Blessed

We went to Pennsylvania this past weekend and celebrated Easter with Mike's parents.  As I was thinking about this post with some of the pictures that I had, one word kept coming to mind...Blessed.

 

~We are so Blessed that our boys are able to participate in a 4 generation picture.  They have their Great Grandfather (Pop-pop, Henry, which is where we got Adam's middle name), Grandma Sandy, Mike and our boys.  Not many kids anymore can say they have a 94 year old Great Grandfather. We were able to go  to Easter service with Pop-pop at the home where he has an apartment.  Then we went back to his apartment and got this picture.

~We are Blessed that both sets of Grandparents live in a reasonable distance.  My parents live in town and we see them quite often.  Mike's parents are several hours north of us, but we can still get there easily without a plane ticket.

~Lastly, I am Blessed that I got chosen to be the mother of these two lovely boys!  I love this picture because both of my boys look so genuinely happy.  (An added bonus is that you can see Sandy taking the picture if  you look in the window :)

This Easter Season, I know that I am very Blessed!

Old Tree

We have an old crab apple tree in our yard.  For some time now, the tree has been looking less and less healthy.  

About a year or so ago, I was going to take a picture of Austin.  He wanted to climb in this tree to have his picture taken.  He stepped on a branch and it broke.  

Here we are a few years later, and the tree is still in our yard.  Mike and I were discussing this the other day after school.  Mike was saying that this tree is a real pain to mow around.  I said, it is nothing but truly ugly.  Adam heard all this and asked if he could chop it down.  

We agreed that he could do that.  He got his eye protection and his little ax and went to work on the tree.

I'm sure the tree will not come down quickly at the rate that Adam is going, but it is nice for him to have a project to work on.

Fire Pit

This year is a leap year.  On Leap day we had very mild weather.  The boys really wanted to do a fire in a fire pit.  

Mike helped the boys build a pit in my garden space.  He ran to the store and got marshmallows, and Adam invited a few friends over.  Once it started to get dark, the boys got the fire going. 

The boys had a great time.  I'm so glad they could do something fun on a mild day at the end of February.

Art

About this time every year, our local library displays art made by the students of  area schools.

One day, a few weeks ago, I got an email from our art teacher asking if I could help her.  I didn't really understand what she needed help with but I agreed.  As it turned out she needed help get the art mounted so that the pieces could be on display at the library.  

I was working and getting a good bit done.  Then, she gave me some "stuffed animals" to mount from a sewing unit they did.  I looked at this one that was to be mounted and knew right away that it was Austin's.  

 

The project was to have 3 parts of your childhood and put them into one stuffed creature.  Austin's creature is a small dog, whose body is a video game controller.  On the ear of the dog it has a blue canary (from a song he likes).

I thought it would be great to get a picture of  him with his creation at the library, but he didn't agree.  I think he did a great job!