Recent Pictures

November 5, 2010, some of us attended the wedding of Lydiana Acevedo to Isaac Nolden at her home. It was unseasonably cold for early November in FL (40s or low 50s) and outside with very few trees to block the wind. Here are a few pics that I took.

Chastity's outfit (It was a cowboy wedding)

Chastity's first braids

Andy and Caleb

Chastity

The Wedding "Cake"

Chastity's hat and the bridesmaid's bouquet

It's a Boy

Caleb Wade Heintzelman Arrived 12:11 am on April 20, 2010 9 lbs 6 oz - 21 inches Andy, Hannah and Chastity are glad he's finally arrived!

Ranch Work

Today we went out to Groveland and helped our friend Rick work with the cattle. We also moved two of our heifers from Rick's property to Andy and Hannah's house. On the way out to Groveland we saw a beautiful rainbow and rain through some rain. It misted some while we were working but cleared up and turned beautiful.

Ranch Work

Happy Birthday, Andy!

Happy Birthday, Andy - we love you!!!

Fences & Fire

Last Saturday we spent the day at Andy & Hannah's to work on putting up fence in their backyard so that we can move Socks and Skipper there and so that Daisy will stay in her own yard instead of visiting the neighbor's dogs. We got all the post holes dug - the easy way by renting an auger from Lowes - and most of the fence posts in and set. While we were at it we burned the big pile of dead pine trees. When the neighbor saw that we were burning the brush, he brought over his tractor and pulled down three more dead pine trees and put them on the burn pile.

David hauls fence posts to be set in the holes that have been dug.Dad kept an eye on the fire - from the comfort of a lounge chair in the shade ;-) Daisy enjoys the shade and the company Making sure the grass stays wet around the pile

Welcome Home Baby Chastity!!

Three Generations Grandma D with Chastity Grandma H with Chastity

Chastity Ruth has arrived

The wait is finally over and our baby girl has arrived. Check Andy and Hannah's blog for all the details. Here are pictures we took on Thursday afternoon.

Chastity Ruth

Still Waiting...

We are still waiting for Baby H to arrive. Every day we say "Maybe it will come today." I received a phone call this morning from the teacher that I worked with last year telling me that the portable classroom we worked in last year burned last night. I start summer school tomorrow at a school near where I usually work so I will be meeting the teacher I worked with after work tomorrow to assess the damage and see if there is anything salvagable. The only things that I left in the classroom this summer were a small bookcase and a two drawer filing cabinet. I also left a tote box with crochet supplies for the crochet club I taught. Boy am I ever glad that I brought everything else home this summer even though it means taking up space to store it. The fire department thinks that the fire was either caused by the air conditioner or lightning from the storms we had yesterday. So long for now.

Sunday Afternoon Nap

Andy and Daisy take a Sunday afternoon nap on April 27, 2008.

News Flash!!

The big news in our family right now is that I am going to be an Aunt!!! Andy & Hannah let us know the Sunday before Christmas by giving Mom & Dad an ornament that said "Grand-Parents-to-be!! We are all very excited.

Christmas morning at Andy & Hannah's

Christmas morning we went out to Andy & Hannah's to open some gifts

Jenny with Shadow & Daisy Grace and Daisy

Daisy opening her gift from "Grandpa H"

Daisy with her gift from "Grandpa"

Shadow's gift from "Grandpa"

Shadow trying to get Daisy's treat Shadow with his treat Connie (Hannah's Mom) David makes a nice reindeer! Daisy after Tom & Andy had to give her a bath. She had gotten into the AC drain and was all muddy.

Daisy and Shadow

Daisy and Shadow at our house on Dec. 2

Andy & Shadow Daisy Shadow Shadow playing with Daisy David and Shadow taking a Sunday afternoon nap

Daisy Mae Heintzelman

Andy and Hannah walked in the door Sunday morning with thier newest addition to the family. An eight-week old yellow lab puppy named Daisy Mae. See more pictures on Andy & Hannah's blog. http://andynhannah.blogspot.com/

David and Daisy Grace and Daisy Andy and Daisy take an afternoon nap after Sunday dinner. I love this picture! Daisy plays with David's stuffed dog. Daisy chasing the cat's ball!

Story Time

Andy reads a story to Jenny and Luke. Luke is one of the little boys that Mom babysits. Grace, Rachel and I were students of his Grandma in high school and David and Andy were her student-assistants. I knew his Dad in high school and we attended his parents wedding. Little did we know at the time that we would be babysitting their son :-). Luke and his family traveled all the way to Ohio this summer to attend Andy & Hannah's wedding.

Monday Update

Andy went back to work today, he is still a bit sore but otherwise feeling fine. On Saturday, Dad, David, Jenny and I and Jonathan Kline went out to our friend Rick's property and helped him ear tag and castrate calves and worm his cows and bull. We got all but one of the calves tagged (one of ours) and we castrated two of Rick's three bull calves. The one we didn't do was only a few days old. Rick had brought out his Dixie Chopper and when we left, David took the trailer with it on out to Andy and Hannah's and mowed for Andy. After we got Andy's yard mowed we headed back home. It was Grandpa Miller's birthday and he was headed to Summerfield to preach on Sunday, so he and Grandma Ruth stopped by for a birthday lunch. Aunt Esther came down and Andy and Hannah came in also. Andy was supposed to go to class but was unable to sit all day long so he picked up his paperwork and got what he needed to study this week and came to meet us with the cows.

Update on Andy

On Monday morning, Hannah took Andy to the ER with severe stomach pains. A CT scan showed appendicitis. He had surgery that afternoon and spent the night in the hospital. He was released from the hospital on Tuesday about 11:00 am and went home. He has to be out of work for a week and can't drive while he is taking the pain medication. This gives him lots of time to study for his Journeyman's test. He started his Saturday test prep classes last Saturday and will have classes for the next two Saturdays as well. Hopefully he will be taking the test on the 13th of October.

Heading Home

David, Andy and Hannah are on thier way home today. They hope to be home around 7 or 8 o'clock tonight.

Surprise!

David, Andy and Hannah left Wednesday night and drove straight through to Ohio. They pulled the trailer that Hollidays had left up to Bud and Anne Holliday's house in Bloomingburg and then went on to Hannah's parents house. Connie (Hannah's mom) didn't know they were coming and got a big surprise when they got in. They plan to go to Indiana to visit Troy and Christie Thomas Sunday afternoon and then head back home on Monday.

Surprise!!

Hannah flew down on Friday and surprised Andy. I took the day off work and picked her up from the airport. We were going to meet Andy for lunch and surprise him but he wasn't cooperating as we wanted him to. We ended up taking Hannah down to Andy's office and she went in and told the receptionist who she was and was taken up to his office. When he finally noticed she was there he stared at her for a while and asked her where she came from. Needless to say, Andy took off early and came home to take Hannah out to see their house in Webster. When they got out to the house they had another big surprise. A pipe under the kitchen sink had come loose and flooded the dining room, kitchen, laundry room, bath room and the closet in the spare bedroom. We are in the process of drying things out now and will soon be starting to repair the floor and other damage. We told Hannah that she now had the advantage of getting the kitchen exactly the way she wants it.