Sunday, 8/24/25, Happy Birthday to Rody. We love you! Went to church (both services) and prayer in between services, celebrated Joel’s 55th birthday, worked on State Rally stuff, went to Rody’s for cake and ice cream,

Happy Birthday Rody.  Happy you got to relax on your special day!  We love you and we are so thankful you are our bonus son!

This guy has a birthday in 4 days.  I’m thinking these August Birthday’s call for lots of rest. 

  

The Rose of Sharon bush we got has been blossoming since we got it two months ago.  So pretty

Bill, me Gayla, Wes and Joel.  We had a great time celebrating Joel’s birthday.  Gayla even bought cake for our dessert.  Happy Birthday Joel!  We love you!

That big dark cloud went from our road all the way to Vikki and Rody’s.  The rest of the sky was a beautiful blue.

Kenzie brought my sweetie Rehvyn over to Vikki’s to see me.  I got to see him 3 days in a row.  I loved seeing Kenzie too.  Thanks Kenzie for coming back over so I could see you both.

Looking very cool!

We got ready and went to the early service at church.  Worship was awesome.  I took notes during the service.  Prayed for people after service.  Then I went to pray with our prayer group.  Went to the second service and just listened to the message.  Filled in a couple of notes I missed taking.  Prayed for people after church.  Came home and relaxed for a few minutes, then met Wes, Gayla and Joel at G’s Pizza.  The waitress was wearing a G’s employee shirt that says Jesus is King.  Bill commented on it and that’s how we found out it was a G’s shirt.  Very cool!

We bought the pizzas and celebrated Joel’s 55th birthday.  He is just such a joy to spend time with and loves Jesus and loves to sing worship songs.  He always touches our heart with the kindness and love he shows.  We are so thankful he’s our framily (friends who are family).

We stopped over at Vikki and Rody’s to drop his birthday card off and also a candy bar Kim at church had given me to give to Rody for his birthday.  Neither one had answered their phones.  The house looked dark so Bill said no one was home and I agreed.  Lucy was in the window, so I guess someone was home.  We got almost home and Vikki called and said they were sleeping.  We came in the house and took our naps.  Sure felt good.  

When we woke up, we read out Bibles, and did our prayer books.  Then we worked on typing up CMA stuff.  Bill had me proofread the things he had typed up.  

Vikki called and wanted us to come over for cake and ice cream.  Bill needed to keep working on CMA stuff in order to get it done and sent out.  I went over and enjoyed their company and sitting outside for a while.  Then I had some delicious cake and ice cream.  Thanks guys!  It was so good.  Kenzie stopped over with Rehvyn again after she left Omi’s. 

I was happy to get to see Rehvyn again.  He said Peyton so clean when he saw her.  He’s saying lots of words now.  He loves to sing and he loves to dance too.  After they left, we sat and drank our coffee on the front porch.  Vikki lent me a sweatshirt to wear as it was a little cool outside.  

I came home and worked on CMA stuff a little more.  Also ran my camping list off and went over it.  Will start shopping for groceries, cooking, baking and  packing stuff in the camper for our State Rally trip.