Family Reunions Are Wonderful!

This was the year for my sisters and me to gather, with as many of our family members as could come, for a family reunion. It was held at Loon Lake, about 20 miles east of Reedsport, Oregon (which is on the coast). It is a beautiful drive and a beautiful spot to enjoy with your family!


Some of the cousins enjoyed the beach one day. The weather was perfect!


Molly and Aunt Debi cleaned up the kitchen together. The lodge house was awesome!


My husband getting ready to ski! Yes, he did get up and he managed to keep his hat on the whole time too!


The water was cold at first but then you soon got used to it. This is Jesse & Molly on the dock and Jeremy & Andy in the water.


Mark won the Rail Baron game, much to the dissapointment of the brother-in-laws!


We are so blessed with a great family! We look forward to 2010 for the next reunion!

Party, Hugs, Books, Bee Stings, Knights, Smiles & Cooing

I just returned home from a trip to Idaho. I stayed with Jesse & Kate the first three nights and Toby & Jenny the last four.


We celebrated Casey's 26th birthday; Kate made a yummy chicken enchilada meal. The youngest siblings gave Casey a singing card with the song "You're unbelieveable"!


I enjoyed hugs from the grandchildren and reading books together. River received his first bee sting, but was able to bounce back quickly.


I had the privilege of babysitting a couple of times; on one such occasion I sat on the floor in the middle of a battle between good knights and bad knights and a little princess cooking some food. Masculinity and femininity at its best!


It was a joy to get my "baby fix" as I held Tovia many times! When she smiled and cooed it made my heart melt. She is a miracle baby!



Thus the adventures of a Mom/Oma with a happy, growing family...

Our Purpose

God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

-John Piper

A new header

As you can see we have a new picture as our header. That, my friends, is a picture of the actual Pemberley (in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice that is). It is a beautiful place!

Quotes from Pride and Prejudice about Pemberley:
"Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it."

"They gradually ascended for half a mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills;—and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in her admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!"

All for now!