Moving Day

Today was the big move for Joey and Jeff.  Dale and I helped them move – Joey, from the apartment to his new house in Holland and we also moved Jeff back in with us (for a time).  We are very proud of how Joey diligently saved and planned for his first home. His goal was to be able to access the tax credit for new home owners before the offer ran out.

So our day begins with…DONUTS! A must-have to keep your energy up on a busy day – right!

Moving out…  

Believe me, the slates from the pool table were VERY HEAVY! so… I carried the TV instead! OK, so it’s not a wide screen TV! (smile) Joey’s new house

               and his barn

Kitchen – anyone want to donate to the “Joey needs a little table, fund?”       

The upstairs is a bit reminiscent of Dale’s Grandma Bolhuis’ house – up the stairs and around a corner – tight fitting sooooo….

luckily Joey’s house has a handy dandy door that leads to the roof of his garage or we would have had to dismantle his box mattress to get it to the upstairs. Dale shovels the roof so he doesn’t slip off.  This picture is a little dark, but this shows the inside by the door that is at the top of the stairs that leads to the roof of the garage. And this is a small room off the master bedroom that the other couple used for a nursery.  Joey is going to make it his “office.”Joey’s couch had to go around the front and through the front door in order to fit in.  It was a tight squeeze.

Notice how the boys are always watching their dad do the work!! (smile)

This is a perfect little “starter” house for Joey.  The yard is actually quite large and he is anxious for Spring to see how his yard looks without all the snow.  The people who lived there were great organizers and left Joey detailed instructions about the underground sprinkling and the landscaping – when to trim each item and what to do each season.  It was so neat how they left the keys for everything all tagged, and the instructions for everything imaginable. He worked in the deal for them to leave the washer and dryer so I imagine he will need to do some laundry tonight.

Good Night Everyone!! Hope you enjoyed the tour!!

Christi and Dale

PS – go ahead – I dare you – ask Dale about his shin!!!

Birthday Gifts & Cards

As you know it was my birthday on Sunday and Jeff & Jessica, and Julie & Jeremy and family were over for dinner.  I got great birthday cards from everyone.  Gracie made hers all by herself and it says “I love you Grandpa” in her own special way by writing a card full of the letter T.

Tyler picked out my Birthday card all by himself, and even signed everyone’s name.

And then because they all know I love coffee and my new Keureg coffee maker, Christi purchased enough coffee to last me a long time, and a neat holder to store them in.

 

Tyler picked out a box of Hazelnut coffee to add to my collection.  It was a great day and then we got to watch NASCAR, which Tyler and Grandpa (me) love.  Tyler, when he found out my birthday was on Valentines day and the first day of NASCAR racing, said to Julie, “Grandpa is really lucky”, but Jeff & Jess could not understand how anyone could watch cars just going around and around in a big circle.  Good thing Tyler is my NASCAR buddy.

Dale

Snow Day

So what does one do on a SNOW DAY? Instead of three little ones to care for - add to the mix two school age kids and what do you get? NOISE, NOISE and more NOISE!! Oh, it wasn’t TOO bad, but I think my ears are still ringing. To the added children I had an interview for another child – which looks promising – to add to our day care. Then, Charlie had a Dr. appointment so there was the in and out times for that. It seemed a zoo there for a while, but all in all the day went well. Rachel loves to read to Charlie Craft time

Snack Time – Red Cake!! After all it is Valentine season

Nap time – YES!!!

Some out door play Okay I’m cheating – I took these outdoor pictures on a previous snow day, but they did play outside for a nice chunk of time.

And now that schools were closed today that means the church activities are closed tonight as well so what does that mean? It means I have my hubby home all night! What a nice break for (him) us.

A nice new coat of pure white snow on the ground always makes me think of the verse from Isaiah (1:18) Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Christi

We have fun when the camera is on.

Gracie loves to play on our computer so anytime I am on it she come over and says “Grandpa can I make colors on the computer”. What she likes to do is have me go to a blank page, and make the font as big as it will go and then she knows how to pick the colors all by herself by using the mouse, and pushing the okay button. She will then proceed to type usually a series of numbers across the page and then she wants to try another color.

987654321,

She follows the same pattern of numbers each line, and when she types the wrong one she knows it and back spaces, and types the right one. Well today she was doing this again and I thought I would try something different. So I turned on the Webcam and we just started clicking away.

When Tyler came home from school he had to have his picture taken with Grandpa too.

What would life be without our fun-loving not-so-quiet grandchildren :)