Gabby

Gabby is that you? E-mail me at jladd00@msn.com. I would love to talk to you. It has been years and a lot has happened.

Ladd Reunion: Welcome Gabby

Ladd Reunion: Welcome Gabby

An Aint Aud tale

Heres a lil story about Aint Aud. When I lived in Ca.Aint Aud came out on some business trip of sorts,and I was to pick her up and take her to her plant in ( I think) City of Industry,Ca. Anyway I ran my pick-up truck thru the car wash and I picked her up in it and she had an incredulous look on her face as I drove up to get her.She asked where my car was and I said I left it at home.By the time we arrived at her plant she was just finishing up explaining to me that under NO circumstance(sp?) was I EVER to pick her up again in a truck ! (boy I sure did love that ole truck too)Well we parked and as we were walking in we both noticed her plant manager (Oriental I think)leaning back with his hands folded behind his head and his feet on the desk and he glanced at us then turned away,and instantly jerked his head back to us and recognized her ,and he got outta that chair in a speed that you could only admire and ran over to us and said;Ms Hoey,we werent expecting to see you here today.She said ,apparently not.Any way he gave me/us the grand tour and she spoke with him in his office a few minutes and we left.Let me say that I never did pick her up again in my truck,altho I really DID enjoy driving that ole thing and just cant understand why anyone wouldnt want a ride in it.:)

To all of you turning 40 this year -hears something to think about:
>>> Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are " XL."

Reunion Plan Update

Well folks, July 4th is getting closer so it's time to get down to the nitty gritty and we really need a head count for those who are planning to be here so that we can make arrangements for food, accommodations, meeting venues and so we can organize the mystery dinner game.

Here is a list of the people I have so far and where they are staying--if you are coming and don't have a place to stay yet please let me know and I'll help you any way I can. If you aren't on the list below, but plan to come, please drop me a line. I want to see everyone so badly...I wish I had a private jet to pick everyone up, and a mansion where we could all stay in one place! Oh well, maybe next reunion.

Local Folks:
-Sandi, Jack, Lori, Sophie, Olivia
-Jim, Charlotte, Asa
-Jodi, Brent, Brennah, Kelsea
-Aunt Earnie
-Aunt Aud and Uncle Bob
-Cathi and Louis
-Mandi, Mike, Seth, Night

Family staying at the Holiday Inn:
-Debbey and Cloud
-Cory, Lisa and Dylan
-Vicki and Dennis
-Orrin

Folks planning on staying with local family members:
-Evona (staying with Jodi)
-Aunt Shirley and Donna (staying with Aunt Aud)
-Gail Shailee (staying with her son)
-Sarah (staying with Sandi)
-*Corey, schedule permitting (staying with Cathi)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELSEA!

Hi everyone! April 27th is Kelsea's birthday (Jodi's youngest dgtr). so "Happy Birthday Kelsea!" Jodi: I'll be at your house tomorrow to sing her my special birthday song! I'm sure she can't wait! So many April birthdays. Hope we didn't miss anyone. If so, happy Birthday! I'll let everyone know when it's MY turn...I always do. Even sweeter this year, cuz I can remind MANY more family members! I don't know about you guys, but I love MY birthday. Mostly because my family makes it important whether I want them to or not!

Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weekend! I want to work in the yard soooo bad, but just haven't got around tuit. I thought I'd wait til Sarah gets here to clean house and do yard work....you are coming early, right Sarah? LOL!

I don't know about up north, but we had beautiful weather here today. I was crazy enough to do my WalMart shopping today..(Debbey teaches to NEVER shop on the weekend), but I did, and it was so amazing. I don't know if it was the weather or what, but I ran into so many nice people. Even the gal at the checkout told me my meat and strawberries were on special at another store and just rang them up at the sale price instead of making me show her sale papers! (doesn't take much to make me happy these days!)

Our days are so full of softball games and grandkid things that sometimes I start to feel my age. I'm even beginning to dream about retirement and that just seems weird. Time seems to go so fast....and that is exactly why all yaw need to try your best to be here in July! We may never get this chance again, and it would be so wonderful just to see and get to know everyone just a little more! See your kids, grandkids, heck, bring your neighbors if you want too! We have several friends that Mom feeds regularly that think they ARE family, and that's just okay to all of us!

Some of you that are pretending to be too busy to make a post need to get off your butts and chime in! Show that ol smart a*# Ladd spirit! Hope you are are having a wonderful weekend!
Love to all, Sandi

A note from Vicki

So I haven't been around for awhile, sorry. We bought a house and gutted the kitchen - everything was great until the countertop people kept screwing up - we went with concrete countertops that look really cool - except the apoxy that went on the top kept bubbling and they had to re-do them 3 times -- we've been without a kitchen for 4 weeks now and living in the house. It's finished now and we should have a kitchen sink this weekend (yeah!).

Then of course during all of this work has been crazy - I took a group of my members to D.C. to a congressional conference of Optometrists and everything there went great until we walked out of the restaurant and I got really sick and puked, yes I said PUKED, right on the sidewalk in front of about 6 of my members and their wives. And... I had to see them all the very next week at our convention - hooray. it was announced at the board meeting about throwing up, although there was no table top dancing as was also announced (believe it or not, I only had one glass of wine with dinner that night!)

So, now that convention is over, and we will have a kitchen soon, hopefully I can check in more. Hope this finds you all with stories of your own to tell and much sympathy for me and my embarrassment - oh, and Dennis would want me to tell you that I just didn't get sick, but it was everywhere and I had to use my suit jacket to clean myself up, out of my hair, off my face, etc.

PS - Jodi came to take pics at my convention -- ask her about her room!