My Second decade as a "BLOGGER" !

Obviously, I am not a very diligent blogger so far! From here, I can only do better, right? My first attempt/effort was in November 09.....so a brief recap of time since that time...! In the two Autumns previous to this one, Robyn (that is my beautiful wife!) and I have gone out to Yakima, Washington to visit on the Yakama Reservation (yes, both times I did spell the "Y" word correctly..the town name first and the Native American Tribal name second..and as I spelled them. Our reason for this particular destination is that my oldest son Chris..(short for, you guessed it, Christopher, which is what his mother and I named him) lives on the Yakama "Rez" with his wife Mary Murphy Granberry (or Mary of Maryland, as I sometimes say, for she was reared there mostly). Chris and Mary have produced and are parenting 4 lovely, lively children. I usually list them in birth order but will depart from that on this account so that David, the only boy may for once be listed first! David is eleven, but will be TWELVE by the time May has gone, on May 8th to be exact, the same day that Elizabeth, Beth, Bit, his middle sister is 14 this year of 2010, then there is Morgan Joy, who became a teenager on Dec. 4th last, and who manages to have several birthday parties most years...some in Birmingham, Alabama and some on the Rez. Then my first grandchild, who is now as of last Sept. 12th (she was born on Grandparent's Day back in '93) ...is now, sweet 16, and I often call her "Sweet Re" (not to rhyme with sweet tea!)..because her beautiful name has been drastically shortened from Ann Marie (in honour of her Grandmother Ann, see foot note) down to just "Re", or as it began ReRe...or "Re Re"...one is never sure how to spell "nicknames" or for that matter why they are called ...NICK names. ( Who was this Nick anyway, not St. Nick , again?). We love them all dearly, does my wonderful wife, Robyn Glass Granberry and I!

As I was saying, this year we did not go out so we are anticipating a good trip out to WA in the Springtime!