George and Mary Kate with their new shoes.
Birthday gifts from Gramma and Grampa.
Early for George, but he was excited anyway!
Part of Jimmy's "fleet"...more vehicles
at his bin site in Dodge, ND.
Grace and Luke at the park
George and I examined the "big tractor"
along the walking path at the park
Birthdays for Andrew, May 4th,
and Mary Kate, May 6th. We had
pizza, brownies, and ice cream.
George and Mary Kate attacking their
big brothers, Matthew and Andrew
Ari and Cecelia worked on this sign for Jett's party
Supervising the artist are Lea, Cecelia, Annika, Claire,
Ana (ignoring us) Trina, Landry, and Lydia.
Landry is Jett's girlfriend.
Before the guests arrived...Jett, Caiden, Lea, Tom,
Annika, Oaklynn, and Trina
Lea is their exchange student from Germany.
Oaklynn is Annika's dog.
Ana and her girls waiting for the party to end
After most of the people left, a car pulled into the drive,
and out popped Donna! Surprised everyone. :-)
Later on Saturday, we had pizza and salad,
and fought over a game of "31"
Trina just had to have a picture of the two
girls with braces because she still had her
t-shirt from when she had them...at age 8!!
Gramma and Grampa with Ana's girls on Sunday.
Tom, Jett, and Lea made brunch for all of us.
Us with Jett. Graduation is
actually on May 18th. He will
wear shoes on that day!!! :-)
of this young man Jett has become.
Well, that was short-lived. Today it was down to 36.
I planted my flower pots two weeks ago;
today I put them all in the garage! The flowers
on the flowering crab trees were almost white
instead of the hot pink, probably because
of the drought conditions.
Congratulations, Jett! :-)
in the Iowa state track meet this week.
Trina is their "cheer" leader.
Valerie and John. They called me
to get directions for making grape leaves.
I think Donna gave them a tabouli lesson.
Mary Kate turned 5 on May 6th and had her
first dance recital on the 21st. Kelly said that
when Grace was in her first recital, she
just stood there and smiled. Trina did the
same thing in Cleveland when she was 3,
when my mother took the kids to a local church
to be in the Christmas program.
had two dances to learn! There were
fourteen kids in the group!
members of our local Legion post, so they
go to the four cemeteries from Wolford to Knox.
Kent plays taps and Bob fires the gun in tribute.
We serve a meal at our church after Mass in the cemetery.
these are the survivors...they didn't get mowed down
by the lawn mower or weed whacker! I am planning
to separate the bulbs in the fall and plant them
somewhere safe near the house or garage.
The lake was not pretty on the 31st.
Smoke from Canadian fires moved
into ND and clouded up the sun.
I washed inside windows and blinds,
Bob got the tar from the oak trees
off the outside of the camper.
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