Sring Hailstorm

Here you can see the hail bouncing off the ground when it lands.

We had the most awesome hailstorm pass through here! We had THUNDER, lightening, WIND, and HAIL! Spring is here! You never know what kind of weather to expect!

29 great years!

Bob and I celebrated our 29th Wedding Anniversary on Friday March 20! My how time flies. One minute we are talking about how old we are {because our children are getting old :) } and the next we are talking about how it only seems like yesterday that we were married! We went to the Temple and did sealings. (Kind of symbolic!) and then went to Olive Garden for a scrumptious dinner! We even had one of their best waitors wait on us, Anthony! It has been warm these past few days. In the low 60's. It feels so nice to have Spring in the air! The snow here in Richmond is finally melting! A few more nice days like this and it will be ALL gone!

First Birthday

Olivia is one year old! She had the new experience of opening presents just for her! It is fun to see her expressions. She is walking all over and making lots of fun sounds. We had the family over and Elise invited her parents to come over to join in the party!

She is enjoying the actual gift and not just the paper!

She climbed up to see what is going on. Such a cut face!

Elise made this cake!

Here she is reaching for the candle. Savannah is going to help her blow it out!

Taking her first bites of her first cake!

What a lovely pose! All done!

A friend of Christina did her hair for her for the Sweetheart Dance she went to. It turned out really cute. She had a great time.

Life is full of fun!

Christina made these cute cookies to ask a boy out to the Sweetheart dance. The blue letter cookies spelled her name, the green letter cookies were there to make it fun! This is part of the poem she made up to put with the cookies. "Juggle the cookie letters, Blue is the key, Drum it around in your head, Then you'll know me!"

Another snow storm. If you look by the fence you can see the snow is falling as I took the picture. The snow has been falling almost all day! Is anybody else getting as much snow as we are? We haven't seen the ground since before Christmas! It is so pretty, but of course no one likes to drive on the wet, slushy, icy roads! Enjoy the beauty of it while it's here, spring will be here soon!

Winter wonderland!

We just had another beautiful snowstorm. It snowed all during the night. I know, since I was up all night because I was ill and had to spend most of the night in the bathroom!

The drive way and view to the west of our house. From the front porch. The candy canes are still in from Christmas time. We can't get them out yet. The ground is still frozen.

Birthday

Savannah helped put the candles on the cake. A five for fiftey and one candle for one = 51! Savannah and Olivia really liked the candle fire and helping Grandpa blow out the flames.

We had Bob's birthday celebration on Sunday Feb. 1, since that would be the best time for everyone to be there. We enjoyed visitning with everyone. Then after that we went over to Mom and Dad's house for another birthday party. Dad turned 80 on Sunday! So, we all got together to wish him the best. Plus, a lot of them used that time to watch the super bowl! Did your team win?