JADEN'S K4 CLASS HAD PARENTS' DAY THIS MORNING

Jaden's teacher gave us several invitations to attend her K4 class Parent Day, so we were there with bells on this morning! It was very impressive and lots of FUN to take a look into the K4 school day. Jaden was so glad his mommy and daddy were there, and I think it tickled him that Grandpa and Grandma were there as well. We enjoyed every minute of watching those sweet 4-year-old show us snippets of what they have learned this year. It looks like they are very well prepared for K5 come August.

Jaden's dad Brian has arrived so that is good!


Jaden turns to watch the door for his mommy to come.


She arrives and he is so excited to have both parents with him.


Letting Grandpa and Grandma know he is glad we are here, too.


Jaden's teachers are remarkable. It was a wonderful "Parent's Day" program.


Video of Jaden introducing himself to the guests at the program:

Chip Making Ministry Announcements

GOING GREEN!!!

For the first time in years, we have a little garden patch. There are the loveliest green tomato and pepper plants in our back yard. It will be a while before we see any tomatoes, but are already two little bell peppers in view. Our mouths water to think of the fresh tomato sandwiches we will enjoy this summer. Grandpa has had his side kick (4-year-old grandson Jaden) as a helper for two days this week so Granny was out there with the camera. Yep~~ we're going green: with lovely green things growing in our garden.


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A Lovely Visit!

We were tickled to hear that Paul and Karen were coming through our area so invited them to come by for dinner and stay the night with us. They did!! It was a sweet time of fellowship and catching up as I hadn't seen Karen in 6 months. She is very excited about their upcoming cruise to Alaska and I am excited for her! I thank God for the precious privilege of their visit this week.

SPORTING AROUND

It's springtime which brings about another sports season with the grandkids starring as my favorite sportsters! Isabella is on the Track and Field team at her school and the boys are playing church little-league softball (or T-ball in Jaden's case.) It is a lot of fun to watch them.

Richard and I traveled about an hour out of town for Isabella's first track meet. It was a long 4 hours of sitting there for her 2 events (the one mile and the two mile) but we persevered and she was able to ride home with us. We even treated her to a yummy dinner at a local restaurant in that area.

Starring Isabella in track and field and Josh and Jaden in T-ball:


Belle running in one of her races



Belle (on the right) and her friend after their race:



Jaden running all out



Jaden is the boy in the back... he is catching up with his teammate as they run to the bases after a hit




Amy and Jaden


Josh running a base after getting a hit

Our grandkids' sports keep us on the move.... so to speak!

PRESIDENTIAL CONVERSATION

So we said to him, "Barack, we know Abe Lincoln, and you ain't him."

FOLLOWERS

My friend Robin wrote to say that she has tried to sign-up to be a follower of my blog but she gets an error message. When I look at the list of my followers, I have a whopping three of them ~~ one of whom is listed as Robin. I don't know a lot about this stuff so found a place where I was able to put in Robin's email address so that she can receive email notification when I post anything new. Robin, this entry is a test to see if that method will work for you. If I have only three faithful readers, I certainly don't want to disappoint any of the three of you. :)

God is good! Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Being a Blessing Resulting in Receiving a Blessing!

Richard and I went up to visit Chip last week for the express purpose of "catering" a luncheon at his house for the church staff on Thursday.

We did all of the shopping, prepping, cooking, and serving. It was a ton of fun!!

As we were preparing to leave to return home the day after the luncheon, we turned on the weather channel only to discover that there was dangerous weather all of the way from his house to ours. We didn't want to drive 350 miles home in rain, wind, storm warnings, etc. so stayed put for Friday with the intent to leave for home on Saturday morning.

We learned from the weather channel that Huntsville had a "significant" chance for "significant" snow on Sunday. You have to understand: I love the snow. I don't like to be out in it but I love to watch it fall, love to step outside to feel it, "hear" the softness of the stillness it produces, and then enjoy by looking out the window at it. Richard and I decided to stay for the snow event!! (Chip wasn't even home on Friday and Saturday as he had gone to Paducah, KY to preach in a youth conference!) When Chip called (thinking we were headed home) we asked permission to stay through Sunday and, of course, he was very gracious and said that would be great.

The snow arrived on Sunday morning as was predicted and was so pretty!!

I had 3 hours to enjoy it before we left for Sunday School and church. When we came out of church, the clouds had parted to allow the brightness of the sun to shine down and melt all of the snow. It was so very beautiful for those few hours!

So, we went up to Chip's to be a blessing to him in the cooking of the luncheon and ended up receiving a huge blessing in our extended stay and the beauty of the snow. Thank You, Lord Jesus!!

My GRANDchildren

Our WONDERFUL grandkids stayed with us for 4 days while Amy went to "CEC" and then she and Brian had a weekend-get-away. We had so much fun with the kids. One evening while I was washing the dinner dishes, Jaden came into the kitchen with a flag, stood beside me, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. I thought it was so cute that I dried my hands and asked Jaden if I could make a movie of him saying the Pledge. He loves to be in Grandma's movies (whereas the older kids don't like me to make their pictures much less a video!) so I grabbed my camera, took him into our "patriotic" guest bedroom, stood him on a stool in front of the patriotic stuff on top of the chest-of-drawers, pointed the camera at him and said, "Go." He lit into saying the Pledge, added the singing of "My Country "Tis of Thee," and then added a special blurb at the end about the Bible. That was all of his own doings which blessed my Grandma heart immeasurably. Here is Jaden (age 4 years and 3-1/2 months) as captured on Grandma's video....