Memorial weekend as such

It is now Memorial weekend. It has been a wonderful weekend and rained almost every weekend which is wonderful :) I have enjoyed having the time with family. We are having a wonderful time and getting caught up on all types of things. Steve and I spent the weekend with his parents. They live in the Villages, a retirement section of Florida and about 70 miles away, not too far away.

I love having the mother and father in law I have. We have a wonderufl time and they are easy to love and so willing to love me. We got together with his sister and her husband and 2 kids. They are all so cute! Our niece, Elisabeth, she got real excited for icecream that she got into her booster and was walking around with it on her bum. It was really cute :)

Hope you are all having a wonderful Memorial weekend.

Thanks for all my catching up and your patience. I will try to do better. I do not have internet and can catch up when I have a chance to get an internet. So we are doing wonderful over here, look forward to this summer. Steve is working very hard. I have 9 students right now and working hard with the kids I have. I love teaching and also teach in Primary as the music leader. Steve is the E. quorum secretary and keeping busy with that and work, also taking a class this summer in our community college near by. We are grateful for all of our blessings and thanks for taking this trip with us. Enjoy the rest of the pictures and are very grateful for all who read this. If you haven't read for awhile I hope you will read.

Garden and Yard

Okay so wonder what I am doing at home. I have a dog and teach piano and clarinet. Well we have this HUGE yard and have a beautiful garden out back to take care of. Also the pots on the front porch have herbs in them, a strawberry plant and other things that wanted to try growing also. these are pictures of some flowers too and they are so pretty in our front yard, also the grass is growing which you can see a difference from the ugly brown in February.

SHANELL HOME!!

My sister has been on a mission for the last 18months! She came home May 14, 2010. She served in the philippines, it was great to see her in the airport and her get super excited and start speaking in Tagolog, I am grateful for her example of going on a mission she is an example to the siblings in our family! I am glad she had a chance to serve the Lord for 18 months! She had a wonderful time. My favorite thing she said about out there is this: "The people have nothing and are so happy." What a wonderful thing to hear that, why can't we be more like that in America? Instead we all want more, why?

These are pictures of Shanell on her mission.

Beach Fun in May

Okay so now we are catching this up a little more! Steve and I decided at the beginning of may that we were going to go to the Beach, it was quite a random idea but the best we did that week :) We had a wonderful time at the beach, only about an hour there but it was worth it, a wonderful place to relax. I didn't take my camera to the beach itself with us, but did get some pictures on the way there and back.

Random pictures

Okay some pictures that we have taken in the last little bit :) We love our dog Snap and he gets a lot of pictures with us and then some pictures of Steve :) I just love our new camera and so I like to take pictures with it :)

PIANO

We had the chance to find a digital Roland piano for a wonderful price, we got it used from a guy whose wife passed away. A wonderful man, he also had a good box full plus some more books and it came with the piano, it had its own bench and has a microphone for karoake stuff, you can hook into the piano. A wonderful opportunity for us and a blessing for Tinae, who needs it for teaching in her home. We are so grateful for all the blessings in our lives and grateful to have it is played often. :) a beautiful piano and the bookshelf off to the side of the piano, those are the books that came with it, well the top ones came with the piano.

Also, the First picture is of 2 beautiful display cases, and we got both of them for $40.00 at a garage sale. We are grateful again for all the wonderful ways we have been able to get what we need to hold our things in our house. These are just wonderful to have and a good price for such a wonderful item :)

attempt #3

Okay the pictures FINALLY worked and are up now from the last post I wrote!!

Enjoy!

Mother In Law's Bday

In March, we went to Steve's Parents house for his MOm's Birthday. We made a card for her out of candy bars. We also brought our dog with us to their house, and they have to jack russel's and by the end of the month they all got along very well :)

we had a wonderful weekend, it was really nice to spend time with them and to spend time with his Mom, well it was a week after her birthday, we came down for General Conference too, wonderful talks!!

More pictures of the house

Okay I forgot to add more pictures on the last post so here are more pictures of the house when we first moved in, other areas of the house, the different bedrooms, bathrooms, and our den room is the one with the TV and it is the one that Steve decorated, all doing with fish, and fishing etc. So enjoy the rest of these. We moved into the house in February right after Valentine's Day. We are grateful to have a good acre of land that we are in control of with all kinds of different fruit on the land too. A few to name: 2 Tangerine trees, 3 orange trees, lots of pecan trees, 1 Japanese tree, 2 mulberry trees, 1 lemon tree, 2 guava trees, a few plants of blackberries. We are grateful for the lady that lived here before and planted all the trees and it is wonderful :)

its been forever

Okay in a short amount that I can write this is what has happened in the last little bit of time. Steve and I were able to get our own place. We live in a 3/2 house with a beautiful amount of rooms. Here are some pictures of our house for you. We love our house, we have a beautiful garden out back, some pots on the front porch with herbs. We are loving it, we also have a dog named Snap now and we love him too. He is a mix of a couple of things, please feel free to leave what you think he is with us on a post :) Hope you are all having a wonderful time wherever you are, and we are doing well. Here are some pictures of our house, inside and out.