Snatches from our week

Time to catch up here before I head into another full week.

After we got home last Sunday from taking Sammy home, I kept finding things we had forgotten in our haste to leave for church that morning.  His favorite pillow, his favorite movies, his sippy cup, his tooth brush and paste, his bath soap.  Oh dear.  

So I put it all into a box and mailed it.  I knew he could survive and they could get replacements for the essential things, but it made me happy to think of him opening a box and finding his things in it.   Later in the week Sam texted me the pics.  

He sent me this one too.  The more I'm with Sammy the more I miss him when I'm not. 

We finally had a Sunday afternoon with Austin yesterday.  He could hardly wait to go to the nearby park after our naps.  Cold blustery weather does not bother him in the least.   But alas, we found out that the main reason he wanted to go there was because there were wonderful puddles after Saturday's big rain, and he wanted to walk through them.  Unfortunately, he had come here right from church and had no rain boots.  We decided we'll have to get a pair of rain boots to keep here at our house, since there will certainly be many more puddles to splash through in the coming months.  

So it was playing with the little Dollar General Store train set.  He loves to create challenges for the engine and gets quite creative!

Sophie had another Daddy/Daughter dance this week.  Look at that beautiful smile!  What a blessed little girl she is to have a dad who cherishes her!

Yesterday at Fillmore I had the men from the choir sing a rousing rendition of I'll Fly Away, complete with a harmonica interlude, played by Dick.  They did such a great job and almost got a standing ovation!  

At  Houserville I took this lovely picture.  I so enjoy the seasonal decor, thanks to my friends Sharon and Amy.  It was such a cold, raw, windy day yesterday, even some flying snowflakes, but this made me feel like Spring. 

Last evening our friends Yvonne and Robert came to spend the night.  She had a medical appointment here in State College early this morning.  We had a good time catching up.  The older we get, the more our conversations turn to health related topics!  I did not think of taking a picture, but here's one I stole from Yvonne's FB profile.  

And a parting picture to laugh at - here's what I posted for Throwback Thursday this week.  When Dick and I got married, our first home was a very small mobile home.  Dick was a pack rat and brought with him a lot of "stuff", and I soon decided we needed to go through it and get rid of some of it.   Dick's remedy for keeping me from throwing out some of his treasures was to put them on, layer upon layer!  

I think we will actually be getting some Spring weather this week, and I can hardly wait!!!