Take time....

This picture is a valuable reminder to take time and spend with your family and your husband....life IS short, treasure every moment!

Kim

Flowers

I woke up from my nap to these on the table. I'm so happy that my husband still brings me flowers every now and then. He usually brings be wildflowers, which are my favorite, on his way home from work.

Thank you Larry.
I love you,
Kim

Father's Day Thoughts

It's been twenty-five years since my father walked me down the isle. What a wonderful memory especially when ten short months later he died of cancer. I really miss talking to him and seeing him laugh and wear his baggy work pants. I miss how he flipped his hair like Ronald Reagan. I love you Daddy.

Twenty-five years ago we said "I do" and I love you more today. You are a wonderful, caring, and "steady" hubby. You're a great father who loves spending time with his children, providing a home and being an example of a godly husband and father, and a loving grandpa to sweet Katelyn. Thank you for all you do for us and for being the man God called you to be.

Wow! Do we really look that good! Grey hairs, wrinkles, a few extra pounds......but love in the eyes. Happy Father's Day. We love you.

Larry bought me this plaque from the Billy Graham Library on their trip to the Operation Christmas Child processing center. God welcomes everyone to come and dine at His table.

Alison, Daniel's girlfriend, really likes to sew and I bought her a purse pattern and she was so happy.

Mr. Steady likes anything involving deer. He really enjoys hunting and the meat to feed the family is so good. Thank you Lord for providing it each year.

I like anything old. My home is filled with old pillows, furniture, old towels and bowls. I like to fill my home with things that my grandparents would have had in their home. Joshua gave me this old stove and now it sits atop my refrigerator.

The boys went shopping for grandma and Ben picked out this bright shawl and Noah bought her a set of burner covers for her stove.

Hunter and Erika were married in August so we put a collage together of their wedding pictures to display in their home.

Each Christmas Erika buys Halloween costumes on clearance to give to the little boys. This is one of the things they look forward to. Here are Benjamin and Noah as dragons, wings and all.

Nerf guns are a big hit around our house with four boys. Daniel and Joshua were so happy to get these. Over Christmas vacation a group of boys from church get together in the gymnasium at the church and set up tables as "bunders and shields" and chairs atop one another to make "barbed wire fence" and they spend the whole day in the dark having wars. I'm so thankful that the boys can have good clean fun and good friends.

Dad reading the Christmas story to us.

Grandma searching for Silent Night in her book of christmas songs for us to sing along.

I hope that your Christmas was one of peace and joy. Our Christmas was one of love and fellowship and I'm so thankful that we simplified it many years ago. I look forward to Christmas each year to remember what Jesus did for me and my family and the whole world. It is by grace alone that I'm a child of the King. I couldn't do anything to make myself good enough. Jesus did it all for you and me.

By Grace Alone,

Kim