Life Beyond The Pictures - April 2025

 Hello Steiners 

The only news from the Kaiser corner of the world is that there will be another precious grandchild joining us soon! Jason & Kaitlyn are expecting their first little one in September; Kaitlyn will finish up her preschool teaching position in May and doesn’t plan to go back this fall. Everything else with other kids is pretty much unchanged. Tim & I enjoy blessed busy days. We’ve spent much time pruning fruit; at this point it looks like there will be peaches and apples both but we’ll not count our fruit before it’s picked. 

And that’s about it this time around. 

March Part 2

 More of the same... cuteness overload.

When strawberries are on sale, you make strawberry pie -

and strawberry jam.

I had great help.

Meet Goliath. 

He is actually two separate philodendrons: one is an Imperial Red, and one is an Imperial Green. The shorter one to the left is the Red; his leaves spike and unfurl while red before gradually turning green. The Green starts green and stays green. And that's about all I know about Goliath. I really enjoy watching him grow. He was about 8" tall when I bought him from Kroger for $7 a couple years ago. Now he's about 2' tall. That amazes me. 

Still more cuteness.

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"Grandma I think this dough has too much yeast in it."

He was making banana bread😅💗

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"study" party

not sure those two words are compatible...

This little girl's smiles just melt me.

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and everyone wonders why that chair is broken...

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And that's a wrap for March this year. 

#blessed

#thankful

March Part 1

Busy days. Per the usual. Some of these px are from other people (mostly Sarah & Jewel); so they aren't in exact order but it'll buff as always. Busy days - but pretty routine. And routine is good. 

And just a headsup - there's a whole lot of cuteness in this post ~

This from Natalie ~

Sarah's class at the Pekin Ice Rink, participating in the annual end-of-year program.

Savannah & Allie came to ride with Jewel on a sunny afternoon.

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Jewel had a great week with the ICCBUyg on a spring break work team to TN. That's a pretty special group of young ladies right there.