Family Resemblance

Thers aren't the best examples, but don't Becky on the left below and Emily below look alike? I don't have a good pic of Emily but we have seen her looking EXACTLY like her below. Just thought I'd share.

Welcome To Summer

Summer is here and our flowers and plants are doing GREAT!!



Our hydrangias are a little dry but looking purple. They can be blue or pink depending on ground acidity. I guess ours is in between, and Abby is thrilled they are purple.





Here are Abby's roses looking pretty good. Mine don't have any blooms on them at the momment to take pics of.

Emily's rose are incredible!!! They are Disney roses and had at least 20 blooms and buds on at one time!!!!

For Mom here are our Hosta that have decided to bloom, hard to see but they bloomed purple too. They came up out of nowhere, I guess the last people planted them and this summer here they are.

Here are our watermelon plants,they're doing good. They've doubled in size since I took the pic about 4 days ago!!

Another wierd plant that just appeared in our backyard. We found one like it at Lowes and it's called a Tropicana. I guess it gets some orange or yellow tropical flowers at some point. Hard to see but it has yellow and orange viening on dark red leaves.Notice watermelon reaching out to grab it.

Here are the girls in their new sandbox, they LOVE it. And Emily ONLY spent the first day "tasting" the sand.

The swiming pool is a big hit and is already dying a slow death. Guess we'll have to keep our eyes open for another one soon.






Here I am with my new summer fashion statment. I had my MRI last week, and go back to get results on Friday. by the way it's REALLY hot in the sun

Spring Is Here

Welcome to spring . The weather's been great. Thought I'd throw in a pic or 2 of our house. Here's the front view. to the right is our garage and to the left our connection of our deuplex. Pretty boring, we just planted hydrangia and camelia bushes under the two windows to the left. We also have rose bushes on both sids of the walk were it turns towards the door. So not boring for long.:)

This is the view from the back door. Our bqckyard boarders on the railroad track and beyond that is the golf course.The train only runs to move leaving or returning
Army equitment so not very often. Abby and Emily love to get out in time to wave to the "train drivers". They always wave back.

This is the back yard. By the way in both back yard pics you can see our grill tipped over. The wind did that yesterday during some rough weather. The 3 large windows together are our living room windows so we have a nice view of the golf course and no cars going by or neighboors to look in.

Here is that view. It's really nice and we haven't had a golf ball in our yard yet.

Abby andEmily decided Daddy's car was dirty. While Dave mowed the lawn, they cleaned the car.They had rags and their squirt bottles.

This past weekend we went to the Louisville zoo. Here they are with the goats.

Her's John Abby and Emily (with Kathy's help) on the baby elephant statue.

Lastly here is Abby feeding the animals. Emily decided to beheld, it was just to big.

Easter

Here are our egg coloring attempts for the year. Everyone had a great time.







Abby was all about doing it herself. She did a pretty good job.









Emily, of course, had to say "me ter" which means "my turn". She did pretty good too. We only ended up with about 5 majorly cracked. ;)






Here they are in all their finery. The easter bunny brought them both necklaces that had to be worn to church. Luckily the easter bunny did a good job of color coordinating.






Abby was "giving instructions" to Emily about how these pics should be posed. Always the big sister.

Weather Changes

OK so we've had some interesting weather lately. Here is our snowman make on Feb. 27th. We had a great time playing outside and Abby was sooooo sad to see the snow go the next day.




So, by March 2 we hit 70. We went to land between the lakes homestead after church for my B-day. Beautiful weather and a great day.

Aren't they sweet? When they're good together their great, but when they aren't look out.

Then March 8 we built this!!! We had about 5 inches and it was drifting so deep Emily couldn't walk without falling.
















Lastly here is a pic of Emily in her hospital provided pjs. Monday the 3rd she stood up on our bed and fell off and gave herself a cuncussion. We took her to the ER as she was sleepy and pale. She got sick ALL OVER herself there so she got these nifty pjs that she wants to wear all the time now. She was fine and back to herself the next day. Dave says he already is too familiar with our ER.

What's New With Us

OK so the first "new thing" with us is our new TV and entertainment center. We needed a new TV and our old entertainment center wouldn't hold one of the same size we had. So Dave bought one big enough for me to sit next to him on the couch and actually see what was happening. We are having too much fun trying to find "pretty things" to put in the cabinets.








Abby decided she needed pretty hair for school and Emily really needed prettys in her hair too. If fact at first I said no and she actually shed some BIG tears, so Mommy gave in. Here they are at their table eating banana muffins. Emily also decided that she had to eat at their table for the first time.






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Lastly here they are playing school bus. Abby took the school bus to and from school this week, in the past it's only been coming back from school. Emily stood in the driveway and waved as she left, so playing bus now is a big deal.

One Year and Counting

So 1 year ago yesterday we lost Dad or heaven gained him I guess would be a better way to think of it. It's been a long road and continuse to be a long road. Having Abby ask about him often is a blessing, but also a painful reminder of all that we have lost. So here are a few pics of Dad and the lyrics of a song that I've been singing to myself alot lately.



"Who told us we'd be rescued?

What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?

We're asking why this happen

To us who have died to live?

It's unfair.
This is what it means to be held.

How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life

And you survive.

This is what it is to be loved.

And to know that the promise was

When everything fell we'd be held.

This hand is bitterness.

We want to taste it, let the hatred NUMB our sorrow.

The wise hands opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.

If hope is born of suffering.

If this is only the beginning.

Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?

This is what it means to be held.

How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life

And you survive.

This is what it is to be loved.

And to know that the promise was

When everything fell we'd be held. "

We all miss you Dad, hope you're having a great time and we'll be seeing you soon.