SPRING FURY

               
                    I believe we had one of the nicest spring time in St Louis since I have lived here, except a short 10 minutes two weeks ago. It was a furious hail storm, the worst I ever experienced. Hail the size of ping pong balls.

Just starting

Checking out the damage

Our drive way after the storm

                         Just hours after I heard from Daniel and Eric the amount  of damage the storm caused to there homes only about 3 miles from here. They experienced baseball size hail and it looks like the whole neighborhood needs new roofs.

Looks like Eric's hand

Eric's front yard

                    

                        This was an exciting few minutes for me and luckily we had no damage around here.
         
                        About the same week our old coffee machine stopped functioning and we had to splurge on a new one.The old one we had for over 10 years and the counter read 19864 coffee dispensed. Averaging about 6 cups a day for  Donna and me.

Imported from Switzerland

                       Like I said before, beside that little spring fury we had nothing but dry warm weather, and everything is blooming way ahead of time and in return Donna and I enjoying life to the fullest, what you see in the next few pictures. 

Relaxing after work

We grilled about every other night

Playing some games

This kebab was exceptional delicious

Enjoying a fresh cup of espresso from our new machine

                       We also had two functions at our grand kid's schools we love to attend. Jacob dazzled us with a elaborated concert and Luke participated in his school's talent show. 

Jacob warming up for the big night

Luke showing off his incredible martial art talent, at only 7 year old 

he is about to receive his black belt 

                      The weekend of mothers day Daniel and Gina took their last vacation in Cancun before having the baby so we enjoyed Nitro for a week. On mothers day itself,  Brian, Windy, Jacob and Luke

honored us with there presence and we spend a great Day together.

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Nitro gets spoiled

Donna is helping me out on the grill

Enjoying a delicious mothers day lunch

Fresh berry and cream

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Grandma and Luke, a perfect day

ALIVE AND WELL

                   
                    I know myself it's been some time since my last entry in this blog, but it needed numerous complaints to put me back in front of the computer and try to continue what I started 3 years ago.
                    For my defense, it was not only motivation of mine missing, until recently there was really noting worthy of writing about. But if I think about it, 48 days is not a long time, it only seems so. Also, the complains I got made my happy and helped my ego, it showed me that some people are actually reading my blog with some kind of interest. Enough of this, I am alive and well,  back on blogging.

                     End of April we had Jacob and Luke over for the weekend and had a great time.

Luke and Jacob taking on....

Donna

Luke needed full concentration playing 

Master Ernie

                    Surprisingly the boys got tired or bored pretty quick and showed more interest in the play ground.

King of the tower

Good time for Luke

                    After finely getting home they where hungry  and Luke offered to prepare dinner

He started with corn on the cob

First he had to season the steaks

Now he was ready to grill them

He moved the corn to have room for the steaks

I like his concentration

He shows some good Technique

                    Luke also made some Coleslaw and dinner was fantastic, everybody enjoyed it.