Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Celebrations


We went to our son's house for a family get-together to celebrate a couple of birthdays and also to welcome our youngest son and his wife to Cali for a week. The oldest sons always enjoy their times together...
Our oldest grandson is growing up so fast!
And so is our oldest grand-daughter!
Daddy and his "mini-me."
J&K
We had a mini-birthday party for this little girl who just turned 4!
Opening her gift...
Enjoying her new princess castle.
...then sharing with her cousin!
We had fun playing together and enjoying the beautiful day.
Fortunately we had this short time together with everyone, because a couple hours later, before J&H arrived, a couple of people in the family got sick with the flu.
After several hours of travel by plane and car, J&H arrived.
We also celebrated our youngest son's 31st birthday (a couple weeks late).
His nephews loved helping him blow out the candles...and help eat that yummy chocolate cake!
That was the way J&H began their week in Cali where they attended a seminar on building eco-friendly sod houses.
Later in the week, they drove to our home and spent the evening with us...

...then early the next morning they drove east to attend the last 15 hours of classes.
Even though the time was short, we were so thankful that J&H took the time to come and visit; and we enjoyed sharing our beautiful weather with them before they flew back to the snow and cold of Montana.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Celebrate new life

 We are so blessed to have new neighbors...and a new associate pastor at our church! In early September, they added twin girls to their family. Several weeks later, the girls were brought to the family of God through holy baptism. 


 As a special treat to the babies, their daddy sang them a song.
 Such a special benediction to his beautiful little girls.
The nieces waited patiently for their time in the service.
Uncle and aunt and their family came from Colorado to join S&S as sponsors for the twins.
Mother and child...
...father and child.

And a special highlight of the day was the arrival of this couple, the pastor and his wife from Seth's home church. They were visiting family in our area and decided to surprise S&S by coming for the baptism of the girls. They are also former colleagues of ours from Africa and the baptismal sponsors of our third son, so it was a delight to have them visit.