ANDREW'S FIRST ITALY VLOG

May 17 THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER

Well, it has been about a month since I posted last.  Called that.

Let's go back and catch up.  Easter was wonderful.  We had dinner at Manda's with her, Aaron and Lauren.  Her and Lauren made a homemade angel food cake with homemade chocolate frosting. My favorite and it was SO GOOD!!!!  We had chicken fettuccine Alfredo. Always good. It was a great time.  We celebrated my birthday too!

Monday we sat in the rain at NK High School and watched Lauren's softball game.  I worried about her because she was just getting over a cold.

The next game Lauren played such a great game  on Bainbridge. We lost twice but she played first base and got lots of people out! She slid into home plate and scored. She had fun. She threw to second and got a player out but hurt her throwing arm (possibly hyper-extended it). Not good.

It was 17 years ago since we moved into our home.  I still love it here.  It is our comfy cozy home where I am happy and content. <3 p="">
Lanny had a terrible time with her medications for a time.  They put him on a new one and it had bad side effects.  He stopped taking the drugs.

My youngest grandson Jared turned 11!  It seems so weird how quickly they have all grown!

Lauren got the spot of Head Drum Major for the band at her school.  That is really something!!! So proud of her.  She deserves it.

Michael passed away.  It was devastating.  We found out a month after he passed!  He passed away March 30.

Lanny made a turkey dinner including the gravy! He did awesome! It was so tasty and I was careful not to overeat!

Got a surprising phone call today while at the gym from grand daughter Riley! Such a great surprise! < that girl!

Had blood work done.  And Lanny had a stress test done.

Feeling blessed! Had an amazing dinner of lumpia, pancet, and chicken adobo AND got to visit with Lauren, Amanda, Aaron, and ANDREW was there!!!! So great to spend time with the whole family and share laughs and love.

Had such great seafood in Hadlock! Thank you Kevon and Karla and Dylan and Joel and Madi! It was fun and filling!!!! — with Karla Ellis Rogers and 3 others.

April 15.... I guess it is once a month thing. lol

I am feeling bubbly and springy!  Don't know if that makes sense.  So I changed everything!  It is nice to finally have springtime here!  We are gearing uup for softball right now. Lauren is the only one playing.  Her first game was suppose to be today but she is sick. I am sad she is missing her first game.  She also lost her softball coach already and he was her main reason for joining that team.  She has one Monday and I pray she is feeling better!  She's been sick all week.  She was at her dad's the week before and I suspect she could have gotten sick on the plane coming home.  It is all recycled air.
No way to avoid it.  Just pray she gets over it soon!

Tomorrow is Easter!  Praise God!  Resurrection Day!  It is amazing how much He loves us!!!  We had no invitations or plans and then Amanda called and invited us.  I love her food and being with the family.  So I was happy she called. Doesn't sound like Andrew will be there if he doesn't get his papers done.  That makes me sad.  He is missed. And hopefully Lauren will feel better. I hope you have a great Easter.

Last weekend we had another family dinner.  Last Christmas Papa was so exhausted I decided not to do it anymore.... someone else could have Christmas at their house.  Then for some reason we decided to have a gathering every other month to have the family together!  Crazy. But it is working out good!  The first dinner was in February and we had Italian Night!  Good food, fun, great time!  Last weekend we went with Chinese Food (or Asian).  Papa made Sweet and Sour chicken wings and I bought some fortune cookies and raspberry sherbet.  Lauren made Pancit with 2 types of noodles, veggies, chicken, etc.... It was a huge ordeal to make as she's never made it before. Her mom was on an airplane so she got the recipe on her phone.  She also made Chicken Adobo. Tara brought a Korean beef and rice dish, Jordy brought Beef and Broccoli dish. Karla brought Chicken fried rice and General Tao's chicken.  The girls all played a game and the guys watched the Masters Golf tournament together.  It was a good day.  Our next gathering is in June and it will be a Mexican fiesta. I think.  Need to double check with the others but pretty sure.  Will be bbq coming up this summer.

 Madi got her hair cut short and it is beautiful!  And she loves it!

So my 61st birthday was last week.  For my birthday I took Madi to get her haircut.  Her and I went out to eat. That was about it.  I got over 100 facebook greetings, phone calls, etc.... heard from all of my grandkids!!!!  Did not hear from son Ryan but I didn't expect to.  My two sisters called and so did my brother Doug.  I love feeling the love on my birthday!!!!   Papa made the best steak I ever had for dinner too! Num!

Heather, Don and the boys were at Tara's house the day before and we went and saw them for a bit. It was so nice to see the WHOLE family and not have a couple missing.  I love them!  Took some pics

Since last time I had written I got to see 4 concerts!!!!  Here goes.... 1st one was Andrew! His college group from Northwest College came to Gateway Church to worship! It was great!  More than amazing to see how much love for the Lord these 130 kids love!

Andrew is in the back row... second from the left.

Andrew and two of the boys he used to teach at this church. Happy to see each other!

Andrew after the concert....so happy to be there.

Andrew's sister and her friends made these signs for Andrew and Mindy.

Andrew worshiping the Lord

Next day we had Lauren's band concert.  Lauren plays the tenor sax and she plays it so well!

Lauren's solo!

Tuesday night was Madi's concert.  She looked so pretty and it was so good!  Her first concert!

And finally on Thursday night we had Riley's concert!  She sang a solo in it too.

Hope you enjoyed the concerts too!    Well, that is it for me!  Happy Easter!!!!