October 8, 1971-2011 OUR 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Nick and Betsy and Hoss and Katie honored us by taking us out to a Lovely dinner and then inviting a few of our friends over for a bit of dessert and Champagne toast....

Mike and I are so BLESSED , to be married for Forty Years and to have such wonderful family and friends.
THANK YOU
you all made our
celebration
wonderful!

                                                              Here is to many more......

                                                                          

Levi Benjamin has arrived!

and he is very busy stealing the hearts of his Mommy and Daddy

Grandmas and Grandpas

and

Aunts and Uncles..

BLESSING!

BLESSINGS for baby Levi and his Mommy and Daddy

LouAnne and Dena hosted a "Build Levi's Library" Shower
this was for the "older" ladies in Katie's life

The "Making Memorie's" Shower
hosted by customers and employees
Karen, Sandra, Alex, Karina, Kiera and Debbie

The "Couples Shower"
Jon and Dena hosted a shower for Hoss and Katie's  friends
this was fun to have the "MEN" involved!
there was no shortage of "Baby Bellies" in this group.

Aunt Betsy and Amy hosted a beautiful shower for Katie's family and life-time friends.
this was a sweet time.

Summer Bible Study

As I have done for many years in the Summer

"El Camino's Ladies Summer Bible Study"

I would not miss it

This Summer

The Book of Revelation

"Here and Now...Then and There"

by

Beth Moore

I love studying this book , our Pastor took us on a long journey of study in Revelation awhile back and now to look at it again

Blessings, for sure

There is hard scary stuff to come, BUT, if we belong to HIM, no fear!

verse for the summer is

Revelation 17:14

"They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because HE is LORD of LORDS and KING of KINGS-and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers"

REJOICE

do you know Him, are you following Him

then

we will be with Him

again I say

REJOICE!

Plumbing, finally over!

the above picture is the final result of 15 days and over 9 hours of plumber visits.

this picture is actually clean water running through the drains under the house.

The plumbers had 2 cameras in the pipes to try to find out why they could not un-clog our drains.

Joy, finally the clog was pushed through and water freely went down.

But not before all these things happened

we spent 2 weeks with no washer and no kitchen..

We washed dishes in the bathroom and outside in the yard.

I was lucky to be able to wash our clothes at Katie and Hoss'..

There was a BIG possibility that they were going to have to Jack-hammer up our kitchen floor to try to reach the clog, we prayed, we had all our people praying

and

they were able to finally reach the clog through the laundry area .

Whew, now all we have left is the Plumbing Bill...

we are fearful of that but grateful for our drains draining!
Mike is sure plumbing is of the Devil, he says just think of it

it is under the ground and in the dark...

"oh life!"

Elton and Elsa get married!

Elton and Elsa asked Mike and I to witness their marriage at the Pima County Courthouse last Friday afternoon

It was an honor to Stand with them as they wed.

It was an experience for all 4 of us.

All couples wanting to marry line up down a hallway and are called to the Courtroom to stand before the judge....and there were LOTS of couples that day, some in full wedding attair and some in everyday clothes, some young and some not so young, some with lots of friends and family and some with no witness (the court provides two people for them)..

It was a very fun afternoon, after they were "hitched"

we walked to El Charro and had dinner which we called the "reception"..

So, who knew that went on at our
courthouse every Tuesday and Friday afternoons?

Congratulations, Elton and Elsa

May God Bless you with many years together.

"When my life gets back to normal?"

NORMAL is only a cycle on a washing machine!

I read this little quote and thought, that is such an amazingly TRUE statement.

and to state just how true the statement really is

my washing machine is now broken.

as my friend LA's daughter is famous for saying

"Oh Life"