January 20, 2009

• Speed Journaling

   Hello out there in Xangaland! Big Hiya to Luxiswiss who reminded me that it's been a while.

  So, I may be backtracking but here we go...speed journaling over the last few months, mostly with pictures:

  Nov 1. My nephew Gaelan married Emily: A young woman of great beauty and worth, and I'm not talking her pretty face. This young woman and her sister are amazing. They are tireless in good works for the body of Christ and their firm faith and gracious love for others truly make them of far greater worth than rubies.

  Nov. Thanksgiving. Okay, you saw my awesome labors on Turkey Execution day....I then did a major no-no. I came home exhausted, with the turkey in the cooler...intending to add ice....and we all know where good intentions lead you....yup...you guessed it...I petered out, and the bird went belly up. So we improvised...I should say, Heather improvised, and fixed us up another bird.  Next time, I'm packin' ice. So anyway, I gave an open invitation to church in case some one didn't have a family or thing to do on Thanksgiving, and we had a lovely group come and stuff themselves as well as play games and so forth. I also, got 10 bales of straw for the kids to play with in the backyard....and well...let's just say that the V family weren't thrilled with the state of their daughters hair afterwards, though I did help pick it out!

   

  Girls playing with horses                                   Some of the eatin'

     

  The dessert table, the lemon meringue pie looked gorgeous, that is, till we tasted it...AAAAAAAAAA! I had put 3 large lemons into it and had accidentally zested into the pith...the result was ghastly, a few people tried to valiantly choke down a piece...ahh well, it looked good!

  Tim up there handing out about 5 pcs. of corn to each child. A tradition in their family as that was all the each pilgrim had to live on at one point. Each child had to say what they were thankful for as they gave back the corn.

     

  Holly G. zonked out after playing horse....                                some of the children...

     

  Some of our snazzy decor        ...                                               Bradley and Baxter..chillin' 

     

  Bradley V. and Maxwell....buds...............................                               Kelly C. and a son...Paul I think.

     

  Baxter worn out from the V. girls playing                              My Lizzy B.

     

  Jewel V. and Mae C.                                                                             I asked Jewel to give me a big smile, hence the "Cheese"

   

  Jewel's mom, Angela, giving me the "Cheese" smile as well....like mother like daughter...

   

  Some of the straw play.

     

  Rick C. working on my laptop...it's shot ! Never buy HP!!!!               Bradley and Jacob tumbling...

   

  A bit later, here's Steve and the kids playing "Monster" :

  ON another note...I went to TX to go to the memorial service for Don Ivy, my friend Anne's husband. He was a lot like Frankie which was nice to discover...I can just picture the two of them meeting in heaven and Frank saying "Finally, another man who is always on time". Here's a few pictures of the memorial flowers, including the tulips our group sent and some lovely shots of Anne and two of her sons, Jonathan in blue *I'm informed he's uniformly missing when picture time comes around* and Alex :

   

        

       

  Anne has a lovely, warm family and it was a great privelege to visit with them all. God is good.

  On the flight home, I got to have another treat...for the Steelers fans!:

       

  The girls were totally trippin' that I got to see the "official" Steelers plane. I didn't see any Steelers though, at least, none that I know of...I guess they don't wear game day gear 24/7...ah well....it'd be funny trying to see them buckle into those teensy airline seats in full padding...te-he..

   

  A first for me, walking out onto the tarmac to get into the plane....had to grab a photo.

  And....I will leave that for now, I'll do Christmas for the next blog entry.

  Hope your New Year is a blessed one.

  Because Jesus Christ Lives and Reigns Forever!

  ~Kate

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