MAMA GOT A PHONE CALL !!!

Got a phone call from my son, Kevin!!!!
Sure made my day!
He's such a supper son and super brother...
Just know that I love you bunches my wonderful son :)

HAPPY 4th....

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~~~~ LET FREEDOM RING ~ HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!!! ~~~~

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FIRST ANNIVERSARY...

What a way to spend your very First Wedding Anniversary!
In  Afghanistan!!!!!!!!!
Sucks!!!!!!!!!!

HOPPER HERITAGE...

Working on the family of Meredith Newton Hopper of Oklahoma today.
These are some of his children and grandchilden.

HOPPER HERITAGE

DAVID DAVENPORT & DICIE YOUNG HOPPER


The Hoppers were true pioneer settlers of California. David Davenport Hopper was born on September 12, 1825 on the Chickamauga Creek, about ten miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee the seventh child of John David Hopper and Mary Davenport. When David was about fifteen years of age, he and his family moved to Lafayette County, Missouri, where he met Clarissa "Dicie" Young, a native of Lafayette County, Missouri. Dicie was born March 20, 1825 and was the daughter of John Young and Sarah Hopper. John Young died on the plains and was buried on the Green River while with an earlier wagon train party. Sarah Ann Hopper was the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Jeanie Gray Hopper and Thomas Hopper was a brother to David's father, John David Hopper. David and Dicie were married on January 23, 1845 in Lafayette Co., Missouri. Two daughters were born to David and Dicie in Lafayette County, Missouri, Mary Catherine, on November 19, 1845, and Sarah Eveline, on October 04, 1848.

Some of the Hoppers and Youngs were probably members of the Hudspeth/Myers party. David, Dicie, and their two daughters, Sarah who was four and Mary who was six, came out with the Hagans-Cockrill party in 1853. The 125 members of this particular party was a collection of families and friends making up a significant portion of the village of Pleasant Gap in Bates County. They came well prepared and self-sufficient to contend with any difficulty that their new unsettled home might confront them with. Their 31 wagons, filled with the supplies and tools which it was in their experience necessary to sustain life in a wilderness, were each drawn by 4 to 6 oxen depending on the load. There was also a "chest of money" in one of the wagons to buy land with. For the most part, the wagons were too full to ride in except for the drivers, and most of the members of the band walked the distance, along with a thousand head of cattle, a similar amount of sheep, several fine horses, milk cows, and one would assume, a small menagerie of chickens, ducks, dogs and cats -- all that was necessary to seed a successful life with their experience.

From 1853 to 1854, Hopper settled near Penngrove, Sonoma County, California and remained there for a year. The Hoppers moved several times and from 1854 to 1856, they settled in New Town near Petaluma, which was a development of his cousin, Thomas Hopper. Thomas Hopper was one of the first to make money in the mines. He could not read or write, but became president-owner of three banks in Sonoma County. His son urged him to learn how to read and write, but he replied that he would do so as soon as his son could sign his name to as big a check as he could. Their Petaluma residence occupied the present site of the Northwestern Pacific Depot, and there Mr. Hopper conducted a dairy for two years.

In 1857, he located on a branch of the Skaggs Springs/Gualala River, now known as Old House Creek, which was derived its name from the house that David built on the bank of that creek. There he also took up a claim and soon afterward bought an adjoining ranch from John Moffett and Wilson Brown. Thus becoming the owner of, between seven and eight thousand acres. Subsequently the family returned to Healdsburg in order that he might give his children better education advantages, but he remained on the ranch most of the time raising sheep on the Gualala River, which is on the northern border of Sonoma County. A third daughter, Ida Jane, was born in Healdsburg, in 1860.

Mr. Hopper was one of the most successful and noted hunters who ever lived in this part of the state. He killed many bears, including grizzly, black, and cinnamon, also eight wolves, many panthers and innumerable deer. During one winter season he killed thirty-five bears. He used an old muzzle-loading gun which once failed to fire after he had wounded a cinnamon bear, and the enraged animal attacked him, but he killed it with a hatchet. Mr. Hopper had the respect and confidence of all who knew him and was a most liberal man, very devoted to his family.

Soon after his daughter, Ida Jane, became the wife of Mr. Nathan Henry Cox (1876), he gave her a tract of two hundred and twenty-five acres of land near Healdsburg and he also presented his two other daughters with fine ranches. He was a wonderfully big hearted man whose only thought was to see his family comfortably situated.

In 1865, Hopper bought the A.B. Aull ranch on Westside Road, where he built a fine house and resided with his wife until his death on December 4, 1907. Dicie Hopper died six years later in 1913. In 2006, the Hopper house still stands at 1710 Westside Road. David Davenport and most of his family are buried in the Oak Mound Cemetery, Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California.

FUN DAY IN EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS...

There are plenty of reasons why the charming town of Eureka Springs is one of the top tourist destinations in Arkansas. For starters, the entire village is on the National Register of Historic Places. Consider the fact that Eureka Springs Arkansas also rests in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, and you have yourself a pretty enviable place. More a resort village than your average small city, Eureka Springs features winding streets that are adorned with Victorian-style homes and manors.

HOPPER HERITAGE

Meredith Hopper: son of John David Hopper,
Brother of Robert Hopper and my dad's
(Jim Hopper) uncle.

ANNIVERSARY #31....WOW!!!!

Ron about 1957

Carol around 1963



Then and Now!!!  Can't believe we have been married 31 years today. 
What is it they say?  Time flies when you are having fun!!!!



HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

HOPPER HERITAGE

HOPPER HERITAGE

Son of Elizabeth Hopper Coffee and
Grandson of John David Hopper

HOPPER HERITAGE

I LOVE MAXINE!

SOME E-MAILS ARE JUST SO DARN CUTE!



Shirley & Marcy

A mother was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school.

He didn't want his mother to walk with him.

She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.

So she had an idea of how to handle it.

She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school

in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he wouldn't notice her.

The neighbor said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.

The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school

with another neighbor girl he knew. She did this for the whole week.

As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy 's little friend noticed the same lady was following them

as she seemed to do every day all week. Finally she said to Timmy , 'Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?'

Timmy nonchalantly replied, 'Yeah, I know who she is.'

The little girl said, 'Well, who is she?'

'That's just Shirley Goodnest ,' Timmy replied, 'and her daughter Marcy.'

'Shirley Goodnest? Who is she and why is she following us?'

'Well,' Timmy explained, 'every night my Mum makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, 'cuz she worries about me

so much. And in the Psalm, it says, 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life',

so I guess I'll just have to get used to it!'



The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

And may Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always.



MEMORIAL DAY IN AFGANISTAN...

New pictures from my Grandson, Justin, in Afganistan.
I love the reflection of the flag in his glasses!



Please stay safe...I love you dear boy....
Not a boy any longer, now it's...
what a MAN!!!!!!!!!



LOST FIRST TOOTH...

Xoi, our great Grand Daughter (and she is GREAT!)
lost her first tooth today!
Her aunt Kendi sent her a message that the going rate
from the Tooth Fairy today is
$20.00!!!!

RE-DO CRAFT SPACE...

Painting and adding new carpet to my craft room that I have to share with
the laundry room.

Sam Cat is my helper as well and my grandson, Josh, who pulled most of
the contact paper off the walls and did a bunch of painting.  Yes, who ever
did this room before used contact instead of wallpaper and was it ever
hard to get off!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER JEFF...

Happy Birthday to baby brother, Jeff.  Have a great day!!!!

MODEL SHOOT FOR GRAND DAUGHTER...

Our Grand Daughter, Katy....Beautiful and Sweet as ever!!!!!!

A couple of her first Modeling pictures! 
She is new to this and just looks the way they tell her...

Window of Salon that won "The Battle of the Salon's"

GUESS WHERE...

Guess where my lovely daughter is going in a few days on a company trip.  They give these
trips to employees each year and this year her friend won and ask her to go with her!
Have a great time girls :)