Happy Birthday to our sweet daughter, Melissa! She came to breakfast with us. Did yard work and house work. Caregroup was great

Mocha is loving the swing on the front porch and so am I

Went to pick up muffins for Melissa's birthday for breakfast.  She came there and we celebrated.  Sure do love that girl!  She is always sweet and caring and really shows the Love of Jesus to everyone.  Thank you Lord for my Melissa!!!  (Bill's Half Pint). We ate and then I went to Melissa's house for a little while.  She showed me the kids science fair projects and they are really going to be nice when they are done.  Great experiments!  When I got home, I dug out some pickers from the ditch and the yard.  Got some dandelions out too.  Spent time reading the Word on the front porch.  After that I pulled some weed out of the walk way.  Mocha just kept sleeping on the swing.  She sure loves it.  I sure love it there too.  Have used it lots already.  Swept and mopped floors and cleaned the bathrooms.  Had a great care group.  Lots of discussion.  Had a new lady come.  I had invited her two weeks ago and Ron invited her this week so she came.  Funny how we didn't know her, but both invited her.  She is very nice and is a school teacher in Carrolton.   

4/24/17...Walked, met Louise, Becky, Dave, Wes and Gayla at Levi's for lunch, did some yard work, Bill presented award to manager of McDonalds

Bill presenting an award to the Manager of McDonalds on Bay Road for providing coffee for the Veterans at the vet center.

Got up early and walked 3 miles at the Sports Zone.  At 11:30, Bill and I met Wes, Gayla, Becky, and Dave at Levi's.  Bill and I  had yummy 1/2 turkey grilled sandwich and noodle soup.  Delicious.  

Louise, Dave and Becky just got home from Florida last night.  Happy that Louise will be at our Tuesday breakfast again.  Becky and Dave went on a trip to Israel a couple of weeks ago and shared about it and showed us pictures.  We had a very nice visit.  I went to Aldi's after that and got a few things.  Came home and hoed flower beds and dug out thorn plants by the ditch.  It was beautiful out again today.  Bill went to McDonald's on Bay Rd. and presented and award on behalf of the Marine Corp. league to the manager for providing coffee for the veterans at the vet center.  Bill had an Elder's meeting.  I finished cleaning the house while he was gone.  Watched the movie Blank Check.

4/23/17....Went to church, Kenzie came over, read Vikki and Kimmy's journals from school at age 11 while relaxing on the swing on the front porch, watched a movie called A Street Cat named Bob

Got up early. Got ready for church and then sat on the swing on the back porch and read my Bible.  When Bill was ready, we headed for church.  Good worship and message today!  Nice sitting with the girls and their families.  When I got home, Kenzie called and wanted to come over and set up her GED.  I quickly made goulash as I know she loves it and I had the stuff for it.  She was pretty happy to have some and asked to take some home for later.  We set up her testing times.   So happy she wants to do this now and isn't putting it off.  She showed me her throat.  She has strep throat pretty bad and is on an antibiotic.  I didn't get too close!!!  It looks terrible. After she drove home, she called me to tell me she loved me.  Love that girl!   I sat outside on the swing and enjoyed the nice weather.  Loved reading Kimmy and Vikki's journals Mrs. Bilby had them write when they were in school.  I had some good laughs and some proud moments while reading them.  Sure love my girls.  (All three of them)  In the evening we watched a movie called "Bob the Street Cat" which was a true story.

4/22/17...We had our Taco Dinner at Living Nativity Church to raise money for Run for the Son...Raised $342.00

Dinner and a silent auction today at Living Nativity Church

Rocco, Katelyn, Geanna, Bill and Sabrina

Don and Lorraine

Joel

Joanna, with her sister in law and her friend.  Her sister in law bought my leather jacket and her friend bought some chaps we had in the auction.  Joel and Wes in the background

Me and Hailey

Getting my good hug from my sweetie Max

My little Minion.  Jack did great in his Mock Rock Minnion Song.  So cute!

Jack, Nana and Evan

We were cleaning the ditch along our road and found a box that was soaked in the ditch.  We were going to throw it away and then checked inside and these collectible Barbies were wrapped in bubble wrap inside (nice and dry)

4/21/17 Went to Turkey Roost for Perch! It was delicious

Talk about silly geese...These ones did a dance for us

We went out to eat and had perch at the Turkey Roost. We asked them where they got their perch from and they told us, so we drove to Pinconning and picked some fish up.  The guy was really nice.  Bill got us lost and we went about 20 miles out of our way because he took us to the West side of the road instead of East.  The place was right on the water.  We had fun and lots of laughs traveling and teasing Bill.  These geese came really close to us (we were in the car)

We came back home and played Euchre.  This is Charlie and Bill in the Easter Candy jar!

Two funny boys

Charlie and Sue's new vehicle (our motorcycle)

Charlie driving us

My beautiful hyacinth from Sue and Charlie

4/20/17...Cute braids Vikki put in Peyton's hair. The girls came over. We decorated bags. Did Bingo at Community Village

Peyton

We helped the residents at Community with Bingo.  Such a joy!

Bill calling the numbers.  He was pretty silly!

Cute bunnies Joel made

The girls came over and we decorated lunch bags for Aunt Vikki.  There are lots to do!  We got quite a few done and had so much fun working together on them.  I will add a picture later.  Met with some friends from Faith Rider's and helped with Bingo at Community Village.  The residents love playing and we love helping them.  Went to Wes and Gayla's afterward and played 5 Crowns.  It's like 3-13 only no A's and 5 suits (Stars is the 5th one)  We had fun and had yummy homemade Molasses and also Peanut Butter with a chocolate kiss in the middle cookies.

4/19/17...Walked at Sportszone, Went to Vikki's, Went to cemetery, Kenzie and Trevor came over, Bill sold Vikki's car

Lenny being a good boy!  Vikki put edging down and planted some plants and it looks great.

Kenzie and Trevor came over.  They helped decorate bags that will be used for snack dinners for children in West Michigan.  They did a great job

Working on them

Didn't realize Kenze was sticking her tongue out when I took this.   Shame on her!

This is what she did when I found out

Finally a good picture smiling

Small smiles

Went to Sportszone and walked 3 miles. They were putting new LED lighting in so got extra steps because we had to go through the turf room since they had the track roped off in one section.  

Pastor Bob was there so talked to him for a while.  Came home and it was nice out so read my Bible outside.  Bill sold Vikki's car.  I went to help Vikki with her lawn trim.  She was working hard and had it mostly done.  We went and got breakfast sandwiches at McDonalds.  I had a coupon for them.  We sat on the swing and ate.  Rody got home at noon and gave me the title to the car to take to Bill.  Bill went to the Marien Corp. League.  I went to the cemetery and put a cross up on my mom and dad's grave.  On my way home, I was going to go look at the newest Eagle's next we saw, when I got a call from Kenzie.  She was in Saginaw and wanted know if I was going to be home and if Papa was home.  I told her I could be home in 5 minutes, so skipped going to see the Eagles and headed home.  She and Trevor stopped over.  They helped decorate bags for kid's snack dinner sacks that will be handed out in schools in West Michigan.  They had fun and so did I.