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.

Not Quite an In 'N Out, but Close, Very Close

We were sooooooo hungry for In 'N Out the other day. I'd mentioned that to Valerie Armstrong, a former co-worker one day and she told me about "Five Guys" which is as close as you can come to the famous In 'N Out. I did a search on Mapquest and located this one just north of Akron (about 35 miles from our home). The drive was well worth it. We mentioned to the guys behind the counter that we'd heard this was similar to our favorite burgers and they wanted our "feed back"...no pun intended. We knew it was going to be good when we had trouble finding a parking place and it was hardly 11:00. The place was packed. The place smelled like In 'N Out when we walked in; that was a good thing. We were sorry when our meal was over. We will be anxious to try it again. Thanks Val!

It says "burgers and fries", but they also have hot dogs. You can also have mushrooms on your burger and they offer grilled onions as well as raw. We went with the raw.

Happy Groundhog Day!

In October we took a drive to Punxsutawney, PA. "Groundhog Day" is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to see where it was filmed. We found out it wasn't actually filmed here; it was filmed in Illinois. Too bad, because this town is really very quaint. The day we visited, we had Gobbler's Knob all to ourselves. According to the news , there were over 40,000 people there this morning to see Punxsutawney Phil predict 6 more weeks of winter. I'm not real happy about that!

I can't imagine 40,000 people descending on this little town.

This is where Punxsutawney Phil actually lives...the picture is not very good since it's taken through a window in the town library. Phil did not want to pose for a picture.

There are statues of Phil all around the town. Someone told us there were 50 some. We didn't bother to find all of them, but here is one. (the statue is the one in the middle)!