So Nona turned 78 years young on December 23rd. We had a fine feast of Pork Tenderloin (done Traeger style of course), roasted potatoes, and artichokes...topped off with a DQ ice cream cake special. We recycled the 7 from the 75th birthday cake, added eight pink/orange candles for her years plus a blue one for good luck in 2008.
Mateo loves to perch in Nona's lap when she's at our house...he helped Nona blow out all those candles...someone call the fire department!
And boy does Mateo love ice cream cake...plus it was this hideous stain all your fingers plus your clothes blue frosting...so by the time he was done, he had it spread from ear to ear! 
Nona makes a good book reader...and the dog you see is Cocoa
(a new addition from Cousin Tegan...who Mateo calls Tee-Tan).
(a new addition from Cousin Tegan...who Mateo calls Tee-Tan).
We consider ourselves especially blessed to have Nona return to full health after the craziness of 2007...she had two craniotomies, DVT's in both legs, spent more than a month between hospitals and nursing homes, and appears now to be none the worse for the wear. In fact, we give her a hard time about actually being better now than before! :)
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