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Glad to hear from Shelley-Happy New Year everyone!!! Prayers to Scott and Wendy for their little girl. May God bless you all and keep everyone safe...if you go out and party-PLEASE, PLEASE have a designated driver!!! Lots of love from Ganny Gunnells.

Yes, I have other family members!!

My Mom, Kelly and the boys after their Christmas play at Zion Church.

Gunnells-Vann Christmas

Just before they put 0n their Reindeer vest outfit-notice all of the lotion on Dalton's neck!!

Gunnells-Vann Christmas

Trying to get a good picture of these guys on Sunday before Christmas just was NOT happening!!! I LOVE THEM ANYWAY!!

Gunnells-Vann Christmas

Just good ole country Christmas!!

Ganny spent Sunday afternoon with the Vann family...then we went to the Christmas program at Zion Church. The boys were candy canes!!! I told them to let me get a picture of them loving each other...this is what I got!! (Pop-Pop was shopping with Uncle Ray and Luke-Luke) LOL

Congrats, everyone!!

Congratulations to Charlie and Mandy on the arrival of little Mason!!! I am So, So happy for you!!! Also, congratulations to Ann and Woody Terry on the arrival of little Parker Terry on Saturday afternoon, about 3:50. I hope these two guys will know each other growing up!! Two new baby boys on the same day in the same county....Merry Christmas!!!! Miracles happen every day!!!!

Here we go again!!

Yes, it is Ganny again...talking about those Vann boys!! We went to Greenbriar Mall on Saturday (Me, Kelly and the boys) and they were really good. It was just so crowded that we didn't get much done...I just enjoyed Kelly and the boys' company!!! Well, Saturday night, Shelton had a pig picking at his shop and Kelly and Heath brought the boys...they had a BALL!!! They were the only kids there, so they were the center of attention. And guess what, SANTA made a surprise visit!!! They wouldn't sit on his lap, but they did tell him they want a golf cart for Christmas..of all times to NOT have my camera!!! I bet old Santa might just round up a golf cart for those little fellows!! Hope Kelly doesn't mind, but I can't wait any longer to share pix with you...since she just got these from school and it is SOOOOO hard to dress these guys and take them for a picture, this is gonna be their Christmas pix!!

Picking up the boys from "school"

Well, today and yesterday I picked up those precious little guys from "school"...today, it was POURING rain and of course I made sure they didn't get wet (I am soaked!). It is such a pleasure to pick them up...sometimes I ask Kelly if I can pick them up and sometimes she asks me to pick them up. Either way, I LOVE IT!!! And Heath and Kelly always thank me for getting them....ARE THEY KIDDING???? I am thankful for them letting me pick them up!!! (Oh, how I DO go on and on about those boys...sorry)!
Don't know if any of you have kept up with the missing 3 yr old little girl in Florida (since June). They arrested her mother a few weeks ago for murder...even without a body. Today, a body was found only yards away from their home...we need some serious praying for this family...I have been following this story for months on Nancy Grace (HLN). It will be a while before the remains are positively identified...I just don't understand how in the world this can happen. Sorry for the depressing news, but this weighs heavily on my mind.:( :(

OOPS

Tried to fix Season on my last post (I had spelled it Reason!) and somehow I deleted it! LOL Anyway, I AM SO BLESSED!!!!!

Feeling the Love

Yes, I already feel better. After I got all 3 eyedrops in my eye and took a nap with Bandit, I woke up and felt like a new woman!!! I hope I can get through work tomorrow!! Hope I don't stick anything in the other eye tonight!! LOL!! I will probably look funny with no eye makeup on, but there is no need since I will be putting drops in 3 times a day! LOL

Prayer is GREAT-so is JESUS!!

Look now, Kelly C., I already am crying (due to all the medicine) because of my eye situation (I shouldn't be up here-it is blurry!), but your great news tops it off!!! THANK YOU LORD!!! I know you and your family will have a great Christmas and your parents can enjoy their retirement!! Love ya!
Thanks everyone for your support for my eye-I will be okay...I just know it!! I am just worried about my Kelly's headaches...maybe the Christmas break will help her!! I LOVE THAT CHILD!!

Lift me up, please!

This is a "quicky" post 'cause I can't see!!! I know this is trivial, but I need a little prayer! I woke up this morning with something wrong with my right eye. I barely made it to work and went to Dr. Hauser as soon as he opened. I have scratched my right eye ball!! How do you do that in your sleep? Anyway, I came home and I've got 3 medicines to put in my eye. He wanted to put a dark contact on my eye to act like a bandage and I begged him not to!! I can't stand anything to go near my eyes!!

Saturday at mom's

Saturday, John, Kelly, Dalton, Dawson and I went to my mom's to decorate for Christmas. We met her at Los Amigos for lunch and then to her house to decorate. John did lots of things like replace light bulbs outside, put the deer and snowman out, clean bugs out of light under the carport, etc. I helped him some (and Dalton) and then Kelly and I started some on the inside. Mom didn't want to mess with the tree because of her health and we don't go there for the holidays since she can't cook anymore. We took the old satellite box down and threw it away and it had melted to the top of her console tv!!! (You know, the old first ones they come out with) Kelly got all of the rubber off and disconnected "thousands of wires" from behind the tv. She vacuumed, dusted, etc. When we left, Mom stood at the door telling us bye and thank you and said "Did the doctor tell ya'll that I was going to die or something?" We all busted out laughing and said "No, we haven't even seen your doctor!!" Bless her heart, say a little prayer for her if you can, she is in REALLY bad health. Thanks!!

Merry Christmas 2008 from the Gunnells family

You can see my den tree on the header with the boys and here is a picture of the one in the living room. Last year I went with the "slim line" trees since I don't have much room...I love them!! The huge trees are in the barn...they take up so much space. And as you see, I LOVE SNOWMEN AND SNOWWOMEN (sp?) !!!

Mom's mailbox for Christmas

My mom's mailbox is on it's last "leg"!!! As a surprise, one of her presents will be this mailbox I fixed for her...just bought one from Walmart and decorated with my Cricut machine...voila!! And you girls thought I was just an ole' granny!!! LOL!!!

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, everybody!!!!! With JT's directions, Kelly C., Mandy and Shannon's support, and just having my Kelly walk me through it, I FINALLY did it!!!! THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MOMMA NANCY!!!!!

Adding Christmas to my blog

Well, as you can see, it just ain't gonna happen!!!! I did change the colors on my page ....?????!!! LOL---Kelly C. and Allyson-HELP!! I will beg one of you to help me this weekend some time!!! Thanks, alot!! JT-you and your husband are such a cute couple!! Hope he is doing okay!!

Just not as good as I thought

Boy, I have NEVER had anything "whip" me as badly as the cute background thing. I cannot-- to save my life---get the hang of that. I go to the website and get nothing!!! Oh well, I like looking at the ones you all have!!! I thought I had it one time and it said "FAILED"!! I have been up here an hour and I give up!!! Night, night one and all!!

Thanks, fellow bloggers and friends!!

Thanks so much Allyson and Mandy. I will give it a try again either tonight or tomorrow night. Allyson, I will be coming to Greenville tomorrow. Mom has to be at Dr. Luper's at 11:30 for the root canal. I would love to go to the mall but Mom can't walk far...just to the car and back. I might take my Dad's wheel chair and see if she feels like going for a little while. It will be tough on me pushing her in the chair but she would love it. She has done a lot for me in the past that probably wasn't easy!! I don't remember the last time she was able to walk around in a mall.

cute holiday pix

Would someone please tell me again what you go to for the neat holiday backgrounds? And how do you do it? I tried it once, with no luck!! Thanks alot!!

Conway Christmas Parade-Sat. Nov. 08

Tragedy Nov. 23, 2008

I am so sad about the lives lost on Sunday. I don't understand it. I have known Larry Wayne since 7th grade!! He was in 8th grade and we were a "couple"!! Yes, he was my first teenage boyfriend. I know his brothers well too. They are all such nice people...wouldn't hurt a flea. I pray that all families involved will find some sort of peace...and all of their friends. May God bless them.

One last picture-Ganny in HOG HEAVEN

Ganny, Dalton, Dawson and Socks-Socks!! I love this picture because it was not "Staged"! They both just jumped up on my lap and John grabbed the camera!! I don't have but just a few pix like this....I'm always taking the pictures!!

Me and Nail School

Well, I did it....I quit nail school!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!! I'm sorry Tammy, but the night school was more than I could handle. I feel like 200 lbs have been lifted off my shoulders. It will be so nice to come home every night after work!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

My two men-John and Bandit

Friday night at Ganny and Pop-Pop's

We tried the basketball game after haircuts and such--Dawson liked the game and Dalton wanted to go to Ganny's house!!! So back to Ganny's house we went!!

Vann boys again 11-21-08

Funny night at Nail Technology School

I hope Tammy won't mind me telling this story!!! Tuesday night at nail school myself and another student soaked our "rubber" hands in pure acetone to get the acrylic off of the fingernail tips so we could keep on practicing. Well, it took us 1 1/2 hours to soak them enough. When we took ours out, Tammy put her hand in the acetone. 30 minutes later she went to check on her rubber hand, and all of the fingers were floating around in the jar. She had 5 amputations!!!!!!! I guess you just had to be there!!!!! I laughed until I almost wet my pants!!!!!!!!!! I guess I needed a good laugh!!! Doesn't take much to entertain me!!!!! Stay tuned for the further adventures of Tammy and Nancy!!! LOL :) I wish I could figure out how to put all of the cute Thanksgiving pictures on my blog....but anyway, I wish every one of you a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!!

I won an award, too!!!

Thanks, Mandy!! Hey, girl, I wonder if you know that your Mom borrowed a bunch of my Kelly's baby clothes for you when you were born!!!! We lived almost behind your aunt Faye and she commented on how cute Kelly's clothes were and so I loaned a bunch of them to her for you!! So you see, we go waaaaaaay back!! Your mom was so sweet. We went to your house one time when your parents had just added the addition to the house. And now I live over here in Northampton County and get to keep up with you on this blogging thing!!! Congratulations on all of the goodies at the baby shower...you deserve them. Your mom would be so proud!!

Thanks, Mandy!

Thanks a lot for all of your help!! I really enjoy reading your postings...you are definitely talented and a bonafied, certified blog-o-logist!!! LOL :)

No pictures today...I didn't see the twins much last week. I leave home 5 days a week at 7:00 a.m. to go to work-school M, T, W from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.-went to Greenville Sunday with Tammy and Allyson to take the Tanning Bed Certification course (passed 60 pages of text and 50 test questions with a 92), back to work today, school tonight, home and start all over again!!!! It's tought for this old lady...you "young chicks" do it now while you can!!!!

Thanks for your help everybody!!! Mandy, I love keeping up with you and Charlie's big, forthcoming event!!! Judson was the best Elvis impression that I have ever seen!!! Rylee and Bentlee were the most precious kitties in the world!! Thanks to you ladies for letting me "BLOG" with you!!! How is my Camryn's leg?? Please keep Joshua Fleetwood in your prayers...he is going to have an MRI on his knee on Friday!!

adding friends on home page

Can everyone please give me your URL address so I can add you to my friends??

Those Vann boys again!!

Here they are...a Frog and a little "Dennis the Menace"!!

Dalton-Trick or Treat-HIS WAY!!

My uncooperative one...he is precious anyway!!

one twin cooperates, one doesn't-guess which?

Yes, Halloween was quite an adventure for the Vann boys!! Dawson was so excited about his Frog costume...he couldn't wait to put it on!!! But Dalton, however, was having a "terrible two moment"!! He finally calmed down and went Trick or Treating anyway. He put his costume on later for his Grandaddy and Nanny Net and hit a few houses!! They were cute anyway to this ole Granny!!

I hopefully will have time one day to get the hang of this blogging!! I seem to have my pix first and then the story to go with it!!! I haven't figured out how to put Shannon, Shelley, Mandy and Kelly Clark on my blog list, but I love checking out you guys' info. I knew Shannon, Shelley and Mandy's parents before you were born!!!

Dalton first and then it's Dawson!!

More pix of our trip Thursday!!

Pix to go with trip

Ganny, Mommy, Dalton and Dawson's trip-Oct 30

Yes, we went to see ELMO today at ODU!!! We then went to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch. We had a ball...but this old Ganny is tired!!

Sorry guys..these are crummy pix of the boys. I tried 4 sets of new batteries for my digital camera and none would work!!! So I finally took pictures with the camcorder. I don't know what is going on there!!! Yeah, yeah....I have readers!!! I really enjoy reading everybody else's "blogging"!! I have known Shelley's dad all of my life and her mom since I was about 15, Mandy's parents since before she was born, Shannon's parents since before she was born and I see Kelly C all of the time!!! Keep that blogging going girls!! I am so glad my Kelly is now blogging!! I am finishing up a big project for nail tech school that is due Monday, Oct 27...it is a drag!!! I'd rather spend time with my family when I'm not working, but this will be over in May!!

Dalton bathing at Ganny and Pop-Pop's!! What a joy those two boys are to us!!!

Dawson and "OOPS"-part of Dalton!!!

Guess who?? Dawson and Dalton stayed with Granny and Pop-Pop last night!!! We LOVED it!!

Well, so far, I have 0 readers!!! I guess I am writing to myself!! We started so late in nail technology class that we have a lot to make up...so we went to class on Saturday from 8:00 til 1:00. Whew, I am too old for this!!! Then I stopped at my mom's to see my brother, who hadn't been home since Christmas. Then I went home, followed my brother and my mom to Kelly's to see the boys, then back home to get ready for a Saturday night in our party room outside. We loaded up and went to a friend's house where Kelly, Heath and the boys were and we brought the boys home with us. They spent the night and we took them to Claudine's for breakfast and then took them home.....whew, I am TIRED!!!! So, tomorrow it is back to work and back to school!!!!!!

Dawson at his new friend's birthday party. "Ganny, you KNOW I didn't do anything!"

Dalton at his new friend's birthday party on Sunday, 9-28-08-he must be saying "Whatcha say, Ganny?"

Sunday, September 28

What a wonderful day!! I picked up Dalton and Dawson from their other grandma (they had gone to church) and John and I took them to the Grapevine. We met Uncle Ray, Aunt Tammy, Cody, Linda and Clarence there for lunch. The boys were so well behaved today...they ate banana pudding for dessert. We left the restaurant and came back to Ganny and Pop-Pop's and it is nap time!! They look like two angels on the couch!! I know, I am prejudiced. We are going to pick up my niece and go to a birthday party, so I will have to wake them up in about 15 minutes. Have a great week!!

I will soon start writing something about me--I just love to post pictures of "my" boys-Dalton, Dawson, John and of course-the wild man, Bandit!! Gotta go get lunch-don't do much cooking around here!!

Nap time for Dalton, Dawson and Bandit with Pop-Pop!!

Dalton and Dawson with our three-legged cat, Socks!!

This is Dalton having snack time at Ganny's house in July.

More on "the boys"

As you can see, the boys call me "Ganny". It was supposed to be Granny, but you know how little ones say what they want to. Now I DON'T want them to call me anything but "Ganny". We tried to get them to call my husband "Papa John". But that came out "Pop-Pop" which John just loves!! I was present at the delivery of those two beautiful boys. I was so proud of their mom, Kelly. She certainly was a trouper!! It has been often trying to raise twins, but Kelly and Heath are very good parents and I am very proud of both of them. At times it has taken a mountain of people to raise twin boys, but we are getting there!! They are (to me, their Ganny) the most handsome and sweetest little fellows that I have ever laid eyes on!!!!!! Okay, I know I get carried away, but hey, who doesn't??

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Good morning!! This is my very first attempt at creating a "blog"!! I am married to the love of my life, John. I have one daughter, Kelly. She is married to Heath Vann and they have twin boys-Dalton and Dawson. They are 2 years old. I was born to be "Ganny" to those boys!!