Just Dance "A Christmas Spectacular" Hillsdale

We braved ice and yuck for this show. It was wonderful though. It was held at Tibbit's Opera House in Coldwater and was very successful. Watch out Rockette's!

Grandpa's Birthday Party.

Grandpa Kalinowski's 87th birthday party at Ol' Country Buffet. His birthday is November 5.

First Visa Ordered

Well the first visa application went off to Washington, D.C. today. I have very mixed feelings. I am very excited and it is beginning to finally feel real, BUT I also have a very upset stomach. That I think is from the fear of flying, the knowledge of how exhausted we will be, how upsetting it will be for them to have to say good bye. All of that stuff.
I will tell you what, we have worked so hard to get to this point. From the point where all the visas are received it will be so easy to go see them.. Just an airplane ticket for 5 years. After that it is just a visa renewal. It is amazing how easy it is for us to travel to them compared to how difficult it is for them to visit or come to us.

Today is Saturday. Can you believe it?! The visa has already arrived. 6 days from here to there and back again. That is service.

More Cousins Playing With The 4 Legged Children

This is Stephanie, Dan and Wendy's youngest daughter. She and Mini Me are running the yard, jumping over logs and just playing.

Stephanie in the barn

This is Trisha, their oldest daughter with Rocky, our beauty queen.

News on the 4 Legged Children

This is George (George Jones) and Taylor, his new best friend. (After Mom-me that is) George's other name is Scooby Doo. He likes Scooby snacks and he likes to jump in your lap when scared and he is afraid of most everything. Taylor is one of our dancers. She very tiny, quiet and a little shy. So those two being two peas in a pod is something I never would have expected. However, whatever works. She loves him and he loves her. I still can't let them have complete freedom because he's so big and she's so small and he's such a scaredy cat, but it is so wonderful to see and makes me very proud as a mom.


This is Paige, our niece. She is giving Mini Me a good brushing. When he first came, touching wasn't something he liked. Now he loves to be loved. He is great for all the beginners who want to spend time with horses. Those are burrs in his forlock. No matter how good I keep them cleaned up the horses still find them. It seems Burrs are very tasty to a horse after they turn brown and get sticky.

Rasmata had her babies

Rasmata, Rakieta's sister had twin boys on October 3. All reports are that mother and babies are doing great! I am sending a digital camera so let's see if the proud father Fidel can get things working well enough to send us some pictures.

Sarah's birthday party

This is our niece Sarah. It is her 16th birthday party. This party was at the end of August. Jeni and Merry are in the background and Grandma K. is sitting next to Sarah. Her dad gave her the keys to his old jeep. It needs work and she will get really dirty helping him fix things up but it was a pretty cool gift and she was very happy.