August 15, 2011

  • Colorado flowers,  time with family in the Rocky Mountains, a breath of fresh air...........Our family got away for a much needed rest over the weekend of August 5-7.  All the kids with their spouses and the grandkids were able to meet at the Crider cabin at Purgatory or Durango Mountain.  We are so grateful for the friends that made this possible.  God is good.  We don't get enough of these precious times, Heaven will be so awesome because times like this will be normal!  My favorite time (if I can choose) would have been Sunday morning when we gathered around the table, sang beautifully (or at least loudly!)  while Christopher played the guitar and then we broke bread together as a family.  How  precious is that? 

    We did break away for the wedding of our special friends' daughter, on Saturday, August 6.  Ken and Glenace Stanley saw their youngest daughter Amy married to a wonderful Christian young man, Bryce Elkins.  Doyle officiated at the ceremony and I think he did a superb job.  The special time of the ceremony was when Ken sang a song (and Glenace accompanied him on the piano) to the young couple.  I don't think there was hardly a dry eye in the place.  Special times!  (Because I babysat Laura and Amy (sisters) for so many years this wedding was especially wonderful.)

    Christof and Megan and Analiese were here from August 4-August 14.  We were so happy to celebrate Analiese's first birthday in our backyard with extended family and the Crider's. The weather was perfect, we all ate too much and laughed alot.  Good times, good friends and wonderful family.  That's what the good life is all about....