Mother's Day Weekend

With my boys at the National Harbor

Preston "saving" Grant from the giant's mouth

Ryan hanging on by a toe

Look out!!

Grant gets hand

The rest of the story....

The prodigal dog DID return...on his own...loudly at 4:20 am! They have both been pretty well behaved but we have kept them on a "short leash"

We DO have orders for Ft Rucker but are working on dates...lots of "Army" issues. But we will be there in some form for the boys to start school in early August.

We NEED to sell this house. It is a GREAT house. If you know anyone who is moving this way, let them know about our wonderful house.

I am now the mother of a teenager! Preston turned 13!! Hard to believe. Dennis did get home in time for the last half of his bowling party. They all had a great time. It is a small bowling alley so we were the only ones there. I put the younger kids on one lane and all of Preston's friends on two lanes. They played music and had disco lights flashing. It was really cool but you can't tell in all the pictures. Preston wanted a cell phone so we got him 13 presents instead!! he seemed to like it (and Grant has already mentioned about his 13 gifts when he turns 13 so I may have started another tradition). Some were small things like Snicker bars, pop tarts, socks....some were better things like a Braves hat and Capitals hockey shirt etc. We also got him a nice Teen study Bible to get him through these tough teenage years.

So far, except for a warped sense of humor sometimes and a cracking voice, he is weathering 13 well. We will keep you updated.
ALL 3 boys made STRAIGHT A's last quarter so we have some really good kids. We will keep them for the time being.
More updates soon.

Preston is a TEENAGER

The "sibling" Lane: Younger Griffin's and Rohrbaugh's

A break from Bowling..all the soda you want for "free"

A few of his 13 presents....he's so cool!

Many cupcakes....an easy treat for a bowling party

Look at that form (preston is on the right)

Our tradition... a candle in your breakfast on your birthday

(The breakfast of champions....Chocolate pop tarts!)

Crazy Dogs

Look at my two cute dogs. Doesn't it look like they love each other and are happy? Our backyard is just mud and all our fences have been reinforced...we have an electric fence and shock collars and our little diggers escaped...AGAIN! Sometime Saturday night or Sunday Morning! We got a call from someone who found Sport (the Brittany) several neighborhoods away Sunday afternoon. He came home smelly and full of ticks. I had to bathe him in the tub! He is so tired and not himself...seems scared.
Ozzy (the golden) is still "out there". I am sure someone will call right when I have to be at work on Monday. I might say, Just keep him! I am going to call the Dog Whisperer! We need help.
Baseball on Saturday was great. Weather was perfect and the boys both won. Preston is now playing with the big boys on the big field and did great! I was very impressed. Everyone was shocked at his voice (changing) and how tall he is. Great to see all my baseball friends too. His team won 18-3. He had 2 great hits, walked once and struck out once...played shortstop. Ryan's team won 9-8 in a close one...lots of hitting. Ryan hit twice and struck out once. He played many positions. He is playing machine pitch again this year. Next games are on Tuesday...same time different locations (of course). Dennis is in Germany on his way to Africa and Afghanistan. He will be back Saturday evening. No new news on that front yet. That's the Army! AND he will miss Preston's 13th birthday and party! More news later...hopefully good news (dog, baseball and moving)

Crazy Dogs

Spring Break

We had a nice week off from work and school. Some days we did not even get dressed! I did a lot of cleaning and organizing. The boys were lazy and played and watched TV. We did go out to lunch and to play putt putt one nice day to celebrate all THREE boys making STRAIGHT A's! We had Easter egg hunts at church and the Rohrbaugh's early in the week and then all the Easter fun at our house on Easter Sunday. The boys got baskets full of candy, money and CDs this year.
I have been frantically cleaning, organizing and "downsizing" to get our house ready to sell. We have recieved orders to move back to Ft Rucker this summer. We were looking at a fall move and it has been moved up! This weekend we took some pictures and the house is now up on several web sites. We have enjoyed our 4 years here and it will REALLY be hard to move but we need to sell this house so we can make plans and eventually start building our final dream home! So if you know any one headed this way...we have the perfect house!
Happy Spring!

Easter

Finally Picture time

Bored...waiting for the picture to be taken

Hunting eggs Easter Morning

Dyeing eggs...very serious business

More Easter Fun at the Rohrbaugh's