A Look Back on April and More

This was a look out my office window. This poor little squirrel had to work really hard to get that food! Ha Ha

My grandson John, comes over and fills my feeders. He's so thoughtful and the birds and wildlife in my yard love him! Ha! Especially that squirrel...lol

I forgot to post this picture last night...here are the twins (John's girls)! They had come over to see their Aunt Brenda when she was here too!

We had such a terrible winter, finally after 3 months we had a nice day! So my friend Diana took me out to lunch for my belated birthday!! smile  We had a nice visit and fun! And of course great food!

This is Pastor Martha on Good Friday. The service was very meaningful. Several of the ladies who come for Bible Study on Friday did some of the readings.

Easter Sunday was in April too. Here are the greats, their moms and their great grandma (whose house we were at!) They were having their Easter egg hunt! Boy, were they having fun! The temperature was 81 degrees..so it was a perfect to be sitting and eating outside at the picnic table!!

Here is the design of this years MS Walk t-shirts. My granddaughter Ashley, drew the design, cut out the stamp,then after tie dying the shirts she stamped them. So much work but she says she loves doing it 🤗 Oh yes, then she mailed them up here from Georgia! (This is kind of a play on the Beatles song Come together right now..etc...)

We were so bummed, as the day was cold (51 degrees) and terribly windy along with rain. I wasn't sure I would get out in that weather, but then I heard it got moved inside so I wanted to go to support the co-ordinator. Who by the way is amazing!! We are so blessed to have her doing this. We only ended up with 6 of our team members that got out. (People did go out and walked a very short distance. Two on my team did it!) Way to go Jeff & Jean!!! $32,600 was raised of which I raised about $2,100. Always a great cause!

This picture is from the Sioux City Public Museum of Riverview

I wanted to share something with you since it's close to the 4th of July!. I saw in my mother's diary this entry . Mom's diary: July 4, 1936: Has been the hottest day in the history of Sioux City 111 degrees there. We went down in the basement in the afternoon. Saw Betty T.  Elaine, Cecil, Melvin and I went to Riverview tonight. Saw auto races. Rode on the Thriller. I was scared almost lifeless. But I wasn't alone Cecil got plenty scared. I rode the 'Tilt a Wheel' was fun. Had "cream" pop and "Root Beer".

Isn't it fun to step back in time with actual writings and photos? You can not only read about it but see it!

Of course I have to share with you a picture of Winter taking a nap this afternoon.😄

I had a nice weekend, yesterday my son Randy and his wife Vicky came over for a visit. I always love that! Today, I went to church, then over for fellowship. That was wonderful! I hope your day was joyful and a happy one! 

Bye for now.... 

Where Does the Time Go??

 

Here is the highlight of the past month....smile... Yes, I think it's been almost a month since I've blogged.. So much to tell you...but I'll just share with you a few things in this post. My daughter and granddaughters had planned on coming back last week for our MS Walk! It was just amazing to see them and to have them here to fill this empty house with love chatter and laughter!! Sweet...sweet memories.. And of course to care for Rusty and myself.

The weekend before was Easter! These beautiful flowers were from my son Randy and his family. (they were specially delivered by these sweet great granddaughters, as you can see below.)

 



Here they are walking down the hospital hallway.. Yes, the hospital.. ugggg. The best laid plans go awry.... (I had plans to go to the Good Friday Services at our little church..) But, Thursday I fell, just a silly accident. I bent over and lost my balance. Thank God for wonderful, caring neighbors.

Thank goodness nothing was broke, just pulled muscles and a ham string. That was why they put me in the hospital...I couldn't walk, it was so painful. So Easter Sunday, I had company...smile... Look at Maggie...she was keeping the nurses busy by pushing my call button...lol I was released that night and had a friend stay for a couple nights, till Brenda and the girls got here. (Thank goodness for my son, he had to take me to the doctor, then to the hospital, care for Rusty Friday [that's another story] and Sunday night bring me home...what a blessing he is..)

  

Here we are at the Walk last Saturday. My wonderful team!! My Angels...  I did go home early, but was able to stay for the most important parts. I will get a close up photo of this year's t shirt design. It is very unique and oh so cool!!!

 

I will part with this photo...my beautiful/handsome children. Its always so good to have them together at home again.... Give God the Glory for my family......

Easter Visitors

 Yesterday Maggie Sue came to visit!! She is so adorable!!!

She's standing, with a little help from Mommy.

Here she is with Daddy... happy!!!! happy!!! happy!!!

Lorelai eating her Easter sucker, and Maggie Sue standing at the coffee table, being a big girl.

When they were leaving, Lorelai's dad took this picture. She had her and Maggie's Easter bags in one hand and their puppy Bear in the other!! Way...way too funny. (I think she was like- hurry up--lets go!!) ha!!

 

They made me so happy..who doesn't love babies and grandchildren??

 

Also, my son, daughter in love and grandson came to visit!! Wonderful day... how was yours? I hope it was also a blessing.

What a Glorious Weekend

Last Thursday my family arrived from Georgia for my daughters wedding!! We were feeling so bad, as our weather had drastically changed from the week before. It had been in the upper 60's and 70 degrees. When they arrived it was in the 50's. We should learn to always be thankful for what God gives us...as this week, we had the "spring blizzard". I don't even want to think of how miserable that would have been for them. First of all they wouldn't have even made it up to our house... Whew...smile... 

Our granddaughter Amanda, scurried through the door, to give grandma a big ((hug))... 

 
And John, (the groom to be) was welcomed by Rusty!! ha! ha!!
That was a fun evening, we got pizza and enjoyed catching up on our lives.

The next morning, we were up early (so my friend could do my hair before she went to work!) After we went to breakfast at Perkins, the couple had to stop at the courthouse to pick up their marriage license!! (They were so funny...wish I'd have gotten a picture of it...they came 'skipping'...yes skipping down the street!!!) Then they had some other errands to run. 

Finally, Saturday, the big day came and it was a whirlwind of things to do. The 'bride to be' had to get her hair and nails done, while the 'groom to be' had to take care of the flowers...among many other things! Later of course the 'bride to be' had to get dressed, with the help of her bridesmaid. (Her Amanda..) plus get to the church on time..smile.. That was the responsibility of her brother, Randy!! As I was waiting in the church, all I could envision was him with a cattle prod...poking her along...ha..ha!!!  But, I'm sure he learnt a lesson, you 'can't' hurry a bride to be!!!

The service was beautiful!! The music, the vows, the love that showed on their faces. 

Then there was the reception...which was wonderful.. From the appetizers, entree'and the fantastic cake!! (How they got all this put together in such a short time was unbelievable!) Everyone really enjoyed it, but especially me.. Made me feel very special..

They flew out Sunday, so it was a short amount of time, but there was a lot of memories made during those few days. I will cherish them forever.

Tonight, they are having their reception back at home, with their friends and family. Then Monday off to St. Lucia! (How romantic is that??) I can't wait to hear all about it and see all the photos!!

Happy Easter my friends..

Happy Easter 2015

 

Here are our sweet little Great Granddaughters after their Easter egg hunt!

Aren't these little twins adorable?

 



 

Here is Papa Randy walking with Ivy..

 

And Meme doing bubbles... Lorelai had such a fun time chasing all those bubbles..smile..

 

Lorelai playing with the ball...this was great exercise for all of them as they kicked it and ran after it!!

 

Awww..aren't they cute?? They were so excited when they heard Lorelai was here...

 

Opening their Easter gifts...

 

Here is Lorelai with her book I got for all the girls. These books are amazing..each page has their name spelled out. This one has their names in the sun, the sky, the stars etc.. It was made for Easter.

 

I hope your day was as blessed as ours. To see these sweet babies was a piece of Heaven for me..

 

Good Friday

 

Today we went to church for Good Friday service! It was a very moving service. We are so blessed to have those in our congregation who enjoy participating. There were readings, singing, piano music and a sermon.

 

 

We heard news that a wonderful man, our friend and son of the founder of our church, passed away today and will be spending this Easter with Jesus! He shall be missed by so many. Tom knew him since he was a young man, I remember him as a young pastor. One of his first churches was in the town where I lived. My grandparents were friends with him and his wife. He was an amazing steward of God. He loved the readings of John

John 3:16-18

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.  This fits the man Rev. John Hantla was.

 



I hope your day was good and full of love. Hope you are in for a blessed Easter weekend.

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-a-Dee-Ay

Have you ever had  something by way of conversation start memories come flowing in? This morning I was reading The Rusty Thimble's blog post "The Birds are Singing"! She had a picture of a road runner on her post...and I said to Tom, this is so cool...have you ever seen one? He said 'no'! (Now me...the only one I'd ever seen was in a cartoon. smile...) He said, there was one in the movie "Songs of the South"! (which spurred my memories...)

I told him my story about the movie! When I was young, they use to put a coloring page in the newspaper when a children's film came to town. Kids would color them and send them into the paper and they selected a few that were good and sent "free" tickets to the kids to see the show. Well, low and behold, I won!! (yeah!! yeah!! yeah!!)  Mom (Grace) took me up and dropped me off...I stood in line (which was a long one) for quite awhile...(my picture I colored was posted out front...so cute!!) I was told later I wouldn't have had to stand in line. ha..ha.. But remember..I was just a little girl...smile... Memories...sweet memories!!!!! We think we'll get this movie and relive it again...smile...

I put my little rabbits out for Easter...aren't they cute??  Do you see the rose on the one bunny? I made the dough out of white bread and Aleene's craft glue. I also used food coloring. I glued it to the back of the head, as you can see in the last photo. (This was back when I did lots of crafts..smile..)

These clouds were so pretty today... we had to go and get the oil changed in the van and this is what we saw!! smile..

Tomorrow, we've got another appointment with the therapist as I'm still  really having problems with my hip. Which means 'up and at em' bright  and early tomorrow morning...but I hope it's not as early at it was this morning... which was 4 a.m.!! sad...  (I was hurting..) 

I hope you had a wonderful day...

more as it happens here in the city......