Happy 3rd Birthday, Jaden

Proverbs 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

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Our GRANDson, Jaden, will celebrate his 3rd birthday on Friday, November 2. Because his Uncle Chip was here visiting, Amy and Brian had his family party a week early.









We missed Jaden's Pappy Jim as he had to work but otherwise everyone was there: Daddy, Mommy, siblings: Jarrett, Isabella, Joshua, Great-Grandma Goldie, Grandma Carol, Grandma Susan, Grandpa Richard, Uncle Matthew, Aunt Mary, Cousin Morgan, Uncle Chip, and Great-Aunt Darlene and Great-Uncle Bill. It was a nice lunch, sweet fellowship, and a fun party celebrating God's blessings upon Jaden's young life. We pray Jaden will be saved at an early age and will receive God's sayings and live a long life for God. Here are some pics made at the party. The birthday video was made by Jaden's Great-Uncle Bill. The clear pics were taken by Bill or Darlene and the fuzzy pics were made by me. I was having terrible camera problems!! Anyway, HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY to JADEN!!!!

Meet some dear friends of ours

Joshua 24:21~~ ...but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

We were blessed to have a precious campus daughter from Ohio by the name of Morgann. We love to host the families of campus daughters when they come down to visit their girls. Morgann's family made one trip down when they all stayed in our home, and we made a fast friendship with them during that visit. Another time, they came and brought Morgann's Grandma Rosalie with them. She was so much fun to have in our home. Once Morgan's Mom (Diane) came and brought Morgann's best friend with her. Diane and Morgann have been back to see us, and Morgann came earlier in in the Spring to spend a few days. So you can see that they are dear to us.

Anytime that they came to visit and stayed in our home, they always brought special gifts: bounty from their crops (raspberry jam!), homemade cheesecake, steak from their herd, Rosalie brought me two beautiful crocheted doilies, and most of all, these folks always brought hearts full of love for our Savior and time to sit a spell and fellowship with us. A couple of days ago, I received a family photo from Diane (Morgann's mom). It was so good and her note interesting, so I asked if I could share it on my blog...

Here is a family picture. As so often happens in Ohio, we go from one extreme to another. We were in drought and now have had a lot of flooding near us and high winds. Ourselves, though it has just been soggy but no damage --we are praising the Lord for that and also praying for those who have a loss and clean up. Anyway, with the photo, it seems difficult to get a time when we are all home at the same time so I called a quick family photo while we were all here. Everyone changed their clothes( the boys were not too excited) and by the time (Grandma) Rosalie could come up to snap the pictures it was raining again-- (it ended up raining all night long (we had 3-4 inches but others had 8-9 inches) so we were trying to find a dry place to get a picture made while I had them all captured---- we ended up in the barn and it turned out OK!!!! I enjoy your blog--keep up the good work--Dian

We miss Morgann AND her sweet family!!

Picture ID: Melvin and Diane with their children: L-R: Jacob (16), Caleb (14), Ben (19) and Morgann (22).