Monday, May 14, 2007

Ali's first blue ribbon!

This was a Great Beginnings show at my sister's farm, Kemper Knoll Farm. Thanks to Aunt Darlene for the fun time Ali had winning her blue ribbon, as well as a few others and also a reserve champion! What a great and safe place for children to learn to ride horses. Also a wonderful view for the parents. (Ali is very lucky to have an Aunt who is a horseback riding instructor!) She loves to ride, and loves the horses. What a beautiful day we had for the show!

Two Horsed Covered Wagon ride



Christmas Caroling

This was Christmas time and we went on a two horse covered wagon ride! We sang songs, acted silly, and got barked at by some dogs. Nicholas enjoyed his Santa hat, and the goode 'ol Christmas spirit...(even Aunt Linda's singing wasn't too bad...really). Above are a couple other shots of the horse pulled wagon.
This is our first attempt at blogging. We hope our family and friends will enjoy keeping up with us this way. I think this is the life of the "younger" generation...this blogging thing, but I just love keeping up with my daughter Cristen's blog, and seeing all the cute new pictures of Kathryn she puts on there from time to time, as well as updates from her ministry, excerpts from her new life as a Mom, etc. But, for the first little while, you are going to see things kind of out of order as we load photos into our our computer. We will probably have some old pictures, followed by new, and vice-versa, until we get the swing of things. Anyway, enjoy, and maybe some of my fellow friends between the ages of 30 and 90, give it a try, its fun!

Monday, May 7, 2007

A few more pictures of our first grandbaby!



Our new little grandbaby Kathryn Elizabeth

Here are a few pictures of our sweet little granddaughter. Our oldest daughter Cristen is her Mom, and we are just so proud and happy and thankful to the Lord for Kathryn's safe arrival. She is beautiful, sweet and we are enjoying her. So far, some of my best memories are just spending the entire night, when she was newborn, sleeping with her in my arms, in the recliner/rocker, so her Mommy could get some sleep on a few separate occasions. I look fwd to more fun sleep-overs with Kathryn as she grows older, and the memories we will make together. The pictures I am posting are just a few because I don't have a lot of them on my computer yet...most of them are on disk and not loaded onto my computer. I will soon post with some up to date pictures, but you can go to Cristen and Johnny's blog at www.thesinks.blogspot.com and see some adorable pictures as well.

Niece and cousin Katie's wedding in November

Me and my sweet daughter Ali at my niece Katie's wedding in November. It was a beautiful wedding and we were so happy we could be there to celebrate with them as they united themselves to one another and committed their marriage to Christ. Katie and Tucker we hope you are doing great!

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to our blog! This is the first post, and what's a post without a picture? So here is our "Norman Rockwell" picture from this past Christmas. Can you tell who was having the most fun?