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| Bill and fellow Marine Jack at Healthsource |
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| Jack's family was so nice to us. |
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| Bill showing them the hat that was in Jack's gift bag
We went to church. None of our kids were there, so Dennis and Amy said they would be our kids and sit by us. We did see Rody after church. He was doing the sound. After church, we came home and changed and went to Healthsource to take a bag of Christmas gifts from the Marine Corp. League to Jack. We had never met him or his family before, but they were the nicest people. We visited for a long time while Jack opened his gifts. He got lots of games, gift cards, etc. He was so happy to talk to Bill and his family said he was having a really good day. He has dementia but sure could remember all the details about his military service. This visit really touched our hearts. We were able to pray for Jack and his family before we left which was a huge blessing to us. Came home and watched the Michigan/Michigan State game. Then we read our books!
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| Love this picture of Max and Jack at the Hotel in Frankenmth. Melissa sent these to me and it made me so happy |
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| Hailey and Evan |
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| Evan eating his cereal out of a cup at the hotel |
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| Evan |
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| Arnie, Cheryl, me and Bill at Champps in Lansing. Uncle Fred called while we were there and was surprised that we were only a couple of miles away from where he was.
We got u in the morning and got ready, then got our coffees made. Headed out to go pick up Arnie and Cheryl. We drove to Jackson. Stopped in Perry and found some good deals. One for me and one for Kimmy. When we got to Jackson we went to Hinkley's Bakery because Sabrina had told us they have the best donuts. When we went in the door, there was a big line that went in a circle. We got right in the middle of the circle where the end of the line was. We each got 2 donuts. They were delicious too! After that we went to the church and had some snacks and coffee. We went into the sanctuary where we all met together and were encouraged, then we went into our individual officer classes. I went into the Web Master class and learned a lot about updating our web page. Bill went into the President's class. After we were finished, we went out to the car. It had been snowing and the car was covered. When we got to Lansing we stopped for dinner. Arnie and Cheryl set the waiter up so that he put our meal on their bill. That was really nice of them, even though we didn't want them to do that. We had a nice time and got to know each other better. They are new to our Faith Rider's ministry. After we left, we got to Perry and Bill decided to go the back roads. We got a little ways and it was snowing so hard we could hardly see. Then the roads got icy and we saw cars in the ditch. We were so glad when we got to Saginaw and the roads were good.
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| Vikki and Kimmy's surprise. I was so happy to find these animal warmies at Aldi's. They are exactly like the ones I found on line but were so much less expensive and no shipping. I had got one for Melissa at Christmas, but these two were out of stock. |
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| Growing so big it is falling over now.
I got up early and got carrots and potatoes peeled, a cake baked and dough going in the bread maker. Kimmy came over in the morning. We went to Aldi's at 9:30 and looked at the other warmie animals they had. They are all so cute and soft. I got a hyacinth for Kimmy as they were on clearance now and were a great price. We went to Goodwill after that and I found some bracelets and Kimmy got some pants for Eli. There was a half off coupon on Facebook so we got everything real cheap. Kimmy got my bracelets for me. Thank you Kimmy! We went to the Family Christian Store after that and picked up the four plaques I ordered with "family rules" (from Scriptures) on them. We took Vikki's warmie dog and family rule plaque to her and her Valentine's surprise from Aunt Vikki. We just left them on her porch as she was pretty sick. Next, we went to Melissa's and dropped off her plaque and her surprise from Aunt Vikki. We stopped at Tim Horton's and Kimmy treated me to a French Vanilla Cap. We sure had fun together. We came back and had salad for lunch and did some wee fit exercises together. We had some red grapes for our snack. After Kimmy left, I ran to Aldi's and got each of our grandkids a warmie animal for Easter.
I found four different ones for Melissa's kiddos, which was good as she has the most to find different ones for. Came home and put the roast, carrots and potatoes in the pressure cooker. Put the topping on the cake and set the table with the good china. Dennis and Amy came at 6 and we ate dinner, played 3-13 and then had dessert. Lots of fun with this sweet couple.
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| My friend, Vikki, got me this transfer for Christmas so I hung it today |
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| Evan and Abby |
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| Evan was pretty happy because he thought his army would beat mine |
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| Evan getting his men to set up |
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| Our table at the Bradley Bistro where Bill was honored for his volunteer service to the community. |
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| Ralph and Julie Rosas were at the table right next to us. He was also honored for his volunteer service to the community |
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| So proud of Jenna as she was honored for her volunteer service to the community. Great to see young people serving |
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| Ralph receiving his award |
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| Beth did a wonderful job honoring the volunteers |
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| Ralph sharing about the ministries he is involved in |
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| Bill getting his award! Very proud of him!!! |
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| This is the clock they gave him with his name on it |
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| Ralph, Jenna and Bill. Praise God for their servant's hearts
Got up and worshipped and read my Bible. After that I decided to transfer the scripture that Vikki Eddy got me to the wall. I was in the middle of it when Melissa called and wanted to know if I could come stay with Evan while she went to the school to give Jack a treatment for his asthma.
I was happy to so I quickly finished the transfer and then got dressed and headed to her house. I didn't have time to shower and do my hair, so I just put a hat on. Evan and I had fun playing with his army heroes. He was so cute and so smiley. After I left there, I stopped at Aldi's to pick up carrots for dinner tomorrow. Dennis and Amy are coming over for dinner tomorrow night and I am making a roast. I found nice surprises for Kimmy and Vikki to give them tomorrow. I called Melissa to tell her what I found there and she was happy. I did some cleaning to get ready for tomorrow's company. Cooked some venison in my slow cooker I had thawed out and had to use.
At 6 we had to be at the Bradley Bistro for dinner. The Arbor group was honoring Bill and some others for their community service. It was so nice. After that, we went to the Rescue Mission and finished watching "God's Not Dead" with the guys there and our friends from Faith Riders. Stacie's dad is there now so we got to see him. He was pretty happy to see us. Love movie night at the Rescue Mission and seeing hearts touched by God!!!
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| Hailey |
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| Evan napping with Abby |
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| Jack |
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| Max, Jack and Evan |
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| President Trump's family's "1st dog" for the White House is a golden doodle! His name is Awesome. He is so cute! |
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| Jack and his creation from blocks |
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| The hyacinth is almost all the way opened now and is huge. It smells so good and sure reminds me of my mom who loved them.
I got ready and went to Melissa's to watch Jack and Evan at 7:45. They took Max to his appointment and then back to school. The boys were really good and Jack was doing much better today and could talk without being scared. Yesterday he couldn't breathe good. So thankful to God that he can talk and breathe better today. Evan had a fever in the morning so he stayed home. He was doing good while I was there after taking Motrin. We had fun building with blocks!
After I left, I went to Kroger's to get some groceries. I downloaded digital coupons before I went, so had some good savings. Also had a coupon for double gas points on groceries so that was nice.
Came home and did my daily devotions. At 2:10, I left to go get Peyton and Isaac from school. I forgot to take my booster seats, so I called Melissa and stopped real quick to pick hers up. The kids were happy to see me and gave me lots of hugs. We went to their house and I stayed and visited for about 10 minutes. Peyton showed me her room and her kitty and Isaac showed me his lego motor and lights. I left there and went to pick Hailey and Max up from school. They were happy to see me too. We went back to their house and I went in for a few minutes. Next week I will be setting up to go pick up Eli, Adam and Jacob. Sure am blessed to have such wonderful grandkids.
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| Me and Vikki at Logan's |
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| Nice induction pan Vikki E. got me for Christmas |
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| My nice wooden utensil set from Vikki
We went to breakfast. There were 14 of us there. We had a good devotion and prayer time. Picked up a few things at Kroger's afterward. Went to Ollie's and got coffee pods after that. Came home and got ready to go with my best friend, Vikki to Logan's for lunch. We had a really nice waitress who volunteered to tell us we could get the 2 for 15.99 special for our salmon dinner we wanted. We were going to each have to pay 12.99 before she told us. Usually they don't say anything about specials unless you ask. We were pretty happy. Our dinners were delicious. We each got baked potatoes and asparagus with our dinner. After we were done eating, we exchanged Christmas gifts. It was pretty funny because we had given each other lists of what we wanted and it had been so long, we both forgot what we had put on our list. It was all surprises for each of us. Ha Ha.
Loved all of our gifts and had so much fun. We had the waitress take a picture of us. After that we went to Family Christian Store and shopped. Then I came home and got stuff ready for care group.
Made Salmon for dinner. It was delicious. Had six of us here for care group. Very good study and Bill did a great job leading it. We prayed for Jack as he was really sick with a virus and asthma.
Melissa sent me a text shortly after to say he was feeling better.
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