HAPPY EASTER!

Wishing all my family and friends a very

Happy Easter!!!

Our grand daughter, Rissa's twin boys, Hunter

and Trevor...age five.

Sweet little Angles...right, mom?

EASTER MAKES ME THINK OF GROOM, TEXAS...

Traveling along I-40 on our way to California we pass the "Cross Of Our Lord Jesus Christ" It is 40 miles east of Amarillo, Texas just west of Groom, on I-40 Exit 112. It is a beautiful place to stop and take a break. It is next to the highway with nothing around it and believe me it takes your breath away. We saw the Cross for miles before we made our way to it. There is a beautiful gift shop that is now open. If you are near it you really need to stop and see it. Here is one of the web sites you can visit and see all the work that went into building this beautiful stopping place along I-40. http://www.crossministries.net/ Check it out, you won't be sorry. Happy Easter dear ones....

LOVE THAT FACE...

Scrapbook page of our great grand daughter, Xoi.

She just turned four and spent her birthday in Disneyland. What fun sweetheart...

MORE SCRAPBOOKING PAGES....

Another page of our grand daughter Cami. She just turned eight years old last week. Love you baby....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XOI...

Xoi, our now four year old great-grand-daughter is having a birthday today. Happy Day Sweetheart!!!!

Papa and I hope you had a wonderful day at "DISNEYLAND" yesterday.

We sure love you!!!!

FACEBOOK FAMILY...

I have been putting my Family Heritage Scrapbooking pages on Scrapbook.com for a year or more and meeting a lot of new friends. The other day I got a message from a lady that had seen my pages on the web site. The pictures I had been posting of my family was her family also!!!! It turned out that her grandfather was my uncle. I was doing the "Happy Dance" all over the place. As you know I am heavy into genealogy and this just made my day!!!! She let me know that there were a bunch of "Hopper Cousin's" on facebook. I have a facebook page and it didn't take this old girl long to find them. I have been having a blast with them. What Fun!!!!!! Any of you Hopper's that are reading this....please come join us. OK.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMI...

Happy day to our grand daughter, Cami, who lives way out in Bakersfield. Hope you have a great day honey. Hugs and kisses to you...

HOPPER HERITAGE...

This is the Adams Family...Uncle Gus was my grandmother's, older brother. He was born August 28, 1867 in Paducah, KY. He married Lucy Early on June 10, 1894 in Pottawatomie Co., Territory of Oklahoma. He died in Los Angles, California on Feb. 15, 1937. Ernest and Mabel are standing in the back row. In the front is Cora Martha, Augustus, Lucy, with baby Melton, Ida Vadis and little Alvia. This picture was taken about 1913. My Aunt Ann told me she was named after Ida Vadis as her name was Ann Vadis Hopper.

MONKEY BUSINESS...

My daughter sent me a text last night with a picture of this little guy that said "meet my new baby". Of course I thought... she has gone and bought a MONKEY! She already has two lizards! So! what am I suppose to think??? Come to find out...Josh has a friend that works at the Safari park near us and is babysitting this little four week old baby for the week-end. Now that I know that he is not staying...I can say "HOW CUTE!"

HOPPER HERITAGE...

Two of my dad's sisters, Lilly and Ann Hopper in 1924. Lilly and her twin brother, Bill, was born July 31, 1910 and she was the mother of four children, living until 1999. Annie Vadis was born October 18, 1913 and was the mother of two children. We loss our lovely Aunt Ann on August 31 of 2008. She was 93.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREEANN...

It's our grand daughter's birthday! So a Happy Day goes out to BreeAnn who just moved from Texas to California. Love you darling girl and hope it all works out for you...

HOPPER HERITAGE...

The "Hopper Family" about 1938.
Jake, Jim (dad), Ralph,
Maude, Ollie, Daisy, Ann
Twins; Bill and Lilly, Jim and Molly, Twins; Ethel and Eiffel.

This is two of my dad's sister's and his

brother-n-law. I am not sure when

this was taken, guessing in the 1940's. Ann Hopper on the left and the couple facing us was Everett and Eiffel Hopper Dearman. They were married in 1928 and had two daughters, Anita and Betty. Ann married Van Roberts in 1938 and they had two children, Judy and Butch. Aunt Ann passed away this year at the age of 93...

2ND PLACE FOR DESIGN!!!

My 19 year old grandson, Justin, won 2nd place for the design of the race car he is working on. The driver and owner of the race car is his room mate, Mike. Justin did the design work on the car and I think he did a great job. The judges must have thought so too...he took home second place! Do I have to say how "PROUD" I am of this young man of ours ;-)

COMMON SENSE...

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:- Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; life isn't always fair;

and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;

I Know My Rights

I Want It Now

Someone Else Is To Blame

I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

I read this on another blog and it was just to good to pass up...

RUBIK'S CUBE...

Remember the Rubik's Cube from when we were kids???

I wasn't good at it then and found out I am not good at it now! Josh was showing Pop and I how easy it is...right!

I must say he is very good at it. He had it going every which way. What is it they say??? Every thing old is new again, or something like that!

WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT?

(Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)

Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people's.

A grandfather is a man, & a grandmother is a lady!

Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.

They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run.

It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.

When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.

They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on 'cracks.'

They don't say, 'Hurry up.'

Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.

They wear glasses and funny underwear.

They can take their teeth and gums out.

Grandparents don't have to be smart.

They have to answer questions like 'Why isn't God married?' and 'How come dogs chase cats?'

When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.

Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us.

They know we should have snack time before bed time, and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we've acted bad.

A 6-YEAR-OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED. ''OH,'' HE SAID, ''SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT, AND WHEN WE WANT HER, WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT.'' GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS, BUT I DON'T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!

It's funny when they bend over; you hear gas leaks, and they blame their dog.

FAVORITE FRIDAY...

This Friday my favorite thing is this picture my daughter gave me for Christmas. It's it the most darling thing??? The pictures were taken outside the Hickory House where we had Thanksgiving dinner and we were both being "Silly". Justin's sweet lady, Kierstin, took the pictures so I never saw them until I opened the present with the frame in it. Do I need to tell you how much I love it! and the "young girl" in it???

SCRAPBOOKING...

Did some new scrapbooking pages the other day. I'm not sure what this yellow one of Josh is suppose to be but it turned out to be very different. I took the yellow color from his hat and just kept putting in layers of this and that. One of his lady friends straighted out all of his curles in his hair. He wanted to know what I thought about it.
Told him it was nice :-)

This is a Birthday Page I did with some of Justin's Birthday pictures I already posted. I try to do a Birthday page of the boys each year. I love the cake on his face, he looks so surprised!

BIRTHDAY CAKE FIGHT!

Justin turned 19 a few days ago and we had his Birthday party over the week-end.
All he wanted this year was "MONEY". He had a truck payment and insurance due, so that's what he got along with three special t-shirts that mom knew he wanted.
It all went find until Suzy, Justin's mom told Kierstin (his lady friend) to push his face in the cake. Justin got away but he also got his mom!!!!
But in the end, as you can see in my last picture, Kierstin got him and got him good! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART...WE LOVE YOU!

WELL...IT AIN'T SPRING...YET

I got up this morning to SNOW!
My pretty little yellow flowers, my vision of SPRING, all gone! It has been snowing and blowing off and on most of the day and boy is it cold!
It is suppose to warm up sometime this coming week so guess I will wait and look for Spring then :-(