No photos this time. I just wanted to let you know all that is going on. Dad and I are in Austin this week. We were planning on saying after Dads meetings were over, but now we will be heading back early. Aunt Joy died yesterday morning. The funeral is Thursday and we want to be there.
When we got to our hotel in Austin we were surprised. We are in a suite! It is lovely. We are on the 8th floor and from our balcony we can see the capital. Dad has meeting all day and evening today and tomorrow(till 9pm) so we will not have the time we planned, but he does have a two hour dinner break each evening. We will head home sometime after the Wednesday session.(it ends after lunch) He will have to miss the last day.
Last night after we got here we went to the Congress Bridge in downtown Austin. Bats live under it and at dusk they fly out! It was amazing. even as they flew to the southwest you could see a line of clouds of them. I do not know how many there were but it had to be thousands and thousands.
Today Sharon is driving here and we will spend the day together.
Shawna and Jonathan leave Thursday for the Con in Tenn. They are pretty excited. We worked on costumes last week! I am sure they will put photos up on Facebook!
Well Better go, I love you both bunches!!!!!!

Spring 3

Things are beginning to bloom. Above is the redbud tree just in back of the house and below is one of the tulips we planted last fall. Makes me wonder where you will be next spring!

We planted quite a few bulbs last fall, It is fun to watch them come up. None of our Lillies of the Valley have come up yet.

Dave and Isibella are in town while Katie is at a training camp. Shawna and I stopped in at Aunt Cindy's to see Bella! She is geting so big. She is 22 months old now.

She loved touching things in the garden. In this photo she had just dropped an empty plastic flower pot into the large pot!

Spring 2

Easter sunset(on the way home from Grandma's house)

Grandpa and Monte at the lake after Church and Lunch Easter Sunday

Shawna and Krystal

Below, Dad in the lake checking to see if the pontoon boat he just bought will go into the lake!

our (new) pontoon boat. It is much lighter than the one Mr Meyers made so Dad hopes we can get it in the lake at Grandpa's.

More photos of the tree comming down. Dad worked on it every night for almost a week to get the leafing branches off.

And finally the llibrary room..... It still needs a lot of work. I need to go through more paperwork and get a lot of little things taken care of but it looks much nicer than it did!

did you notice the beautiful art work on the walls!

Well thats all for now. I realized as I was posting this we did not take any photos Easter morning!
That has to be a first! I think it was because we went to two diferent churches. Nathan and Shawna went to our church since Kimberly was being baptized and Shawna was a sponsor. The rest of us went to Grandma's church. Nathan and Shawna joined us at grandma's house before we went to the lake.

Spring 1

Shawna and Zeke. Can you tell he loves being in the yard! (espically when we walk toward the balls.

Dad's spring project, get the tree down before it leafs out! Its roots were getting into places we did not want them to go...sad

It is amazing how much this tree had grown! It was a long way up!

Shawna and Amanda

surprise anniversary party for Kendall and Kaybeth 25 years!

We went to Kerianne's senior recital. She did amazing espically since she had recently been so sick.

On our way to Kerianne's recital and the surprise party we stopped at Taylor an Lisa's house for the night!

Ryan and Amanda went camping so we drove down on Saturday and spent the afternoon and evening with them> Bet you can guess where we were!

More to come! I have to get of line now but will try and post more later today!