The Heart of the Home

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Giving thanks...for family, birthdays, graduation and being together!

Oh bird....

Dessert orders...

Mousse extravaganza....

Make a wish Grandma...

Our sunny Kate.....

Gpa, Brady, Ted Ted, Milk and a good book....

Top Chef Edwin....breakfast tacos....

Breakfast tacos.....

Choo choo.......

We're bananas for Katers...

Cancun beauties....

Chel & Edwin dodge ice storm & arrive safely....

Duck Dynasty and beautiful Jenna....

Super nachos for Gma G....

Row row row your boat....

Camping in the man cave....

Genius at work....

Tim & Jenna's photo shoot....

Unkie Timmy...do it again!!!

The Thanksgiving chicken hatching tri buns...

Gma Nancy & Gpa Dan ride the bus..............

To cap it off, so much joy and love in one household....Thank you God!!!!

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Grandma G gets a visit from Lydia and Co.

Miss Lydia paid a visit to Grandma G yesterday...what a cutie!

She brought along her Grandma, Grandpa & Aunt Hannah....

Great Hope (what Lydia calls Gma G) was tickled pink!

Friday, November 22, 2013

A beautiful day in Fountain City

I met my friend Kathy (from my Catholic Charities Days) in Fountain City for lunch.

It was a beautiful cold day and I was amazed at the physical beauty of the river and the bluffs.

This picture is taken from the parking lot of St. John's UCC on Hill Street.

We saw a number of eagles flying overhead

After a year hiatus on this blog, I'm back!!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

November in Austin!

Greg and I traveled to Austin November 8-11 for a wonderful weekend with Chelsea and Edwin. Here are some pictures of our time together!

Edwin the Victor of Cataan

The pumpkin chucker at Becker Winery

Frozen yogurt from Germany...Lilian, do you have frozen yogurt in Germany???

Chel & her Dad in scenic downtown Austin

Chef Edwin with Beer Chicken...mmmmmm

Hiking in a nature preserve near Jollyville Rd.

Austin Java Migas...mmmmmmm

A lesson on Grandma Barnes' sewing machine

Hemming some awesome jeans

Chelsea Ochoa...pioneer woman learning to crochet

Edwin's JMJ office building...neat place and good people!

Heading Home All Too Soon....

Saturday, September 1, 2012

I'm hiding I'm hiding and no one knows where

My favorite poem when I was little goes...
I'm hiding I'm hiding and no one knows where, for all they can see are my toes and my hair. So I love this picture of Grandpa and Kate hiding from Brady.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Saturday. August 3, 2012

Hi guys,

We thought we would update you on our weekend so far.

We went biking on the Old Abe Trail from Jim Falls to Cobban. It was a perfect day.

The happy bikers,

We stopped at Klinger Market Farms north of Chippewa Falls to pick up some sweet corn. Good sweet corn has been hard to come by this summer but we found a winner in the Klinger Farms sweet corn. Mary had also picked up some green beens and zuchini at the Farmer's Market in Eau Claire this morning.

It was such a nice night, we ate our evening meal on the porch.

Backing up a couple of weekends, we went camping at Coon Forks with our church group the weekend of July 21 & 22. You will notice Big Blue is missing from this picture. Big Blue headed to Rawhide Ranch to start another chapter in its life. Yes, there are tarps. We had rain Friday night and Saturday morning. The rest of the weekend turned into very nice weather.

This is an interesting picture. We now have good water pressure! We had Certified Plumbing come out. They did something which increased our water pressure! You can't believe it is the same shower.

Instead of barely making it to the top of the pipe and dribbling out, we now have water pressure that shoots the water across the shower to the opposite wall! We know, but this is making us very happy!

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Tim's Art Show

Tim's art will be displayed at Tangled Up in Hue in downtown EC for the month of July. A reception was held to honor the artist Friday night and lots of family & friends came to support Tim!