Our first and RAINY week of April

 Last week was a very cool, rainy week.  I'm talking LOTS of rain!  Day after day.  Spring Creek looked like this.

And the grassy area at the entrance to our community looked like this.

Actually, the water was running across the street on Wednesday.  

I made Spicy Basil Chicken Stirfry that day and took it over to Anthony and Lori.  Just as I got home I got a phone call from our daughter Miki in Sweden.  Her dear friend Kicki who has traveled here to the US with her many times in the past ten years, passed away that morning after a long battle with breast cancer.   SO SAD!!!!  She was just the sweetest, most gentle, most hilarious lady.  We had such wonderful times together. 

Here's a memory I cherish from the last time they were here in October 2022.  Eating pizza together.

Thursday was my usual laundry and choir prep day.  It was still rainy most of the day, but at one point the sun came out!!  I had to quickly grab my camera!

We had choir practice at the new church that evening!  So exciting!  Someone asked me how I was doing since Destiny and Elizer moved.  I said, "Well, I cleaned up my house on Tuesday morning and it has stayed that way!"  

I was texting with Destiny after practice and we decided that we'd meet Friday evening so Elizer could come here for the weekend, since he had missed Easter weekend here.  

On Friday morning I went for groceries, and it was trying to snow!!!  I made this video as I drove into our community. 

Later the sun did try to shine from time to time.  

I made meatballs and spaghetti and took some of them over to Anthony and Lori's.  Then I went to Dick's shop and we left from there at 5:00 to go meet Destiny.  

We met at a Cracker Barrel near Harrisburg. We decided to eat there together and it took FOREVER till we were waited on and even longer till be got our food.  This is the only picture I took.

It was late when we got back home, but he wanted to play.  So it was a very late bedtime.  Thankfully we could sleep in on Saturday morning. 

Dick had a surprise for Elizer.  For Christmas 2021, when they were living here with us, Alex's dad had gotten a battery-operated four-wheeler for Elizer.  He was too young to operate it of course, but he had fun sitting on it and pressing the  buttons that made starting and revving noises.  It sat in our living room until they got their own place a few months later!  Then it was put into their storage shed at their place where it pretty much stayed ever since.  Until moving day last week!  Here's a picture from February 2022 when it was in our living room, hahaha!

Dick brought it here last week and tried to recharge the battery, to no avail.  So he got another battery for it, charged it up, and it worked!  So that was Elizer's surprise on Saturday morning.  He LOVED it!!

It was a chilly day, but our grass was getting long, so Dick revved up the mower and mowed our grass.  Of course, Elizer had to have a ride around the neighborhood, so I bundled him up and away they went.  Here they are returning home.

I had laundry to fold and music prep to do for Sunday morning.  And there was a meet going on at Miami University.  I knew that Sophie would be running in a relay and also doing the 100.  We got to watch both of them.  Here's my video of the 100.  She did GREAT!

Then we went to Get Air.  Elizer had a blast of course!  

When it was time to go, look where he went, lol!!

He soon came down and we were on our way.  

Then it was bath time and bedtime before a very important day - our first service in our new church building!!  I'll write about that in the next post, complete with lots of pictures!