To Boston and back again

What an amazing experience it is to see Peter graduate from Dental School and proudly put on his handsome uniform as a new Army captain. Now we have two dentists in the family and three army men. Of course, Benson wearing his little suits and green scrubs was the cutest of all. He was absolutely the main attraction everywhere we went. Boston was fabulous and we had great fun. It sure seems a short time since we were the ones graduating from dental school in Chicago with three adorable little boys and Heather "on the way" Wow! Such a strange feeling to see this all happening again. Congratulations to you, Peter and Brooke. This is marvelous! Love you all. Mom

May has been very busy

We have had great fun taking care of Liam and Anna while Eric and Julie went on their grand European trip. As you can see from these pictures, we played outside on beautiful spring days. Aren't they adorable!

Some pictures of recent family times:

Hello family, I'm including pictures I took in Utah for a couple of events. The pictures are a bit mixed up, but you will see: the birthday dinner and celebration with Bill's Mom at 80 years young. You'll see Kathie, Brian, us, and the folks. There are pictures of my parents, my Aunt Nola and Uncle Ralph and my two cousins Loralee and Nola Lynn (whom I haven't seen since childhood). Then, Easter evening we dashed over to Kelley and John's beautiful house for a visit. Their cute kids are in a couple of pictures. Finally, I have returned home to find this fabulous Denali Fifth Wheel home on wheels in the parking space with gorgeous blossoms and daffodils trying to come out in spite of snow and rain. I love visiting all the family and really love to be home again. Miss you all.
Love,
Michelle

Okay, this is frustrating. How do I edit and repair a blog once it is posted? I'm sorry about the weird printing on the side of the pictures. I'll fix that next time. Just make your eyes go up and down.

March madness

Hello everyone, here are some great pictures of our March events. We went to Chuck E Cheese for horrible pizza and hours of very loud fun for the children (all of us played games with glee). In celebration of Eric's birthday, we later had cake, presents and wild boys running through the house joys! So, these are the delights of having family times together.

Happy, Happy Spring time to everyone we love.

Mom

I don't know what button I forgot to push, but here are the pictures that were supposed to be in the former blog. Sorry about that.

Heather and Evan are basking in the rays of the Mexican sunshine somewhere for a couple of more days. Bill and I have had the fun of caring for the two little darlings. This is like old times caring for two busy boys full time. But, I admit that I truly am a little older than I was back then. It takes lot more "pepper" to keep up with them.

So, I have to share a couple of Conner moments. When asked if he would like to speak with Grandpa Bill on the phone during lunch yesterday, Conner asked, "Why? Why do we need to do it?" How does one repond to that?

Next, this little picture tells the "story". Conner had just pinched his little finger playing with the paving bricks that I said would happen if he didn't stop. I was holding and rocking Orion on the Grandmother swing in the warm prespring sunshine. He came running over to let me try and negotiate holding both boys while juggling the swing. After a while he climbed up to sit by me, calmed down, gradually fell asleep sitting up and there I was. Hmmmmmmmm. It was naptime for Orion, so I carefully put him down to crawl around for a minute, picked up Conner (who sleeps like a log sometimes) and could only think to put him in the wagon in the warm sunshine for a nap while I helped Orion go to sleep upstairs in his bed. It worked quite well. Conner slept for about an hour until the sun went behind the trees and it got too chilly. Little boys in warm sunshine always are a wonderful joy.