Hannah had her annual Gymnastic Recital on May 26th She is amazing and improves with each year.

Memorial Day we went to Steve and Nikki's and had lunch. What a rainy day. It rained all the way to Kalamazoo and stopped just as we were getting to their house and started up again just as we were leaving for home. Hannah and Josh are always glad to see each other.

Here are the four grandkids wondering if they are going to be fed!

Alyssa and Alex goofing off

On June 11th - Hannah's Tae Kwon Do Class did a presentation at the Cancer Walk at the Sturgis High School Football field

Here she is breaking a board with her foot..

Miss V - Trying to put a puzzle together but mostly looking at the pieces.

She is so cute - and into exploring since she started to walk

or, help Grandma!

Just for my family :) Get the message?

Grandparents Day

Friday we went to Kalamazoo Christian Elementary School and saw Josh and Alyssa in the Grandparents performance.

Josh was more into the singing this year than he was in previous years!

Alyssa sang in the program for the first time this year. She is in kindergarten. She yawned a lot! I am guessing she was either tired or stressed. (Her dad says she was sick on Sunday so that may have been the problem).

They both did real good jobs with the hand motions and the singing.

The upper classmates put on a skit.

Josh and his friend were talking quite a bit.

What a nice program. Thank you Josh and Alyssa for inviting us to your program and Art Show!

Our Little Bella, after having her for about six weeks we know how sick our little Dolly was. Bella is a spit fire of energy and keeps us on our toes. Hannah, Alex, and Vivian after church but before they mess up their clothing!

Miss Vivian getting ready for church and showing Grandma how well she can stand by herself.

Miss Vivian getting some breakfast and then a bath..

Ok mom, do I want to eat this? Check out the highchair - many Stuck children have set in this highchair, my sister JoAnn was the first when she was born in 1959.

March Madness

Ramie has tapped the maple trees at his dad's farm and this past weekend he fired up the cooker and started boiling the sap to make maple syrup. Josh and Alyssa enjoyed running around and could not wait to taste the syrup. Alyssa was disappointed to discover that it took a lot of boiling to get the sap to boil down.

Thanksgiving to Birthdays

Thanksgiving Day Kelly hosted Thanksgiving Dinner, I did not get any good photo's but the one of Vivian and yes we are thankful for her!

The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas flew, JWCI had a Christmas party at the Bronson Strike Zone (one of the buildings we have built). What a lot of fun bowling and food.

As we have all worked for the business at one time or another the whole family was at the party.

Next we were onto the St. John's Christmas program. Mr. Alex was a cow and

Miss Hannah was a wise man along with M & M. Cookies and punch followed the program

Christmas day, we started in Kalamazoo at Steve and Nikki's - Steve made breakfast, pancakes, yum.. I really like pancakes (how funny). I think they are comfort food :) Then to Kelly's with Dad and Mom, I did not get a good picture, I tried to get one of generations but it was a bit blury. Then home to hang out with Dad and Mom for a bit.

The next day Steve and Nikki came down from Kalamazoo to Kelly and Sonny's and the cousins all got to hang out. I have all these silly hats and I tried to get the kids together all wearing a hat, not such an easy task.

The next day all the Stuck's got together for a light lunch and Christmas gifts for the young children. We did a crazy gift exchange for the adults.

Ramie and I headed to FL but we stopped in Georgia at the Little White House.

Ramie sitting by FDR statue...

Here we are we split the difference and celebrated Vivian's first birthday and Alex's fourth birthday the last weekend in January..

Alex blowing out his candles - 4 years old.

Alex opening gifts, Aunt Nikki asked what he wanted and he said macaroni and cheese, so that's what he got.

In Memory

We have just returned from Florida and our little dog was sick the whole time we were gone. She was my constant companion, and I will miss her. She passed away on Friday. We were two hours from home...