Levi and Jacob with their Grandma's

FINALLY, a picture of my wonderful Friend, LouAnne holding Jacob and me holding Levi....These boys are only 9 days apart and LouAnne and I have had a great experience having our daughters pregnant and having their first babies at the same time.....it has been such a BLESSING to share in life with a great friend! Katie and Hoss and Megan and James, GOOD JOB.....these two Grandma's are thrilled and proud! WE look forward to many memories, even with Jacob living in Wyoming, we are sure they will grow up knowing each other....

I AM THANKFUL

As I was working in my kitchen yesterday preparing for todays dinner, the thought came to me that I have been preparing Thanksgiving Dinners since I was 19 years old, so Forty Years now! I thought about all those past years and loved ones that are no longer here to enjoy the day with us and I thought about all those loved ones that are now part of our family and we are so BLESSED to have with us. I am THANKFUL, for our BLESSINGS, for our trials and the GRACIOUS answer to our prayers! I am THANKFUL, my heart is full. I wish all of you a very wonderful Thanksgiving...Our thanks all belong to the Lord.
Psalm 107 in the first verse says it so perfectly "GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD; HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER"

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!"