I will be out of the loop for a little while

I thought I had better post because I will be gone as of tomorrow for a few days. I made several thank you cards that I still need to post, and I never posted my mother's birthday card that I made for her when we stopped in Nebraska to see my parents on our way to Pennsylvania. So, at least here is her card.

We are volunteering for LifeLight Festival in South Dakota, which is a 3 day Christian Concert, festival. It's all free, just trying to turn people on to God. Unfortunately, we leave Thursday and my son-in-law is going in for surgery. We will wait until we know he is okay, and then leave. I hate leaving my daughter in the midst of all this, but we volunteered a long time ago; before we knew about the surgery. On top of that, my precious granddaughters are having upper respiratory issues caused by allergies; so my poor daughter has her hands full. :(

Will post my thank you cards when I get back, and some scrapbook pages of my grandmother on my father's side that I have done.

cards and pictures

My daughter was unable to come over so we could be creative together, BUMMER....... You'll have to put up with a simple thank you card that I am sending to my husbands cousin, Coley. He helped us for a solid week, while we were in Pennsylvania. Then put in the last dormer on the front of the house with his oldest son's help. We don't have pictures yet, they just finished yesterday.

My week has been pretty busy. Sunday our church had it's 10 year celebration. Our pastor, John Leach and his wife Chris; were surprised with a trip to the Bahama's from their congregation. My daughter and her family were there with us to help the church celebrate.

Monday, I had back to back appointments, and Tuesday was fairly busy as well. I had left Wednesday and Thursday open if my daughter could come over, or play catch up on email and paperwork for work. So, I still stayed quite busy. Yesterday, again was back to back appointments, then home for an hour. Then we went to see a kind of new Christian band at Clement Park, called Evermore. They are going to be at LifeLight Festival in Sioux Falls, South Dakota next weekend. We will be there as well volunteering. But, last night was nice; helped you let God, and let Go of the stresses of the week. I thought I would have pictures of this, but my battery was dead.

Anyway, here is a picture of the card I just made and some pictures of our Church's 10 year celebration.

card making and pages tomorrow

Well, I believe my daughter is coming over tomorrow and we are going to work on cards and scrapbook pages, then I will have some things to post. I do already have some scrapbook pages but I have one I want to finish before I publish them.
I received a letter today from my father-in-law's, cousin. We saw her at the reunion, but in the letter were other letters dating back to the 30's and 40's between cousins in Findley Lake and cousins in Gowanda, N.Y.. She said she didn't want them anymore and thought if I wanted I could keep them with the family records. I thought that was so cool! She is the one who has helped me more than anyone on my husbands paternal side in finding information. I will need to send her a Thank You note. Anyway, thanks for stopping by and hopefully I will post more later in the week.

Oh my gosh, it's been almost a week

Well, we left Pennsylvania on the 12th. We were up at 3 a.m. to finish packing and put the tarp on the motorhome. My husband's uncles (they are twins), came and picked us up and took us to the airport in Buffalo. Our plane left at 10:40 and we arrived in Denver at 3:45 p.m.. We took the skyride bus home and arrived around 6 p.m.. Our daughter's birthday dinner was planned for 6:30, we literally opened the bags to get a couple of things out, signed a birthday card and went to dinner. We arrived home around 9:30 p.m., and were completely exhausted. My husband got up the next morning and went to work though, he had to be really tired; although he would never really admit it. I was awake when he left and got up, still on Eastern time I guess. Started unpacking and doing laundry, cleaning up the house a little. I was anxious for my puppy to come home from my son's house. My daughter called and we went to have a coffee and then went to Scrapbook Destinations to look around. I found some cute paper for some of the pictures of working on the house. Then I went to meet with my partner to be brought up to speed on our clients and our new office. Made some phone calls and returned emails from people who I hadn't contacted while I was on vacation. Thursday we had a family dinner, my daughter's favorite spaghetti with Italian sausage and garlic bread. Her husbands parents and his Uncle and Aunt(who were in from Iowa), came over for cake and ice cream. Then Friday we went and got groceries, we were scraping around trying to figure out what we could eat, without very many basics.

Hopefully, things will calm down this weekend, although I have shopping and bills to pay and catch up on some other work details, so who knows if I will be able to post again until sometime next week. Again, I'd be remiss if I didn't thank all of our family and friends who have helped in one way or another so we can endure this journey of ours, of our building this house.

Pictures from our property in Greenfield Township, PA

Here are some pictures of what we have accomplished along with family and friends, we are so blessed by the people who come and help us when we come out to work on our future home in North East, PA. We are also blessed by our children and grandchildren who help whether they come with us, or stay in our beautiful state of Colorado.

more pictures

Here are some more pictures.....

more pictures from our house in pa and family

My daughter says I need to post more pictures, so I am. Hope you enjoy, and eventually I will scrapbook them and you'll see them on pretty pages.

Pennsylvania, 2008

We have been in North East, PA (Greenfield Township) for the last week and a half working on our vacation/future retirement home. We have been doing this for the last 6 years on our vacations. Not much of a vacation, but it will be worth the work and time when we are done. Here are a few pictures of where we are at and family as well.