Lisa coudn't join us all for Thanksgiving and "our" Christmas all the same day out in Phx. with the rest of us, so here is Lisa at home in Texas on Christmas Day...

My life, my kids, my grandbabies..

This is the end of 2009. I got to spend 5 1/2 weeks between Amy's and Grant's houses...enjoying my kids and grandbabies...life is good.

Gourley Family Update 2010

Hello and Welcome to 2010

Gourleybabies....and the Gourley Family

Well it's a new year, and lots of promising things will happen this year. Hopefully Lynn and I will find a house to buy and real soon, for our lease is up March 31st, and we are not staying in this apartment any longer. Great to start with, but very noisy neighbors above us, not having access to all your stuff cause it's being stored..what hassles...so, hopefully by April 1st we will be in our new home. We really did want to find something kinda out away from it all, with land, but in our price range...and we are not finding it. When you drive out in the country here, it is like being in a millionaire area...My where do they all get their money...Beautiful, huge luxury homes...so no, we can't afford those. So maybe in 7-8-10 yrs when Lynn retires...maybe we can find something like we want...only time will tell. And maybe by then we might have some of the babies closer to us, who knows...

This past year, I got to go to Hawaii, on a girls trip with cuzzins for a week, We had Amy, Austin and Abbi living with us from before Christmas '07 to the end of May of 08...and that was wonderful, and bittersweet...love having them, but hated to be a disciplinarian to my grandbabies....grammies and papa's are for loving, not spanking.....but, it was great anyway...then I helped Amy and Bryan get settled into their new place in Phx. for a couple weeks..For those of you who don't know, Bryan was trying to get transferred thru his work with Honeywell here to Texas..so he worked on that the whole time Amy lived here with us, but with the poor economy nothing ever came up, so she moved back...They were apart long enough..... I got to go to Grant and Ashleigh's for a couple weeks, after Amy's house, to babysit Carter while they went to Antigua on vacation, and I stayed with them for about 2 weeks all in all...that was wonderful too.

In the mean time, I put our house on the market for sale the end of May before I went out to Phx. and Ca. and unexpectedly, it sold with in 2 weeks, with a closing date of July 1st. I was not returning from Calif until June 23rd.....so it was a mad dash to get packed, and moved out and moved into this apartment with in 6 days....But we did it...Thanks to Lynn for apartment hunting, storage unit hunting...ect...

Then I drove back out to Phx. the last week of October...spent 2 weeks with Amy, althou we went over to Grant's for Holloween, then back, and then after 2 weeks, I went over to Grant's took Austin and Abbi with me for a few days, Amy came and got them, then Mom and Dad Gourley came out to Ca, for a week visit, then we all, went back over to Phx. to share Thanksgiving and Christmas all in the same day with all of us together...Lynn flew in, but our Lisa couldn't get away from work, so she didn't get to come...so sad...but Lynn and I and my mother and Lisa spent Christmas here together in Texas. My mom came back with me from Phx. on Dec. 1st and stayed thru Jan 5th. And of course it was freezing here the whole time...so poor mama froze....she sat under a blanket with our heat on 74 and I sat under a fan!!!!!!!!!!

So that brings us to 2010.....

So far planned for this year.....my girl cuzzins weekend is coming the end of Feb...which happens to be at cuzzin Karen's out in Ventura Ca...so....guess where I am going for a week or so after that..yep..Grant and Ash's...he will come get me so I can see them also...and hopefully Amy and family can get over for a couple days... Then for sure I will be going out in July maybe June..for Grant and Ash are expecting my 4th grandbaby. We have our Hinschberger Family Runion coming this June I plan on going to....We also have 2 weddings this year...my brother Scott's oldest boy Brian, (who sang at Amy's wedding) is getting married in August. Then before that in May, Lynn's sister's daughter is getting married, so we know that will be a Kansas trip...

Dad Gourley is still doing quit well. Ayear ago, we would of said that he wouldn't still be with us from his liver cancer, but having the doctors shooting the kemo beads directly into the liver has given him so much more time..and good time..he is still pain free...of course he hurts once in a while from other aches and pains..but he is doing very well. He has not gained hardly any weight, but at least he has not lost any more....stays about 160-165 or so...

Both my mothers are well, thank God....

So now I will post a few new pic's that I have....the kids haven't changed much, but oh they are my loves and my life......