Me and Aunt Lou

I have wanted to make this quilt for so long, and I finally finished it!

A true blessing followed in Aunt Lou's willingness to quilt it for me.

It will always be a treasure!

920 S. College...

Home, Sweet, Home

A snowy day...

Eric and I played in the snow like kids...

3 angels :) ...

ok, so maybe one of them is up to something devlish!

(hint, hint..the one on the end!)

Catch and then some great Bocci Ball

Music, cookies and hot chocolate to top things off!

Big Game Hunt...

Dad's Big Game Hunt Banquet

was a great success...

Jeannette and I helped by decorating tables with antlers, leaves, poo and tracks...

Eric was the photographer...

Mom and I served...

and Dad had everyone tell stories!

Ok, ok...so maybe the turkey didn't leave "those" tracks...
This is more fun the hunting stories!
Deer Baloney and Goose Jerky
The Goose himself!!
One of the table decorations.

Jesse...in Philly

We were excited this winter to spend a weekend with

Eric's brother Jesse,

who is studying at Temple University in Philly...

Yes, he is getting his MASTERs in MATH!

We enjoyed seeing "his town" and staying with

him and Cory (his housemate who is also a friend of ours).

Always time to sing Italian!

Jesse took us to several markets where he treated us to seafood...his style!

Happy and In love... :)

Brother's working together to put a 3-D puzzle of the globe together

And we had to give her up...

As some of you may have heard,

our dear little Hundai met an unfortunate end...

Early one morning (back in Feb/March), we awoke to the doorbell...

to our surprise, it was a police officer letting us know someone had hit our car early that morning (around 0600).

-we rarely ever park on the street, but for other reasons we had to that night, and this is a street where "everyone" parks on the street!-

It turns out, it was an ederly gentleman whose windshield fogged up and he hit the car...

long story short,

he totaled the car...

BUT

God is so good!

Here are the blessings:

- we didn't have to renew our city stickers the next week or so

- we were just ready to change that oil...

- we paid $5,000 for the car 3 years ago and got an insurance check for $5,300!!!

God is soo GOOD!

Be My Valentine...

This year for Valentine Day,

We had a great evening celebrating love with some friends...

Sara and Crystal decorated Granddaddy Heatwole's basement and made the meal.

Each place setting had a special verse about God's love (something we often don't think of on Valentine's),

which we all took time to share with one another...

Nathan cutting the yummy Chocolate Strawberry Cake!

The Girls...

And their guys :)