January 31, 2015
Born June 9, 1983 at Bixby Hospital, Adrian, Michigan to Timothy Lee and Karen Marie Hess.
What a joy to hold my first grandchild in my arms.
I remember keeping him overnight when he was still a baby and taking him to church. Owen Smith greeted us at the door. I told him now I know why we have kids when we are young. I was out of practice getting babies ready to go away. I didn't know whether to get dressed first or get him dressed first.
I went to Big Boy with Tim, Karen and Steven one time. Steven was sitting in a high chair. They gave him saltine crackers to eat. He might have eaten some, but he made such a mess of cracker crumbs all over the tray and the floor. I felt embarrassed. I was thinking to myself, my kids didn't make messes like that in a restaurant. Then when I thought again, it dawned on me that my kids didn't eat in restaurants when they were young.
I babysat Steven and Elesha while their mom helped their dad at the American Legion fish fry. Steven was over 1 1/2 and Elesha was 4 months. I remember telling Karen it is hard getting supper with both of them. Karen said “tell me about it”. Of course, I was again out of practice having the little ones around.
I remember being at Steven's 1st birthday party. He had fun eating (?) his birthday cake. He had it all over.
It was a great delight to watch Steven's T-Ball game. No score was kept. First one team batted until all the players had taken their turn batting the ball off the rubber tee. One little fellow was running from 2nd to 3rd base and stopped to tie his shoe on the way. Outfielders weren't paying attention to the game and wouldn't have seen a ball if it had gone out where they were. It was a fun experience to watch them.
In May 1995 we went to Kentucky with Tim, Karen, Steven and Elesha on a houseboat trip. We were at Green River Lake State Park in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It was such a fun trip with the exception of the storm with a lot of rain and the boat that was tied to shore turned around in the night. Tim had to take his boat up to shore, turn the boat around and retie the boat up. It was peaceful out on the water. We caught and ate fish. There was a slide off the boat into the water. After we changed houseboats at their request, there was a hot tub up on top that was fun. I was holding a fish up that I had caught and Steven was leaned over the cooler , the one that I was holding slipped out of my hands and hit him on the head. We had plenty of laughs over it. Maybe not Steven.
Steven and Elesha rode back home with us and we stopped at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. We walked around the barns to look at the horses. Then we went to an indoor arena where the horses were jumping hurdles. We were sitting quite close to one of the hurdles. It was fun watching them.
I was so proud of Steven when he got his high school diploma in June of 2003.
Steven married Bridget Lorenz on June 9, 2012 at The Landing , Tecumseh, Michigan.