Mushroom's-Blog

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Orlando Turns 31 on 2 November

1977 Doesn't Seem Like So Very Long Ago

He Is Soooo Good Looking At 31

Getting a Decent Birthday Beating 31 Times

Ouch ! ! !

Mom and Grandma Celebrate Orlando's 31st Birthday

Edan, Tara and Dallin Celebrate Orlando's 31st Birthday

Roger Celebrate's Orlando's 31st Birthday

Beautiful Isis as Piglet

Beautiful Isis Playing the Role Of Piglet

Abuelito Is In the Pink with Isis

Sara, Tyler & Jay came Trick or Treating by.

The Cousins Invade Ikea

TIGGER DALLIN

Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet

Bonnie Holding Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet

Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet Hunt For Halloween Treasure

Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet Find Delicious Treasure

Elephants and Mushrooms

Abuelito Plays Under The Mushroom With Tigerboy and Tigger Dallin

Tara Tried To Convince Us That The Elephant Was Her Newest Baby

Abuelito Plays Under The Mushroom With Tigerboy

The Joker

The Joker Scared Tigger Dallin as Tigerboy Looked On

Tigerboy and the Joker became fast friends

The Celestial Being Was Being Devilish

The Celestial Being Was Being Devilish, Enjoying Herself as she Frightened Little Children and Their Mothers

Canine Halloween Lament

Our Humans Always Find Ways To Embarrass us.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It has been 16 years since Jeremy died

Mushroom sharing an ice cream cone with Jeremy on the Long Beach City College campus before Mushroom went to Viet Nam

Jeremy & Orlando at the University of New Mexico at Halloween time

This is one of my favorite photos of Jeremy and Orlando together

Jeremy and Orlando together as we were building the greenhouse in our Albuquerque home.

October, changes its green sequined dress for a multishade coat of oranges, ocres, browns and yellows. But she hides her salted swords and just when I am caught in her beauty she slices a deep cut into my heart and I cry, deep, deep inside for a long, long time.

It was a charmingly sunny October morning when we received the call that Jeremy was in intensive care and the hospital needed our permission to provide medical care. Jeremy had been hit while riding his motorcycle, which he loved to do. Our son died 23 October 1992.

But that very week later, four families were saying prayers of thankgsgiving for Jeremy's life saving organs. I miss our son, very, very , very much, especially when October dresses in gold and rubies.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Bonnie & Jiho Returned to the USA

Happy family home in the US, at last.

The Original Starbucks is a good place to visit as we showed Mirae and Yeoungho the sites and sounds of Seattle.

Mirae buys a bracelet as Bonnie and Roger look on.

Denise is so happy to have them home.

The Celestial Being is glad that her sister is home, along with her brother-in-law and niece and nephew.

It is a mixture of joy and sadness whenever loved ones leave. Bonnie, Isis, Tigerboy and Jiho came to America and left Jiho's parent's behind.

Goodbye Korea, we will miss you

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Front Yard Summer Garden

The yard is beautiful with bright orange lilies and purple lavender and purple wildflowers. I paid a young neighbor to remove the lawn, thus giving Denise a pallet with which to paint her garden. It is beautiful. And no one has to mow it.