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Surprises!

There have been so many surprises this weekend but the best surprise of all was all my kids together at our house for the first time in over 7 months.

Katie and Andrew flew in from North Carolina arriving just before 11 a.m. today and no one knew they were coming but Dear and I. Dan arrived from Eastern Washington at 4 a.m. driving for 6 hours after his work shift and went straight to bed. When Dan woke up he was very surprised to see his sister and Andrew. He had no idea they were traveling to Washington. When Josh and Laura arrived to have lunch with us and to see their brother Dan they were surprised to see Katie and Andrew! The last surprise was when Aunt Lana and Uncle Steve came for lunch and were surprised to see Katie and Andrew, too. Dan’s birthday is tomorrow and Joshua’s birthday is on Thursday so we going out to dinner tomorrow night. Table for 7 please! I’ll take some photos of all of us when we are a little more dolled up for our dinner out…

We’ve had a very lovely day enjoying food together and hearing about Andrew’s experience in Afghanistan and just being able to see each other face to face.

We’ve also enjoyed looking out on our new white world.

Last but not least…the votes are in. I tried on the two dresses and the shoes to go with them and the unanimous vote from the bride, my DIL and my sister Lana is the dress that goes with the silver shoes! I’ll show the full look when I post photos from the wedding day…

Hope you all have a wonderful week and to those of you in the U.S. hope your Martin Luther King day is a good one.

Valentine’s Day Adventures and Surprises!

 

We started our Valentine’s Day very early with a low tide walk at Emma Wood State Beach in Ventura. This was a very cold morning for Southern California and we were layered well and I had my gloves on. Our faces were very cold when we walked into the wind. The only others up and paying attention to us were those 2 doggies in the window! We stopped for breakfast at Allison’s in Ventura then made a stop at Target where we bought 2 bookshelves for our living area (I wiill show how the space was transformed in my Metamorphosis post for Monday :0) Then we stopped at the Home Depot to buy an upper kitchen cabinet to put in our bathroom for some extra storage. I’ll show that project next week. Now Dear had the perfect Valentine’s Day ahead of him putting things together with his hand tools!

 

While we were busy recreating our space in the condo the doorbell rang and the florist brought this lovely bouquet from our children to us for Valentine’s Day. So unexpected and so appreciated. What wonderful thoughtful children God has blessed us with.

 

Can’t help but show you…

 

Isn’t the vase they came in pretty with the etchings on it?

 

Then after all the projects were done and we got cleaned up we were ready for our Valentine’s dinner. A very lovely, fulfilling day filled with lots of love…

God is good to us! Blessings on your upcoming Sunday.

Photobucket is holding all my photos I stored with them from 2007-2015 hostage unless I pay them a lot of money. I’m slowly cleaning up many posts from this time period and deleting their ugly grey and black boxes with a ransom request. Such a time consuming bother.