area and he is surrounded by other hunters, so the only way he is going to get a deer is if the other two guys shoot each other and the third and fourth guy die of heart attacks, and then maybe he would have a chance of a deer getting close enough to shoot. I really wish we had the money to buy some land. He really deserves to be able to hunt. He works his A** off to provide a good life for Charlotte and me, and all he lives for is the chance to go hunting. It kills me that I can't help him. He would be happy to just shoot doe the rest of his life as long as he had a place to do it. I really hope that someday we will have the money to buy a little bit of land and put a nice little house on it. He would be so happy. I really hope that he is able to get a deer this year some how. He deserves it.