a slice of encouragement

everyone who follows this blog knows the trails I have raising Gray, well today I saw hope in his future. This week we made a stop at the Christian book store because gray has been asking to buy Bibles. He said "I want to be a missionary here so I think I better have a stash of Bibles to hand out" great, right? so at the book store he picked out 6 tiny 2x3" Bibles which he said "were perfect". so today we brought a friend to church for her fist time and as we were going to drive her home gray ran in to the house and came back out with a Bible and told her " here this is for you. keep it in your purse so you can read the Bible anytime you want" she was very touched and showed him that it went in her purse. he fell asleep before we got home but I can't wait to talk with him tomorrow about it and tell him he really is a missionary now! suddenly all his troubles don't seem all that bad...

B's first 1st place win (plus a PR)

ugh I don't know why blogger is having issues in order but I do know I am not the only one ANYWAY the meet was in joliet, such a long drive, but worth it since my boy came in 1st in frosh/soph running 16:32. as you see he won with a large lead. "a proud mama day" as one of the parents said, so true, so true...

another boy in the family

here is the oldest and the youngest great grand kids. and we have 20 more in between

big sis gets stuff too

hooray for new cousins!

as you can see we had a great day on wed. meeting the newest Rill. as well as seeing what gray picked out for her, you can never go wrong with mickey and minnie

I think she is admiring the amount of mei's hair here

food always a good thing

yes as you know it's not to hard to get liv to smile anytime there's a baby around, especially when that baby is family liv never stopped smiling all day!

great day with cousins