APRIL showers bring MAY flowers...

Okay, so here it is, the last day of April. We have been out on the boat 4 times this month and are going to start the month of May off with a boat trip, too! Hannah left this morning for Disney World, Claire is singing at the Kiwanis Club for a luncheon today and I am working hard ... ha! ha! Seriously, I am cleaning up lots of loose ends as it looks like the Joint Commission for Hospital Accreditation will be here Monday for a 4 day survey of our campus.

We are good. We lost a chicken to a fight last week - sad how they turn on each other - so we are down to 8 hens and Heuvo, our rooster. The dogs are good, the pool is up and running and Don has taken on another "partner", Ted Trotter. He is our deacon at church and recently lost his job as a dairy farm manager when the owner of the farm lost it to bad business practices. He is a great guy, sweet family and a hard worker. Don is excited as it may allow him to back off a little on some of the harder aspects of work.

My parents are coming for a 10 day visit on May 15th, we will be going to Georgia Southern on the 19th for Claire's presentation, she is getting a Proclamation from the School Board on the 11th and goes to the FUN STATION with chorus on the 7th. She is having a pool party the 15th, turns 13 on the 23rd and will be having her Dance Recital on that same day - WHEW! Hannah will be taking her first AP Class in the fall - Language and Composition - and was invited to participate in the AA Program thru Thomas University but declined. We think it is a better path to take the AP route, save her HOPE money and look just as impressive to colleges when her time to apply comes around.

May is just around the corner - tomorrow actually - and we haven't slowed down a beat! Keeps life interesting :)

Where did MARCH go???!!!

Well, I completely missed the month of MARCH! Here we are, April 3rd and I find myself behind. Does that tell you anything? Yes, March, like most other months in the life of the Sivyer family, was BUSY! I believe I will just leave the summation at that and move on to APRIL :)

We may have to change the name of this blog to "BOAT LIFE". That's right, folks, we bought another boat! A 19' Twin Vee Bay Cat. Don has a new love :( Seriously, he is like a kid on Christmas morning! We just picked it up yesterday, spent the entire day on the water and he got up at 7am this morning to clean it up, flush out the engine and will be spending most of the afternoon waxing the hull and doing a hundred other things to it, I am sure! We had a BLAST!

Hannah turns the big 1-5 tomorrow, learner's permit looming on the horizon and Spring Break having begun yesterday. Ain't it great to be alive??!!! We spent a fun weekend at Cape San Blas last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. She took her friend, Gina (whom we ADORE), and we had such a fun time. She is blooming into such a beautiful young lady. She has a bit of maturing to do but, that will come with time.

Claire got her braces on Thursday - painful is how she might describe her mouth right now. She looks so different. Not like my thumb-sucking baby anymore :( She took her friend, Laura (another Q-T) to the beach last weekend. Two skinny-minis in bikinis!!!!! Claire is growing up so beautifully! She will be receiving an Academic Medallion from Duke University in May for her S.A.T. scores being so high - WOW! and has been invited to be inducted into the NJHS in May. We are blessed by our girls!

I am furloughing, working, keeping up with 10 chickens (we acquired 7 female chicks in March), 4 dogs, 2 BUSY girls and 1 WONDERFUL husband. Life continues to be fast-paced but, I LOVE IT!!! Here's the "run-down" for April:

1. Lots of BOAT trips, I am sure!
2. Oboe lessons continue for Hannah
3. Dance continues for Claire - recital is on her 13th birthday this year!
4. Hannah marches Rose Show parade
5. Hannah goes to Disney for competition with TCCHS Band
6. CRCT for Claire
7. End of course tests for Hannah
8. Work for me and Don!

AMEN!

HAPPY EASTER to ALL - Praise God; HE IS RISEN!!!