Happy Birthday, Tyler!

We have another birthday in our family!
Today is our oldest grandson's 18th birthday!!
Tyler was 18 months old when we had our first studio picture taken together.

Ever since then we have made a point to have our picture taken with our grand kids in the fall or early December.
Tyler is our ginger-boy with beautiful red hair.  Needless to say it surprised us, but I guess he probably gained this from my fathers aunt Violet who had BRIGHT red hair, and I guess there is some red hair on his dad's side of the family. We love it! and we love him so very much!
This is Tyler's graduating year from high school. Just like many others, Tyler had to miss out on his last few months of school and his ceremonies.
We were thankful that Julie and Josh let us join in on a very private celebration with cake and ice cream where we could give him our gift in private.

 He really hates all the attention and having his picture taken

His card:

We gifted Tyler his savings account that we have been putting money in since he was born. So inside I put "NO amount of money could EVER show HOW MUCH we love you..." 

I took this from the stamp set A GRAND KID, but I redid it on WORD so it could say "we" instead of the "I" that is on the stamp.

This card was inspired by Linda Schnabel

Today was also supposed to be Tyler's graduation Open House. Yes, everything is rescheduled, but it will never be the same. This graduating class is very unique and they will have stories to tell their kiddos.

Hope you have an amazing birthday Tyler!!

Love Gramma and Gramps

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Purple Belt

Last week our grandson, Tyler, had his Purple Belt Test in his Karate classes.

Julie invited me to come along to watch and
I was so amazed at how intense he was in his test.
He did an absolutely fabulous job.

This is a picture of Tyler receiving his Purple Belt from Master Rick.

So I thought I should make him a card congratulating him on his new level.


This is a tri-fold card


I even stamped the envelope

CONGRATULATIONS, TYLER!!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi aka Gramma

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Little League Season

This is Tyler’s first year to play machine pitch baseball for Little League. He had a pretty good hitting season over all, and his favorite thing to do is run the bases (that was his Uncle Jeff’s and Uncle Joey’s favorite thing too), but it seemed like he could get ON base but no one could hit him in – frustrating, but so much fun to watch him and his team mates play.

Now that the season is over I made a couple thank you notes for Tyler to give to his two coaches for all the fun and instructions and all their dedicated time spent with these boys. Coaches Rock!!!


And thanks, too, to DOstampingwithDawn for this cute idea.

MENU:
SS: Just Baseball (retiring this month)
INK: Real Red, Brilliant Blue
CS: Real Red, WW, Chocolate Chip, Brilliant Blue, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Build A Bear Die (bear) and Beary Essentials Die (clothes) And this is the cake I made for Tyler to bring to his after season party.

So For Now…
Thanks Coach!!(es)
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