Happy Easter & the End of Spring Break

Happy Easter! Today will be a fun relaxing day ..go to church, have Easter Dinner, and then work on work for tomorrow because Spring Break is OVER! I am cooking a New England Boiled dinner, something I used to do when the boys were younger. It is your typical ham dinner with vegitables. I am having apple pie and ice cream for desert..so it is all Maine today! Niel's dad Stoyel will come over for dinner as well. We are going to eat at noon..so Brian & Chelsea can have time with Chelsea's family and David has to go to work.

Back to work tomorrow for Niel & Me, but as the time flies out of Spring Break it does bring Mark closer to home, he will be headed home on May 1st, so it will be good to see Mark again.

Brian & Chelsea have been here for Easter Weekend. It has been good having them over, along with Throttle. He has grown so much, he is much bigger than Cody now, but Cody is still the alpha dog or is it Chewy. All three love to play together. Of course Throttle likes to play longer but the other dogs let him know when enough is enough. Brian has enjoyed his time by fishing and Chelsea has been studying...it is near the end of the semester so she had a lot to do. I think yesterday she was working on her studies and I was working on AP Government stuff.

Our College trip seemed to have been a success. We visited 5 colleges in Florida and David has found the one he wants to attend. He really like University of North Florida. He loved the "not tropical feel" which he was trying to get away from. The campus is beautiful, the academics are top notch with many different majors to choose from. He is looking into Marketing/Business which they have a great program. He has mentioned education which they also have...and they have pre-law, another idea that he has tossed back-n-forth.
University of North Florida Jacksonville:




He has decided he will apply to four colleges, hoping to get accepted by Univ.of North Florida. He will apply to UNF, New College, USF, and UCF. The New College does not offer as many major as other colleges but they are high academics and they do have an Economic major. Here are some pictures of our travels:

Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, Florida:


The New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida:




University of South Florida in Tampa:



Florida Southern College in Lakeland:


I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter Day...I love this time of years...the flowers are out, it still is not too hot. Yesterday we had a youth yardsale and it was a perfect day for a sale. The youth group made about 1400 toward their summer mission trip. David had fun holding the sign by the road and acting crazy to get people to come into the yardsale. We had a lot of big stuff so a lot of the youth group boys were also delivery guys with their trucks.