A Little Marcos Time

On our way to Home Depot this afternoon,
we stopped at the Lopez' house to say hello.
Marcos asked to come with us, so he.
We saw a great, inflatable grub, kind of
scary though.
After checking with Mom and Dad, Marcos
came home with us for some game
playing and nap.

Marcos is enjoying wearing his
big boy underwear.
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Grandma R is helping Marcos with his aim.
Here he explains his technique.

Visit By B's Grandma B

Beth and Hillary visited today. They
had young B with them; he seems like
a nice young chap.
Em and Marcos joined us to.
We were going to grill, but once the
brats hit the grill, the sky opened up.
So we finished things in the kitchen.

The garden and yard are looking pretty

good. Today's rain will really green

things up.

We may have a new boarder.

Enjoying a Beautiful Saturday

MJ picked up some clean sand for our new mini
sand box.

Linnea's Grandma was sharing a PBJ with her.

Nature girl.

The Grandchildren have a new friend; Sandy.

Sandy will stay on our front porch.

She is quiet, but can be a messy girl sometimes.

Easter

We had an egg hunt in our backyard this morning.

Linnea and Marcos searched for eggs that had old buttons in them.

There were a couple other items too; stuffed quacking ducks,

duck, and a bucket-o-bubbles for Marcos.

We had a great dinner; cream of asparagus soup,

rib-eye, twice baked potatoes, inlagd gerka, and

apple crisp

Marcos and Linnea haven't been feeling well lately,

so they didn't eat much. They did like their popsicles.

Day Eight

We had another laid back day today. Jill worked,
so we watched Linnea from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
We also had Marcos for a good part of the afternoon.
Checo and Em are replacing the picture window
take is in their dining area.
The new window looks great.

Marcos and Linnea played under our dinner table
for a while; fun ensued.....

....then stopped suddenly.
I wonder how many children played under this
table. It came from Grandpa and Grandma's
house. On a farm outside of Foley, MN.

Kitchen prep was done for tomorrow's dinner.
The menu will be: oven roasted beef rib-eye,
twice baked potatoes, inlagd gurka, apple crisp,
start with an amuse busch of cream of asparagus soup

We hope that everyone has a wonderful celebration tomorrow.

Day Seven

We had lunch at Pilar's restaurant today. Em, Marcos and

Linnea joined us. Fun ensued!

MJ put Grannies Easter globe out; Linnea likes it. She got

familiar with it this afternoon.

Day Six

We go a late start today.
Went to the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Then lunch at Charlie's Crab.
We stopped at the Gerald R. Ford Museum to
check out the burial area. The gate was open
so we could go into the area.

When we got back, Marcos came home with us.
Linnea and Jill got home from school/work just
after we got home; fun ensued.

Day Five

7:00 AM-MRI
9:15 AM-Banking
11:20 AM-Lunch
12:00 PM-Sustainability Webinar
1:00 PM-To Holland
1:45 PM-Gutter Installation
2:45 PM-Window Cleaning
4:00 PM-Flower Pot Moving
4:15 PM-Furniture Moving

Day Three And Four

We saw Monsters Vs. Aliens in 3-D in I-Max.
Pretty good movie and the 3-D was excellent.
Linnea and Jill got home from their trip to Indianapolis
last night. They got in about 10:30 PM.
They had good driving weather, just a bit windy.
Nea woke up when she came into the house. She spent
about an hour and a half checking out the house and
getting re-acquainted with things; she was so cute and
excited to be home.
Both had a good night sleep.
MJ was cleaning out a chest and found Jill's old
Brio train set; Linnea is checking the tunnel out.


She likes to be in the middle of the action.

Day Two

M spent some time with us today. We played
some games, he did some cooking, house cleaning,
and some snacking.
This video gives a short taste of his activities.

M in his tent. He took a 2 hour nap here.

M's vocabulary is growing so quickly. Gregg fried
up some bacon while M was sleeping. As we were
waking him from his nap, he said he was hungry.
MJ gave him some choices, all he wanted was,"only bacon
please Grandma". So his snack was bacon and juice.

Day One Of Vacation

We had a fairly laid back day today. Didn't even
go grocery shopping at Meijer. We did go to Kingma's
and picked up a couple fresh chickens. We hung a
new picture that MJ purchased Thursday night at a
fund raiser. We also did some maintenance on our
old work horse desk top. Looked like two mouses
had taken up residency. Not mice, but a couple
dusty bunnies. We also added two 512MB memory
modules to help speed the old girl up. Seems to have
worked.

Today is the first time to use the grill this season.

We roasted and smoked our Kingma's chickens,

potatoes and potato sausage. We used apple chips

for the smoke. Everything turned out great.
The flavor of the potato sausage was really

enhanced by the smoke.