AS GOOD AS IT GETS

My Mothers Day was indeed as good as it gets. We all went to church together and came home and had lunch and visited. Then we went to dinner together. Then we came back to the house for coffee and desert. Jamie's parents joined us and we had a great time together as a family. We are so blessed that we all enjoy one another and look forward to our time together. Jamie's family have taken in Melanie and Elise and have truly been great to them. On the other hand, Greg and I count our blessings every day that Jamie came along into our family. He has certainly completed our family and we love him like a son. As the commercial says....you cannot put a price on that.

Melanie and I are already planning something special for the guys for Father's Day.

Our Men surprised us with a gift certificate to the spa and have informed us that they will babysit while we go!! They are just the best!!!!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.One is Evil.It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good.It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.The grandson thought about it for a minute
And then asked his grandfather: 'Which wolf wins?'The old Cherokee simply replied,
'The one you feed.'

DISNEY ON ICE

Saturday was a very exciting day. About 3 months ago I purchased tickets for all of us to attend Disney on Ice. Little did I know when I bought the tickets that we would have a flood the day of the performance! We were all a little hesitant to venture out as we watched the weather all morning but Melanie said she would not tell Elise we weren't going after doing a count down to the day of the show for the past week. The weather was awful with lots of wind and rain. Jamie was our driver and he was certainly a good sport about it. All of the way there we were observing how deep the water was and sometimes choosing the route or lane that was the least flooded. It was a slow treaterous trip to say the least. Once we parked the rain had let up a little so we got under umbrellas and ran for it. Our seats were second row so we had no issues seeing. It was such fun to watch Elise. She never took her eyes off the show for even a second. Of course the big hit was Tinkerbell!! She just happened to have gotten her own Tinkerbell doll while we were there. It was lots of fun. We went from the performance to eat pizza. Other than the weather it was a great day!

EASTER FUN

Melanie and Elise colored eggs at our house yesterdsay so we could watch. Elise loves anything to do with art so this was fun!

Then Elise and I did a Build A Bunny that my Mom sent.

We had lots of fun family time.

FUN WITH FRIENDS

We had a visit from some friends on Saturday afternoon. We always say we are going to get together but life is so busy that it doesn't happen as often as we would like. We finally made it happen and we all enjoyed our time together very much. Aaron and Cindi were really good sports and gave Elise some attention. First Elise and Cindi played the rabbit race game. Then Aaron played flick fishing with her.

We hope we can make the time to get together more often (and if all goes well maybe these friends will go to Alaska with Greg and me next summer).

FISHING WITH PAW-PAW

As mentioned in previous posts we have a little lake in our subdivision. This lake has been a great place to go and feed the ducks, take a walk, and enjoy the fresh air. we throw bread to the ducks and in addition to the ducks getting a meal we also have a lot of turtles who enjoy the treat. For a long time now we have been observing catfish who come to the top to eat the bread. They are quite large and Greg has been threatening to go down there and go fishing! Elise thought that sounded like a lot of fun so she and Paw-Paw decided to get the rod and reel and go try it. This was a first for Elise. She caught on quickly and they actually caught several. She thought they were scary and did not want anything to do with them once they were out of the water. Greg is delighted to have a new fishing buddy.

GUS GETS A HABITAT

If you have ever been to our house you know who Gus is. He is Greg's bronze pelican. While we were building the house Greg decided that he had to have a pelican to remind him of all the days he spent out on the boat fishing and seeing the pelicans on those trips. He went on line and found the artist he liked and ordered a pelican from New York. On moving day we had the pelican loaded up and brought over. We placed it in the back yard where we could see him out the back windows. We had a Fourth of July gathering at our house and everyone who attended was advised that at the conclusion of the evening we would take suggestions for a name and vote on it and name the pelican. You have probably guessed by now that the vote was to name him Gus.Once we got settled and were about to turn our attention to some touches in the yard along came Ike. We lost our back wall with the storm so we had to wait to get the wall rebuilt. By that time along came the holidays. And then the cold weather held up progress. As the months passed and we looked out back at Gus Greg decided that we needed to put some ornamental grass around him so he would appear to be in a natural habitat. This is the first warm weekend we have had so I went out and built Gus a little habitat with some tropical things and some grass that I thought might resemble a marsh. So now Gus has a habitat and Greg a can look out and remember all of his good times out in the boat looking at the birds!