Mother's Day

 We all met up at the winery for a picnic and some music

Happy Birthday Steve!!

Happy Birthday Steve!! 61!!  

A family dinner party. Fried chicken and all the fixings. 

Sauk Update...

 Found trees cut on our side of the property by the neighbors. Celina and Don were up camping this weekend and saw our new neighbors decided to cut into our side by at least 10 feet. Not sure why? Not sure why they didn't figure out where the property lines were before. 

They cleared out all the brush and pine trees. That were on the property line. Cleared out our huge pile of branches which I'm not mad about. Plus cleared 10 ft on our side all the way down. Which is where we want the electrical to go anyway. So guess they kind of did us a favor without asking. 

We do need to ask them a question. Did you get a property line servey? Nothing can be done right now. 

The property line pin by the road was removed by the contractor the neighbors hired. This is not good as you can read the consequences. 

Also trees cut down..

Tulips!!

 Look what is coming up in the front yard. After a surprise last spring of 9 red tulips coming up, I bought more in the fall and planted them. I some how forgot about planting any again and was super surprised to see all that has come up. I've counted at least 32 and their might be more. 

It was too cold and not sunny yesteday so they never opened up, but I'm hoping today a few more will pop open. I do want to plant even more in the front garden. 

For the longest time, I was only getting greens coming up and maybe 1 o r 2 light pink small tulips. I'm not sure why I waited years to plant more. Glad I finally did! Now to get even more and fill the garden. 

88 Years Young!

Happy 88th Birthday Claudette! 

88 years young on April 6th. 

I made her as requested a lemon pie. Turned out super creamy and delicious. 

Here's the recipie. 

The crust I used vanilla wafers, a table spoon sugar and 4 tbsp of butter with some lemon rind. 

Added 3/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice. Baked at I think 350 for 18 min crust and another 10 min pie. Everyone raved about how creamy the pie tasted and it was 100% gone. No leftovers on anyone's plate! 

Happy Birthday Claudette 88!

 Wayne and Claudette both got t-shirt for their birthday with Zoey on it. I think they liked it? 

More photos to come after dinner tonight. We are having breakfast for dinner since Claudette loves her waffels. 

Easter

I should have taken a bunch of Easter Photos, but I kind of forgot. 

My fruit tart. It turned out good, just a little messy. I added too much milk to the filling. Added fresh whipped cream on top before serving, which was also messy. 

Easter egg hunt with madelyn. I didn't get a photo of Evan. He is getting sooo tall! A few more inches and he will be taller then me!