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

a bit more fun

fishy races at the fun fair at grace cov.

mei's first ride down this zip line

gray is finally big enough for the dew swing and he proved it 11 times that day

tarzan swing

a taste of our time in the U P

in no real order you'll get the idea

ok we went in to Eagle river as we always do and we ate at this pizza place. David and I had eaten here many times as teens (like 26 yrs ago) while on vacation with Daves folks and NO KIDDING it is exactly the same ! carpet and all timehas stood still in eagle river I guess

thank goodness the go kart track has gotten better

david had to go home and work some. these are so long pics

mei had her first pasty and loved it!

we play very hard

I think everyone knows I love it up there at hagerman lake, actually I'm addicted how can you not be with a situation like this one?

can you believe this... well yes you probably can

we were out quite late tonight and sky (the man of the house today) was helping G get out to walk in the house. This is how far G got from the suburban before he layed down and fell back to sleep. luckily "snaps" always has a camera ready. we really were laughing so hard it took us probably 20 minutes to actually get him in the house. One of those moments I hope I never forget!