5/7/17...Went to church, went to Carols, went to Melissa and Bruce's for Evan's Birthday

Not such a clear picture, but it's the only one we took.  Uncle Fred did a selfie of us.  He warned us he wasn't good at it

Bill got right at helping Carol get the food all set out and ready

His reward was eating a roll early

We went to Melissa and Bruce's and celebrated Evan's 6th Birthday!  Lots of fun!

Evan walking in and seeing his cake for the first time

Love how excited and happy he was when he saw it

Daniel and Evan having a blowing contest.  Melissa thought she was getting a better deal on these and didn't realize they were the noisy ones.  The kids sure loved them...not so us adults

Evan with his cool cake!  We were singing and before we got done, he had the candles blown out

Evan, Max and Jack (Bruce in the background)

Melissa, Evan and Bruce in their party hats

Evan opening Daniel's present

Melissa painted this car piggy bank a couple of years ago.  Evan loved it!

They were pretty excited to see what was in this big bag

Evan loved this!

Nana, Evan and Papa

Two happy boys!  Daniel made wrote such a cute note on his gift.  He said they were best friends forever!

             The kids sure had fun with Evan's birthday present!

We went to church.  There was a motivations speaker for youth there.  He had a great message and was funny at the same time.  His ministry goes into many schools and many lives are touched.
After church, we went to Bill's sister, Carol's house.  Shani was there already.  Fred, Debbie, Tom, and Matthew got there shortly after.  Fred had picked up chicken, mashed potatoes, dressing, rolls and veggies from Zehnder's for us all.  The food was so good!  Bill was pretty hungry so he helped set everything out.   We didn't have dessert and Matthew wanted to know where it was.  After that, we headed to Melissa and Bruce's to celebrate Evan's 6th birthday.  He was pretty excited.  Bill and I got our dessert there!  It was really good cake and ice cream.  He loved all of his presents and held them up after he opened them and said thank you.  I dug up some raspberries that had spread at Bruce and Melissa's and brought them home and planted them.  I dug up around the shed and got the weeds out.  Bill tilled the garden.

5/6/17...Went on our Run For the Son ride to raise money for missions. Got up to 60 and sunny so we were happy for the weather report changing. Rain had been in the forecast. Stopped at Kimmy and Jared's afterward

Bill Smith, Matt, and Bill

Our two Group pictures at Bill and Sabrina's house

Fellowshipping

Nana and Jacob (He showed me a paper he got from school with his grades so far)  What an amazing kid!  He is doing amazing and getting great grade.  I am so proud of my Jacob!

Kimmy and I were sitting on her new swing and took a picture of all the men and boys working on the deck.  Hard working boys for sure!

Love this picture of Eli

Beautiful farm scenery

Kimmy sent me this picture of the deck so far.  It is coming along good and will look so nice!  More space on it too!

Isaac with his new shorts he got tonight.  He is sure handsome in this picture and his shirt and shorts are pretty cool!

We headed out on our motorcycle and stopped at Tim Horton's to pick up donuts for everyone.  We had a pretty good turnout for our Run for the Son ride.  Loved that it was sunny when we started.  I had four layers of clothing on so I stayed nice and warm.  We turned it the money we had collected.

Had coffee and ate donuts and visited with each other before taking off to meet Trinity Riders at Meijer's.  This was great since we used to belong to Trinity Riders and they birthed us so to say to begin a new chapter.  Our chapter sure is growing quickly now.  Lots of new committed people too!

So far we have raised $9,500 for Run for the Son.  So great!  We rode to Maxfield's in Edmore for lunch.  They have an amazing buffet and salad bar.  Their soup was the best I have ever had at a restaurant.  Good ice cream too.  We rode with Dan and Renee (they live pretty close to Kimmy and Jared) afterwards because we wanted to stop and see how their deck was coming.  Jared was working on it.  The boys had a nice tent made on the back deck.  Got lots of great hugs from them.  Kimmy and I walked through her woods and looked at all the flowers that are out there.  They are beautiful.  We sat on her swing and it is so comfy.  Love where she has it.  We watched the guys and kids working on the deck.  So nice to see those helpful boys!  We left shortly after that and when I got home I realized I left my purse there.  Kimmy texted me too, to tell me.  I headed back and went to get it.  Nice drive listening to Christian Radio on the way.  Came home and started working on clearing out the wooded area by my lilies of the valleys.  Bill came out a little later and helped do almost the whole area.  

5/5/17...Went to the Lutheran School Music Festival with Melissa

Hailey in the music competition at the Music Festival at Holy Cross Lutheran.  I love going to this each year!

Hailey in the white dress in the middle

Hailey in the second row on the right

Hailey in the middle(second row)

Met Melissa at Vikki's and spent a few minutes visiting with her and Vikki.  Left for the school with Melissa to pick up Hailey and a friend to take to the Music Festival.  What a fun day with Melissa at Hailey's Music Festival.  Loved seeing her and the other kids sing and play instruments.  Hailey was in handbells, Advanced Choir, Advanced Band, A trumpet trio, and a double singing duet.  She did amazing!  Got 1's (which is the best) in everything but the Advanced Choir.  They got a 2 in that.  So proud of my sweet Hailey.  They served lunch their, so when we had a long break between things, we ate.  Sat with Hailey and some of her friends.  I had a sub sandwich with fritos and Melissa had a hot dog with chips.  We did go back later for a snickers with almonds.  

We did a lot of walking from the different classrooms they were singing/playing instruments in to the next place we needed to be.  These kids are amazingly talented.  The judges were all really nice (and very talented themselves)  They would point out the good things they were doing and then tell them things they should work on and have them try it.  The judges judging the singing had beautiful voices

and sang parts to show the kids things they could try.  One of the judges had the kids each hold a stuffed animal that was in the kindergarten room to show them the difference of just singing and singing to something with emotion involved.  It was cute how he did it.  While I was sitting waiting for Hailey, Ally, and the two boys to sing, Cathy Krause called to see if we wanted to meet her and Tim at the Maple Grill, Gayla called to see if we wanted to come to their house on Sunday to celebrate Wes's Birthday and Sandy called to see if I wanted to go to the Family Book Store that's closing.  Then they texted me or left messages because I couldn't be on my phone while the kids were singing.  I was videoing each one Hailey was in.  I can put videos on here for some reason.  We met Tim and Cathy and Bill had a huge hamburger and potatoes and I had yummy meatloaf, grilled carrots and potatoes.  It was so delicious and the place was packed.  There was a continual line coming in.  

5/4/17...Vikki came over, I made ground bologna, Kimmy came over, Helped Bill get bricks, Officer's meeting

Kimmy taught me how to play Strategy.  Happy to know how to play it so I can play it with the boys.  I got the game at a garage sale for 75 cents.  We played double perfection after that and raced.  Kimmy won both games of that.  

We went to Bill Smith's and picked up all these decorative bricks.  Bill rolled and cut their grass for them yesterday and Sabrina asked if he knew anyone who wanted the bricks.  He told her we did.

Today he was going to go get them by himself.  Kimmy and Vikki were here and wanted to go help him so we all went.  Good thing we went because there were over two hundred and some were three deep and had to be dug out.  We didn't have a shovel with us, so Vikki went to the neighbors and found someone who lent us two shovels that were two house down.  The girls really worked hard.  Thank you so much!  We are so blessed with loving family. We came home and I got pops and ice tea and took it out for us while they worked on unloading.  I helped and Misty got here with her two cute dogs and she helped too.  That made it go really fast.  Bill is going to power wash them and then we are going to put them around trees.  Vikki went with Misty to the dog park and Kimmy and I worked on taking the plastic up around the house.  I had done almost all around the whole house, but these spots were covered with grass and lots of roots were in them from the bushes.  We worked hard and got the grass rolled up for Kimmy to put down in a spot in her yard that needs grass.  We put the little swimming pool in her van and put the sod in it.  She worked so hard and it looks so nice around the house now.  Bill and I went to our officer's meeting for Faith Riders.  It went very well.  

5/3/17...Walked at Sports Zone, Melissa and I went shopping, Taught Kid's Care Group

Beautiful sunset!

Walked 3 miles at Sports Zone.  Afterward, Melissa called and wanted to know if I wanted to go shopping with her for Evan's Birthday present.  She had a coupon for $10 off $50 at Toys R Us so we bought out gifts together and each saved $10.  We got Star Wars Lego sets which he will love.

We went to Tim Hortons for drinks and she had a breakfast meal.  I was full from eating my oatmeal after I walked.  We decided to go the the Christian book store after that.  They had everything marked 50%-90% off, plus 50% of your entire purchase.  We each got over $100 for $20 some again.  We got nice shirts of the great new material which are $32 and we got them for $6.  You sure couldn't beat the deals.  I got lots of cards for a few cents and books, CD and journals.  

Had a great class for my K-1 Kids Care Group.  Love these sweet kiddos.  There was an absolutely beautiful sunset.  I was in awe of God all the way home.  I took this picture when I got home, but it doesn't do it justice.  It was magnificent.

5/2/17...Went to breakfast, went to Melissa's, went to Kroger's to get some groceries, Went to Aldi's, Had good care group

Got this cute picture of Hailey from Melissa!  She went to Splash Village with a friend and her mom and the mom bought her this cute towel, shoes and stuffed animal.  She told Hailey to pick out a stuffed animal and Hailey picked out a little one.  Then the friend's mom told her to put it back and pick out a big one.  Hailey was very blessed.

Had our driveway chip and sealed.

Got this cute spinner today from Aldi's.  It's nice and sturdy and turns in the direction of the wind plus spins

Close up of my lawn spinner

Went to breakfast.  Nancy and Randy came and surprised us.  Had a devotion and prayer and good breakfast.  Afterwards, I went to Melissa's.  Abby came and greeted me right away. Gave Melissa a spinner I picked up for the boys.  Thought it might help them with their homework.  I talked to her later and she said it helped them a lot.  Alex Galsterer showed me his at Kid's Care group last week.  That's the first I had seen one.  Melissa said even Hailey liked it.  I got a beautiful sturdy lawn sinner at Aldi's today.  Love how it spins.  It was very windy out today so it was turning and spinning lots.  I don't know how the picture turned out so good because I took it while it was spinning fast.  Went to the Family Book store and got over $100 worth of stuff for $20.  I would rather have the store stay open then get these deals though.  Bill called me while I was there and wanted to get the driveway chip and sealed.  They guy could do it today and Bill got $500 off because they were working in the area.  It only took them 1 and 1/2 hours.  We could drive on it right away which was nice because we had care group.  Had 11 here for care group.  Good lesson, fellowship and snacks.

5/1/17....Called Debbie to wish her Happy Birthday

Went to Sports Zone and walked 3 miles at fast pace.  Called Debbie to wish her a Happy Birthday.
Started my lesson for care group.