December 18, 2017 to December 24, 2017 - Doctor Visits, Christmas Program, Shopping and More

Monday, December 18, 2017 - Dietitian Visit, Shopping, Christmas Program

This week is going to be a busy one, with several doctor visits scheduled, among other things on my list.  I'm a list maker - if I want to be sure it gets done, it goes on my list and I get great satisfaction when I mark it off.  Having this list is also great when I want to look back to see if and when I followed up on something, completed it, mailed it, made an important phone call, scheduled something, etc.  It's a great reference tool and I keep my notebooks for at least a year so I can look back if needed.

Last night was a very long one - I don't know if I ate too much yesterday or what but my stomach hurt all night.  I'm not sure I managed to sleep more than an hour.  At 3:30 I finally got up, just sure I was going to get really sick, but I never did.  As the day went on, it went away, so I assume it was from just too much rich food.

Often when I have just a few dishes from the night before I leave them until after breakfast the next morning and then do them all, and that is what I did this morning.  As I was putting things away I realized I did not have the serving spoons I took to the Community Center yesterday.  Once the dishes were done, the bed made and a few other to do's were completed, I drove to the community center and sure enough someone had put them away in one of the drawers after doing the dishes.  When I left there I returned the building keys to City Hall.  

Dean played golf this morning.  He is only playing 9 holes since he is going with me to Vinita later when I meet with a dietitian.  Since I didn't get much sleep he doesn't want me going by myself, and that is probably a good idea.   Riding lulls me to sleep pretty easy on a good day, let alone when I didn't have much sleep.

Since I had not seen my Aunt Lil for awhile, I stopped at her house for a short visit.  I enjoy spending time with her.  She will be hosting her three boys and their families at her house for Christmas.  She's been busy preparing for it - decorating, baking and planning activities.  I'm sure they will have a great time together.  Her boys are a hoot when they get together and I always enjoyed our family Christmas' together back when we were younger.  We had so much fun playing games with them.

After returning home, I kept busy with a little paperwork and soon Dean was pulling in.  We ate lunch and were soon on the road to Vinita.  I scheduled an appointment with a dietitian at the Cherokee Health Center in hope she could offer some suggestions for weight loss.  While I've dropped 20 pounds I would really like to lose another 30 pounds.  More importantly I'd like to maintain it.  Of course this time of year is probably the most difficult time to do this.  At this point, I will be happy to maintain my current weight through the holidays, but I definitely want to get back to losing again after the first of the year.  Walking has probably been the best thing we've done, but diet plays a big role as well.  I'm not sure we'll get much walking done, if any, this week since all of our doctor appointments are scheduled at 9, which requires us to leave home by 8.  Next week does not look good since they are calling for much cooler temperatures.  But we might manage to get a day or two in and that's better than none. 

We arrived a little early, found the dietitian's office and waited for her to call me back.  After she came to get me, she told me if I wanted to have Dean come back I could, that it's often helpful when a spouse hears what she has to say as well, so he joined us.  I was very happy when she weighed me - it was only a couple of pounds more from what I weighed a few days ago - I weigh once a week, and always first thing in the morning after I get up.  Today it was late at 2:00 pm, plus following that big dinner yesterday.  It's not unusual for me to weight 2-4# more later in the day, so either someone's scales are off a bit or today was a good day.  She had me weigh with my shoes off, and then she measured my actual height.  My height has always been stated as 5' 5", but today I discovered I am only 5' 4" with a precise measuring.  

I was expecting a discussion about types of foods to eat, ideas in preparing foods, etc. but it was much different.  Instead she explained these new rules for eating:
1.  When you are hungry - go eat; but always start by drinking a glass of water first - then wait 20 minutes.  If you are still hungry, then you should eat.
2.  Eat what you want, not what you think you should.  Eating what you think you should does not always satisfy you, so she suggests getting rid of the food just because they are supposedly good for you, and keep foods that you truly like and that will satisfy you.
3.  Eat consciously - which I think is the most important one of all!  Focus on only eating - no book, paper, television, radio, cell phone, etc.  Take a bite, put down your silverware, slowly chew each bite 20 or more times as you think about the flavor and all that you enjoy about the food.  Swallow.  Rest.  Now, are you still hungry?  If so, pick up your silverware and have the next bite.  If not - stop eating.  It's always okay to leave food on your plate.
4.  When you think you may be satisfied - STOP eating.  You will almost always eat less than what you are used to, because you are eating slowly and paying attention to each bite.  Your body will recognize when it has had enough.  

Dean and I talked about this concept of eating and see where it could make a big difference.  We are interested to see how it works out for us.

My daughter's high school class adopted a family this year and they are all either donating  money to purchase food, or buying presents (clothing and toys) for the children.  One of the presents that was purchased was a scooter for one of the children but it was too small for their age.  They didn't have time to send it back and order a new one so Misti asked me if I could check at Walmart to see if they might have one in stock as the presents are to be delivered tomorrow.  Walmart is right down the road from the Health Center and we needed something as well so I was glad to help out.  Fortunately, we found exactly what they needed and I was able to get a new ink cartridge for our printer.  

By the time we returned home we had an hour or so before dinner.  I don't remember what we had now but I remember we applied the new rules given to us by the Dietitian.  We were impressed how much of a difference it made and we believe this could be a real asset to both of us.  We are so often mindless eaters - watching TV or reading while we eat.  It will be a challenge to change this habit, but we feel it could prove to be the answer to only eating when we are truly hungry as well as eating less than what we think we need.  Time will tell.

Tonight is the Christmas program at the Oswego Junior High/High School.  My granddaughter Haleigh is a sophmore this year and participates in choir.  My sister Cindy's grandchildren Dani, freshman and Kass, seventh grade are both in band and choir.  Dani is a very talented singer and plays the trumpet; while Kass plays the saxophone.  All of the kids did a great job - with many solos performed!  

Oswego is very fortunate to have a wonderful music/band teacher.  Mr. Blackwell is retiring at the end of the 2018 school year.  I'm happy for him but what a loss for our school system.  The kids love him and he truly enjoys working with them.  The program tonight was really enjoyable, as they always are.  Dani has sang at a number of events in Oswego and the area.  She was selected to sing the National Anthem at a couple of Joplin Blaster baseball games when the minor league team played there...a few years ago.  She posts live videos of her singing on her Facebook page, and she's building a pretty good audience.

By the time we returned home we were ready to chill and that's exactly what we did - in front of the TV until it was time to go to bed.


Tuesday, December 19, 2017

This morning we have appointments with our new primary care physician, Dr. Broce.  Her office is in Webb City, MO which is a little farther from home than our previous PCP who was in Parsons.  We decided that since we are going to be on the road a good part of the year but plan to return to the area in the spring and late fall each year; and that all of our specialty doctors are in Joplin and affiliated with Freeman Health Systems, we could try to schedule our appointments to see more than one doctor in a day or week when we are home.  Since we can take our home with us, we can choose to park near or in the Joplin area for whatever time is needed to attend these appointments in the future.  It's convenient to make the appointments 3-4 months out when you have a much better selection in order to get several scheduled within a few days.

We were both very pleased with our selection.  Dr. Broce was very easy to talk to, very attentive, and took the necessary time to cover everything in our medical history with us.  We did not feel rushed and manged to take care of several things.  Two of my medications had run out and she provided prescriptions for those as well as a prescription for medication to help with osteoporosis.  While I have not totally reached the stage of osteoporosis, I do have some thinning of the bone in my hip area that is most likely from taking the prednisone.  She suggested that I take it as a preventive until I no longer have to take the prednisone, and that we continue our walking as that is great for maintaining healthy bones.

When it was Dean's turn he asked if he could get a flu and pneumonia shot and they were able to give him both.  How life changes - as a kid you cry and scream to keep from getting a shot and as we get older we are begging for them.  The doctor renewed all of his medication as he just received his last refill, so now both of us are in good shape for the three months we will be in Texas.

I'm sure we were in her office for more than an hour, possibly a little longer and we were very satisfied with how well she covered things, gave us time to ask questions and then recapped what she would be doing for us.  It sure helps to ease our concern in losing our previous PCP when she recently closed her practice.  We really liked her and were fearful of not finding someone as good as she was.  Our fears were put to rest today!

We had a number of things to do when we left her office before an appointment we have at 1:30pm at Roper Honda to have the oil changed in the van.  Our first stop was at Coachlight RV Sales in Carthage.  When we camped at their RV Park, adjacent to their Sales and Service Shop, during November I found these picture frames that you can peel and stick many times in order to hold pictures on the walls of the RV.  I have wished since then I had purchased seven of them, as I have an idea for displaying 5 x 7 pictures of each of our kids and their families along with one of Dean and I on a wall in Bentley.  Unfortunately they only had 3 frames in the store but they will order more and mail them to me when they come in.  Dean had a couple of items he needed for Bentley as well.  Since Coachlight is not too far off I-44, we hopped on the Interstate with the intent of exiting on South Range Line near Steak and Shake, where we planned to have lunch.  However, we took the Route 44 exit which brought us into Joplin on 7th Street instead.  That was not a problem as we were able to take Duquesne Road south to 32nd Street, to Hammond Blvd that led us to our lunch location.  We decided to apply the dietitian's suggestion of eating what we liked but taking the time to really concentrate on our lunch.  We ordered a double cheese steakburger with fries, and an extra small order of fries for me, and water to drink.  We asked them to half the burger so we could share it.  Before they brought our meal we each had a full glass of water.  We enjoyed each bite of our meal and felt very satisfied with what we ate.  Normally Dean would have ate the entire sandwich and the fries and I would have had a large grilled chicken salad - much more than what we really needed.  Not only were we satisfied but our meal was less than $6.  If you remember I mentioned in the last blog post that we needed to look at reducing our grocery and restaurant budget.  If we continue to cut back on the size of our meals we could definitely manage to do that, an added bonus!

Our next stop was at Hobby Lobby to return something for my Aunt Lil, which took very little time.  From there, we drove to Roper Honda for our scheduled oil change, arriving a little early, but as usual they got us right in.  I think this is one of the most efficient places I've ever been to.  We've had our Odyssey van for 8.5 years and it has been the most reliable vehicle we've ever owned.  We bought it here and they have always serviced it.  I think I mentioned that we have been thinking of selling it.  We've been too busy to really get that done so we will wait until we return in April to make that decision.  In less than 30 minutes they were done.  Now we will head north to Pittsburg KS to pick up our mail.  It's been a week and I'm sure we have accumulated quite a bit.  

Yes, we had quite a stack waiting for us - about 1/3 of it was confirming address/phone number/bank changes and several insurance renewal policies (for vehicles and RV).  The one thing I do not miss is all of the junk mail that is typically noted: for resident at this address - I suppose it will eventually catch up with us as the new address becomes available through various sources, but we'll enjoy not having to deal with it until it does.

As we headed out of Pittsburg, I remembered I wanted to pick up a couple of gift cards but one of the places I wanted to stop, Chicken Mary's didn't open until 4:00.  

Click to enlarge and read the history of Chicken Mary's, Frontenac, KS

We had some time to kill so we stopped at the Pittsburg Mall.  I purchased one gift card while we were there and stopped in Penney's to look around.  I found a shirt I really liked and it was on sale so I purchased it.  We continued walking the full length of the mall and taking the time to just look around before turning around and walking back to the car.  At least we are getting some steps in.  We arrived at Chicken Mary's right at 4:00 and I think we were the first customers through the door.  Since we made the trip here, we decided we should just have dinner as well.  While we ate more than we should have, we did restrain ourselves and only ate half of what we ordered, and took the rest of it home with us for a second meal.  Tuesday happens to be Senior night and we received a 10% discount.  With it, we will be able to enjoy 4 meals between us for just over $5 each.  I love the savings.  It's now a challenge - how much can we save?  By the time we got home it was well after 6 pm.  A very busy, but another productive day.  


Wednesday, December 20, 2017 - More Doctor Visits, Shopping and another trip to Vinita.


Last night before going to bed I tried the shirt on that I purchased at Penney's yesterday and was so disappointed.  It just didn't fit well enough to keep so that will be another stop we will make while in Joplin today.   As we left town, we stopped at Aunt Lil's to drop off the money they refunded for the return I made for her yesterday.  As I left she handed me a little tin full of chocolate covered peanuts (Dean's favorite candy); and a really cute cross clip for our sun visor that says, "Dear Lord, protect me, my passengers and all I pass by with a steady hand and a wonderful eye."  What a nice surprise, it was so thoughtful and fitting with our travels!  And.....Dean was thrilled when he saw those chocolates!!  

My first appointment this morning is at 9:00 with my ophthalmologist.  My first visit with him was back in June when I started learning about all of the issues that can arise with a diagnosis of sarcoidosis.  Not only can sarcoidosis create eye problems, but also from taking prednisone.  At the June visit Dr. Jordan found my pressure was higher than normal, which he thought was probably a side effect of the medication.  He told me at that time, they want to see pressure at or below 20, and mine was 26.  He did not see anything unusual with my eyes to indicate there was a sarcoid problem.  Since I was on a dosage of 40 mg of prednisone at the time, he wanted to wait six months and then conduct a field vision test.  That's what I will be doing today.  

First they checked my eyes to see if there was any change from when my eyes were checked a couple of months ago.  As that time, I was starting to experience significant blurriness when reading.  The exam indicated I need to have the reading portion of my glasses changed.  Since my insurance only pays for one pair of glasses every two years, and since I can see pretty well to read without wearing my glasses, he suggested I wait until February to take advantage of the insurance benefits.  That's what I have been doing and it's working pretty well. 

There was no change in my vision today, so the next step was to dilate my eyes and wait for the medication to take effect.  Once the appropriate time was up, it was time for the field test.  They gave me a box similar to a remote control with only one button on it.  There was a dot in the middle of an entirely white area.  I was to stare at the dot and every time I see a flash of light, which was always outside of the spot in the middle, she asked me to press the button.  At times I felt like I couldn't keep up and other times it slowed down considerably but she said I did good so I was pleased with that.  A second test was to take pictures of my eye for the doctor to review.

Next I met with Dr. Jordan, the ophthalmologist.  He looked at my eyes with various equipment and asked me how I was doing.  He was pleased with the testing and also with the fact my pressure has dropped from 26 to 21 since my last visit.  While it was still slightly elevated (preference is for pressure to not be above 20) he felt it had probably dropped as my steroid dosage decreased and expected it would continue to do so.  The pictures they took of my eye earlier showed no problems.  I was pleased when he said he would not need to see me again for a year, unless I would experience any problems.  What a relief!  

I have another doctor appointment at 1:40, so we had time to run a few errands.  Our first stop was at Sam's.  Dean purchased his hearing aids there about a year ago.  One of the tubes that sets inside his ear, to keep the hearing aid in place, slips out occasionally.  The hearing specialist advised she would need to send it in for repairs and it would take about two weeks to get it back.  Dean didn't want to do that knowing if we missed it here we'd have to wait for the mail to be forwarded to Texas.  He mentioned we would be going to Texas to stay for a few months this winter.  She  suggested taking it to a Sam's Club there, plus the company is located in Texas so the turn around might be faster, and we can have it sent directly to the RV Resort where we will be staying versus going through our Pittsburg, KS address.

Our next stop was Walmart's.  I need to buy some Avery labels so I can make new travel cards.  As we meet different Rver's, we trade these cards to keep in touch with each other.  Our current cards include a picture of our truck with Bentley, our names, phone numbers and our email address.  I only have one card left so I'd like to print more before we go south.  They did not have any in stock, so we moved on to Penney's where I returned the shirt I bought last night while we were in Pittsburg.  I looked around for something else but I was just not in the mood to shop.  Since we needed to waste a little more time, we walked the entire length of the mall and back- which gave us some much needed exercise---we managed to get in over 5,000 steps today!  When we left the mall, we headed to Logan's for lunch.  Today we decided to share a club sandwich and fries.  It was perfect and we kept our bill under $10.  We've already saved at least $20 in dining out this week alone.

We still had an hour before my next doctor's appointment, so we stopped at Office Depot to check prices on business card stock.  Wow, Walmart was cheap -  it was over $30 for a package here.  I'll check Amazon later!  

We arrived at Dr. Slocum's office about 20 minutes early.  Fortunately for me, the person scheduled before me did not show up so I was able to get right in.  I was thrilled when he told me he was going to reduce my prednisone again, this time from 15 to 12.5 mg.  I feel great and reducing this just makes me feel better knowing some of the side effects will begin to ease as the strength of the steroid is reduced.  He wants me to follow up with another Pulmonary Function Test in April when we return.  He gave me a prescription for the new dosage of prednisone that will cover the time we are in Texas so we will have all of the medication we need taken care of until we return to Kansas in April.  I feel like a walking pharmacy though!! 

Well, you would think we might be done for the day and that now we can head back to Oswego, but no, we have one more stop.  We are headed back to Vinita to the Cherokee Health Center to drop off my prescriptions from Dr. Broce and Dr. Slocum.  We went straight to the pharmacy when we arrived.  Unfortunately they could not fill the prescription for the osteoporosis medication, so I will call Dr. Broce's office to see if there is another type I can take instead.  All of the other scripts they will fill and mail to me tomorrow.  Hopefully, they will ALL arrive before we leave for Texas.

Now we are finished and we can go home!  We were home before 5:00 p.m. and boy, were we tired.  Three days of this on the go, go, go all day long makes us a little weary.  And unfortunately it wasn't something we WANTED to do, so very little fun involved.

We were glad to be at home this evening and I was even glad to cook.  As much as I enjoy a meal out, I was glad to be home and glad to fix our dinner.  We kept it simple and had tacos - 2 each.  Back in the day when I made tacos it was nothing for us to eat 4, 5 or even 6 each, but we were both pretty satisfied with the two I made for us.  We enjoyed a Hallmark Christmas movie before heading to bed.


Thursday, December 21, 2017

I was up at 4 this morning and enjoyed my two leisurely cups of coffee before Dean got up.  Once we had breakfast we got ready and left Oswego at 7:45 for Joplin.   I was originally taking Dacy and Haleigh to Joplin today for their annual birthday shopping trip and lunch at Olive Garden, but I cancelled on them so I could go with Dean for another Dr. appointment.  Dr. Broce was able to get Dean into see a urologist this morning to follow up on some of his test results.  Fortunately, they determined all was well, so we feel like we've been set free to continue our "Travels with Bentley"!  Woo-hoo!

Believe it or not, we didn't hang around Joplin at all but headed straight home.  We were pretty worn out from all of the running we've done this week that we just pretty much lazed around the rest of the day.  

One of the things I did today was check Amazon to see what the prices of the Avery card stock "Business Cards" are.  Wow - they were less than $10 for 200 cards....so of course I ordered them right away, and they will be here next week in plenty of time for me to print new travel cards before we leave.

I still had some paperwork to do and I worked on that for awhile and managed to get most of it done.  A couple of things will need to wait until next week.

I needed something to keep me busy, so I decided to read a couple of Christmas novels I downloaded a few days ago.  I don't read books as much as I used to but I love a good Christmas book and in no time I was entrenched in the story.

Friday, December 22, 2017


This day must have been pretty boring because there is little I can remember about it.

I did ride to Parsons with sister Cindy and my Aunt Lil.  I went mostly to ride along and enjoy their company, however I did need a few things that I was able to get while we were there.  We had a nice visit as always.


Once we returned home, I put the few things I purchased away and then texted Dacy and Haleigh to reschedule our shopping trip for next week.  We decided on Wednesday, December 27.  Hopefully there will still be a few good buys left after after the big "day after Christmas" sales.  What we look forward to as much as the shopping is our lunch at Olive Garden.  It's a favorite for all three of us.

Most likely I spent the rest of the day reading my Christmas book.  I have a tendency to get lost when I read - probably why nothing much comes to mind about today....lol!

Tonight I made a sausage pizza, adding some pepperoni to my portion.  It tasted so good!  Afterwards we settled in for another Hallmark Christmas movie.  It is raining and snowing, and it will be our coldest night ever in Bentley.  It will be interesting to see how it goes.  Even though the movie was pretty good, I couldn't make it to the end.  Shortly before we went to bed it started raining again but I didn't hear it for very long....


Saturday, December 23, 2017

This morning we woke to a dusting of snow on everything.  I was afraid there would be quite a bit of ice after the rain we had.  It didn't appear there was much ice, if any, and by the time I left around 10:30 this was about all that was left - on the west side of Bentley where it was shaded.

After breakfast, I stripped the bed, put new sheets on, showered, changed out the towels, and loaded up the rest of the clothes and headed to my daughter's to do laundry.  I'm taking the laptop with me so I can complete the newsletter for our Escapees Chapter.  Once I had completed it I sent a copy to the officers to review before I send it out to all of the members tomorrow.  Just want to make sure I don't forget something important.  While it's really not that difficult to do, it's just busier that normal for us trying to get so much done before we leave. 

It was about 10:30 when I arrived at Misti's.  Even though I only have four loads of laundry, it sure extends the time when you can only do one load at at time.  Fortunately the RV Park we will be staying at in Mission has a laundromat on site - so every 10 days or so, laundry will only take me about 2 hours.  I like the sound of that!

Dean has had a bit of a cold the past couple of days - nothing serious - just not feeling as good as he would like.  He feels pretty good during the day and then starts feeling worse near bedtime.  He is pretty bored today and is tired of being inside and watching TV, worse yet, he doesn't have a project to work on, or a garage to go to so he's feeling the loss of his "man cave" this week. 

I left Misti's and stopped at the grocery store before heading home for lunch.  We have both been in the mood for ham and beans, one of our favorite meals, so we will be having that in the next few days.  Originally I planned to make this for dinner tonight, but by the time I finished I was just not in the mood.  It was almost 5:00 before I was back at home. 

Instead, we decided to have dinner at our local Mexican restaurant, Mi Pueblo.  We both like their La Prima - rice and chicken with cheese sauce over it.  We each ate half of our meal and brought the rest home for lunch tomorrow.  Some friends of ours (Jim and Diane Bentley) happened to be sitting across from us.  We enjoyed visiting with them.  Their oldest son and our youngest son went through school together and are still very good friends.  I went to grade school/junior high with Jim and Diane at Chetopa, Diane since Kindergarten and Jim joined us in junior high.  Jim is the brother of our RV dealer, hence the name Bentley!  It's always good to see them and visit.  

After a drive through the park to look at the Christmas decorations once more we headed home to watch TV.  Home Alone 2 happened to be on and we enjoyed watching it - well, most of it.  I fell asleep before it was over, as usual.  


Sunday, December 24, 2017

Here it is Christmas Eve!  Since we are not having Christmas with our kids until December 30th, and none of my sisters had plans for this evening we are all getting together at sister Cindy's house for appetizers and dessert.  My contribution will be spinach artichoke dip and a cheesecake, and I'll be working on those this morning.

After Dean made us a delicious breakfast of fried potatoes (I didn't have any hashbrowns), eggs and ham I cleaned up the kitchen so I could make another mess!  

My plan was to make my first cheesecake in my Instapot so I gathered all of the ingredients then pulled out the pans I had ordered several months ago and to my surprise they were not what I remembered.  I thought the bottom was removeable on one of the pans - similar to a springform pan - but rather than a removeable bottom  - it was actually a lid, so I moved to plan B and made a no bake cheesecake instead.  Fortunately I found a recipe that called for ingredients I had on hand, and some that I needed to use soon so it all in all this worked out for the best. 

Once the cheesecake was done and in the refrigerator, I made the spinach artichoke dip.  It's been a few years since I've made this and I'm looking forward to enjoying it later this evening.  Once I had cleaned the kitchen dishes up a second time I wanted to do a little cleaning.  I really wanted to vacuum, but Dean was watching the KC Chiefs game so I put that off.  Instead I wiped down all of the cabinets/furniture in the living/kitchen area, then swept the floors.  It needed to be done and it helped pass the time until about an hour before we needed to leave for Cindy and Elmer's.  That left me just enough time to change clothes, put on makeup and bake the spinach/artichoke dip.

We were to be at Cindy's by 5:30 and we were the first to pull in a minute or two later.  Crystal and Lonie were right behind us, and Jody and Mark pulled in shortly after that.  Cindy said she was beginning to wonder about us - she had all of her food out and ready.  I had to smile as we each put our dishes out, thinking, yeah, we were going to keep this simple, but there sure was a lot of food being laid out on the bar.  Of course, that also means I'll probably eat more than I need to...again.  Boy, this time of year is so hard when trying to lose weight.  I tried a little of everything and refrained from having any seconds, which was not easy as it was all so good.  The guys set at the dining table and the girls moved into the living room where both groups remained for the rest of the evening, visiting among ourselves.  Fortunately, Cindy and Elmer's kitchen/dining/living room is all open, so we were able to converse with the guy's, or they with us as we chose.  I think everyone had a good time and before we left we had to get pictures of each couple, the guys together and the gals together.  Here are the results:

I love the open living area Cindy has in her house.

Our guys:  Elmer, Mark, Dean and Lonie

Crystal and Lonie

Mark  & Jody

Dean & Cheri

Elmer & Cindy

Blackledge girls, in order of birth - Cheri, Cindy, Crystal and Carla Jo (Jody).

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!