Just for fun a picture of Mike and William both at 16 years old.

Sixty Years

June 13, 1953

Happy Easter!

 Easter 2000

 Grandma Connie and all her grandkids at the time.

The Loftus grandkids with Aunt Val.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day 2001

Baking Cookies!

Baking chocolate chip cookies has always been a favorite thing for us to do. None of that prepackaged slice and bake stuff here - no good cookie dough to eat that way. Yep look at me Mom of the Year letting her little kids eat raw cookie dough. William lived to tell about it and still loves to do it. Some things never change.

Saturday Bike Ride

This was not the Saturday for me to forget to bring my camera on my morning ride. Pat suggested I ride over to the Farmer's Market in Gilbert and he was going to drive over there (after giving me a head start). The path I took had oh so many interesting things to see on the way and I wish I had my camera to capture them (I will have a redo on that one another time). When I got to the Farmer's Market (yes way after Pat) there was also an Arts/Craft thing going on. We walked around and then went to a little coffee shop in town. Made me realize there is a lot of history and interesting things going on Downtown but I never go there. Have to make a point to do that more often. So anywho on my ride home, the path I rode on ran behind Freestone Park and in the fields all sorts of pint-sized kids were playing soccer and flag football. Well that brought me back to many a Saturday morning spent watching Mike and William play when they were little, which is bringing us right to today's Blast from the Past. It is Fall 2003 and Mike is playing flag football and William soccer.

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is not at the top of my list for Holidays, however, when the kids were small we use to make heart-shaped pizzas for dinner. They loved doing it and well in the middle of February in the cold and snow there isn't a whole lot else to do. Look how adorable they are holding their pizza dough that they shaped into hearts.

  

The finished product made them very proud and they were actually very good, we all enjoyed eating them. 

 

 The year was 2001... fast forward to 2013 and William agrees to make heart-shaped pizza with his mother once again! I think we did a much better job of shaping hearts back in 2001, but we had fun making our pizzas and eating them!

 

 

Unfortunately for us Mike was not here to join in the fun, I am sure he is jealous....LOL. I also made these delicious brownie cookie hearts for dessert. I am thinking for a holiday I don't celebrate, I did an okay job of celebrating.

 

 

 Silly boy put his heart cookie on his heart and it is sitting right on his thumb. What a goof! Hope you (that would be you Mom, since you are the only person that reads my blog) enjoyed this little blast from the past, you can look forward to more as I continue to try to organize and clean up my photo area.