4/1/07...Nathaniel and cousin Jacob playing together.

My sister, mom and me!

4/2/07...Me and longtime good friend Amy.  We enjoyed visiting her at my old elementary school, where she now teaches. Thanks Amy!

Annabelle and Amy.

A picnic at the Battlefield. 

Hiking with Grandma Rudy on the Heritage Trail.

4/3/07  At Happy Hallow Park with Granddad and Grandma Cindy.

Annabelle and Nathaniel love this balance beam!

Annabelle loved holding baby Ace and playing with Kloey...her step-cousins.

Nathaniel playing in the toy room at Granddad's.

4/5/07...coloring Easter Eggs at Grandma Ludwig's.

Playing in the backyard at Grandma Ludwig's on a very cold day!

4/8/07...Back home in time for Easter.  It was a very cold one - high only 30 degrees.

Me and Annabelle.

Playing with Easter toys after church...

4/11/07...More snow.

4/13/07...A rite of spring - the street sweepers are out (despite the snow).

4/18/07...A red squirrel made a nest in our gas grill.  Good thing we don't grill very often.

4/19/07...Mama squirrel.

4/20/07...Ludwig and son construction company!  We doing a major re-org of our garage...Nathaniel is having lots of fun helping to build the closets and cabinets!

4/23/07...Daddy's B-day dinner...warm enough to sit on the deck!  He spent his birthday working on the garage project.

Our tradition lives on - strawberry shortcake for Dad's b-day.

Annabelle with Chris as he opened gifts (holding a sack of gummy bears!)

Mr. and Mrs. Pheasant.  Mr. Pheasant comes honking for his food several times a day.  He honks...I throw down some corn!

4/25/07...Annabelle getting her award for choir after a performance of their spring musical, "The Rockslinger's Greatest Hits" (the story of David and Goliath).

Nathaniel looking very much like a Ludwig in this picture!

4/27/07....Annabelle in costume for the final performance of "The Rockslinger's Greatest Hit"

On stage after the show