Beaufort South Carolina

We spent 4 wonderful days in Beaufort South Carolina where we really

enjoyed being beach bums. We can hardly wait to go back.

How We Spent Our Spring Vacation

After a long, cold winter, we decided to head south for a while to warm up our "old" bones. We spent a couple of days in Gatlinburg Tennessee before going over to the coast of South Carolina. Gatlinburg was fun, but too crowded for us. We did enjoy the Smokey Mountains and while in Gatlinburg, and were fortunate to have a nice place to stay along a stream.






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This was the view off our balcony

Shopping area in Gatlinburg

Easter in Ohio

My coffee table centerpiece

My dining room table

Mom brought dessert.

We had an Easter egg hunt after dinner. This is my sister and Nina.
(please notice the blue sky)

Parkside Easter Babies

I had nursery duty on Easter Sunday. Here are a few of our little ones in their finery.

This is Isaac and Benjamin.

This is sweet little Jenna, about as perfect as they come!

This is Summer and her mommy

Here are Benjamin, Summer, Isaac, Ella, and Jenna

Before Easter dinner and After Easter Dinner

Rick and our nephew Dean, just before Easter dinner

Dean was pretty proud of his Rick Draa belly.

Happy Birthday Connor

March 13 is a very special day in our lives. It's the day our first grandchild, Connor was born. This is his 17th birthday! I remember it like it was just yesterday. He is such a special young man. He is everything that a grandson should be, and more. We love you Connor! Happy Birthday!!!

Praising God for His Faithfulness

I haven't been putting a lot of "personal" information on this blog; it's done mostly on my Facebook page since I've been informed that certain people look at this from time to time.

But I know there are people who check in occasionally who are not on Facebook. So...I wanted to let those people know that after 14 months of taking care of Elizabeth and Jacob on his own, Steve was once again given "primary custody" of his children. We feel this is truly an answer to prayer since the kids could have been forced into seeing their mother more often. The next step will be pertaining to the actual divorce.