OUR WHOLE FAMILY

We had a very good friend of ours come to take pictures of our family while everyone was home. We have been having a blast with all of them home and of course, the grand children are fun to watch. The boys are reading to us now, their only 5 and 3. The babies are a riot to watch crawling all over the place and sometimes over each other.
We've had lots of food, fun, and never a dull moment. We sure will hate to see them go on Tuesday but looking forward to having Bryson and Ezekiel stay an extra week with us. :) Here are just a few pictures of our family. :)

The big Arrival

It's finally here! Our Two sons Nick and Cory and their wives Amanda and Shannon and our four grandchildren, Bryson, Ezekiel, Arianna and Cian will be flying in from Georgia and South Dakota. It looks like the weather here will be nice for them to fly in. We are praying that the whole week will be nice as we have activities planned for outside but if it rains we have a big house. We will travel to Flint to pick up Nick and his family at 2:30. We will then travel down to Detroit to pick up Cory and his family around 6:30. We will drive two vans so we are going to have a full day plus a full week which we are really excited about. Kevin will have the week off for vacation :)
Cristal has not seen her newest niece and nephew yet so she is looking forward to that.
They are both 1 month and 3 days apart in age. Aj is 7 1/2 month and Cian is 6 1/2 months so it will be like having twins around. They are doing just about the same things right now. It will be loud, I think.
We just praise the Lord for them all. Please pray for their safety. The boys have been counting down the days of flying to meme and papa's house in Michigan.
TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We made it back to Michigan

Sadly, we had to leave Florida and head back to Michigan BUT at least the weather was nice and enjoyable. Today was great also. I believe now we can safely say that winter has left us FINALLY! We hate snow--must be our age :).
Anyway, Cristal and I had a great time in Florida and enjoyed great weather, fun activities, good Florida strawberries and the famous Mike's banana split built for two. I will share a picture. We got to swim which was fantastic after the ton of walking we did in the amusement parks. I will share a few pictures with you of our trip.
Today it was great outside (75 degrees). WOW!!!! I got to go shopping and buy a bunch of hanging plants for my fence outback and a few for out front but I realized I need more that I had forgotten about. Last summer I was unable to have any flowers because of my brain surgery I had in May. The summer was used for healing and I really missed the flowers so I started much earlier this year and I am loving it. I will even start some of my seeds this weekend. Glad to be able to enjoy planting again even though I still have to be careful and I am limited but I will do what I can.
So now here are a few pictures.By the way, I seen some Brahma bulls so I couldn't resist a picture or 2 or 3 of them also. The first time I seen these kind of cows were on our honeymoon in Florida. How cool. That was over 30 years ago. :)

Our Florida Vacation

I didn't have time to update before we left for our mother/daughter Florida vacation.
We flew down on Wednesdy, April 9th and we will be flying back on Thursday, April 17.
We've been busy but having fun. We've been to Busch Gardens twice, Sea World, Tarpon Springs for shopping and a cool boat tour, flea markets and lots of little things in between. The weather at first was hot and great. A cold front came in and the mornings are cold (turned on the little heater) but the day gets nice. It will get warmer tomorrow and then of course, warmer when we leave but we have been in the pool and that was great.
I have lots of pictures but I have not downloaded them yet because my sisters computer is dial up which takes a long time, so I will do that when we get home.
Just wanted to put a up date and let everyone know we are having a good time.
Looking forward to a week from today though because all my kids and grandkids are flying to Michigan for a week and we can hardly wait. I have 4 days after I get back to get the house kid proofed and ready to go. I am so excited and can't wait for it to arrive.
I will blog later about that.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG AND SO HAVE THE BIRDS

WELL, YOU WOULD THINK THAT THE BIRDS WOULD LIKE TO EAT FROM THE BIRD FEEDERS BUT TODAY I CAUGHT ON CAMERA AND VIDEO DEER EATING MY BIRD SEED. ALL DAY I FOUGHT OFF THE SQUIRRELS AND THEN IN THE MID OF DAY WE LOOKED OUT AND THESE TWO DEER DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY. I HAVE DECIDED I MUST GET A HIGHER POLE WITH A SQUIRREL BAFFLE TO HANG MY OPENED BIRD FEEDER SO THAT I CAN ENJOY SEEING THE CARDINALS AND OTHER BIRDS EATING FROM IT INSTEAD OF OTHER PESKY ANIMALS. DEER ARE FUN TO WATCH BUT I DON'T LIKE HAVING THEM AROUND AS THEY TEND TO EAT MY PRETTY FLOWERS AS WELL. I AM HOPING TO PLANT PLANTS THAT I HAVE HEARD THAT DEER DON'T LIKE. I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW THAT TURNS OUT. IN THE MEANTIME, HOPE YOU ENJOY THE VIDEO. WE ARE STANDING ONLY ABOUT 20 FEET AWAY FROM THEM DURING THIS TIME. I DID CHECK THE FEEDER LATER ON AND HIS TONGUE DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF CLEANING IT OUT!!!