10/22/07

Got up early, hoping I could catch Kimmy when she brought Jared to get his car. I missed her by about 10 minutes. I had mentioned to Kimmy that I was sleeping in this morning. (My only day to sleep past 6:10 during the week is Monday, as I don't have Kenzie then) After I thought about it I wished I wouldn't have told her I was sleeping in. She just went home after so I missed out on seeing her and the boys. Boo Hoo. Next time I will think the whole thing through before I speak. Sure was sad I didn't get to see them. I got some things done here and then headed off to mow dad's yard, sweep it and weed wack. Just got done in time to have a cabbage bun and go get Kenzie from school. Bill was off to his Chaplain job this morning. He had to go to Gladwin, so stopped to have lunch with Kimmy which was really a nice treat for both of them. He got a call that a lady passed away, so had to go back to the house to pray for the family and help comfort them. God uses him in such special ways and he is always willing to serve the Lord. He and Bruce then went to look at a car for Bill. We are getting a used car that is good on gas just for Bill to travel with so he doesn't have to take the gas guzzeling truck all the time.
He is bring it home for me to look at now. Kenzie wants me to go listen to her violin concert now...It's practice time. I enjoy that. I can't wait to be able to see Hailey and Max again. I miss them. Max sounded so awful with that cough while I was on the phone. Made my heart sad to hear him. Hailey talked to me alot on the phone and was so cute. She made my heart happy. Jacob also made my heart happy, because he wanted to come see me so much this morning.

10/19/07

As you can see I am very behind on my pictures. We had a great time watching Hailey and Jacob bowl. It was so much fun and such happy faces. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
There are beginning to end pictures of the trees (10 of them) we had taken down. I know what you are all thinking. Jared would have eventually knocked them down for us. We just never knew what direction he would knock them, so decided to hire it done. The kids (big and little) had fun on all the stumps and Kenzie could reach the tree branches easily from the stumps so had fun in the tree. The picture of dad is from our camping trip. He was relaxing in the 5th wheel. We had such a nice time with him and with the many friends that went with us. We are blessed!!!
I was going to put a picture I took of Vikki and Rody, and Kimmy and Jared at their birthday breakfast, but wouldn't ya know it, Vikki and Kimmy both had their eyes closed. Such twins huh!!!

10/18/07

30 years ago today was one of the happiest days of my life...HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMMY AND VIKKI. I LOVE YOU!!! I loved having breakfast with you all, and it was so nice that Greg and Breanna were able to be there. I was so happy to see them. What a sweetie Greg was to buy all our breakfasts. A big thankyou to him. Too bad dad had to be working and unable to make it. He always loved taking you out on your birthday. I don't know how it happened but Kimmy and Vikki passed me. I am only 29.
Miracles do happen.

I have a lot of pictures on my camera and hopefully will get to put them on tomorrow.
Life has been busy with our trip to Petosky, packing and unpacking 5th wheel etc.
I will be putting on pictures of the trees we had taken down. Jared loved backing into them, so since he loosened them, we decided to remove them. We like to help Jared keep his car as dent free as possible. All clear by the shed now Jared. Please don't back into the shed though. Hopefully its big enough for you to see. HA HA!!!

10/9/07

Another busy day today. Got the house ready for Bible Study. Made dinner for dad, then went and dropped it off before I picked Kenzie up from school. We headed over to Melissa's and I picked up Max to bring home with me. Kenzie stayed with Melissa and Hailey to have some fun and help Aunt Missy if needed. Melissa was doing so much better today even than yesterday. I am so happy to see her getting around better now. I say a big thank you Lord!!! When we got home Max played with his cars for a while, then I put him in his high chair so he could eat. He did a good job, although when I gave him his dessert (cookies with chocolate to dip them in) he sure changed colors. His face was covered from his chin half way up. He sure had fun though. We had someone bring a friend to Bible Study and she asked him for a hug. He went halfway and decided not to. Then Papa asked for a hug and he gave him one right away. After that he ran up to the lady and gave her a big hug. A few minutes later, he gave her his favorite stuffed elephant to hold. He was so cute.
He played with his cars while we had testimony time and was such a good boy. When it got to be his bedtime, I tucked him in and he went right to sleep. I left after Bible Study was over to pick up Kenzie. We will take Max to our breakfast with us
then will take him home and pick up Hailey. Kimmy and I are taking Hailey and Jacob bowling tomorrow. Should be lots of fun.

10/8/07

These are two pictures Kimmy took of Hailey and I at church. Everyone thought it was so cute that we dressed alike. However, we didn't plan it. It was nice having Kimmy, Jared and boys at church today. We were glad they came to visit. It was nice having all the grandkids in the same row. We got many compliments on them of course. After church, we went to Aunt Milda's 80th birthday party. Very good food there so we were stuffed when we left. After that we were on our way to an Elder's training session at church again. They had subs there for us. Talk about eating good. We sure did. The picture of Mocha was taken by Kenzie. At first Mocha would sleep behind the orange bed grandpa gave her. After a day or so, she moved into the bed and now I have to drag her out of it in the morning to go outside potty. I'm at Melissa's right now. She is doing so much better today it is amazing. I am very thankful. We just ate Coney dogs for supper. Yummy. They were from our favorite coney place.

10/6/07

Well, I don't have time to put pictures on, but Kimmy has great pictures on her blog so click on her name to see them. Today was really busy. 114 of us met at church and put on our tee shirts on and went to clean up some city blocks. Lots of work to be done by some very hard workers.
Bill and I felt bad that we could only help for 20 min. then we were off to his cousin's funeral.
He was 59 and died from Parkinsons. Very sad because of the loss, but joyful because he trusted Jesus as his Lord and Savior so we know where he is. After we left there, we stopped back to finish helping the church crew. Then we were off to our last ride of the year for our motorcycle group. The ride was nice, but there were two accidents. One guy didn't stay focused and missed a curve. Praise God he was just scraped up and not much damage to the bike. If he would have flown over or under the guard rail it would have been bad as there was complete drop way down on the other side of the guard rail. The other accident happened when one motorcycle about 10 bikes ahead of us hit another motorcycle. No one hurt again, but lots of damage to both bikes. We are thankful for God's protection over them and all of the rest of us.
It could have been so much worse. We came home and went to visit dad and then Melissa. Bruce was making two cheese cakes. He may not know how to hang laundry out, but he sure can cook and bake. What a blessing to Melissa!!! He is taking great care of her.

10/2/07 Forgot to mention...

Forgot to mention the other day I saw signs of a mouse so I set a trap. Caught a big one in the glue trap. Couldn't seem to catch him in the regular trap. This morning I got up and saw something in the dog's water dish. I thought it was a big leaf and almost picked it out until I saw the tail. A small mouse had drowned in the dog's water. Jared disposed of it for me when he brought Kenzie home. Then when he picked Kenzie up after he got out of work, he saw a mouse in the bathroom and stomped him to death. Jared is irreplaceable that's for sure. Thank you Jared. You can do the mouse stomp here anytime. You're amazing!!!