Picnic & Special Friends

Oh my! We have been so busy since June that my head is spinning. I still have more vacation pictures to post, too. After we got home from vacation our special friends came up to visit. They came for our annual church picnic. Our friends are also my former pastor and his wife and two daughters.They started our church roughly 17 years ago (?). They are now missionaries in Mexico.  We keep in touch daily but it's never the same as actually spending time together. We enjoyed thier visit and especially hearing Pastor Harris preach, again. It was almost a packed house, last night, as old friends came to hear him preach.  I am looking forward to seeing them again next month. Here are a few pictures from our July 4th picnic.

Special

Our Pastor and his family are moving this week to start a new church in MN. God has blessed them with musical talent. They all play a variety of instruments.  Over the years they have done specials. This is by far my favorite song to hear them sing. This special was done at a home school concert last week. I asked them to sing this song one more time, today in church. Unfortunatly, the quality of my recording was not as good as this recording. .




I also want to share with you the talent of thier oldest daughter. She is the one playing the violin. . Click HERE.. This was also at the home school concert last week. I wish I had recordings of all the girls playing.   Among other things, I will miss their musical talent. The girl playing the piano is excellent too. She is not our pastor's daughter however.

You can also see the last special the kids sang with the Johnson family on Brandon's blog--HERE

Such A Sweet Girl!

I stayed home with Brandon all day today. He's a little under the weather--we are still not sure if he has a cold or allergies. Anyway, my Pastor's daughter, Emily, sent this home tonight for us. Brandon and I enjoy walking around our lake in the mornings. We enjoy looking for the turtle, which we were told, is named Sally. I don't know the name of the second turtle in the lake (Gary maybe?)  Sally is also my pastors wife (and friend) and Emily's mom. LOL.. So here is Sally, and friend (made out of a paper plate). Thank you Emily, that was very sweet of you!

Our Last Youth Group Meeting

Tonight was our last King's Kids meeting. We are taking a summer break. Mike chose Bible verses for each child to read, during his devotion. I enjoy hearing my almost 8 year old reading, but it is really great to hear him reading from the Bible! Then they had playtime outside. THEN they came back inside and we filled them up with sugar. LOL. Hmm, I think we did that backwards!

2 Tim 3:15- And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus..