January Newsletter

Hi everyone! This is the newsletter bits that I was going to send out when my program crashed so I am just going to post this rather old news on our new newsletter blog.

Family news!

Thanksgiving day dinner at Pirate land

 Allison and Amy helped out at the Pirate land Thanksgiving day feast. They had the fun job of giving everyone a gift when they came through the door. Hundreds of guests were served.

Red wings

 The Mitsuoka family at a Hurricane game in Raleigh, NC. Of course the Hurricanes were playing the Detroit Red wings.....why else go all that way?

Waiting for Spring

and the busloads of migrant birds....no visa necessary

"Emma"

 Emma was in her Troy Athens school play...entitled "Emma" It was so much fun watching her on stage and she did a great job....take a bow,Emma

Disney

 Emma will also be going to Disney World with her drama club. Not sure if it is spring break when they are going but I am sure they will have a great time.

New Camera

Allison takes a photography class in school and the lucky girl just got a Canon T5 SLR camera. She will have fun shooting all the great things down there in SC. To see more of
Allison's photos go to her flickr page....link below.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/100380195@N06/with/16088925556/

Thanksgiving in Kansas

 Capi and his son were invited for dinner as well as Sean's friend Josh (below)

 The skinny kid table

 This photo will go down in Carney family history...we got so many "likes" on facebook with this picture. I love Capi.."Like what ya gonna do?"

 On a drive-by shoot with Mike in the wilds of Kansas.

 Brunch at the Farm House in downtown Kansas City Mo. What great food!

 Twin and the girls at the Overland Park Arboretum

 Had a great time feeding the birds right outside the family room window. Mike's desk is right there...I wouldn't get any work done because I would be watching the feeder all the time.

Saki ...guard Dog. Checking to make sure that the neighborhood is safe and secure!

Thanks Mike Twin, Sean, Mikey Saki and Ginger! I had a great time. thank you all for your hospitality

The Photography Ladies

 Had a fun Christmas party with some of my photography group...none of the men were invited, ha!  We had pizza at the Hut and then went to Donna's after for coffee and dessert. Also had a White Elephant gift exchange. It was a nice evening with some very nice ladies.

In Other News

Everyone is busy.....Pictured above is Sean with the table that he made in wood shop at school...it even has a drawer. He did such a good job that I think John Bozdog is proud! He's also looking down saying "You are such a skinny kid...do you want a sangwich?"

In other news....Liam is playing basketball for the Larson Rebels, his middle school team. Hoping to get up there soon to catch a game. Mikey had a concert just before Christmas....Mikey and his trumpet! Otherwise the boys spent their holiday gaming.

John is working as many days as 6 a week. John come to Michigan and take a vacation!
Now, if anyone has any news, pictures or suggestions please let me know. I am so hoping that everyone will take a look at this page and enjoy all the news....feedback will be appreciated.

Lunch With Emma

I really enjoyed having lunch with Emma on Saturday......it's always great to have one of my grand kids all to myself ;-). We ate at Paneras and than shopped at Bath and Body works (they had great sales). Fun time!

The Ball

I'm expecting more pictures and more information about this military ball. I know that it was a fund raiser for military academy students and Mike and Capi got their tickets through work, It was in Kansas City, Mo. and was a formal event. Don't they all look lovely? I hope to see photo of Mike and Twin together. 

Note Mike's ribbons.

Capi is Mike's good friend. He works for United Health Care as well and is also the founder of the GTG , the cycle club that Mike belongs to.

I love selfies.

For Jim...ha!

OMG! This is Jim! I recognize the bow.

More Christmas Pics

 The Mitsuoka Family

 Santa brought Amy a Coach purse

 John's new gaming chair

A beautiful Christmas table

Welcome friends and family to our new newsletter blog.

I plan on one more hard copy newsletter coming up in the next few weeks and will formally announce our new blog. After almost 14 years, I have decided that I have to go with the times and go online. I think that this picture was taken in 2000 about the time that I started the newsletter.
I have many reasons for the change. One of them being that the program that I use drives me crazy. It takes forever to do the newsletter as it is always shutting down, won't let me save and in general is a pain in the neck.
The other reason is the cost of the ink which when printing out as much color  as the newsletter has, goes quickly so between the cost of the ink and the brochure paper is reason enough.
I also feel that since I get almost no feedback , I often wonder if anyone out there is even reading it. On the positive side, Amy has saved every newsletter and has them in plastic sleeves in a binder. When I go to visit, I love looking back. To see the kids grow up from one newsletter to the next is pretty cool....that I will miss. Also, I regret that Grandpa Joe may not get to see the blog.....will have to see what we can do about that.
So, off we go on my 3rd blog...looking forward to posting in real time....as news happens you will see it with more pictures and frequent updates.
I hope that you all take a look from time to time. Let me know what you think and if there is any changes that you want or ideas that you may have.
Carol Carney (Grandma), editor and chief  :-)

Christmas Morning

in South Carolina

 John just getting started...note no wrapping paper covering the floor

 Allsion and Takeshi both plugged in.

Amy where are you?

Must be a good present from Santa

Christmas Morning

Noodles, under the tree at Emma's house

Cats always love Christmas trees

Christmas 2014

Christmas Eve at Grandma's House

 Liam got his Dad this moose mug (from the movie "Christmas Vacation"). He was so excited to give it to Tim but than he took it over and used it for his punch

 Tim was Santa but he refused to wear the hat!

 Emma loved the free pen that I got her from the bank

 Go Lions!

 Gift card...the best!

 Everyone talk to everyone....almost. Wish that we could all be together

Christmas 2014