Life at the Ziegler home

Life Here at our house is busy. with work, School, going to see Dad and running errands. I wake at 6:00am every morning and fall into bed about 11:00pm

Eric is busy at school, play practice, young man's, Scouting and Tong so do. Eric had a play the other day and did a good job playing a chicago Mayor he even did a great job holding his accent the whole time. he has a talent to voices.

Diana working and getting ready to move with Mariah in April. Mariah is working and also getting ready to move. She has been accepted to attend LDS Business Collage summer semester. So she is Off to Salt Lake City Utah. Diana will be attending Cosmotology school in salt lake as well.

Don and I are doing ok We are getting ready to start a new adventure business wise and are very exited. Don will still be doing his photography but only part time. he is also still working as an area manager for Varsity Contractors.

As for me I keep myself busiy being a mom, a wife and taking care of Dad. I go and visit him whenever posible it usualy turnes out to be 3-4 days per week. The Veterans home is 42 miles from my house and so when I go visit him I usualy stay 3-4 hours. it is nice. some days we laugh alott and others we just sit and he holds my hand just about the whole time. He is fun as you can see in the pictures he has lost a lot of weight. but that was to be exspected with Alzheimer's .

Don and I attended a celebration for Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday. It was so much fun. The town of Carthage held it in the Historic county courthouse. it was nice it is only 5 blocks from our house. how fun to spend time with the grand kids at something fun and educational.

We are all hopeing it will stop snowing soon we are so ready for spring. I want to get my garden planted. mmmmmm fresh vegies right off the vine yum.

I truly hope you are all well I love you all
Jo Ellen

memories of June 2007 - Dec. 2008

Visiting Grandpa

This is a post from my blog back on the 19th of January. I thought I would take a minute and transfer it over to here so that all of you could have a chance to read it.

~Nichole



Visiting my Grandpa back in July

Today being a holiday we decided to take a trip down to Quincy in the morning to visit my Grandpa. He is in the Veteran's home there with the late stages of Alzheimer's. At this point he is not here much. We were there for about half and hour and he had his eyes open for about 10 minutes. Of course, I forgot my camera. Oh, well. While we were there I played my violin for him. He and my Grandma Westergren gave me my very first violin. The first song that I played for him was, "I am a Child of God." He smiled as much as he can at this stage in his life and for a minute it even looked like he was trying to conduct me. I enjoyed playing for him. The girls enjoyed getting to see him, I haven't meet kids before (besides myself) that like to visit dying people. Anyway, it was good to get to spend some time with him today. I hope it is a memory that I will be able to keep forever. That is why I am sharing it with you. If I write it down to share with friends and family I will have written it down. I guess this is kind of like my journal. Thank you for letting me share.My Grandpa in August.

My Grandpa and part of his posterity in December.

I LOVE YOU GRANDPA!