First Communion, Fishing, Our Time Here has Flown By

(We are presently at the Covenant Hills Camp and Retreat Park near Otisville, Michigan. We arrived here Monday afternoon in the cold and rain. I am playing catch up again and our service here at the park is sketchy at best. Hoping I will be able to eventually post this. Since, the signal does not hold for very long we have not been able to read other blogs to see what everyone else is up to. Hope you are  experiencing better weather then we have been having. After a sunny but cold and windy Sunday it has been raining and cold.)

Friday, April 26, 2019

On the way to spend time with our son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren today I spotted this pink elephant on top of a building. Now who doesn't like a pink elephant? I know I do.

Saturday, April 27, 2019 (Noah's 1st Communion)

We are Catholic and we raised our children in the Catholic Religion. To our joy our children are both doing the same. Today is a very special day for us as grandparents. It is the day a little boy named Noah Thomas, who made us grandparents for the first time, will make his First Communion. This is a special sacrament in our religion and we both remember our own and our son and daughter's First Communion and it is wonderful to now be able to share this moment with the next generation.

We are in our assigned row waiting for Mass to start and I snapped a picture.
I think this is such a beautiful church and I know I have shared a picture
of this altar area before but today it seems extra special.

After mass the pictures.
Five handsome young boys surrounding one little pretty girl.

Standing with his pastor, Rev. Ronald J. DeHondt.
I may be a little bias but is he not a handsome little boy?
I am going to say it, he was so cute in that suit..
You cannot tell in the picture but the tie is covered in pictures of
little fish. This boy loves to fish.

With his mom, dad, brother and sister.

Then the pictures with Nana and Papa. 

It was a wonderful day!

Sunday, April 28, 2019 (Fishing With Papa & Dad)

Today is our last day at this State Park for this visit and Thomas, Nadine, Noah, Jonah, and Marcella came out to the park to spend the day. I made brunch before three very anxious children got in the car with their Dad and Papa to go fishing. The weather though sunny was windy and cold. Not the best weather for catching fish but it really did not matter they were going fishing. Noah, who like his Dad and Papa, loves to fish had waited patiently all week for today. Jonah and Marcella where almost as excited as their older brother. A little cold and wind was not going to dampen their excitement.

No fish were caught but they still enjoyed their time.

She was done fishing a little bit before her brothers.

It may be cold and windy but the sun is out and these daffodils say spring.

Fishing done they are now on a mission.

There was a Dairy Queen across the street and ice cream was on their agenda.
Father and son waiting at the window for the treats.

Two happy fishermen enjoying their ice cream.

Afterwards we all came back to the Stinger "B" for a dinner of hot dogs and chips. While Papa grilled they got a chance to run around a little. All to soon it was time for hugs and kisses goodbye, more hugs and kisses, then one last hug and kiss and we were waving good bye as they drove off.

Tonight's sunset

lighting up the houses across the river in Canada.

Then the last of the light and our last day here is done.
A beautiful sunset on top of the trees to end a wonderful day.

As always the time with our son and his family went by way to fast. As they drove away Sunday evening I was already missing them. We will be back in June to welcome a new addition to our family and we are excited about that. For now we will be moving a little further north tomorrow. we will take a couple of days to catch up on some household chores and relax. Since, there is an outlet mall within 30 minutes of our next stop I am thinking we will also do a little shopping.

We are glad you stopped by for a visit. 

If you have time to leave a comment we would enjoy hearing from you.

Family Time, Hugs, Rain, and Then Sunshine

Friday, April 20, 2019

Today is "Hug Grandbabies' Day" it is the reason we are stopped here. A short/anxious 35 miles back south and we will spend the day with our son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren. As much as we love our lifestyle we do miss seeing our children and grandchildren and cannot wait to get there.

The ride.

Three Grandbabies!

It was a wonderful day.

Saturday, April 20, 2019

It RAINED today. The heavy downpour started during the night and lasted most of the day. Which means we had a steady drip coming from the roof leak in the front. 

There is "some" water in the park

and the walking trail above right is a "little" wet.

You have to give these "weekend warriors"  credit as soon as it turned to
only a sprinkle they were out building campfires, walking, and riding bikes.

We spent the day inside dry, warm, and keeping the area under the drip dry.  Not one of our best days especially because of the leak and the rain but it is what it is not everyday can be "sunshine and roses".

Sunday, April 21, 2019 

Happy Easter!

As we drove to St. Clair Shores this morning, we left the park at 7:00AM, we could see blue skies in between the clouds. It is going to be a wonderful Easter. 

While still on M-29 the clouds disappeared and we could see the moon.

We are on our way to Easter Mass with our family at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in St. Clair Shores. This is their parish, just a few blocks from where they live, and it is beautiful. Stopped at the red light just before the church we watched as they pulled out of their street in front of us.

The Altar area filled with flowers.

Then back home to see what the Easter Bunny brought.

I rarely think to take pictures of the food but we had two wonderful meals today. Breakfast after mass was egg bake, corned beef hash, bacon and toast. For dinner our son made Beef Wellington and added to that was grilled potatoes, asparagus and corn on the cob. We definitely ate well this Easter.

Our daughter and her family.
We did get to talk to them and the cousins all got to visit.
(Looking forward to seeing them in person in a couple of weeks.)

The moon was shining over the river across
from the park when we got back home.

Arriving back this evening we can see that a lot of the RVer's have already left. Check out time here is 1 o'clock so hopefully they enjoyed a fun morning of sunshine before they had to pack up and leave.

Monday, April 22, 2019

The sun is again shining and the sky is a wonderful blue. Tom is having fun dumping some of our grey water; a couple of trips to the dump station with some collapsible containers we purchased for the task. Then he will replenish our fresh water tank. As he is doing that I am sitting her typing this and watching RVer's pack up and pull out of the park this morning. When he is finished we will be heading over to spend time with our family. 

Then it is Monday.

One of several large boats we have seen on the St. Clair River.
This one is headed downriver towards Lake St. Clair.

Driving beside the St. John's Marsh

we spot a Turtle X-ing

and a Muskrat X-ing.
Though in all the years we have driven by here we have never seen
either one. Maybe this year.

I took a ride over to the Selinsky Green Log Cabin with my daughter-in-law.
She is a member of the St. Clair Shores Historical Commission and has talked
about this house several times. Today I had the opportunity to check it out.

She was doing an assignment for one of her Master Classes and it was
interesting to see this lovely small farmhouse museum. 

Our spot here at Algonac State Park.

It was an enjoyable day. I spent a quiet morning here at the park and Tom took care of a couple of household chores. Then we spent the rest of the day with our children and grandchildren which would be the best part of the day. The second best part was sunshine and blue skies.

We are glad you stopped by and we hope you had a nice Easter Weekend with your family.

If you have time to leave a comment we would enjoy hearing from you.