Greetings my great friends and family and "others" !

I know its been a long time getting up these post recently... But my computer has been down, So thanks to my Wonderful friend (Ken) I have been able to get things up and going again... Ken spent many long hours building me a new computer from scratch! So if you enjoy reading this post, Drop Ken a line and tell him thanks!! Yes that means YOU! :-D haha

(BTW I dont have my address list to email people reminders about my website updates, so maybe you could email me if you want to be on that list)

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So..... we shall start off this bunch of pictures with this!

Ok, now onto something more interesting... Kayaking with Josh... It was fun for the first bit... But the water level was very low, hence we did a lot of walking, thus making it take loooonger, therefore we were kayaking into the night when the bugs came out, and the bugs were very thick, so thick that you could hardly open your eyes.... Seriously... They were thick... So try to imagine Kayaking down a river at night with your eyes closed.. ermmm... yeah... fun fun!! :-D

Helping move Alanna's stuff.

Caught in Thought.

Playing Music at the Robinson's.

And we did some swimming as well.

The little girls playing at our house.

At the Barber shop, this little boy was perty funny ;-)

The Runny Babbit!

The "Fam"

Working on making my card board boat! ... The one that didn't float!

Me and the little ones.

Milking it for all its worth! This was us all camping up at the Coopers!

Setting up camp.

The fire.

Lem Swabbing the deck!

Camp food! Don't look at Katie :-D

It rained a lot at camp... So we had to find other things to do.

My Mcdonalds commercial.

Hmm?

The Boat races, I wish I had more pictures of this, but my camera battery ran out :-(

We had a 5 day bible club for kids in the area, here is Charity telling a story...

Barak and Levi telling a story.

Keeping all her ducks in a row.

The Marshall's came for a visit!

Hi!

A Clog in the Flue!

A pretty lake near us :-)

Joe's surprise birthday party!

My Mom, Grandma, Levi and Ethan visited my Aunt up on the tip of the thumb.

We went on a bike ride down in Jackson and we stopped by a lake, and her is Anna in the lake looking very photogenic!

Underwater footage.

We made it!!

Andrews open house! It was a blast!

Looking good!

The hard workers! Thanks guys!

I think I see a spike coming!

After the open house on Sunday, we left for a long trip down to Memphis Tenn to go to the Funeral of my Great Aunt (my dads, moms, brothers, wife.) She was 94, and they almost made it to 75 year of a wonderful marriage. Here is a note I wrote about it on facebook:

Hello everybody.... I am writing this note from my phone, So if the text looks small that's why. As to the miss spellings and bad Grammar... Well that's another story ;-)
Anywho, I wanted to tell a bit of my observations from the trip we have been on recently.
My Great Aunt died recently down in Memphis Tenn. She was 94 years old. ( Her Husband died a few months back) I never really was all that close to her or the rest of the family down here. I just have some distant memories over the years from seeing them. But I do remember the Love my Aunt and Uncle had for eachother.... But I never really knew how deep that love was, because I haven't lived with them to observe how deep it went.
They where just a few months shy of 75 years of a wonderful marriage... But what made it last so long? What made it SO great? Why were their great grand children so Godly? This was something I had to find out! Because That's the kind of fruit I want to have from myself -Generations of Godly children! And a Long Godly marriage (not for my own glory, but for Gods)
So I listened to some of the children and grand children speak at the Funeral, they told about the normal good things you would hear about most people, her good cooking and caring for the children... But then I caught some things out of the ordinary. They talked about how my Aunt would everyday be at the bedside of my Uncle while he was in the hospital for a couple months before he died. They might be praying or talking or just taking a nap together at the hospital, you just couldn't separate them! I heard alot about how my Aunt and Uncle Honored and revered each other, and the undying love and commitment they had, not only for eachother but for their children.
Something I though was important was they lived close by their children and Grandchildren and would often visit with them all throughout the week, so that way they could train them through their Godly lifestyle how to have a good marriage. Also something else that I found interesting... They had girl that was kinda the "black sheep" of the family, there was a couple sons from different husbands of hers... Normally I wouldn't expect the sons to be the greatest, because of their situation. But Because of the close proximity of how close they lived to eachother, and for the love the flowed out of my great Aunt and Uncle from God onto the boys, they have been raised up just great, and are now Godly men, and are now raising their children in like manner. It was nice to hear all these great things about my Aunt and Uncle... But what made it SO much better, was to see it lived out in the children, grand children and great grand children. It was Outstanding! Oh the blessings one can have from just simply allowing ones self to be a vessel in the masters hands, and having Jesus live through you in every aspect of life!

"But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness!"

God Bless you all!

At the grave site.

My dads cousin.... They have some property out in the country that we went to and checked out their garden, BUT we also got to shoot a bunch of their guns! It was great!!

More of our family! They were so Great! I wish we could see them more often! So hospitable and loving people!

Then we visited some other relatives in Effingham Ill, Good times seeing everybody!

Some of the Calves.

Farm stuff.

There we be!

My Great Aunt Jo'

The corn field behind her house.

Us again!

Strange flowers in those parts.

Levi getting board at the restaurant.

We had a party at the Thompson's again this year! Good times of fellowship and volley ball and Music. However I only got pictures of the Music time.

Today (Sunday) we visited a church, but between the morning service and the evening one, we played some Monopoly at our house.... These pictures pretty much sum it up ;-)

Levi looking good...

Poor Katie....

We happened to hit this church on the 5th Sunday of the month... which means it was the fun day! lots of Music and food...

Here are some cute kids singing! :-D

Food

BBQ.

Well, That's all for now folks! Don't forget to email Ken!

God Bless! Love you all!!

 

 

 

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