Snow again!

Hopefully this is the last snowfall! Very wet, inch or so on the ground by 6am and its been snowing off and on all day. Nothing is sticking to the roads or sidewalks as its really not that cold out.

The girls and Marcos and I had a nice pancake breakfast, sponsored by the Creston Neighborhood Assoc. Gregg had to work-- this was science olympiad weekend.

The new spring hairdo-s were well represented as seen above (back view) and below with Jill and Nea. Em and Marcos went with on Thursday, so all four got their new doos and look marvelous!!

Last night Mom treated me to a wonderful concert at the cathedral with the GR Symphony. Dinner at her place just before brought some sad news about Sarah and Ramon. Just about the time Em found out she's pregnant, they found out they'd be having twins. But yesterday they learned that baby A had died and now wait to find out how to keep Baby B well. Our thoughts and prayers are with them!

Mother nature delivers too!

I've got this 12" X 70" stretch of garden in the front yard that gets full southern exposure, and reflective heat to boot...last year I planted, like three little hens, no chicks. And this is what I found under the leaves this evening! Temps reached 60 degrees today with the promise of more warm weather tomorrow.

I remember this week in 2003...the year Issac arrived in the US and joined our family! I introduced him to GR by taking him downtown for the St. Patrick Day parade. He met Bill, Joey and Abby at the parade. It was very blustery and COLD! I believe we had a bit more snow after that and on April 3rd (welcome to Michigan, Issac) West Michigan experienced a devastating (4 mil $ damage) ice storm which brought down trees and power lines. Now, compared to everything he'd been through in his life prior to landing in WMI, this event wasn't much off the norm. It could only get better after that.

By the way, Issac graduates from Western in December with a degree in aeronautics and administration. Michael graduates in May-just a few more months; we'll see if med-school is still in the horizon or not.

Census 2010

Did you get one of these in the mail today? We'll be filling out the census soon. For those of you who fill out those surveys on-line, don't you think the GOV could have offered this on-line too? It will be very interesting to get some real numbers on families in our area. The economy has affected so many lives.

Our weekend was full of sickies here. If you feel the need to use some handy sanitizer while you read this, no offense taken. Stomach flu is nasty! Glad we only get it once a year and it only lasts a day or two, but yuck...Poor Nea! Her first introduction to the "spit bowl".....so probably a dozen loads of laundry later- We are all back to normal - I think.

We are planning a trip to Milwaukee for Memorial Day weekend. It will be great to see Anne and Bob and enjoy some culture on the other side of the lake! First stop will be the MAM! Mom and Lois are signed up too....there's a special quilt exhibit this weekend so bonus viewing!


Mom and I have tickets to the GR Symphony at church on Friday, but I think we're both a little shy of getting out into crowds and germs. It should be a beautiful concert anyway.

Catch up photos

Here are a few favorite photos of the new year.

How many sunny days in a row can we take? It's been so wonderful to see the snow melting and spring flowers beginning to pop up. Marcos and Nea spent good part of the day outside. Jill helped to get the front porch ready to enjoy the sunshine.

Where ever you are, hoping that you too are enjoying a few days of wonderful weather!