More Christmas pictures

Since it didn't let me upload all eight pictures, here are the rest of them. Thanks - Carin

Pictures of the Grush Family

If I've done this correctly, there should be pictures of the Grush family attached to this. I took the Christmas cards I got from everyone and put them on my computer harddrive and I'm attempting to get them on our website.

Todd, if this doesn't work correctly, since you're the site adminstrator, perhaps you can fix it.

Thanks ! - Carin

Natural disaster - ha ha

Yeah, right. Naural disaster - whatever. You want cold, Chris? Try northern Iowa where there's about six inches of snow on the ground with piles in the parking lots of about 15 feet and temperatures hovering in the minus range, with wind chills hovering in the double digit minus range. :-) Gotta love ya' bro !! Glad to hear it's warming up some in AZ. Mom, dad, Dan and I are headed to AZ the end of March so we will look forward to seeing you then. We are all taking golf clubs and planning to get some time in on the links, however, I have not golfed since I was eight months pregnant with Henry (yes, Henry) so I'm bound to be a little rusty. Hopefully it won't be too embarassing.

We're doing well here - everyone is healty and happy. Dan and I are headed out to Washington DC for a conference the beginning of March so if anyone has any ideas for museums to visit or places to eat, we'd love suggestions. I don't know if the cherry trees will be in bloom yet or not, but we're sure to have a good time.

Way to go, Aunt Jan, for posting on the blog - we're proud of you. Did Rhonda help with that? Very relieved to hear Uncle Bob's tests went as well as could be expected. We've been praying for you. And it sounds like you're doing a lot of baking at Rhonda's so if you want to stop here on your way home and fill up my freezer, that would be much appreciated !!

Best close for now - hopefully more of you cousins will start posting. It's a great way to keep up on each other's lives and only takes a few minutes to hop on and post. Love - Carin

75 degrees and Sunny in Phoenix

For the first time in history the temperature in Phoenix never got above 72 degrees in December or January. Despite our brutal winter conditions in the upper 50's and low 60's, we managed to survive. But now the weather has turned much better and has been in the mid 70's for the past several days and just wanted to let every know we survived the winter and are now enjoying our normal temperatures.

Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers during our terrible natural disaster.

Chris

Jan and Bob in Colorado Springs

Hi,

This is a whole new experience for me typing on this Blog!!We have been at Rhonda and John's since Jan. 24th. The 27th we went to Denver to National Jewish hospital where Bob had tests all week. Sunday nite we stayed all nite and he had that sleep apnea test . The next day he had tests all day--nothing icky like Rhonda had. We spent that nite in Denver at a motel because his tests started the next morning at 8a.m, had tests in the morn. and then back to C.S. Wed. was free so I baked cookies for the Sobecki's.Thurs. back to Denver and Rhonda went with us.The traffic was so awful it took us 2 1/2 hours to get there instead of 1 1/2. All for a 1/2 hour test.Back to C.S. Friday back to Denver one more time and met with Rhonda's Dr. for the test results..Pretty much the same as the V.A. had told him . Needs to exercise and diet--Sound familiar. Enough of that!!

The weather here has been pretty good and the sun shines most days unlike Iowa!! Rhonda,Rachel and I went cross country skiing Sat. but it was cold and snowy--still beautiful up there (Frisco). Did meet one of Bob's niece's and her husband for dinner up there.

Sunday we had a Super Bowl partyand Rhonda won 3 quarters and John the other one.!! Monday I made the second batch of rye bread and did some mending . That nite we played some games--found Quidder-Carolyn -in Frisco so bought that. Today-Tuesday- had a manicure and Bob and I both got hair-cuts from a friend of Rhonda's that she and her husband spent a lot of time in Fredericksburg so got some good hints there. We leave tomorrow morning(Wed) and hope to arrive in Fredericksburg Thurs. and get on the HOG!!

I think I've rambled long enough. Hope everyone is well and we love you. See you in S.D. July 2nd.

Love

Jan and Bob

Way to go !!!

Kudos to Chris and Todd for getting this set up for us - I think it's a great idea and belive it will help us to stay connected as a family. I had the best of intentions for getting a post up right away, but alas the best-laid plans, etc., etc. :-)

I will write more frequently and also have combed through my cookbook to pull out the few recipes I have from Grandma Grush and will plan to type those in and post them. I think it would be neat if we all had grandma's noodle recipe so that there's a possibility we might make them. (or we could just let mom do all the work for now, right?)

Aunt Jo, thanks for the sippy cups. Mom said she got them from you when she and Aunt Jan were making you clean off your countertops. We appreciate them because now Henry can take drinks into their great room. You'd think in three and a half years somewhere along the line it might have occurred to mom to buy a sippy cup for her grandson, but at least she got one from you now. :-)

We're doing good here - Cora and I both have a little cold or something, but it's the season for it. Cute story from Henry - I was getting dressed for church Sunday and was standing in the closet. mostly naked, trying to decide what to wear. Henry is on our bed reading a book and he looks up and says, "Mommy, you're naked !!" I said, "Yes, I am. What do you think about that?" And his reponse was quite an ego deflater. He said, "Not very good, mommy." Thanks a lot. The honesty of children is refreshing, isn't it? Now I think I'll go start my diet ------

Take care and I look forward to reading posts from all of the cousins. Love - Carin

So far very little response....

Well it has been two weeks and only Aunt Jo and Aunt Sue have signed up for the Grush Family Round Robin. What is the reason? It only takes several minutes and will be much easier to update everyone's lives instead of receiving the round robin once a year. Please get signed up by following the directions in your email or call Todd or I and we will walk you through it.

Chris 480-235-0712
Todd 623-433-6422