THE POWER of GOAL SETTING


Nancy and I returned home from eight days in west county with two boys eight and five while their parents enjoyed Hawaii!!! for the second time in six months. I felt like I needed to share a few pictures from the three trips to Hawaii that Nancy and I have been blessed to enjoy.


Nancy and I had been married about one year when we set a goal to spend our 25TH anniversary in Hawaii. At the time I was making $375.00 per month but life was good.


We did spend 5-9-1984 on the island of Oahu. God is good.!!!


Photo one does not bring out the awesome beauty of Hanauma Bay.




















Nancy with Pearl Harbor in the background. Every American needs to visit Pearl Harbor. My dad and uncle went through Hawaii on their way to the Philippines later in WW!!

Nancy 5/84 above the clouds on top of Haleakala on Maui Hi.





Diamond Head from Waikiki Beach in 1984

In Jan. 1988 Nancy and I visited Hawaii for our second trip with long time friends Cliff and Wanda.We spent two weeks on the north shore of Oahu at Turtle Bay.Each week we took a day trip to one of the other Islands.

This photo taken in 1988 but in 2001 we went to the top of this snow covered mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii near Hilo.

1988 photo of Waimea Canyon on Kauai. It is called the {Grand Canyon of Hawaii}

The ocean at Turtle Bay in January 1988. A surfers goal is to surf the North Shore in Jan. or Feb.

1988 Moving Lava flow at Volcano National Park near Hilo on the Island of Hawaii.If I remember correctly the Lava opened every eighteen minutes then with a opening it would move a few inches forward and the process would start again.

A sunset on Maui in Oct. of 2001

Nancy in Oct. 2001 enjoying breakfast at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach with Diamond Head in the background.

Taken Oct. 2001 from the deck of the battleship Missouri. On the deck of this ship the peace treaty between the USA. and Japan was signed.

A water fall near Hilo Hawaii taken in Oct.2001.

I have a goal to return some day for visit number four.!!!!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO MY

SWEET HEART of FIFTY TWO YEARS!!!!
Photo from your front porch sometime in 1957




Our first Valentines day was 1957 but I am not sure what we did are what I got you.


1957


I was a freshmen in college.

You were a senior in high school.

Postage was .03 per first class letter.

I made $1.00 per. hour at Davis Photo Supplies.

I liked you Valentines day 1957 but I LOVE YOU on Valentines day 2009.




I realize we could be celebrating our fiftieth anniversary today if you would have had your way however May 9TH is something to look forward too.



Yellowstone park June 1999








Boca Raton Fl. 2006


Fate allowed us to meet, like grew into love and our commitment to God and each other is stronger today than 1957 are even 1959.

I LOVE YOU Happy Valentines Day
Ed

FAMILY CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
#8 WITH KAYleigh!!!!!
Sunday the family helped Kayleigh celebrate her 8TH birthday.
She opened lots of gifts and we all had birthday cake and choices of ice cream to go with the cake.


James helps his cousin

Yes the cake was Delicious!!!!!

TERRY THE TOOTH!!!

Friday grandma and I attended 'Terry The Tooth" and witnessed Flossie Floss give an Oscar winning performance.

For me the junior princess was the star.!!!!

The play was creative,funny,artsy crafty, and very well done.

BIOGRAPHY BONANZA

Last night Nancy and I attended an event called Biography Bonanza at Paul's school. All the kids dressed in period clothes of the individual they had chosen to portray. They gathered together and sang uplifting songs and some had speaking parts. Then they went to separate stations and the crowd visited the stations. When you stood in front of a character they would respond by telling who they are and what they accomplished. They all were terrific.!!!!





Paul playing the part of Jackie Robinson




Jackie Robinson telling his story


Part of the group singing songs.

Leaving the stage.

Paul's best friend Jake posing as George Washington.

Grandma listening to family friend Madeline tell the story of Pocahontas.



The two brothers

I had to show this picture as the shirt tells the whole story.

SUMMER 2008

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY KAYLEIGH
Today the junior princess celebrates her eighth birthday.!!!!

10/05/01

Happy birthday Kayleigh grandma and I hope you have a great day.!!!!

We love you and are very proud of you.

HOW AM I DOING ON MY 2009 GOALS

1-In January I wanted to lose 7lbs. of my 17 lbs. lost for 2009

Okay I only loss 4 lbs. but at least it is in the right direction.

2- Read two books and one of them to be a classic,

I read two and one of them was a classic.

"My War" by Andy Rooney was an okay read but not great. It was about Andy's experiences in World War II when he was a war correspondent for Stars and Stripes. He became a war corespondent by a lucky break of having gone to college and been on the school newspaper. He did not like General Patton and reporters who wrote stories of battles in France from the comforts of London as if they were actually on the battlefield. Like most self written stories he of course had the usual fight with a bigger and stronger man but of course he was the victor.

I read a classic "Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck. I am rapidly becoming a Steinbeck fan. It is a story written with great details about eight individuals stuck in Arizona on there way to LA.

It is filled with great detail about their life,personalities,and were they would like to be at the end. I found myself not able to put the book down.

I am on my way to reading twenty four books for the year and at least four of them will be classics. I proably need to change the classic goal to six or possibly eight.