Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Cute informative email

I'm copying an email sent to Auntie Kim from Mom because it has some cute info in it :) Love, Angie



Hi Kim !!! 
So Great To Hear From You ! Thank You For The UpDate!
WOW.....u must be fairly exhausted after playing preschool teacher, chief, cook and bottle washer all those days :/ !
Fortunately we never lost power in our Parkwing Apartment, 'til last night, when I turned on the hairdryer while I had the microwave, oven, stove, both tvs, dishwasher and printer all turned on :/ ! OOOOoooops......that's what I get for trying to 'hide my gray' with the 'blown dry look'. We all got a great laugh out of it :D Fortunately all the kids were here minus, J and Allison, both working, so I had full crew to remedy the situation :D(ie Johnnyand Josh used their Iphones as flashlights, walked to the fuse box and flipped the switches back on:/ NOTHING like Your Power Outage Kim :/
The snowfall was beautiful here. We watched the ferries go back and forth to Bremerton and Bainbridge....most of the time they were just motoring off in to a vast white fog . And they were equally as surprising, when their bow lights would just pop right out of the white wall of nothingness...
The 'Needle had its' 'disappearing act' down, too !
The one attempt at walking your brother around the whole block in the wheelchair, ended when a motorist stopped and jumped out of their car, leaving it running on the hill, to say "Are YOU okay ????" Looking at both mike and me like we were HelpLeSS :/ the good samaritan went on to say, "omg! I never would have FORGIVEN MYSELF if I hadn't stopppped !" Once he realized we were just repositioning the chair for a verry uneven gap in the sidewalk, he trusted we would be ok and was on his way....lol ;) ;) amazing the attention you can get with a wheelchair ! LOL :/
Our landlord had all sidewalk entrances shoveled clear by 7am every single morning :D t'was verry great ! Mike and I kinda "chuckled" about having a 'landlord' to do EverySingleThing For Us Now :D
The only thing left for us to do is to hang a humingbird feeder off our deck. Angie is brining one tomorrow when she comes to spend time with Mike. We have a funny lil' humingbird looking for food and shelter 3 to 4 times a day off our deck. Apparently, ThiS HumingBird Familia does not believe in flying south months ago :/ lol ! Two other apartments in the building, have 'pet' humingbirds, too.
XOXO,
m 'n n k

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A Good laugh

So....being the doting wife that I am, I barely finished nagging my husband about "WATCH OUT FOR OBSTACLES !!! TAKE THE OBSTACLE OUT OF YOUR HAND BEFORE YOU WALK ! SEE THIS!  T H IS IS AN OBSTACLE....MOVE THE OBSTACLE FIRST MICHAEL!" Finallllly, he had had Just About enough of me....He shot me that Mike Kissler smirk and announced, "NANCY. I'm One Big Obstacle MYSELF !" needless to say......we both ended up on the floor rolling in laughter over that one ! LOL. FunnyGuy.

Settling in

Mike and Nancy have slowly been settling in to their new apartment! Both couldn't be happier! They had bars installed in both bathrooms so Mike can get around easily, and Nancy is really excited about his new wheel chair that is much more compact and fits nicely through all the door ways!! Angie is spending Tuesday's helping out and relieving Nance, while Lisa comes on Fridays and Johnny and Allie when work allows! This new set up is working out really well for everyone! They are loving all their visitors and I've never seen their fridge so full!  The boxes are slowly being unpacked but you all know us well enough to know that could take years :)

A few pics from the apartment! Last week we had an unbelievable day in Seattle!  Mike and Nancy went on a nice long walk... It sounds like Mike made Nancy push him up quite a few hills so they could check out the mountains! Lisa stopped by shortly after and took a few pics of the view (she's really into her camera :))



Today we are cuddled up as all of Seattle is paralyzed from the snow! A little different view today!



Mt. Rainer peeking through

Space Needle!

Beautiful Elliot Bay! Mike likes to watch the Ferries :)

Snows here!

No more space needle or Rainer!