Tulips in our yard

 I count 14 tulips in our front yard. 2 still haven't opened. All red this year. 

These two aren't like the other!

Como Zoo

 We did a quick trip to the Como Zoo in hopes to tour the Japanese gardens and finally see the trees in bloom. We quickly found out it was closed due to maintenance. It looked like lots of the flowering trees had died over the winter/years. We instead toured the inside conservatory buildings, but they were very hot, humid/tropical. 

May 4th

 

Things are starting to pop! 

Celina and Don's Saturday morning race!

April forgot to post!!

 Claudette's 87th Birthday

Easter 2025

 Happy Easter 2025!!

Logan was home for Easter the first time in 4 years of college. He drove home Friday night and of course had to leave late Sunday afternoon at 3:30 to be back for the last 3 weeks of college classes! 

We had 16 in all for Easter brunch. We are learning to let others bring some food to share and contribute. 

I gave the kids Easter baskets and did a mini candy egg hunt 

I got up at 5am to make quiche, cinnamon and carmel rolls, and waffles. Plus, fixed the table, got out the plates, silverware, napkins and made key lime drinks while Celina made coffee for others. 

We had a good selection. Not pictured was the asparagus, ham, sausage and bacon. 

All 16 at the table of course, minus me taking the photo.  

After I cleaned up loading the dish washer, clearing the table and putting away all the food. Everyone stayed till 1:30pm which was nice. 

Then we went to Menards to pick up work supplies for Steve. 

Celina purchased a Mario party game for the switch so the 4 of us played that for over an hour. It was fun, but I did awful since I'm not a video game player. You would think I was tired after all that. I did fall asleep only to be woken up by Logan He arrived back in Milwaukee around 9:26 and called to ask me to look for his apartment keys. Ugh!! He finally found them in his backpack thankfully! Sure was alarming at the time! The only other option would be to call maintenance or his roommate, otherwise he would be sleeping in his car for the night or call other friends. They don't rent rooms to under 25.  All worked out, but that of course woke me up and then I couldn't get back to sleep. He will be finished with classes in 3 weeks, then another 10 days and he graduates college!! 4 years really went by quickly! It will be nice to have him back home in one month!!

Happy 86th Birthday Wayne!!

HAPPY 86TH BIRTHDAY WAYNE!!

We made dinner at our house, ribs, chicken gyro's, potatoes and coleslaw.     

I made a carrot cake, used a box cake and added spiced nuts and some carrots. I should have added some crushed pineapple and a few raisins to top it off. Plus, it could have used a bit more spice! I also made a cream cheese frosting which gave me trouble decorating since the frosting was a bit soft. I even put it in the freezer for a bit but don't have time to wait till it was stiffer. Not the best looking but over all a good cake. Probably could have used a bit of salt to even out the sweetness. 

We also went to fish fry at the river/legion Friday night. The wait was 2 hours till we got our food after sitting down. We thankfully, only had to wait about 10 min to sit. 

We didn't finish eating and home by 9pm. Which we left at 5:30pm. 

1 foot!

 I think we had at least 12" of snow! Look at the temp for the end of the week! 51 by Sunday!!

Just a little bit of snow! We went from brown, no snow to this!!

That's Zoey's head sticking out of the snow. Poor dog had to poop standing up! 

It sure is pretty out!! The wind/blizzard conditions are supposed to start around 11am after the snow stops. And then sun shine at 5pm.