A new grandchild a beautiful Granddaughter!! Briar. She is beautiful born this November of 2025. Brooks and Baker are quite the attentive big brothers. I love her so much. These boys have been my inspiration all year. I have enjoyed every single moment I am with them. They keep my full of Joy and happiness. Congratulations to The Gallop family. Cody and Amelia are such wonderful and very successful parents. I am so proud of them. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to spend so much time with them. You guys are such a blessing!!!
Look at how beautiful she is. Briar Reese. Reese is Cody’s middle name. She is such an angel. A blessing. We will be attending her Christening service soon.
Kim and Bruce Jr. have been so good to us from the cruise 🚢 in June/July to the Bahamas on MSC. Which I highly recommend!!! They were so good to me the whole crew. I am serious they treated me like a queen!! I am gluten free and they outdid themselves. I loved my whole trip. It was our first time ever on a cruise. We had a blast with the grandkids. Just being able to watch them play and grow has a special place in my heart. I am so grateful. Then Kim, Jr., and all the kiddos came for thanksgiving. A wonderful family week.
Kim and I went to the thrift store while we were together and bought the whole family Christmas sweaters it was a lot of fun.
Kenso our little King was born the end of March. We saw him this summer before the cruise. Now look closely as that is Skylar YES!!! 🙌🏻 whattttt!! My granddaughter has grown into a young lady. Crystal amazes me. Her husband Billy is awesome he a motivational speaker and teacher. I will be seeing them real soon. Love you guys!
Brooks and Baker once again my little loves. They love apples. Granny and PopPop own an apple orchard and they spend a lot of time there. It’s a beautiful place. Apples the trees the fresh sweet smell. They make the best cider. They have a great place they sell all their products in Michigan. They are even in the Michigan Fresh Market finds. Those boys love apples, uhmmm did I mention that. Smiling.
Brooks and Baker came over last Friday and played in the snow.
I took these pictures yesterday while we riding in the gator to check the property out after the 19 inches of snow we received a
The snow is beautiful
Colby took this picture goofing off I just love Dusty’s smile.
Ok I think I added too many pictures lol more of the Christmas sweaters. I really loved the dresses they were so soft.
Ho ho ho!! Did you know last year Bruce got asked to be a Santa. He was like nooooo! I told him he could do it.
Skylar and Kenso, I would be safe to say Kenso doesn’t like the Grinch or Santa. Haha don’t we all have these baby pictures of our children or ourselves crying at Santa. I have one to of myself from 1970.
These are milkweed pods. I love to take nature photos. They are just gorgeous. It really reminds me of a winter day. That even nature in its dormancy is so spectacular.
Our Bigfoot we have had since the Cranfest. Everyone wanted to buy it from us. I had bought basically before the event started and the man only had three there. We gave him a hat this winter. Bruce said he needed a bag in his hand with a bottle of tequila. I said let’s start with the hat. Haha
Cody and Amelia with the kiddos in tow came to cut their Christmas tree down this year on our driveway he picked a giant one. Love it. I said Cody that’s mighty big. He told later they had to cut it down to size like three times.
This was the night they cut the tree down. Bruce wasn’t here so I rode with Cody and the fam in the truck.
Always love different perspectives in photography. It certainly tells the story.
Some more of my paintings. These paintings bring me so much joy and happiness and peace. I have so enjoyed all my classes this year being with other students in the classroom. It has been such a pleasure and privilege for me. I take time for it and the other students and teachers keep me motivated in my art. If not something else will only take its place.
The mermaid was all done in ink. Sumi ink. I loved every minute of working with this medium. I will continue my work into the liminal with Connie.
This one at first I was like I don’t like it…..then the more I looked at it I did. It’s all done intuitively. I used a quote from Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I also wrote a poem with it to on the left side. The papers with the flowers is the Kuratake ink in gold. The papers with the flowers is mulberry paper . I would highly recommend that class. I had never touched Sumi ink a day before this class.
Well I better close but I wanted to put out to the Universe that Cooper is doing the Crucible today and will finish tomorrow morning. Please keep him in your thoughts, prayers and good vibes for him, please. He will be a Marine at the top of the mountain tomorrow morning receiving his eagle, globe, and anchor pin. A United States Marine. Cheer everyone on that is in this crucible. We have been burning candles for this event. More tomorrow. Much love and hugs. If you have a chance leave a comment of what you would like to see for the future.
I love you guys…….
See you soon
Stay safe always
Dawn Gallop
