Who will be next??

First it was my brother....now my nephew has jumped on the wagon. Who will be next? Anyone???

Happy Birthday, Tina!

My big sister is having a birthday today and I couldn't let the day go by without a big shout out to her on her special day. This picture was taken last year when she and Kim and my mom came to visit in September. I love this picture of the two of them.

Happy Birthday, Big Sis!

Someone else's birthday is also today - someone who I forgot shared a birthday with my sister. A long lost friend....Birthday wishes (and a pretty embarrassing picture) from her big brother can be found here.

Happy New Year!

Of course, with the holidays, quite a bit has happened since my last post and I have a lot of pictures to share.

First things first...I can now post those projects I was working on for Christmas gifts. I made an album for my sister's wedding pictures. The entire album can be viewed by clicking here.

I also made a chipboard Family album for Anna, my mother-in-law. Completed project can be viewed here.

And I made a Friend chipboard album for my friend, Karie. Completed project can be viewed here.

The holidays came and went this year with us spending time with friends and family back in Ohio.

It was fun to have all the little ones at the Waganfeald Christmas again.

Del got me a Wii for Christmas. I womped on him in bowling (how could I not with such form??), but we were pretty well matched in golf. The children were perfectly content just watching from the grandstands.

And although I've been extremely sick with a cold, Del scored some Charlotte Bobcat tickets from the Chairman of his company for this past Tuesday night. Yes - we are sitting on the floor! Amazing seats - very cool!

And just because.....

Chalupa tolerating Maggie again.

And a rose from a bouquet Del bought me before Christmas that is still hanging on.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year's.

See you tomorrow for Flashback Friday!

Congratulations - Finally!!

Congratulations, April and Jake!

Welcome, Jaelynn Rae!!

I've been waiting to post my congratulations to my niece April and her husband, Jake on the birth of their new baby girl, Jaelynn Rae Selecki. She was born November 26. A healthy 9 lbs. 6 oz., 21-1/4" long. April sent me these pics today.

It's a bottle, Jake!


You would never guess she is a new mom, would you?!?

Aunt Heather definitely knows a thing of two about babies - just not so sure about the "girl" part! :o)

Perfectly content!

Thanks for sharing, April! Congratulations to you both! Can't wait to meet her in person at Christmastime!

Photo a Day - Day 14

I didn't actually take this picture today, obviously, but wanted to honor my big brother on his birthday!

And just for good measure, to pay tribute to the crazy, loveable brother he is, I'm posting a second picture...(which I'm sure he is going to love me for - as will my new brother-in-law, Brian).


Happy Birthday, big brother! I love you!

Life Happens...

Man, can a lot happen in just one and a half months. So here are a few of the highlights (and a few not so "high"lights)


Sept 5 - Tammy travels to Toledo for the weekend
Sept 6 - Tammy's great-nephew, Jesse's first birthday party


Sept 7 - Tammy's sister, Jenny's bridal shower in Toledo

Sept 26 - Tammy leaves for her girls only birthday cruise to the Bahamas
Sept 27 - Tammy's 40th birthday
Oct 1 - Del's business trip to Minneapolis and the Mall of America (without Tammy!!)
Oct 3 - Del's dad visits NC for the weekend
Oct 8 - Del's dad admitted to the hospital
Oct 9 - Tammy and Del travel to Toledo for the weekend
Oct 10 - Del's dad has surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm
Oct 10 - Jenny and Brian's rehearsal dinner
Oct 11 - Jenny and Brian's wedding

Oct 11 - Del's dad comes home from the hospital


And just because you've been waiting so long, here are some of my favorite pictures from our Montana trip (finally!).



Hopefully, our routines will be back to normal until the holidays start - whatever normal may be.

I will try to not wait so long before my next post! Until then...

Fun Times

A lot has happened in a week's time. Del has been sick pretty much all week (at least since Wednesday) with a fever and sore throat. And today, his left eye has started matting and is extremeley red. He's been so sick he actually agreed to go to Urgent Care with no resistance. They have no idea what he has, but they do know that it is not strep throat. Whatever it is, it is really dragging him down, much to his dismay. It was absolutely gorgeous here this weekend for our three day weekend, and he was not able to golf once. You know he must be really sick, if it keeps him from golfing!!

It has been a week since April and Jake's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and the weather held out nicely for it. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the event.

Great Uncle Del having a raspberry contest with baby Jesse...

A perfect shot of April...

And the happy couple...

In other events...I went to the White Water Center here in Charlotte with a couple of girls from work on Saturday to experience the Climb 2 Zip. I was very excited to do this. Let me tell you...it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. The falling from the 32 foot platform with only a rope and a harness holding you in was not the hard part, either...

It was the climb up the 32 foot pole that was the scariest...

But I ended up doing it twice and it was so well worth it. Thanks Jennifer for suggesting us to go. I had a blast and I'm so proud of us!!

(Don't you just love the hats?!?)

Chaotic Weekend back home

So I went back home to Toledo this weekend.

Friday night I had dinner with my friend, Chris and her husband, Al and two other ladies I used to work with back at HCR. After dinner we went back to Chris's house to book a Girl's Cruise for my 40th (heavy sigh!) birthday in September. So far, seven girls are confirmed going...still waiting to hear from some others. So excited!!!

Saturday started with breakfast with my two nieces, Lisa and April, my two sisters, Jenny and Tina, and my mom before we went dress shopping for Jenny's wedding that is in October.

This is us all waiting for Jenny to try on her first pick.



She fell in love with this dress (but with blue instead of red)...


...only to find out it was discontinued and they can no longer order it in blue. I thought her heart was going to break right then and there. But then we found this one....


This is the style of the girls dresses. Half the girls will be in the color Blue Velvet (same color on Jenny's dress) and the others will be in Canary Yellow. This is my nephew, Nick's, fiance (I just found out they got engaged at Easter) Congratulations, Nick and Lindsay! (I appreciate you not getting married this year!)


Sunday was filled with church in the morning and then my niece, April's, bridal shower. She is getting married May 17 (so that means another trip back to Toledo next month). April, of course, was in true form...


It was so great to see everyone, including my new great-niece, Kaylie (my brother's granddaughter)...

...and Jesse, my great-nephew


Other than the rain on Saturday and the snow flurries on Sunday morning (in April - are you kidding me??), it was a great trip home.

Happy Birthday, Kim!!

Why can't I seem to wish people a Happy Birthday on the actual day?? This is definitely a character flaw of mine. It's not because I don't remember when their birthday is or that I don't think about them on their actual birthday! I just never get around to saying something on the actual day.

Yesterday was our brother-in-law, Kim's, birthday - a significant, milestone birthday, nonetheless. Although I won't tell you which one it is, since I don't know how he truly feels about it, but I'm sure you are able to guess.

I'm disappointed in myself as a scrapbooker because as I was going through all my pictures, I realized that I do not have a good recent picture of Kim. So here is a picture of him and Tina from our cruise four years ago. (As a disclaimer - I do have more recent pictures of Kim, just not ones that he is looking directly into the camera, so I thought this would be the best bet!)

Kim - We hope you had a great day, yesterday, and you have many more wonderful birthday's to come. Please forgive the tardiness of the well wishes.

Weekends go by WAY too quickly...

Another weekend has come and gone. Didn't get to do much this weekend - did get my hair cut and spent a lot of the time working, which was OK - earned brownie points with the boss! :o)

Mom is back at the nursing home and still in good spirits. They moved her to another room which, she says, is much better than the last- quieter and she is closer to the window.

Del and I went to check out the Charlotte Table Tennis Club. Let me tell you, they take their ping pong seriously. In watching some of them - ALL of them play - only a few seconds, I knew it wasn't for me. Del, however, could probably play some of them and beat them - one day - but not today. It was fun to watch, though. We're planning on checking out some rock climbing next weekend - can't wait! I'll be sure to have my camera with me to post.

Until next time...

Mom Update...

Mom had her surgery today. She did not need to have surgery on her right heel; the doctor believes it will heal on its own as long as she stays off of it. He fused the bones together on her left ankle with screws. He said her bones were very soft and brittle and he is a little afraid that the screws won't stay in place, so he has ordered her to stay off her feet completely - no pressure on the feet whatsoever - for three weeks. So she will be going back to the nursing home for the proper care and therapy.

The part that really stinks is her birthday is Thursday. It's never good when you have to spend your birthday in someplace like a hospital. It sounds like she may have a long haul ahead of her yet, so please keep her in your prayers.

Maybe for a belated birthday gift and a you-made-it-through-recovery gift, we should take her on a vacation. I'm sure she'd be glad to go anywhere other than a cruise! :o)

Busy few weeks

It seems like quite a bit has happened since my last post. Other than the normal day to day activities we have here in NC, there was a quite an eventful week, particularly for my mom. Let me start from the beginning....

For Christmas and her birthday, we kids bought mom a ticket to go on a cruise with my two sisters, Tina and Jenny (and their significant others). Although excited about the trip, Mom was very nervous about the trip...worried she would get separated from the others, worried she was going to get too sick to enjoy the trip, or worried that something would happen...well, happen it did. Mom bunked with Jenny and Brian the first night and insisted on sleeping in the top bunk so as to not split the couple up. In the middle of the night she needed to go to the bathroom and slipped off the bunk ladder and came crashing down on both of her feet. Turns out she broke her right heel and both the inside and outside bones of her left ankle. Since this happened on the first night, she had two more nights on the ship before they were scheduled for land fall in Grand Cayman. The hospital doctor in Grand Cayman insisted she needed to go home to get immediate attention - meaning surgery! The ship was set to sail at 4:00 that afternoon, and it had to sail without mom. Tina and Jenny had to figure out arrangements for mom to get to Detroit as soon as possible - without them. They were lucky enough to find a connecting flight through Charlotte so I was able to make arrangements to get a special needs pass to meet mom and take her to her next gate and spend the 3-1/2 hour layover she had in Charlotte before heading on to Detroit. She made it home and was in the hospital for a couple days before they had to send her to Heartland-Holly Glen to await the swelling to go down before surgery can be done. What a mes this has been. The surgeon couldn't understand why neither the ship doctor or the Grand Cayman doctor didn't set mom's ankle. He is afraid more damage has been done than expected and is only hoping their hasn't been a lot of tissue damage - something we won't know until surgery is performed Over all, though, mom has been in pretty good spirits and has really been a trooper. She told me she was having a good time despite the circumstances and did not want to come home, but the doctor made her. The picture below was taken in the Charlotte airport waiting for her plane. Please keep her in your prayers.

In other events...

Del and I attended the Charlotte Checkers hockey game this past Friday night. It was Family Dollar night at the Checker's game. It wasn't something we normally would do, but it was fun, and at least gave us something to do. The Checkers beat the South Carolina Stingrays - five to nothing.

We, then, had some friends (John and Gina Bumgardner) over Saturday night for dinner. I was stressing about this one because I know that Gina is a very good cook. And as most of you know - I am not known for my cooking. It turned out to be a success and received no complaints - only compliments.

So far, I think Del and I are doing a really good job in keeping our New Year's resolution to have more fun.

Until next time....