Sat., 5/1/21, Wished sister Debbie Happy Birthday, it's her 70th!!! Did our CMA Run for the Sun Ride, Went to Melissa's to celebrate Evan's 10th birthday

 Faith Riders Group picture

 So good to see Jeff and Julie and talk to them.  They have been as careful as Melissa and her family, and this was their first time out.  We were so happy to see them today and excited for them as they will get to see their grandkids for the first time today too since Covid started.  They don't live close by to do porch visits, so they've only done face time visits.  They were pretty excited!

Gathered for prayer

Parked at a Subway

Ate our lunch outside

Raindrops on the windshield

Evan with his cookie cake

Bruce, Evan and Melissa



Evan with his lego set we got him

 Evan with Rip Stick from Bruce and Melissa

Piñata broken with candy

Evan with his card and $1 from Aunt Vikki and Uncle Terry

Evan learning to ride his rip stick

 

Our friend, Ziggy, is N.C. and posted these pictures he took

 Really cool picture of our friend with the horses in the background.  

We met Ziggy at a Bed and Breakfast in Maine when we went to a National CMA Rally with Wes, Gayla, Luis and Eva.  He was an airline steward and a super friendly, fun person.  When we went to our State Rally at Bay Shore, he was there the next year.  He is an Area Rep now like we are, so we see him at all the leadership things we go to now.  He does a great impersonation of Mr. Rogers.

Beautiful horses...They are Wild horses of Corolia, NC. They roam wild on the Carova Beach which is only accessible by 4-wheel drive vehicles

We left our house at 8:40 to go to Wes and Gayla's.  We met there for our CMA Run for the Son ride.  There were 18 of us from Faith Riders that came and turned in money collected for this wonderful fundraiser for ...Open Doors, Jesus Film and Mission Ventures which use the money to win souls for Jesus!  Today $5,000 was turned in from Faith Riders.  I'm so happy to be a part of this.  We left at 10 for our ride to Laingsburg.  It was cool and in the 20's when we got up, then 32 degrees when we left home.  When we left for our ride, the sun was shining so it warmed up quickly after that and ended up being a really nice day, although it was pretty windy.  There were 8 bikes that went on the ride and 11 people.  The ride was so pretty going on curvy and hilly roads through the country.  I was so thankful I downloaded Elevation's new album.  I played it all the while I was riding.  Such great worship.  We stopped in a little plaza in Laingsburg that had a Subway, a Cafe, and an Ice Cream shop.  That's all we needed.  We picked up our food and drinks and ate outside.  It was sunny and warm there.  We went back for ice cream after we finished eating.  We visited for a while, then headed home.  We got by Elsie, and it started sprinkling.  It didn't look like is should be raining, but it was.  It didn't rain hard enough to get us wet so that was good, and it didn't last long.  We got home, and I watered some of my plants.  Then we relaxed for a little while.  We went to Melissa and Bruce's at 6 to celebrate Evan's Birthday.  We got to do a backyard visit this time which was really nice and kept us out of the wind.  We sang happy Birthday to Evan, then he blew out his candles...at least he tried.  They were the kind that keep lighting again.  It was fun to watch him try to get them out.  He wanted a cookie cake this year like Hailey always wants.  We had cookies with ice cream and which was delicious. Evan opened his presents and was excited about everything.  He shot his rocket off for us.  They had a little piñata for him to break.  He tried hitting it but couldn't break it.  Bruce finally pitched it at him and he hit it like a ball and it broke and candy went flying.  Melissa posted a cute video of it.  Hailey was wearing the yellow Michigan sweatshirt I got for her at a garage sale and it looked so cute on her.  We came home and read our Bibles and did our devotions.