Cardboard Testimony

Life before and after Christ! This is really cool!

Party Time!

My baby brother Tim is turning 40 on Saturday. We are having a suprise party for him here at our house tomorrow night!
Here is Tim with his little granddaugher, Brooklyn!!



The weather has been so nice the past couple of days! Sunny and warm. Today it reached 78 degrees!! I think Spring has finally arrived here in south-east Michigan.

Take care everyone and God bless!

Merry Monday

Mom's retirement party was a huge success, a great turnout. There were lots of finger food, appetizers and of course yummy cake!

All of us kids and our families gave Mom a wii for her retirement gift. She has been wanting one ever since playing it our house! She was very suprised!







Have a great Monday!

Middle of April

Hello! I am finally back to blogging! Sorry it has been so long.

Dan has returned to work this past week. He is doing well and getting into the routine of going to work and also has a lot of overtime! We both enjoyed his time off and look forward to when he retires, within the next few years.

Kelly is doing great, busy with work, school and spending time with her boyfriend, Dane. The winter semester will be finished in a couple of weeks and I believe she is taking the summer months off from college. She will be going full time again in the fall and is already registering for those classes.

My sons are all doing well, working and busy with their lives. Since none of them live very close we don't see them often. My oldest son, Randy was here for Easter, which was so nice. My youngest son, Chris is working hard at his job and going to college in the culinary program. We miss Jeremy and Sabrina and grandbaby Colton down in Florida. It is so hard having children and grandchildren live far away. The good news is that they are coming up here for a visit in July and are going on vacation with us!! Randy and Chris are trying to work out their schedules so they can come with us as well. I am so excited! Will share more about that at a later date.

Tomorrow afternoon is my Mom's retirement party! She has actually been retired for a couple of months now, but the party was put on hold because of her surgery back in January and the time of recovery.

Our weather today is cold and rainy. We have had a few very warm and sunny days this past week, but it still doesn't look like Spring yet. Well, at least we don't have snow!

I hope you are all doing well. I am going to start making visits as soon as I post this. Take care and God bless!!

I Want Spring!

Well, the snow from last week melted after a couple of days. Then yesterday about
4 pm it started again and it snowed all night. Woke up this morning to 7 inches of fresh, beautiful snow. I didn't take any pics, looks the same as last time. LOL
I am more then ready for spring, green grass, leaves on the trees and flowers.

Dan is doing well. His next doctor appointment is March 20th.
Take care everyone!

~blessings

Snow

We were hit hard and there is more snow on the way.
Here are pics from early Tuesday morning. Patch loves the snow.






~blessings

Doing Just Fine and Busy!

Dan's appointment well. The doctor said that Dan's hand looks "beautiful!" Therapy started today and the therapist said that Dan is way ahead of the game and should only have to go to therapy a few times! Isn't that awesome?

Tonight we are meeting my brother Tim and his wife Shelley at Olive Garden for dinner, then we are going to see my niece Megan in their high school production of 'Grease'. It will be a fun evening.
For those of you who don't remember, Shelley is Dan's daughter from his first marriage, she married my youngest brother Tim. That is how Dan and I met! You can read all about on 'Our Love Story' page.

Tomorrow afternoon Dan is going to a model train show with his son Dan Jr. Then tomorrow evening we have a family dinner party to attend. Sunday afternoon is my step granddaughter, Mariah's birthday party. She is 12 years old now!

Monday evening we hope to get together with our dear friends Debbi and Steve. We haven't seen them much lately due to work schedules, etc.

We are enjoying this time that Dan has off to spend time together and with family and friends.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

~blessings

Wild Weather

We have had every kind of weather. Rainy, snowy, icy, windy and sunny. Sometimes all of them within a few hours. Crazy weather, but that's how it is when you live in Michigan.

We are doing well here. I am not on the computer as much when Dan is at home. We have quite a few visitors over the past week or so, which has been nice. Yesterday one of Dan's buddies, from Vietnam was in our area and he stopped in for a bit. It was great to see him and catch up.

Tomorrow is Dan's appointment for his post-op checkup and will get the stitches removed. We will found out tomorrow exactly how long the doctor wants Dan off from work. Dan is doing really well moving his hand. I think he has been doing his own version of physical therapy! lol I am thinking that he really won't have to be off work 8-10 weeks.

Take care everyone, I hope to get around to visit tonight.

~blessings

Doing Well!

Dan is feeling so much better. His next doctor appointment is Thursday, Feb. 21, when the doctor removes the stitches. I have seen the incision when I helped Dan change the dressing. Looks like it is healing fine, so sign of infection but the incision is all zig-zagged, kind of like the mark of Zorro! It takes up the whole length of Dan's palm. The doctor has Dan off from work until April 20th. But Dan thinks he will be able to return to work before then. I told him, you are going to have to wait and see what the Doc says!

Here is a new pic of Colton. There are more on my Flickr.


Take care and God bless!

Home From Hospital

Dan's surgery went well. He is having quite a bit of pain, which is normal, so please continue your prayers for him. He just took another pain pill and is resting.
Thanks so much!! Hope to catch up with you all later.
~blessings