Feeling Better!

Well, Hannah had the flu!  She tried going to work today and could not do it so went on to the doctor.  Was dehydrated and they gave her a bag of IV fluids and that really helped her!  I was happy that she finally went to see what was going on!  She is going to Maryland this weekend for her 10 year reunion and now she can do it feeling better!!!  Hard to believe that it has been 10 years since she graduated from Garrison!!!!

Bladen got thru his first two graduate classes and blew the top off them!  You did a great job Bladen and we are really proud of you!  This program will fly by!  

I am on the Board of Directors for Mobile Meals of Spartanburg and we served lunch today to all the volunteers!  These volunteers are such great people and so very dedicated.  There are roughly 150 volunteers EVERY DAY delivering meals!  Spartanburg County is truly lucky to have this organization and the people that run it!  Thank you all for everything you do.

Bob and I went and played golf this afternoon also.  It was such a beautiful day!  The golf might not have been pretty but it was fun!!!

It was a great weekend!  The kids came home, minus the son-in-law, and it was a great visit!  Jason had to stay home as they were having hard wood floors put in on Sat.  He sent pictures and it really looks good!  Also had to take the pugs to get their shots.  We will see him in Charleston in about 8 days when we go down for Bladen and Liz's wedding!

So Hannah, Bladen and Liz were here and we had a great time.  They were so funny!  Spent Saturday going to crazy places for Bladen so we spent a good bit of time in the car.....five of us!  Always so nice when things are cozy!!!  Then when we got back he had school work to do, Liz had a nap to take and poor Hannah was not feeling well so she was basically in the bed for the rest of her visit!  We grilled steaks and veggies and it was sooooo good.  Good job Bladen!  The kids took my office apart for me and each of them took a desk so now my office looks like a bomb went off in it!  Will spend the next couple days just trying to put things in a place where I can find things!!!!

We are going to pull out all the carpet in the bedrooms and put in hardwood floors and then I am going to move my office to another bedroom and I will get it all set back up when I can find a desk that I want.   Need to look at paint colors and light fixtures as I need to change that "gothic" thing that has been in there!!!  

Lots of little appointments this week but hope to get in a couple days of golf!  Lets hope the weather holds up!  It was beautiful this weekend and I miss my children already!

13 days until the last one says "I do"!!!!!!!

Not much to report from the Brannon home front, but my friend Josie was giving me a hard time that I had not posted in a couple days!!!  So Josie, this is for you!!!

The exciting news, my Range Rover is getting a new transmission!  Took it over for the 52,000 mile check and told them to check the transmission, that it was making a noise that bothered me and low and behold, they are giving me a new one!!!

Bob went and played golf at Augusta yesterday and I am so jealous!  He had a great time and didn't play to badly!  lol  He did say that the greens were a bear!  I played golf yesterday at Woodfin Ridge and I am here to tell you that the greens were a bear up there too!  I played with Fran, Judy and Peggy and it was great seeing them!  It has been awhile and was lots of fun to catch up.   Was a tad chilly when we began and lots of wind, but by the end it had warmed up and was beautiful!  Hopefully will get to play some tomorrow!

Hannah, Bladen and Liz are all coming home tomorrow which I am really excited about!  They are hitting town to get hair cuts etc. before Bladen's big day!!  Can't believe the wedding is just around the corner! I love it when the kids come home!!!  Why don't they visit me more often?   What am I going to do when all the weddings are over????    OK kids, I need some grandkids!!!!!

Well, sorry not much to report.  Josie came over to visit today and it was great seeing her!  She is "tanning" for the wedding, is this the Josie I know????  What she does for friends!  lol

Be back next week!  Have a great weekend all!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys,  This was my view this morning when I got up!  Yes, I am down at the beach and finally I have good weather!  Seems like every time I would come down it would rain or would be sooooo cold!  Zoie and Jack love being down here.  I swear, Zoie knows when we are at the beach as soon as I turn onto our road!  She loves going to the beach which also means that Jack loves it too.  He is not going to be "bested".  They are so funny watching them chase each other on the beach and then digging their holes.  Well, Jack digging his hole - if Zoie even attempts to dig one, Jack pushes her out of the way and takes it over!  He can be such a little jerk!!!

This little guy was our "golf buddy" today!  This is really just the baby.  Looks to be about 4 - 5 feet long.  Not too sure and was not going to get closer to see.  The first one we saw about 2 holes back was at least 12 feet long and I decided it really was not worth getting close for a picture.  You will just have to trust me on this one.  We saw several others floating in the water.  It must have been a very "fertile" year for those guys.  The golf was fun.  The weather was beautiful and they guys that we got paired with were very nice.  My game sure has been up and down lately so at least today was not too terribly bad UNTIL the last three holes.  We won't talk about those!!!!!

Bladen and Liz are up in Annapolis for a wedding this weekend.  I really hope that they have time to look around while they are there.  I can remember staying on my grandfathers boat and watching a wedding over at the Naval Academy!  It was so cool!!!!!  Their wedding is right around the corner!  I am so excited for them.

Hannah and Jason are up at the lake this weekend for a friends birthday.  Hannah got a nice surprise at school the other day.  She is one of 16 teachers in the county, grades 2 thru 5, that had improving test scores of her children thru the year.  The kids take this test three times during the school year to see how they are progressing.   She and the others will have lunch with the superintendent sometime next week.  She was the only teacher from her school so we are really proud of her.  Her kids were really excited and wanted to know what they were going to get!  lol  She is going to have a "dress down" day for them!!!  She is also just weeks away from completing her second Master's Degree!!!  She tells me that she is finally done with school!!!!

Well that is all from the beach.  We are going to play golf early tomorrow morning before we have to head back to Spartanburg!!!!  Then Bob is off to Augusta to play golf!  

Since I am going backwards in this blog, I wanted to post some pictures from our trip to South Africa.  We went with Sharron and Marshall Dildy and we had such a good time!  We went to Ca

pe Town, Johannesburg, Victoria Fall, Soweto and to Thorny Bush Lodge. 

Sharron had a bum knee but she did great!  She got us thru all security very quickly since she was in a wheel chair!!  She did manage to get around Africa on crutches though.  I can't even begin to expl

ain the beauty of the country and the people were very nice.  Each place we went was as beautiful as the last.  My favorite was the bush!  Now, please understand, when I say the bush I mean a nice cabin and not a tent!  I don't do tents!  But it was beautiful...........

I am not going to bore you with a "bunch" of pictures, so just enjoy...............

           The clock tower in Cape Town

  

This man was a prisoner with Mandela and now does tours of the prison.  As Marshall said, we were being talked to by a terrorist!  He had blown a building back in the day!!!!

                

       

The Brannon cousins and their spouses.  This was taken at Bladen and Liz's engagement party in Spartanburg in February.  They all had a good time and I was just happy to have them all around!

This is such a good picture of the "happy couple"! 

Seems like everyday there are numerous emails to deal with regarding the wedding!  They certainly pick up a little bit the closer it gets. 

 This is going to be such a fun time!  Liz has finally gotten her tests results and is now working on the Cardiac Floor at Crawford Long, but I think the name of the hospital has changed!!!  Bladen is still working at HD Supply.  They have two dogs, Santaria and Lou Lou!  They are both sweet dogs even though Santeria tends to nip our thighs!  Well, he is a herding dog so what can you expect!

This is a picture of Hannah and I at a shower in Spartanburg before she got married.  It was a lot of fun and she got great things!  It was a "holiday" shower where the people would bring her something from their favorite holiday!  I had never heard of a shower like this but it was wonderful!  She had lots of fun!

This is our son-in-law Jason.  He and Hannah go married in October.  They have two dogs also, Hazel and Molly.  I call Molly the "devil dog" as she is full of so much energy!!!!  Jason loves boating and fishing! Oh, and the Gamecocks!!!  Hannah teaches third grade in downtown Charleston.  She is so good with the kids!  She is also just about finished with her Master's from the Citadel.  

Well we finally have a beautiful day and I have to sit around and wait for the service guy!  I think I will move on outside and enjoy the sun and read a little bit.  Bob is on the golf course which is where I wish I was!  He also gets to go play Augusta next week and let me tell you, I am jealous!!!!

Hello All!

Thought this might be a fun way to stay in touch with family and friends and let you all know what we are up to!  

As you can see, my dogs love to "hang out" on the back of our furniture.  It really is nice as they snuggle up to you.  After a good friend of mine, Nancy, got a Bichon, I fell in love and had to have one too so that is how Zoie came to live with us.  Nancy and I would take care of each other's dog if we had to go somewhere and they loved the company!  So Nancy got me in trouble when she decided to get her second dog and of course then I had to get another and that is how Jack came to us. They love each other and are joined at the hip!   Zoie loves to watch TV and bark at the animals on the television!  She can be under the bed, the TV muted and she KNOWS when an animal comes on - please someone explain that to me!!!!!!  Jack likes to take over our king size bed.  We have yet to figure out how a 12 lb. dog can just about push us out of the bed!  But we do love them!

Our daughter Hannah got married this past October to Jason so our family has grown.  Our son Bladen will be getting married May 9th to Liz and we love her also!  It is fun to see our kids start their own lives!!!

Well, lets see how this blog goes.  I am not sure anyone will follow it but what the heck!