Billy & I got the privilege to go to our granddaughter's preschool (which happens to be at Second Baptist) and help color Easter eggs.

So we dipped the eggs in the dye.

Even Great Grandma got to come!! Bet there weren't too many
GREAT Grandmas there!!

After we colored their 2 eggs, we headed over to have some fun with temporary tattoos....

Hopscotch....

More hopscotch....

 And yet MORE hopscotch.

 
Once we were done playing hopscotch and getting some cool tattoos, we all had a sugar cookie and listened to the Preschool director (who I actually went to High School with) read us a couple of Easter stories. All in all it was a great morning!

Getting ready to head with Billy over to our oldest granddaughter's preschool to help color Easter eggs. I will be sure and take lots of pictures, and post some here later. Wonder if they will provide some of those 'smocks' for the adults to wear as well!!

Spring is still here....but showing it's 'wet' side. But the result of green grass, leaves on the trees and pretty flowers will make it worth the gloominess!

Billy & I are part of a group called International Friends. In a nutshell you become a host family to an international student that is attending one of our local universities while they are here. The students have a chance to sign up for the program, then they are matched up with families.

There is an orientation held for all host families with tips and ideas on just how to be a good 'friend'. (and the 'dos and don'ts')

Billy & I currently have approximately 5 students that we have 'adopted' for this semester. You normally have them the entire time they are here, which can range from 1 year up to 4 years. You don't actually keep them in your homes, but instead just keep up with them by email, phone calls or occasionally inviting them to your home for a meal.

It's also neat that when they leave, they usually still keep in touch with you. You also have that chance with some to 'plant the seed' per say, and hopes that it will grow and bloom for the Kingdom!!

We have had students from Korea, China, Jamaica, Africa and India. Our most recent group is from Indonesia, Pakistan and Mongolia. You can learn so much from them, and they want to learn the same from us!

And the numbers are growing every year. It's so fulfilling to see what a difference you could make in someone's life. Our ultimate goal is that they come to know the One who will provide eternal life and hope.

Today is the birthday of one of my closest high school friends, and who was my maid of honor in my wedding. Happy Birthday Sandra!!

It's a beautiful Spring day...finally. I think this past weekend's storm was just Winter trying to keep his grasp on us...but it didn't work!!

Today was "free pastry day" at Starbucks (which a drink purchase...) so I got my skinny vanilla latte and some pumpkin bread. (the 'skinny' part cancels out any fat the bread has...right?)

Then my daughter calls and says they were just there and she was headed over to my office building to wait on me so I could say "Hi" to my granddaughters. It's amazing how just getting to see them for a few minutes can make my day!!

I've been trying to get some exercise and shed a few added pounds, so now I try to walk at least 1/2 hour during my lunch time. I've mapped out a 1-mile course around my office building by using a Google map pedometer. (http://www.trails.com/googlemap.aspx)

I map out a route and it tells me how far that walk is. So I have 3 different routes depending how much time I have or how far I want to walk that day.

May your weather be nice enough today for a walk!!

My how time flies....

Yes, I know...it's been a while. Don't remind me. I know of other blogs where they are updated DAILY. And yet I hardly ever update this.
Sigh....okay. If I'm going to keep this page, then I need to update at least every other day. So I might not have much to say; so what! And some days I may have a LOT to say...but better not.I titled this post because another niece was married this weekend. A niece who, like the rest, just grew up all of a sudden. Just yesterday she was playing with all her other cousins....well, so it wasn't just yesterday. It was like 18 yrs ago. Here is a picture of the lovely couple:
And we have one more niece that is getting married in October. Then all the nieces will be married. And I will feel so much older.
Speaking of marriages, Billy & I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on the 14th. Oh, and Billy's 49th birthday. He missed it by one year to get a free season pass to Silver Dollar City. Bummer.

The BSU work is still going strong; we took a group of students to Engage the first weekend of March. It was a great weekend of good music and speakers, and I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been sick. =( I had just been bragging about how I had not been sick, and BAM! That's what I get for bragging. So now when people ask me how I am, I tell them 'not so well'. Just in case the flu bug is listening in. =)
Our first and second day of Spring here in Southwest Missouri haven't been so 'spring-y'. We had a cold rain yesterday followed by ice last night and into today. But the good thing is it will all melt tomorrow.
Upcoming events.....let's see. Easter. Handbell group doing a mini-concert. Billy's trip to Haiti. Church choir singing at Silver Dollar City. Our summer trip to Central Asia (hopefully!). And probably lots of other stuff in between that I am totally forgetting about right now.

And before I sign off...I cannot do so without posting some pictures of my beautiful granddaughters.
See? I told you they were beautiful!!