42 years of wedded bliss! Happy Anniversary to my dear husband

Thanks for the roses!

Thanks to our grandchildren for saluting Dave for his years in the service!

Thank you to every Veteran and every one serving in our military today!

Without you, we would not have the freedom that we do today!

May 17

Well it is getting to look a little bit like home!  Still too many boxes setting around and still lots of things to do, but..........the craft room is getting into shape! "smile"!  Took more pictures of the plants around the house today.  I will be glad when we can get them trimmed and a little more uniform in appearance.
This first picture doesn't do the color any justice as it is really a pretty orange.

This one is Dave's dream come true!  He has always loved the holly trees and now he finally has his own.

I really love this particular rhododendron.  It is so pretty!

Sunday, May 15th

Well the past 2 weeks have been rather busy!  We tried to move to a new house that we bought without anyone knowing we were doing it; then we were going to have an open house and invite our friends.  Well it happens that we bought a manufactured home in a park and once a month the park puts out a bulletin and in this bulletin it welcomed us to the park.  Very nice of them, but some of our good friends live in the park!  Guess what?  The surprise was out!  Oh well!  But that worked out okay, because it will be a year before I am recuperated enough to put together an open house!  Ha!

Here is the new house!  We are enjoying all of the room and will enjoy it even more when we get rid of all of the boxes!  I didn't know that I still had SO MUCH stuff or better yet, JUNK!!!

The flowers have started blooming already for us.  They need some tender loving care, but I am not ready to give it to them yet!

Can anyone tell me what this little lavender flower is?  It looks like it will be really loaded with blooms shortly! I got my answer!  This flower is an Evergreen Azalea!

Have a good Sunday!

May 1

Well we are still waiting for the beautiful flowers that April Showers are supposed to bring!!  It has been a long rainy winter and I am ready for a little more sunshine.  Today has been beautiful and it certainly makes me feel a lot happier!!!  Let's hope that it continues!  Here are the cards that I made last month.  Beings that April is my birthday, I had a lot of thank you's to send out.  I am not sure that it is that wonderful getting another year older, but I do have to say that I have some wonderful friends and family that helped me to celebrate.  Thank You to each of you!

April 16-18

We met Justin and Kathy in Seattle and had a "mini" family reunion.  We had not seen them since we were back to Minnesota last summer, so was especially nice to have some fun family time.  Of course, any family time is only complete with "The Grandchildren"!  So just in case you would like to see pictures of the "world's best".............................

Wyatt is now 7 and he loves Legos as much as his Dad and Auntie did.  He created the whole week-end.

 Little Miss Zoe is a small version of Kathy!  She is now 3 and a little ball of fire.  One day her parents are going to have their hands full.  She already knows how to use her big, dark eyes to flirt and wind Daddy around her little finger!

This happens to be the only picture that we got of Tiana that week-end.  She is going to be 16 in July!  Wow, where has the time gone since I got that phone call that told me that I was a "Grandmother"!  Anyway, it was a very nice week-end and we so enjoyed having the 3 "grands" together!