This is the guy I share my life with!  We have been married for ...37 years!  (Long enough for me to have to look it up, just to be sure!)  Yep!  We were married August 8th 1972.  Frank is a fun loving guy who LOVES to talk and has lots and lots of friends!  When I picture him in my mind, this is what I see!  Sometimes I think he loves his cell phone more than he loves me!

Frank loves to golf and can be found often on the golf course he helped make with his buddies!   They often wager an ice cold bottle of water on the game and when he comes home he either announces proudly to me that he took a bottle of water from Ron or Kelly... or else humbly admits that one of them took it from him!

Coaching is also one of his talents and he has been involved in coaching in some way or another most of our married life!   He has coached high school basketball and baseball and in recent years has been coaching the Faraones Semi Pro Basketball team for the Municipio of Nuevo Casas Grandes.   We are getting ready to start another season in a few weeks!

Another thing that Frank does REALLY well is SLEEP!

I swear, this guy can sleep anytime, any place... and for hours and hours on end!!  (For a wife who struggles to get to sleep and stay asleep, this about drives me bonkers!)  Years ago, when we only had one little granddaugher, (Rylee) she nick named him "Big Bear" because when she heard him snoring she thought he sounded like a big bear! Hense, he has been known as Big Bear to his grandchildren!

Lita is a nick name for " Abuelita !" These little people ( 15 of them!) call me "Lita!" They are the JOY of my life!  If I could spend time with anyone in the world, anytime I wanted to, I would choose to spend it with them.... Rylee, Hayden, Hunter, Keaton, Olivia, Tessa, Clara, Kayla, Cam, Hanna, Kate, Emily, Denali, Tyson and Sayda!

So... for the purpose of this blog...

Frank and Cathy will be known as

Big Bear and Lita !

Here, I need to acknowledge the 10 people who have (and will) blessed us with these grandchildren we love so much!

Preston and Alixe

(contributed 4 little darlins!)

Mike and Angie

(3 with another "in the oven!")

Brandon and Laura

(leading the way with FIVE!)

Demy and Ashley

( raising 3 geniuses!)

Darron and Shauny 

(slow starters.. but working on it! I hope! )

A special thanks to these people for giving my life meaning and purpose during "the golden years!"   I LOVE you all a bunch!!!   

XOXOXO

Families are FOREVER !

I am so thankful for this knowledge!