Random Pictures of Life as it Happens in the Basket

Move over Harry Potter!

KayLynn can work a pair of bright green rubber boots and a St. Louis Cardinals hat. Even her Mom thinks so.
Mr. Mouth , Mr. Mouth..anyone remember playing this game. I am sure I bought this at a thrift store.

Vivi modeling the latest in Allis Chalmers hat and hot pink rubber rain boots.

Somewhere in this picture is Morgan graduating from a week long internship program at the Family Life Fellowship Church. It was a week of helping in different jobs throughout the church . She also had fun swimming and hanging out with peers for a week. Through the year she will use what she learned in service on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. At the end of this service something like ten young people were baptized into the Body of Christ. What a great event to be at. God is good.

Archery

Morgan participated in the Show Me Mo Games on the 25th. She competed in the girls youth division of archery. She won a gold with a score of 576. Considering she lost an arrow she couldn't afford to lose and it was her first outdoor competition , it was a good effort. Morgan has been practicing archery since the spring of 2008. This is her second competition. Lots of thanks to Morgan's coach Larry Skinner. Larry has been involved in archery for many years.

Days gone by

It is amazing to look at these old pictures and think of life then and life now. This first picture is a Thanksgiving celebration in Quincy , IL in 1994. Ann, Janna, Cecil and me are all celebrating our November birthdays. John and Pam are celebrating their wedding anniversary.

This next picture is a day in our home-education past. This was taken in our house in Atlas, IL. Jacob is holding the flag. Brittney and Ethan are under the flag and Janna is looking on. I believe this was 1994 and Morgan would have been a baby. I really enjoyed those years of little ones. Days at the park . Reading book after book. Teaching them all to read. Watching them grow into the wonderful people they are now.

This last picture was taken somewhere in Birchtree, MO, home town of Pat's grandmother. It was 1995 and we were visiting Birchtree for a memorial service for Pat's brother Jim. I love Ethan's "googely", what he called making a face, in this picture. Hard to believe that we were just about a month away from learning that Morgan had cancer and all the change that brought to our lives. God is good.

you light up my life

I will miss you while you are gone. The house on Williams Street is a little too quiet. The dinning room table is a little too clean. Kitty is getting too much sleep. Your uncles may be forced to watch Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh or "Puppies" so that I don't get too lonely. And remember "Tut, Tut, it looks like rain" .