First Signs of Spring

Spring has Sprung! It is warm and lovely here... flowers are blooming

We are going for walks and seeing Eagles and nature.............

Sitting outside.....

And enjoying each other's company!

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Audra Foveo

Bunco Gals and Family Fun!

I hosted Bunco for the first time....A fun game of chance, you don't have to pay attention to anything but the conversation!

Inez, Laurie and Dawn are ready to roll.....

Amy, Mary and Rhonda pose for the roving photographer in the dining room, while Patti, Amy and Jill (I think) played in the kitchen.....

This is the table runner I made for Annie... couldn't get the picture to go where I wanted it! Marty and Patti were smart and stayed in the kitchen with the food.....

I even got Bunco... so that's why I am holding the pink dice! (If it is one is it a dye? or die?) So much to learn, so little time!

Rhonda really knows what to do with the pink thing! A good (and loud!) time was had by all.....

I barely had time to recuperate and put the house back together before Mary, Mom and Dad came for the Tridium (Easter Weekend!)






We were supposed to be fasting, but Mary wanted to make scones.... really yummy scones, with white chocolate and rasberries.....

She mixed them by hand and arranged them "just so" on the cookie sheet... as per the instructions
(Mary is like Mark, and she follows directions and rules!)

Here Mom and Mary pose with the finished product....







Dad was happy to test them for us!

Holy Thursday dinner - Chicken Marsala -

Stella bonded with Mary Kay....

Good Friday Dad couldn't take resting and relaxing any more, so Mark "let him" wash the deck...

His shoes from his Labor Day project were still under his bed!

Holy Saturday we were off to Madison to see Chris and Bill Cosby, followed by dinner at an Irish Pub!











We love our Chris!

I am sure whatever I was saying was profound (and apparently funny!)

Mark and his mom in her Christmas sweater

Mom and Dad

Easter Sunday a Pilliated Woodpecker paid us a visit.. and we also saw an Eagle in it's nest ... I have to get that picture from Mark's camera.

Mary's Birthday was Monday so we had to celebrate that too!

Dad and Mark enjoyed relaxing and reading

Mary was baking again... this time Chocolate Lava Cake.........

DELICIOUS!

Dad liked it too!

Our Easter Feast........

Complete with Lamb Butter!

Happy Birthday to Mary Kay!

April, 2009

Although Spring has Sprung... the lake is still frozen, snow keeps falling and dogs were groomed too soon. But life goes on. I am sewing,and quilting and knitting. Mark is reading and planning to build a TV stand for our living room. We have been out and about at hospital functions (we have even been mentioned in local newspaper articles!)

If I could have one wish it would be that all of my kids lived close enough (and wanted to) to come for Sunday dinner.

Sometimes I get bored and the dogs suffer!

Miss you all... consider visiting... we're here and welcome your visit!

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

~Robin Williams