APRIL. . . A BUSY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!

We certainly do celebrate a lot of birthdays in April ~
4/10 Uncle Kevin's birthday
4/14 Joshua's birthday
4/16 Emerson's birthday
4/21 Malia's birthday
4/21 Eric's birthday
4/21 Cameron's Spiritual Birthday

There's also additional birthdays:
4/1 Alathia Liberty!!
4/3 Elizabeth & Rich's birthday
4/17 Jessica Mason's birthday
I believe Tom Delany's birthday is somewhere here :-)
Also John O'Carroll's birthday

It's just hard to comprehend, isn't it? Happy Birthday to the Awesome April people!!!!

HAPPY EASTER FAMILY!

We're about to celebrate a wonderful holiday, Easter!! What a wonderful time of the year and my daughter's favorite holiday :-) We'll be gathering as a family and celebrating together! Hallelujah, the Lord has risen from the dead!!!

NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

Home again, home again, jiggety jig!! What a marvelous time we had in Florida with out "Florida family." They are amazing! Graeme had a wonderful attitude about my "bumping" his little truck and Linda is still a wonderful sister-in-law!!! Dennis is funny to watch work, 10 to 1pm, that's his work day!!! Tina goes all out fixing dinners for everyone. She works hard and I love her. Tom & Deb are enjoying their empty nest and Deb is waiting to get her pink slip :-) What a great bunch of siblings!! Dad is going to be 87 in May and spry as ever!! He's a sharp cookie indeed! Mom is like the energizer bunny, she never stops going! She gave us some good laughs on her "go-go" this time, dragging Penny behind her!!! She has good days and bad days and so it goes. Thank you all for a very wonderful, memory making time!!! We are glad to be back home, even though you have to get back into the grind, there's no place like home!!

FLORIDA VACATION

Well maybe this trip we'll get some good pictures!! We'll see. We will miss all of you :-( Wish we could do this together something!! What do you think Grandma & Grandpa Koehler would think!!!!! Ahhh!!! It will be fun walking on the Naples beach and Naples pier. Strolling along 5th Ave. and having a Starbucks!! Sitting in the spa at 10:00 at night, that's the best!! The 86 degree weather, that can hardly be beat!! But at the end of the day. . . there's no place like home! I'll be clicking my red shoes :-) Love you all!!!

ST PATTY'S DAY!

I don't really care that much about St. Patrick's Day but I love the little green shamrocks and I am Irish!!!! Whoppee! Well, it would make Granny happy to see this! I'm such a good daughter :-)

I REALLY CAN DO THIS BLOG THING!

Hey, after weeks and weeks of figuring out how to change the background on my blog I finally did it!! Aren't you guys proud of me? Now I'll have to get back to this by Sunday because then the whole hearts theme will be over! Next thing I want to learn is how to add music :-) I love the music aspect, although I will have to borrow some of Kym's secular music!!! Send the comments about my new background!!

THOUGHTS & PONDERINGS AT THE BEGINNING OF 2009

This has been a month of change and it all has to do with Granny Pat. Lots and lots of changes going on in her life. She started out in 2008 going to the hospital and has wound up in 2009 at Asbury Gardens. No more home, no more car, no more bills, no more lonliness or anxiety. At least that's the way it would seem. She still carries the lonliness and anxiety because she's lived with that all her life. Not a very happy life, but now at 83 years of age she could be happy if she'd let herself. There are so many lessons to learn about old age. So many things I've learned about how NOT to grow old! My life is far different than my mother's life was however. I'm thankful everyday that I found the Lord and He has made my life whole. He has given me more than I could have ever asked or thought about. I may not be rich monitarily but I have more than most people in this world and I will rejoice for He has made me glad!!!!