10/18/16..HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMMY AND VIKKI! I LOVE YOU!

Love this cool picture someone in Farwell sent in to TV5

Love these two pictures Melissa took of their hike with the Sawatski family today.  What's the chances of getting a friend with 4 kids who match the ages and gender of her four kids.  God is amazing!  Love seeing them have so much fun together.  Friends forever it looks like!

Hailey and Alli have been best friends since preschool!  So cute together

Isaac an Peyton at their new table.  

Me with my three beautiful and sweet daughters!  Love them so much!  Love our matching shirts from their Aunt Debbie

Love this picture of Vikki and Lenny

Three of the most caring girls ever!  I am blessed they are mine!
Kimmy, Melissa and Vikki

My birthday twinsies 

Lennox loves looking out the window!  He's watching the neighbor!

Kimmy and Vikki came to breakfast this morning.  We were so happy to have them there on their birthday.  Bill and I got them a birthday cake. We all had some and it was very good.  Bill and I went to the hospital to visit a lady Fran wanted us to go see.  Went to Melissa's afterwards and took her a Mocha and a nutty donut.  Kimmy and Vikki went to let Misty's dog out and stopped at Tim Horton's on their way back.  I told them to pick up what they wanted there and I would get it for them.  We all went to Salvation Army and walked around for a while and then came to my house.

We visited for a while.  Jared came around 12:30 and it was nice having him visit with us too.  He was looking at some old pictures so we had fun doing that with him.  Made him and Melissa spaghetti for lunch.  The rest of us were still to full from our breakfast.  Everyone left to get kiddos and then a little while after that, Kenzie came.  She walked into the family room thinking she would find her mom and aunt Kimmy but I told her they had to leave.  She was disappointed that she missed seeing them.  She wanted to wish them Happy Birthday. She and I ate some squash I had just made.  She also had spaghetti squash with spaghetti sauce on it.  She's my healthy eater.

We went shopping at Walmart, Bed Bath and Beyond, Penney's, Sears, Gordman's, Target and then back to Gordman's.  We got a comforter set for her Birthday and Christmas!  Talked a lot about Jesus, the rapture, being ready, etc.  Sure love that girl!   Sure loved spending time with Kimmy and Vikki on their birthday.  

10/17/16...Bill is excited.....He gets to have lunch with Connie Stevens....I am excited for him

Program signed for Bill by Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens signed this picture for Bill

Bill and Connie Stevens

Today was a special day for Bill.  He had checked on going to see Connie Stevens for Town Talk, but was told he would have to by the yearly membership for $135.  Our dear friend, Sue, got him

a ticket from someone she knew that wasn't able to go.  Praise God!  He has been looking so forward to today.  When he was in Vietnam, Connie was there and asked for 4 guys named Bill to come on the stage.  Dad moved fast and was one of them.  Some of the other's names weren't even Bill.  She danced with Bill and sang Wedding Bell Blues.  (Will you marry me Bill) and she kissed him.  It was a special day for him over there.  Always love hearing him tell of it.  Well today, he got to go see her again and sat right next to her table.  She signed an 8 x 10 picture of her for him and wrote, Dear Bill, Will you marry me Still? and signed her name.  She also signed the program for him saying how happy she was to see him again, and signed Love you forever.   Bill was so happy for this special day which makes me very happy.  She said they probably wouldn't ever see each other again and he told her, We will in heaven, if you know Jesus.  He always knows how to plant a good seed.  Praying she thinks about that.  We watched a dvd of her taking a group of nurses who had served in Vietnam, back over there 25 years later.  It was so touching.  Very hard for these nurses to look back on all the lives lost.  They were so young to go through all that and so were our men.  Praying for all the Vietnam and other veterans for healing of their minds and emotions when they come back.  My heart goes out to them.  So proud of my sweetie for serving then and now for serving the Lord the way he does.  Love, Love, Love him!!!

10/16/16...Peyton, Isaac and Jack and the other kids sang for everyone at church today. They were so cute and did such a nice job

Loved hearing these sweet kiddos and seeing them do the motions!

Good job Jack, Peyton, and Isaac!  Nana is so proud of you!  You did great

Isaac in Sunday School

The kids did such a good job today singing in church and doing the motions.

We had a missionary speak today.  Very good and interesting.  Picked up 2 nutty donuts

for a guy in our church to bribe him to come to care group.  We also got one for us.  Came home and made spaghetti for dinner.  Rich came to care group with his wife and was blessed and was a blessing.  We had 13 of us there tonight.  Very good lesson on resolving conflict and great discussion afterwards.  Tomorrow Bill gets to go to Town Talk and see Connie Stevens. I am so excited for him and praying for it to be really special for him.

10/15/16..Went on our Faith Rider's Fall Color Tour...very nice day

Getting ready to pray before we ride

Started out being a beautiful warm sunny day

The whole group!  

Mike and Ariana Vargas!  He was the one who nominated Bill for chaplain many years ago at Trinity Riders.  Bill was so happy and has served as an officer ever since.

They made me get in the group picture

Joel and Wes....Wes couldn't ride the motorcycle because his hand is healing from carpal tunnel surgery

Beautiful color!

Matt and Lupe in jail at Cops and Donuts....We teased Matt because he was our road captain and he led us right by the diner we were supposed to eat at.  We had to look up online where it was and go back a few miles.  Told him we were very hungry, so he had to do jail time for his mistake.  They are fairly new to our group but he is now running for road captain for next year.  They went to BayShore for the fall free stay weekend, and their grandkids played with Melissa and Bruce's boys.

Funny, cuz Bill went in the jail and took a picture of us so it looks like we are all in jail.  He is just too cute!

Another fairly new member!  He's an electrician and he fixed our motorcycle and didn't even want to charge us.  We made him take something.  His wife is going to be secretary of Faith Rider's next year.  Yay for active members to help!  We are blessed

Restaurant we ate in was cute and had great food

We got ready and left to meet everyone at Meijer's.  There were 11 motorcycles and 19 of us that went.  It was sunny and in the mid 60's when we started.  On our way to Gladwin, the sun went under and it got cooler.  I never got cold at all though because I had layers on, and very warm, long gloves on.  I was warm all day.  It did warm up to 70 on the ride home which was very nice.  Mark and Marti came on the ride with us and are going to do the book to get their colors and become CMA members.

We went to Cops and Doughnuts on our way home and had yummy doughnuts.  We got Melissa and family some huge rice krispies treats with sprinkles and took it to them for coming to let Mocha out.  It was Bill's idea and was so sweet.  When I took them to her house, I got to eat 2 pieces of zucchini bread that Bruce had just made.  So delicious!   Kenzie stopped over for a while and had cookies and coffee.  

10/14/16...Kimmy and Vikki came over

Isaac and Peyton on the trampoline

Me and two of my sweeties

Bill is doing a great job on his little shed.  The door is on and the siding is going on.

The leaves are turning

Kimmy came over.  We sat visiting under our blankets. Vikki worked at the kids school so she came later.  We were all visiting and Kenzie came to the door.  We were happy to see her.  We all had egg sandwiches and chicken noodle soup.  Mykenzie and Kimmy shot Kenzie's pellet gun.   Kimmy had to leave to pick Jacob up for an appt.  Vikki and I went to goodwill to get some new gloves they had there with the fingers in that work on phones.  We went to pick up the kids after that. We talked to Katy for a few minutes. I sure was happy to see Peyton and Isaac come out.  I got my hugs and then we left and went to Melissa's so I could let Abby out.  She came to me right away and was excited to see me.  I opened the door to let her out and she didn't want to go.  I put her out and left the door open a little.  I walked out on the grass thinking she would follow me and she ran right back in the house.  This happened one more time and then I closed the door.  This time she ran and found a shady spot in the yard and laid down.  Finally, I picked her up and put her in the corner she always goes to and let her down.  Yay, she went potty on her way to the house.  Came to our house.  Kenzie was still there, but her work called her in so she was getting ready to leave. We put the kid's pumpkins in Vikki's car.  Picked some green peppers for Vikki.  Wes, Gayla and Joel pulled in back by the shed.  Wes wanted to see how Bill was coming with the shed.
It was nice seeing Joel!  Vikki was happy to see all of them and they were happy to see her.  Bill mowed the grass.  He mowed His Restoration's grass today too.  He is such a blessing!  I cooked a couple more squash.  Talked to Melissa on the phone and they had lots of fun at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.  They went to Hailey's volleyball party when they got home.

10/13/16...Went to Vikki's, then Melissa and the kids and I went to the park

Jack and Hailey

Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max

Hailey and Evan 

Max

Jack

Hailey at takeoff

Hailey is so good at these

Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max at the park

Hailey, Nana, Max, Evan and Jack

Silly faces

So much fun at the park

Hailey has such strength.  See that huge branch!  Love these pictures of Hailey, Evan, Jack and Max

Kimmy came to town so went to see her at Vikki's.  Lenny did some of his tricks.  He is such a good dog.  He would heal while Vikki walked and when she stopped he would sit.  Then she gave him a treat.  He is such a cute puppy and so smart.  Took some chicken noodle soup there for lunch.  After I ate some of that, I left to meet Melissa and the kids at the zoo. The zoo was closed so we went to McDonalds for hot fudge sundaes and Mc Flurries.  We went to the dog park but Kimmy and Vikki weren't there so we went to the park by my house.  The kids had fun playing and then we all had fun walking around the lake.  We came to my house after that and the kids played outside and jumped on the trampoline.  Charlie and Sue stopped over and brought us each a big cinnamon roll.  We had to leave to go to Harvey's for our Faith Rider's Meeting.  Bill rode the motorcycle and I followed behind him in the car.  The meeting went really well.  We have new people running for offices.  We vote next week.  Bill has done such a great job as president and we have grown and gotten younger people coming.  The food was delicious.  It was a little noisy even though we had the back room, but not too bad.  We were too full to eat our cinnamon roll when we got home.