My Mother's Day gift

Here she is!

I think I should name her, like we always name our favorite appliances.

How about Maude, or Penelope, or maybe Hortensia.

I'll get back to you on this....

A trip to the farm

We took a little field trip last week with some friends. This farm has been in the Gillis family for over 200 years; it was a nice quiet place where we could walk about on our own time and look at the animals and nature. When we were done, everyone enjoyed homemade ice cream, made right there at the farm.

Left to right:

Chas, Marty, Sarah, Euin, Theo, Charlotte,

ShaLynne, Grace, Amy, and Henry.

Theo and ShaLynne take aturn at the saw, while Chas supervises.

Left to right:

Marty, Grace, theo, Amy, Sarah,

Henry, ShaLynne, and Charlotte

(Chas and Euin were into something else right then).

Spring Piano Recital

More Easter

I want a large Risen Christ figure for the mantle and can't find one I like.

This was the year I tried to make one with paper mache'.

I guess it turned out a bit modernistic.

Whether I save it or not is yet to be decided.

Our prayer table turned out nicely, though. The floral arrangement was from my sis, and it was lovely. This is the litlle Risen Christ I usually use with the paper mache' tomb.

This year the tomb stayed in the closet, but I missed the boys putting their soldier figures in front to guard it.

Finally, I have found a Holy Week scene I love in a Catholic catalog.

It's $125.

Not loving that so much.

We're all about being trendy around here...

I keep seeing in magazines the trend to use furniture in kitchens, so we thought we'd get with it when we got our new sofa and love seat. Here you can see Theo and Amy relaxing in our kitchen.

It fit there just perfectly when the carpets were being cleaned.

Yep, we're all about trendiness...

Easter in the "Land of Pollen"

We had a very intense pollen season this year. Here you can see the girls' black shoes after they walked throughthe grass at church. I read that normal spring brings "high" pollen counts aroudn 500; this year the count was in the 3,ooo's!!! Just crazy.

Here we are, all together in our loveliness.

Timothy turns 1!

Timothy the Terrific turned 1 year old on March 30th. He is ornery as he is cute, but we sure do love him and are happy he is part of our family.

He needed this black and white candle to match himself

He thought wet food was the BOMB!!

(ps --Call our house when we're not home to hear him answer the phone. He's so talented!)

Where am I??

Oh no! It's been almost a month since I've posted anything. It feels like a year--this has been a long month for me. I'll try to get photos up soon.