C & C, Day 3

And so much MORE!

C & C, Day 2

Afternoon of Day 1

Stopped in the Warsaw/Winona Lake area to eat and find the Billy Sunday Museum.

Kid's Meal at Dairy Queen included a treat!

And this framed article on the D.Q. wall gave us a hint

of some of the history of the Winona Lake area...

Below, grandsons pose in front of life-sized Billy Sunday--

baseball player turned fiery evangelist! 

The tabernacle named after him has been razed, 

but there is much interesting memorabilia in this small museum 

located uphill in Westminster Hall.

I remember the bicycles-built-for-two, rentable, 

from when I lived there in the early 60's.

 

So many changes here.  Gary and I will go back

to this beautiful place and take our time "touring" one day soon, God-willing.

Our Kansas Kids

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Birthday at Riverfest

Spent a great morning at Riverfest on Abby's birthday!  

I think if you click on the pictures--and click again--

you can see some of the fun more clearly!

Seventh Birth Day

Abby and Sammie whipped up the birthday cake
from the recipe in this book.

They'll enjoy the cake later with the boy cousins & Titus in Rochester.

A trip with Grandpa to the doughnut shop
resulted in "birthday donuts".  

We sang "Happy Birthday" and enjoyed the breeze
while the cake baked.

Birthday Eve

(L to R) Birthday girl Abigail; cousin Sammie, neighbor Shirley.  Not pictured above:  Sister Taniah, Neighbor Jim,
Grandpa Gary and Grandma Rebecca.  

Mother of the birthday girl, below making s'mores.

Eventually we got a wet washcloth.  S'mores are yummy AND messy!

The evening was cool.

The fire was delightful!

Our Fortieth

After church we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary day

at The Back 40 Junction in Decatur, IN.
40/Forty.  

We're looking forward to a trip to Buffalo, NY 

which we'll tag onto a business trip in July.  

We hear there are many beautiful gardens throughout the city 

that are open to the public all summer.

Thanking God for His faithfulness to us, our marriage, our children...

and wondering where the 40 years have gone!?!

Saturday morning at the Park

Donuts with Dads

 Donuts (well, Danish) with Dad this morning.

Dad said, "I'm proud of my son."

I (Grandma) said, "I'm proud of MY son, too!"
(I'm also very, VERY happy to have a phone plan
that allows me to get & send picture texts...
and SKYPE to have visited
with our Kansas grandchildren last night!)

Blasts from the Past

Since we have TEN grandchildren, I know that I'm taking a risk in only posting these four...but I was going through some old files and couldn't help myself!   I don't know where the time has gone.  Seems like only yesterday that these pictures were taken!