Spring Break

We were really blessed to have two of our grand daughters stay with us during their school spring break. We had lots of fun, drawing on the side walk, the bricks on the side of the house, painting little trinket boxes and playing games.

The girls decided that our back yard gazebo was a perfect place to have a club house, so they spent hours drawing pictures, coloring, have snacks and more inside their new club house.

The house was filled with laughter and screams from playing hide n seek with papa, it was nice to hear all that again. I never realized just how quite the house had become when all the kids left home until now.

I miss the laughter, the crying, the jokes, everything the kids contributed to the house. It seams so lovely without all of them here.

The animals in the yard

Here are acouple of the wild and silly animals forund in our yard.

Compartment Five Snow Days

Well as March 1st came into the picture we found ourselves looking at eight inches of snow at our home in MD. I started laughing because most places will close due to the snow. I grew up in Oregon where snow is every winter, we do not close down until we can no longer drive in the snow ( like up to our knees or more ).


Some people down right freak out over the mention of snow falling while others like myself look at it as a change of pace considering Christmas was a balmy 72 degrees this last year.


My only wish was to have some grandkids around to make a snowman with or to have a snow ball fight. I hope one day that can be a reality. In the mean time here is what our house looks like today.

Compartment Four Joshua's Birthday Party

I know it's been a while since we updated this site. Some things just got a little out of control. But hopeful we are back on track again and moving this train at a better pace.


We drove down the VA to our oldest grandson's birthday party. We had a blast, first we got to take the boys shopping, I had forgotten at that age they want everything they see, it brought back a lot of memories.


Back at the house we had the honor of meeting some very nice new people and their childern. We had cake ( a lovely creation by Nicole ) and a lot of fun watching the kids play games.


After the other guest had left, the Nerf Guns were brought out for some additional fun with the boys.