More ABC's of Tonya

H is the next letter in Tonya's book. Tonya grew up in my house for the first couple of years. Plus she always knows that Gramma will be here to take care of her if needed. When Mommy and Daddy got a divorce, she started saying there was Mommy's house and Daddy's house and home was my house.


Next we have "ICE CREAM".
Tonya went with me to a meeting at Lion's Club and we ordered her some ice cream and I figured I would snap some photos of her eating it.







And the last layout for today is "Jewelry"
I am a crafter and have taught crafts at the local library to kids. When the girls come to visit they often get to make something and on this day they made bracelets. I love the look on her face in this photo.

It's late, so I think I will stop for tonight.
Tess

Daily Download, ABC's of Tonya

Today's download for ScrapHead has a beautiful paper! It is sooooo textured! Have a peek! It is by JaydensMama.
You can get it here. But only until Midnite MST. Then you can get day 2 which is below.





Day two is from ScrapShana. At midnite tonite I will enable the link to collect this part. You can get it here.Remember it is only good from Midnight for 24 hours (Mountain Time.)








I uploaded E and G today at SOTB. So now I can show you.

E is for Easter. The kids came to Gramma's house and colored easter eggs. Then they went out and had a scavenger hunt to find their special baskets. This happened in 2005.
The Kit is special to my heart. It is a collaboration of a bunch of designers. In order to purchase it you have to donate at least $20. Then they will send the links for it. The donation goes directly to Autism Speaks and the kit is called For the Love of McKayla. It is a HUGE kit. If you would like to know more about it then GO HERE.

F IS FOR FROG

One day Tonya and Marcus were outside playing and came running to me. "Gramma, look what we found." Of course it was a KODAK moment, except for me it is a CANON moment, lol. They are seldom found around here, but the frogs do show up occasionally. I do live in the high desert after all!

And the last one for today is G is for Gramma.
Tonya was born in Yakima, Washington. A couple of weeks after her date of birth, her parents brought her here to meet me and her great-grandparents. I so enjoyed my short time with her. They moved here a couple of months later, so Tonya and I spent a lot of time together for the next 5 years.
This layout was made using For the Love of McKayla Kit also.

John, ABC's of Tonya, SOTB

Ended up in GJ (Grand Junction) for the last couple of days.

John, my significant other, is going through some hard times medically right now. He was having problems urinating, and they did a CT to see what is going on. He has what appears to be a tumor on the bladder where the prostate is. (He had prostate cancer 10 years ago.) But when they put the stent in from the kidney to the bladder they didn't see anything other than the prostate has enlarged again.

The reason we stayed in GJ, between the price of gas right now, it wearing him out when we go to town, (it takes two hours one way) and him needing to see two Dr.'s in three days it was just more prudent to do that. While we were there they did another CT and saw there was no change.

He had been wearing diapers because the stent was irritating the bladder, so he was having no control from drip. However, he wasn't able to empty the bladder either. So today they put a catheter in and he will wear that for the next week. Maybe next week it will come out and they will do another scope to look to see what is going on up there.

On to other things. Jen asked us at chat tonight to put our blog addresses out there for others to know about. So I did. She is calling it a "Blog-Train". They are in hopes of getting SOTB (Scrap Outside the Box) back to being a great place for scrappers to want to go. SOTB is where I am making my ABC's of Tonya at.

At the motel last night, I went through some of my disks and I found some of the pictures I have been looking for to finish up G, W and J. Now if someone would upload a page I could get one of those uploaded. I also figured out what to make with E. So I can get that page made and upload it here and continue on.