Here's the requested photo

This is Hambone the baby bear. He decided to teeth on my fingers. Bill wouldn't let me bring him home. It would have taken care of the empty nest problem! Hambone would have so much fun with Cinder and Moseley and eating the fish out of the three fish tanks we now have thanks to Will.

Time flies when your having fun

Another week has flown by.



We continue to pray for Bill's recovery and now add on Elliot. On May 1st Elliot will be having a procedure done to remove a tumor from one of his kidneys.



Bill continues to dazzle his therapist and the rest of the group at Pate who have been keeping an eye on him.



I think I need to learn russian. There is a new student at the daycare. Her parents speak nothing but russian and she is slowly learning this odd language called English. I can't imagine what she is going through.



Will is going to be staying with us for a while until he recieves the date for training for his new job at Camp Classen. I'll have two of my four children living in Oklahoma this summer. Now I have to figure out how to get the other two closer.



On April 26th Tracy will be celebrating her 22nd birthday. Hopefully Alex will take care of baking her a cake.



Patricia is singing solos at her concert. I'm sure my eyes will leak a bit when I her sing.



Have a wonderful weekend.

Baby sitting fish

Will made a trip home yesterday and brought his fish tank and fish. We now have three fish tanks running in our house. Will spent the night with us and traded cars with Bill. The back window of Will's Jeep no longer unzips. Will is going to be making a couple more trip from San Marcos to Plano before his lease is up and he starts his new job at Camp Classen. (Thanks for the lead Tracy.)



This morning we spent time with a repairman trying to figure out what is wrong with my washing machine. Did you know that my washing machine has two brains and one is out to lunch. It only cost us more a meer hundred dollars to hear the news and then the repairman didn't have the part so now I am washing our clothes at our neighbors house. Thank goodness for neighbors.



Dad and I are off to Ashley furniture to see what would look good in our living room.



Bill continues to improve quicker than the experts thought and Pate is having a hard time finding things for him to do that's a challenge.



Next Friday Bill, Tripp and I are making our way to Oklahoma to spend the evening with Patricia and hear her sing at a concert. On Saturday (Tracy's birthday) Bill and I are going to beautiful Turner Falls to stay at a Bed and Breakfast. Then on going anniversary celebration.

And they said it wouldn't last

Some people dread April 15th because its tax day. April 15th is one of the most wonderful days in my life. As Elliot walked me down the aisle I kept catching glimpses of Bill standing at the front of the chapel waiting for me. Thoughts were rolling through my mind and I couldn't figure out why would he want to marry me?

The past 30 years have been an amazing. I learned to love myself as much as Bill did from the beginning and every time God entrusted us with three beautiful daughters and a handsome son to raise they also showed me I was worthwhile and I have a purpose on this earth.



I hope and pray that I will be writing on my blog when Bill and I are married 60 years.



To Bill thank you for purposing not once but twice.

I love weekends

It was a treat to be able to sleep past 5:30. Bill and I cooked a big breakfast, ran numerous errands that including going to the post office to mail baby presents to our newest great nephew Tanner Monroe.

We had dinner at Napoli's and went grocery shopping. There must have been a full moon or very oblivious people in the grocery store. I lost count at how many times someone cut in between Bill in the motorized cart and me dealing with a normal grocery cart.

Today was communion Sunday at church, we decided to sit on the first floor instead of having to get downstairs. Bill continues to awe people with how well he is getting around. Last Sunday he was gettting around with a walker and this Sunday a cane.

After church we spent the afternoon in the kitchen making homemade lasagna, onion soup and brownies for the ambulance and EMT crews. We will be dropping by to say thank you for all they did.

I wish I could hug everyone that prayed and continues to pray for Bill and our family.

God is good all the time, all the time God is good.

Friday

Getting Bill around is getting simpler. So long walker, hello cane. I think Bill needs a top hat to carry off the look.

Bill and I thought that we were going to spend part of our weekend cutting the grass but thanks to our neighbors the grass has been cut. Our neighbors are passing themselves off as Lawn Elves. We are so blessed to have such wonderful neighbors.


Tomorrow we are delivering homemade cookies to the firehouses that showed up at our house in three seconds.

Going on

Life has not been the same since Bill had his stroke. Everyday has been unbelievable.

Last night Bill and I went out to eat and Bill didn't use his walker. We walked holding hands.

Tomorrow after the family meeting I will have an oppurtunity to see Bill using the treadmill in the heated pool at rehab.


I have always admired Bill since the day we met. I am so blessed to be part of his life and see how God is affecting both of us on a daily basis.

Going on