Catch Up BLOG! (Birthdays and More!)

                                  Let's start w/ Hailey's school dance,  The Spring Fling

                                               Notice the nice shoe choices on these girls!!!



 Emily getting dressed and poised for her ballet pictures and recital happening next weekend~!!

 Next, tryouts for the volleyball team were a success; Hailey is officially on the team again this year!

 Hailey and some classmates at the Nat'l Jr. Society end of the year presentation!!! Good Job!

 Hailey's end of the year class project in Math: had to be to scale a building-Wynnwood in Cast. Spgs.

For Mom's Day, we got up early to pick some strawberries down the road!!!!!
 Oh, by the way, there is a cute puppy in this picture!!! Forgot to mention we found an orphan!!

                                              Meet Lola-Bell Valentine Bull  A.K.A. "Lola"

                                She has made her way into our hearts and is here to stay!!! Puppy-life again :-0

 Finally, we had a great day yesterday for Birthday #13!!!!!  Happy Birthday my sweet Hailey!

 More fun pics to come!  End of the year talent shows, band productions, and END OF SCHOOL coming up WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Spring Break and Easter 2018

We had some very beautiful eggs this year for Easter, and the Easter Bunny had some serious work to do with hiding all of them!!!!!! We had visitors this year, which as a nice change; Uncle Ben, Aunt Julie and Lydia/Abigail stayed with us for two days on their big tour of TN for Spring Break.  Here was our Easter weekend, along with some of the pix from our own Spring Break out in Pigeon Forge, TN at Camp Riverslanding campgrounds.

 We went to our church Easter picnic and Egg hunt, and colored our own Easter Eggs in the barn.

 Easter Morning, they were on an Egg hunt in the house!!! They did very good to find them all!!!!


Lydia and Abigail were very good egg finders!!!!

 Enjoying all the eggs and goodies inside!  We went outside too for a bit after church since it was okay weather.  Wished it was warmer, but guess we should count our blessings, since it was winter weather in WI and IL.!!!!

The 2nd annual Chris Tomlin Concert on Good Friday was really great, here are a few pix!!!

The line-up of artists included Tauren Wells, among others, who made the show awesome!

 These are the pix from our camping trip in P.F.!!!
We had Aunt Michelle visit us up from Brevard, NC and then Papa and G-ma Jan joined us on their way home from their FL. trip! Lots of fun!!!

 They had a lot to do there for a campground, including a bouncy hill!!!! Of course, we had campfires!  What is missing is the numerous s'mores eaten every night we were there!!! :-0

We enjoyed sight-seeing and being tourists on the P.F. strip, and saw the Titantic Museum! Very cool! A must-see if you are ever in town- We loved the lego exhibit at the end, made by a 10yr. old boy!  Impressive!!!

We visited Gatlinburg, and went to the Ripley's Aquarium-always a good time!!!

 Yes, lots of shopping and looking for the perfect cowboy boot!!!! This one was a little big!!! :-)

 We had to include this pix of a Canadian Goose that woke us up every morning to it's wonderful honks and hisses along the river!!! We enjoyed laughing and watching them during our stay!!

                                            See you again someday at Camp Riverslanding!!!

Happy Belated Valentine's :-)

 Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!!!!

Our friend Pepe' Le Pew has a sweet song he sings every Valentine's Day-wish you could here how well he sings! :-0