The Move

Life Lesson #1: Never say never!

After a very hard week starting on Dec 3, with the break in and the selling of the company Ed was working for, and other factors..... We put house up for sell (which we signed a contract on before we left),had a huge yard sale, packed up the remaining & moved back to Ohio. Of course we chose the coldest day of the year, 3 degrees with wind chill of minus 100 ( at least it felt that way) that was Sunday Dec21.

Life Lesson #2 : God Always Has A Plan!

This is a lesson that we as Christians have to learn over and over and over again, maybe it will sink in one of these days! Just at our darkest hour God shows up just in time! I was able to transfer back to my old plant and Ed was able to get his job back at DiPietro's again.

finding Nemo

Clown fish, which one is Nemo?





DUDE !

Beautiful Coral

more aquarium pic

Sea Dragon



Octopus

Shark Petting, so cool They feel rough not slippery like you would think

LongBeach Aquarium

We spent Monday 12/1 at the Long Beach Aquarium This was the lori keet area, Angie got some nectar and the birds were more the willing to come see us

Angie and the sea lion

This was taken half way up had to take a break.





At the Peak

This is the view from the begining of the trail

Ed and I thought it would be fun to go to Griffth Park and walk one of the trails. The trail wrapped us around a moutain and we took it clear to the top. I got a kick out of the rattlesnake sign. Edd didnt think it to funny!

Santa Monica Beach water verrrrry cold

Santa Monica Pier

Elmo in Hollowood

Didn't think Sesame Street would let Elmo come to Hollywood by himself but there he was!

Thanksgiving in LA

Our trip to LA was really nice. We were able to cook dinner for Ang, Matt & Arron, pies and the whole smear. I believed they enjoyed the feast!

We did some sightseeing in Hollywood, Ed got an eye opener there! Its not as glamorous as seen on TV! It is fun to visit once or twice just to see the kooks & characters!

HOME INVASION!

After the trip to LA we came home to find our home invaded! We believed that they were in the house when we returned home from airport, too many things that were easy to pawn were left!
Pic 1: is our bedroom where they were trying to take our desk top and monitor
Pic 2: another view where drawers were ransacked & jewelry was taken
Pic 3: entranced point
Needless to say our kitchen renovation will be put on hold until our home is more secure IE: more outside lights and a security system! Maybe even a BIG SNARLY HIGHLY TRAINED GUARD DOG!

Kitchen renovation is coming along. These are cabinets that we built. The bottom just needs the top coat of paint and the laminet on the countertop, doors and hardware. The top cabinet obviously needs a little more work. Couldnt get a full pic of both together. Feels good to have upper cabinet installed.

Look dad I'm almost 50 yrs old and still sit with my legs open!!

These pics belong to our calender see explanation below

We went to Boco Grande on Saturday This is 1 of the beautiful houses on the beach


We thought it would be fun to be models on the beach, we thought maybe making a calender for charity: Funny Fat and Sassy Seniors!

Boco Grande Lighthouse

More calender pics

an unwelcome guess iguanas are not native to Fl and have overtaken the city! They have hired trappers to try and rid the island of these pest

Halloween at Cintas Loc 294

L to R Staci our receptionist, Me, Geidy: customer service

Pat the production supervisor

Airline pilot

Vilma the stockroom lead she disguised herself as garments

LOL

Yatnay: Biker Girl ?

We were able to dress up due to this man

Sergio: my new GM, he needs to pray to help our loc.

Maracel: A cat

Our weekend visitors: we have a flock of these birds that come to our house every weekend and sometimes during the week.I would like to believe that they just like us but I I think the real answer is they love our grubs! :)



Our bargin microwave. Marked down because it was a display model. There isn't a scatch on it and it fit perfectly under our cabinet. Complete with factory warrenty! Now just to find a place for my spices!!

AAHHHH the fall cool air is here! It's suppose to go down to 69 tonight! We can give the air conditioning a break and open the windows. I can go back in time and recall all the summer nights camping in the fresh air!

Name Me

Help!!! I need a name. This is our bowling mascot. She is worn whenever we are ashamed of our bowling partners performance. Which, I got to tell you, she gets passed around a lot! We bowl every other Saturday with our church league. She received a makeover over the summer and grew hair. Please help us name her!

After talking with Tracy's dad and seeing what he did with pallet wood, my McGaver (Ed) said "I can do that", hense my new base kitchen cabinet. All thanks to Cintas and the pallets we are getting from them. This just needs the doors and a last sanding and primer and finally white paint. He has alreadying starting to prepare the wood that will be needed for the wall cabinet. The style will match the bathroom vanity that we had already finished. Not to shabby!

This sign gave us a chuckle!



Our tax dollars at work!!!