2011 in Review

April - we had a weekend in Dallas for Uncle D to take some pictures

June -  a girl's trip to NYC to enjoy the sights & a show.

The end of June - enjoyed a day shopping with these girls:

Labor Day Weekend - we headed to San Antonio for some photo ops and Uncle D got a GREAT one of the Alamo:

October was a road trip to beat all road trips.  We headed to CO, UT,  AZ & NM.  Uncle D arranged some photo tours and he got some AWESOME pictures and I got a few good ones:

December took us to Atlanta for the annual Christmas party for Uncle D's company and while there we visited the Coca Cola Museum - pretty interesting.

  

The day after Christmas we headed to the Gaylord Ice Exhibit with friends.  I loved it but others thought it was too cold to enjoy.

It was a GREAT and very BLESSED year for

Uncle D & I.

My New Favorite

I have a new favorite website that I visit each morning and have posted on my FB. I have found great encouragement & exactly what I have needed each day sometimes several times a day as they post on FB. It is Proverbs 31 Ministry. Check it out and see you if are as blessed as I am each day with their Encouragement for Today.

Great Week Part 1

My week started Sunday morning at Lake Worth Baptist Church. We had our 73rd church anniversary and the first service of our fall revival. We had some good singing all week:

Bro. Brian Withrow preached and taught on "Joy" using Phillipians as his reference point. His messages were just what the doctor or should I say the great physician recommended for what ailed me.

East on Route 66

Uncle D & I decided to get away a couple of weeks ago & I thought we'd be in the OK/KS area but Uncle D had other plans. We left on Wednesday, 08/11, headed on a road trip on Route 66 East. We made our way to Edmond, OK where our hotel that evening just happened to be on Rte. 66. About 6 miles east of our hotel we found:

Thursday morning we headed down Rte 66 headed to Tulsa where we had plans to meet up with some friends from MO and as we travelled we saw:

Thursday evening after we met up with our friend, we went to Discoveryland outside of Tulsa to enjoy the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical: OKLAHOMA ! ! :

Friday morning we left our friends and headed east again on Rte. 66 towards Kansas/Missouri and ended our travels that day in Lebanon, MO:

Saturday, which happened to be our 34th wedding anniversary, we headed out again towards IL. Just before IL, we stopped and spent a few hours in St. Louis, Mo:

After we went to the top of the Gateway Arch, we headed across the Mississippi River towards IL and Uncle D wanted to find a place to take some pictures of the Arch and we just happened to find this great place where we spent a couple of hours watching the sunset behind the Arch:

We made our way to Carlinville, IL late Saturday evening and ended having Dominio's salads and splitting a sandwich for our anniversary dinner at 11:15. Good times! Sunday morning we headed home on the freeway stopping in Joplin, Mo that evening and made it home Monday afternoon. It was a great trip with some quality time together.

Update in Pictures

Just a few things that I've done since I last blogged:

Some of the last basketball games of the season.

The most snowfall that I have ever witnessed.

Brody turned one.

Andy's last Upward game of the season.

My preacher turned 65 - welcome to medicare.

Visited the Weston Gardens with Uncle D's sisters.

Checked the progress of Caron & Mark's new home.

Kynadie had her tonsils & adnoids taken out and I hung out with her a couple of days while she was recuperating.

Last weekend, two of my brothers and I made a trip to Louisiana to check on some loved ones there. God graciously let us visit with Bud just 5 days before he passed away. He gave our family some great memories in the 90 years that he lived.