Happy Birthday, John!

Happy Birthday to Phyllis' brother John!!!!! We love you and hope the year ahead is filled with peace, success and joy! May God bless you and keep you!

Icy Valentine's Day

Happy Belated Valentine's Day! We had no power, no phones and therefore no heat, internet or tv... but we had each other! We're very thankful for God's answer to our prayer to be able to spend the night at home! Right around our normal bedtime, power was restored. Otherwise, we'd have had to find somewhere else to stay for the night (and somewhere that takes cats) and would have had to navigate those icy roads in the dark while doing so. God is good!

Despite the challenges, we had an enjoyable day together and we wish you a happy Valentine's week :) !

May God bless you!

Too Cute to Resist!

Here are our nephews, Dominik and Mitchell, dancing along to Dominik's birthday present. We're so glad they're enjoying it! Thank you to Angela for sharing the photo!

May God bless them and may He bless you!

Maryland Snow

One of the first things we noticed during our first Maryland winter was that they tend to go a little crazy with the salt. We had snow last night (just a couple of inches, if that) and, while there is some snow on the side of the road... the white stuff in the road is salt! There is not actually any snow in the road in these photos... and, in the top photo, you can see a huge lump of salt. This was almost 2' high this morning but many people running it over has flattened it.

Seems like you needs 4WD here more to navigate the salt piles than the snow!

Well, we find this interesting and thought you might too. Ben came up with the term Maryland snow in reference to the salted roads (I have to admit that our first winter had me confused for a minute... if the snow had already melted from all the yards, why is it still in the roads? But really, it wasn't... it was salt! I'd just never seen anyone use it in such large quantities before). Have to give Maryland credit though... they do get the roads clear pretty quickly.

May God bless you!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Happy Birthday to Phyllis' Dad!!!!! We love you and hope the year ahead is filled with love, success and joy! May God bless you and keep you!

Happy Birthday, Dominik!

Happy 5th Birthday to Dominik!!!!! We love you and hope the year ahead is filled with love, fun and joy! May God bless you and keep you!