Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Fun With Grandkids

Elijah has recently begun taking piano lessons.
He is so smart and a quick learner.

He says he is more of a dancer than a music maker.
Cracks me up.
If you saw his dancing, you would know what I mean.
He does have some moves.

He plays basketball with a program at the church and
while he is playing,
the girls are cheerleading on the sidelines.


This stage of the kids lives is so enjoyable.
I am so blessed to keep Abi this year.
She begins VPK next Fall.
(sniffle, sniffle)


Mark's job has been taking us to Miami every other week.
Abi and I have enjoyed playing by the pool this winter.
We've stayed in some nice hotels on Miami Beach.
I had forgotten how beautiful the ocean is in Miami.

On our last visit,
we stayed in a charming hotel
in which Billy Joel was also staying.
He was so nice.
Abi loved playing with him in the pool.
I've been singing Piano Man for a week.

I leave you with a video 
showing how fun hotel rooms can be.


Hope you are having a great week.
Bring on the Spring!




Miami In January

Hello all my beautiful friends!

I hope you are doing well.
The weather looks a bit precarious through most of the U.S.

I must admit,
I miss the beautiful snow.
I will always have warm fuzzies when I remember
 the winters I lived in Kansas & New Mexico.

In the meantime...
Mark has been given a detail which allows 
us to enjoy some glorious beach time
in Miami, Florida.

My current view.

I spend my day walking or lying by the pool.



Isn't the water beautiful?!


On a previous trip,
Dani & Abi accompanied us.


The Fontainebleau had a gorgeous glass Christmas tree.

Abi is my party.
She wanted to reenact Buddy from The Elf
by running around the revolving doors.


Never a dull moment!

Hope you are having a great week.
I plan to get down to the beach and get some rays.

XXOOXXOOXXX
Love to all!




This Doesn't Look Like Home Toto

In 2012 
I found out Mark & I had less than a month to load up
everything that I couldn't live without in a Penske truck
 and move across the country to Albuquerque, NM.
I tried not to focus on leaving our family.
I tried to find the adventure in our circumstance.
My goal was to
put my big girl panties on &
practice what I have preached 
for lots of years
by trusting God. 
I do trust Him but that doesn't always 
make everything easy, does it?


Imagine our shock
after less than a year in Albuquerque,
Mark gets offered a promotion that he couldn't refuse.
Once again,
we had about 6 weeks to pack everything
and move to Kansas.
Kansas!
Everything I know about Kansas I learned
from The Wizard Of Oz.
I flew out twice to find us a house to no avail.
Out of desperation,
I rented a house off of Zillow,
site unseen.
Trauma.

First thing we did after we unloaded the truck
was to go buy some rakes.
Never have I witnessed a move beautiful Fall.
Breathtaking!

Raised in Florida,
it was winter that I was looking forward to.


I love this winter wonderland.
It is like... magic.

That's where I am now

in Kansas

trusting God.