Happy Memorial Day! :) a special salute! :) BBQ cookout, a wonderful weekend :)

Happy Memorial Day!!! :) We're enjoying a peaceful, and relaxing day, with some sweet time being shared, with family, friends, and the wonderful spirit of the holiday weekend :) a very special salute to all of the brave men and women, who have served our country <3 We're loving the weekend :) during the evening yesterday, we grilled some hotdogs on the BBQ grill :) Jenn, Mike, Mikey, Hunter, and Carter came over to hangout :) it was such a nice sunny evening :) The kids were having fun playing on the new trampoline :) We were all hanging out in our backyard :) We played catch with the football :) Little Carter was sitting on the trampoline, and put his hands up when he wanted the football to come to him :) awww! :) he's growing a lot, and was throwing the football to us :) awww! :) We had some hotdogs, potato salad, macaroni salad, and chips :) it was awesome! :) We heard lots of happy birds singing, and my dad worked on a new gate for our backyard :) it was such a sweet evening, and night :) We're treasuring all of the very special memories being made :) We're so excited for this very special time of the year, gardening, and lots of nature :) we're so excited to spot some hummingbirds soon :) There's so much more, to look forward too :) we're enjoying some foods, snacks, drinks, and all of the heart-felt moments, that makes this weekend one of the most special ones of the year :) Enjoying a beautiful day, and weekend, with family, friends, nature, gardening, and the wonderful spirit of the season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the holiday weekend with us :) we love you all bunches and bunches! :) Tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :) We look forward to going out to the mcds/dunkins drive thrus to get some treats, and also mailing out some cards, and a letter in the upcoming days too :) Cheers! :)

A Wonderful Memorial Day, and a sweet spirited BBQ cookout! :) A very special salute to all of our brave men and women who have served our country over the years :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a safe, and beautiful memorial day holiday :) as we celebrate this very special holiday, we're with eachother in spirit :) We've been thinking of you and your family's often this weekend, and taking time to reflect, remembering in loving memory, all of the brave men and women who have served our beautiful country over the years :) We love, appreciate, honor them, with a very special salute, and are so very proud of them all, including 2 of our family members who have served, my uncle Ralph, and great uncle Ed :) They're always in our hearts, and we love to have a very special tribute to them, on this wonderful holiday to honor them :) We'll forever be grateful, and thankful for them <3 We're enjoying a peaceful, and relaxing day here at home :) We've been enjoying the weekend very much :) We love hearing about your days, holiday weekend traditionss, and sharing ours :) from relaxing ,to BBQ cookouts, gardening, nature walks, and lots more :) it's a wonderful weekend of sweet reflection, spring spirit, and the countdown to summer season beginning :) i'd love to take this time ,to share about an awesome evening we had yesterday :)

BBQ COOKOUT! :) During the evening yesterday, we fired up the BBQ grill :) my dad took the evening and night off from work :) we love BBQ grilling :) That awesome scent of foods cooking, the nice sunshine, and spirit in the air :) Jenn, Mike, Mikey, Hunter, and Carter came over :) Jenn and family brought some potato salad, and macaroni salad :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) my mom, dad, Kayla, Taylynn, Holly, and i, and Jenn and family were in our backyard :) The kids were playing on the new trampoline :) they were having so much fun jumping :) i brought the football outside, and we were playing catch with the football :) little Carter was having so much fun sitting on the trampoline :) he's grown a lot :) he put his hands up when he wanted the football tossed to him :) awww! :) he was so excited to play catch with us all, and he's beginning to say more words, it sounds like he says ,"Chris", and "i got this" :) awww! :) we were having an awesome fun time, playing catch with the football, and my dad was working on our new gate, for our backyard :) There were lots of happy birds singing all around :)

We enjoyed some hotdogs, potato salad, and macaroni salad :) The foods are delicious! :) i love to put ketchup and mustard on my hotdogs :) we had some potato chips too :) it was so nice, sitting outside, enjoying the BBQ cookout foods, and also hearing so many happy birds all around our yard, and birds soaring over :) it was nicely sunny well into the evening, we love it! :) We thanked Jenn and family for coming over to visit, and bringing some nice foods :) we were hanging outside until about 8pm last night, it was awesome! :) a really sweet evening and night, with many special memories being made :) it was our first BBQ cookout of the season :) We're so happy we got to BBQ cookout :) We look forward to many more BBQ cookouts :) we love our BBQ cookout area, we have 2 charcoal grills, tables, including a new table, plus we have lots of seats, and shade umbrellas :) It's BBQ grilling season :) everyone who is BBQ grilling, we hope everyone is enjoying their favorite foods, snacks, and drinks :) It feels like summer season is on it's way :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) memorial day holiday :) We had some early rainfall in our area, a replenishing rain for the plants, bushes ,and trees :) our new sprouts ,and plants soaking up the rain, which is healthy and makes everything grow and blossom :) We love our beautiful azalea bush, with all of the flowers blossoming, and our rose bush is growing lots of new buds, and will be blossoming in June :) it's amazing, how June is almost here :) Holly and i enjoyed refilling our hummingbird feeders yesterday :) we're so excited to look for the hummingbirds :) we have some 80 degrees weather days coming up in our forecast, it'll be so nice to see if the hummingbirds visit this week :) we're pumped up and excited for all of the nature joys :) i put some goodies outside this morning, during my early morning nature walk :) our nature friends are very happy, enjoying the goodies i put outside for them :) there's lots of nature visitor's this weekend, lots of birds, and squirrels :) It's a wonderful weekend of spirit soaring nature :)

We're enjoying the weekend very much :) it's so nice, and a heart-felt joy, all of the times being shared, with family, friends, nature :) the spirit of the season is all around :) We've been keeping in touch with family this weekend :) Bobby and family went for some car rides, and Alyssa and family went to one of the beaches in Ct, and my brother Charlie and his girlfriend are doing well, and Jenn and family had a BBQ cookout too :) my dad did a great job, on our new gate in our backyard, it's awesome, and will help keep our dog Blue in our backyard, when he goes outside :) we love to let our dogs run around our backyard, and sometimes Blue got out of our backyard and ran off, a lot last year, and with the new taller gate, it makes it easier for us to know, he's in our backyard :) Holly and i have been enjoying getting into the gardening season :) We're so excited to be planting, getting our garden growing more and more :)

It's go nna be getting into the 80's here, in the upcoming days, which will make the nature grow and blossom more :) We're getting our popcorn planters set and ready, for our front yard, by our dogwood tree, and rose bushes :) we're hoping to get at least 20 to 30 plants growing, to grow popcorn, multipe cobs grow on the plants, we'd love to have another big harvest of poporn :) my dad's gonna be going to surplus unlimited store soon, to pick up some plants there too, they have great sales on plants :) they put the plants on racks outside the store :) it's gonna be a big gardening week for us, as we fill in our garden, growing lots of plants, sunflowers, flowers, fruits, and vegetables :) we're very happy, excited, and thrilled for this wonderful new gardening season journey and sharing it with everyone :)

We're enjoying a wonderful and peaceful memorial day holiday :) Sharing in heart-felt moments with family, friends, and the spirit of the season :) a wonderfully special salute, to all of our brave men and women who have served our country over the years :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, in good health, and keeping in good spirits :) Jenn and the kids came over, we were all hanging out in our backyard :) We tossed the football around, and the kids played on the trampoline again :) We're enjoying sharing in the weekend with everyone :) We're so thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and the wonderfulness you all bring our hearts :) as we blossom into the new week, we look forward to continued times to share in, we have sweet treats tuesday tomorrow, writing, super wednesday mailing out cards, letters, nature walks, gardening, and lots more, leading us into another superf un baking friday adventure :) Keep Healthy, safe, and strong everyone :) We're with you all every step :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for warming our hearts, uplifting our spirits, and brightening our days :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) We'll always be here for you and your family's :) Big group warm caring happy sunny friendship hug :) We look forward to sharing in many more special times with family, friends, nature, and the wonderful spirit of the spring season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a nice memorial day holiday, enjoying nice time with family, friends, having foods, snacks, drinks, enjoying the spirit of the holiday weekend :) we're so excited for all of the joys of spring time, as we blossom into another new week :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "happy memorial day" :) awww! :) she says, "i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and having a nice day" :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice peaceful memorial day holiday :) we think of you all often, and are so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, for making each day, very special for us :)

Happy Memorial day! :) Blossoming nature, and spring spirit all around :) Greetings from our blossoming garden :) We've been enjoying some wonderful time in our yard, and gardens this holiday :) We have lots of nice sprouts, our fruit trees are doing awesome, and we're loving seeing and hearing lots of birds around :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to be able to share in very heart-felt and heart warming moments like this, with family, friends, and spirit of the season :) i took some new pictures to share with everyone : )Happy nature, and gardening season smiles :)

The kids are enjoying the new trampoline :) they're having a super fun time! :) 

Ladybug visitor! :) i spotted this happy ladybug near our raspberry bushes and grapevines :)

We have lots of happy new sprouts growing :) 

string beans :)

Snap peas :)

apples :) our granny smith apple tree has lots of apples growing this season :)

Pears :)

new gate for our backyard :) my dad installed this nice new gate, for our backyard :) it's so nice :) We're so happy to have a new gate :) it'll help keep our dog blue in our backyard when he goes outside :)

Lots of grapes and raspberries growing :) 

my mom's succulent plants :)

flower sprouts :)