Spring has arrived in Maryland! And we've had a busy March and April --- lots of "happenings" going on around here .... 
The 11th grade class came over for brunch before spring break started! 
Easter egg decorations with a twist this year ...
Off to see Aunt Thelma after Easter Dinner ...
Our new friend Cristina from Juarez, Mexico. We had a fun time hosting her for a week while she and her 9th grade classmates visited the United States. 
We're in the middle of a few home improvements ...
We have a new friend, 'Nutty' the squirrel ... he seems to have adopted Don and Aimee. We think he's a newborn who lost his mom, but he is making a home under our shed and looking healthy...
And, Kimberly has captured some beautiful Spring blossoms in these photos ... 
Spring has sprung! And we leave you with these words from Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening which he penned for us to read the evening of April 1st ...
Hosea 10:12 "It is time to seek the Lord."
"This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in accord with the universal awakening of nature, be opened to receive the Lord. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; ... Do you tell me that the warm blood of youth leaps in your veins? then, I entreat you, give your vigour to the Lord. It was my unspeakable happiness to be called in early youth, and I could fain praise the Lord every day for it. Salvation is priceless, let it come when it may, but oh! an early salvation has a double value in it... "It is time to seek the Lord." Ye who feel the first signs of decay, quicken your pace: with you it is indeed time to seek the Lord.... Dear reader, if you are now advanced in life, let me entreat and implore you to delay no longer. There is a day of grace for you now-be thankful for that, but it is a limited season and grows shorter every time that clock ticks. Here in this silent chamber, on this first night of another month, I speak to you as best I can by paper and ink, and from my inmost soul, as God's servant, I lay before you this warning, 'It is time to seek the Lord.' "
The 11th grade class came over for brunch before spring break started! Easter egg decorations with a twist this year ...
Off to see Aunt Thelma after Easter Dinner ...
Our new friend Cristina from Juarez, Mexico. We had a fun time hosting her for a week while she and her 9th grade classmates visited the United States. 
We're in the middle of a few home improvements ...We have a new friend, 'Nutty' the squirrel ... he seems to have adopted Don and Aimee. We think he's a newborn who lost his mom, but he is making a home under our shed and looking healthy... And, Kimberly has captured some beautiful Spring blossoms in these photos ... Spring has sprung! And we leave you with these words from Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening which he penned for us to read the evening of April 1st ...Hosea 10:12 "It is time to seek the Lord."
"This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in accord with the universal awakening of nature, be opened to receive the Lord. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; ... Do you tell me that the warm blood of youth leaps in your veins? then, I entreat you, give your vigour to the Lord. It was my unspeakable happiness to be called in early youth, and I could fain praise the Lord every day for it. Salvation is priceless, let it come when it may, but oh! an early salvation has a double value in it... "It is time to seek the Lord." Ye who feel the first signs of decay, quicken your pace: with you it is indeed time to seek the Lord.... Dear reader, if you are now advanced in life, let me entreat and implore you to delay no longer. There is a day of grace for you now-be thankful for that, but it is a limited season and grows shorter every time that clock ticks. Here in this silent chamber, on this first night of another month, I speak to you as best I can by paper and ink, and from my inmost soul, as God's servant, I lay before you this warning, 'It is time to seek the Lord.' "
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