Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Spring Break!?


(Above) Can't believe how much my boys are growin'!
(Below) The Three (Muskateers, Stooges?!) Not sure which!

Can't you tell Kyle's sure impressed with Wedding business?!

This is about the best shot I got of the bride and groom!

The Three_______again! Family Photo!
....and they kidnapped her!

Pierogie makin' or (hardening of the artery days!)

Just had to get a picture for the record of "Pops" helping!

and here's Donna! You are doing great!

Donna's first trip home in 11 weeks!

Aunt Freda

Visiting with Aunt Mary

Now that we are back from our Spring Break it is time to get some updates posted. It was such a busy week that I'm not exactly sure "break" is an appropriate word for it.

We did enjoy our week in MN and it was good to get together with the whole family again. Warren's and us both left MI Thursday evening and went as far as Chicago. Brenda got to come also. Friday morning brought a heavy snowfall so the trip through WI was pretty nasty! The snowplows were trying to clear the roads, but weren't able to keep up. We were taking the van and sure missed the suburban on those roads! We did arrive safe in MN Friday evening. Ellen and Kent made it up from AZ. Wonder why they always felt so cold?!

Saturday we headed to Minneapolis for Amanda's wedding. Pictures were early in the day and the wedding was late afternoon. Several of us went to lunch and shopping in between. It was a beautiful day--in spite of the snow! Congrats Amanda and Elliott!!

Since the whole family was there we got to have family picture time! Quite interesting getting everyone stuffed into a tiny Sear's Portrait Studio! Anyway--that's done! All were there except for Nick and Amanda's new hubby!

It was wonderful to see Donna. She is coming along great! She is in the rehab wing of the nursing home and has therapy daily. I went with her to therapy and she was so excited to show me what all she can do. She can walk a pretty good distance with her walker and is starting to get up out of her chair by herself. The neat thing about the nursing home are the dogs that come visit. They have two beautiful Golden Retrievers that come visit the residents. Of course they love Donna's room! (must have something to do with all the "doggy treats" they get?!)

We parted with our old van and brought home the folk's van--which is pretty nice!! It sounds so QUIET! Ours had had enough of these rough roads!

Friday we headed home. Think I'm ready to stay put for a while and catch up here! (Hmmm--I wonder where we can go biking this summer......!?)

3 comments:

The J's said...

How fun to hear/see updates!
guys can be such dorks sometimes, huh!! lol! such a weird sense of humor....!
glad Donna is doing well.
Another week....more motel here & Lynisha coming in the middle of the week. It's going to be a busy one!!

Alison said...

Looks like a wonderful time!

Diane T. said...

So you got to experience a bit of our long winter in Wisconsin...fortunately I hope that it was the last blow. It was 51 degrees today. All the ground cover is gone with just the banks in our woods are left, and they were so big, I imagine they won't leave for a while.