food, crochet, merriment
…to see a couple of soccer games, with April, Hazel and Lily.
Always awesome fun!
We really do live in an incredibly beautiful place with all this lovely stuff right in our backyard.
We’re pretty lucky ducks, I’d say.
Our cute little Lily is going on a mission for our church!! When she got the actual call, it came sooner than she expected and even she was surprised. She decided to go from family member to family member to let them all know.
This, of course, was Dane’s reaction when they called him.
I knew where she hoped to go–so I was pretty DANG excited to hear the actual place. I’m so excited for her!!
Rhen and Jessica got the news and–took it well. Haha.
Lyndi and Nate’s happy response.
And Jillian is completely thrilled too.
Congratulations LILY!! We’re so proud of you and so happy that you’ll be serving in such a magical place!
We love you, love you, LOVE YOU!!
Summer went waaay too fast! Here we are with these cuties going off to the first day of school. Hazel is going to love 6th grade!!
K, T & L are ready for their new year too! They look adorable in their uniforms.
And of course, Beckham and Lily are too grown up for these school day pictures! Bahaha! They’re happy to be the free folks, for a few weeks anyway.
Oh, my goodness, I wish we could slow it all down. I want to just hold these people still long enough to get a good, hard, loving look at them before they flit off to their future.
Doesn’t seem so long ago that these school kids were not grandkids…but myyyy kids….who are, of course, all grown up now.
But I still remember clearly the magical smell of new notebooks and pencils, and erasers –from their childhood…
and from mine.
Still gives me goosebumps.
Here’s our Miss Chomp at work, smiling away behind the eclairs. How can she help it–honestly?
But wait–who have we here? Why it’s our sweet Lily!
And who’s in the back there?! Could that possibly be our Beckham too?
Holy smokes!! No wonder they are all smiling. I can’t even imagine how much fun they must be having–all three of these guys working together!
Beckham even made my sandwich! Yummm.
Service with a smile from the cutest kids I know….
who have been family and friends…
for positively ever.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
April’s family lost a beloved member last week. We all loved her.
Rest peacefully, sweet Buttercup.
We’ll miss you.