Half a Century!

Happy Birthday to me! On Friday, April 25th, I celebrated my 50th birthday. I got some beautiful flowers from my wonderful husband delivered to me at work. A co-worker brought in some donuts. I received a few other gifts from friends. Then we went to the Crossroads College Dream Banquet that night. Gene Appel, the senior minister from Willow Creek Church in Chicago, was the speaker and was very good. They honored my Mikey for all he did filling in as interim president the last couple years! Very cool! The only bad thing was that is was freezing outside and actually SNOWING!

On Sunday, we went out to Olive Garden restaurant with family. Then we came home for cake and ice cream. A good time was had by all! And I'm still 50...

The best gift of all was a scrapbook album made by Mike.

He collected old and young pics of me and family, got recent

grandbaby pics (how adorable they are!), and notes from

my wonderful kids. It is the most fantastic labor of love!

How I adore my Mic! Love to you all! Thanks for such a

Great birthday!

Spring has Sprung!!!

Finally, Spring has sprung so we were outside today cleaning up and raking the yard. It's 68 degrees! Yeah!

As for everything else... Grandpa Dave is in a nursing home getting some therapy for a couple weeks. We are in the process of looking for an assisted living apt. for him. It's a tough step, but good to think he will have some independence but yet always have someone else around.

Grandma Millie gave us a scare this weekend, too. We got a call that said she was in the hospital with possible heart problems. They believe her medicine was slowing her heart and making her short of breath. Hopefully its all figured out now. She will be going home tomorrow.

Grandma B. (IL) also has some treatments this week. We wish the grandmas were all here in Roch. so we could see them more and help more in their care.

Have a great week and we'll post some news next weekend after someone around here gets old...

What a week!

We've had quite a week around here. My dad, or as most of you know him, Grandpa Dave, has been having back problems and other problems for some time. In the last couple weeks, though, we've seen a decline in his condition. We brought him to our home to stay for a while, but it was harder than I thought. He can't even get himself out of a chair and definitely not the bed. Sooo, yesterday we took him to the emergency room. (We tried to make a dr. appt. but couldn't get in for 2 weeks.) They admitted him and we're now talking trying to get some rehab in a nursing home. The social worker will come by Monday. Other than that, We had company on Thur. night for supper and had a great time. Then, our former youth minister, Jerry Ackerman came to town to speak at our youth MN Christian Convention. He stayed with us Thur. night, too. It was great catching up with him. Mike had to go to WI for their convention. My plan was to go along, but that all changed. I had also planned to do a lot of other things this week as it was a spring break from work and school. But, I guess the Lord had other plans. "A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9