a long time ago

A long time ago...I wrote in my blog! The last time was after the snow we had..in April. What's up with that? The weather has been cooler than normal but the grass is growing, much to the dismay of Jose who had to cut it!

We are busy making plans for summer house projects including painting the outside and inside, fans in the attack and various other asundries. House projects never end, do they?

Jp's dogs, Jada and Abby, are now living at our house. JP comes often to visit them and I take them and our beagle Mocha for walks around four times a day. Great to have the extra support on the walks I need to take on my weight loss journey..ah, and what a journey it is...Looonnnnggggg journey.

When we come down the street, we make for quite a site. Often people stop to comment on this menagerie. Mocha is the typical beagle with her nose to the ground, sniffing out every scent possible. Jada, the older Bichon cross, walks by my side while Abby, the roughly six month old, bounces ahead of everyone and sometimes, so boldly, goes over to nose with Mocha or giver her a playful nip on the lip.

I have to be careful not to trip on anyone!

Our new grandson, Kian Julius, was baptized earlier this month. On Mother's day. What a great way to celebrate, huh?! It was a very nice private baptism at Bethel followed by lunch at Hillcrest's Student Union. Nancy's sisters, Suzanne and Heather and their spouses are sponsors and Heather was able to make it for the baptism with two of her daughters. Jim and Sharon, Nancy's parents, were able to spend more than a week with Wayne and Nancy too. Sorry we weren't able to spend much time with them during their stay. So much activity for school stuff with the boys but enjoyed the Sunday and brief conversations were had during the week.

Next time, hopefully, we can get together for a cup of coffee or an Applebees lunch!

Andy started training at Take 5, the convenience store where Doug once worked plus Wayne and JP. Next year maybe Jose can also work there.

It seems strange not to have baseball games to run Andy to this summer.
He plays on the Hillcrest team and was playing on the JV squad and will sit on the bench for the varsity during their playoff game tomorrow. HE has a busy summer, though, of conditioning, weight training and basket ball camp planned.

Jose is playing traveling team soccer and has been to a few practices so our summer schedule will be filled of his games.

And so the summer begins. May we at least get two house projects done out of the gobs we'd like to do. And hopefully the next installment to the blog won't be a report of more snow!