Life

After we went to Bruce and Mandie's wedding we went to Colin and Faith's house. We spent Sunday with them and went to church at Ritchey where they go. Jason, Dacia and Janae went home Sun. afternoon as they had to work Mon. but David and I stayed. Sunday night Faith's family and us went to the William's house after church for food and fellowship. The next day was Memorial Day and Faith's folks had invited us to go their house. Bro. Heyer grilled some steak, brats and ribs so we had that besides all the other good food that was fixed. Got me some new recipes! :-) Came home Tues. and then Thurs. we started buying for Troy.

Campmeeting was from May 29-June 7. Bro. Noel Scott was the evangelist. The Lord met with us different times and we had some good services. Bro. Victor White passed away a little before camp started so the first Sat. morning of camp they didn't have service in the tabernacle but had his funeral in the church. Then later in the we got word my Aunt Helen was bad so Dad came up the last Fri. of camp and Diane, Janae and I went up to see her. Dad hoped to get there and get some response from her but we got there too late. She was in a coma or something and passed away around midnight that night I think. I didn't get back to the cabin until close to 2:00 AM.

They had the funeral in Bloomington, IL. We came home Sun. night and then Mon. did some washing. We ended up taking the clothes to the laundry mat in town to dry them. (We had taken a load over to Dacia's to dry as our dryer is having a problem and taking a long time to dry clothes. He went over to see if they were finished and he didn't think her dryer was heating up so we decided to take them to the laundry mat to finish drying and to dry the other load we'd washed over there.) Then we went on to Troy where I brought back the sheets for the cabin and did some vacuuming while David took some bread trays back to Aldi's. We got ready and then went on to Bloomington and made it in time to be there for part of the viewing.

Aunt Helen was Dad's only sister and they were close. His mother died when he was around one and though she was only three years older than him she was somewhat of a mother to him. They were put in an orphanage and was there until Dad was 5 years old I think. She was the only girl and had to do how much of the work even though she was so young.

These pictures were taken in 2007 at a family reunion.


Aunt Grace, Uncle Jr. (Dad's oldest brother), Dad, Mom, Aunt Helen, Aunt Norma (Uncle Lloyd's wife)
Front row: Kathy and Karen (Aunt Helen's daughters)




Karen, Aunt Helen, Kathy

Got back Tues. evening. Thurs. was my birthday and David took me out to eat some Chinese food and we took the food receipts from the camp to Lela Mae plus did some shopping at Wal Mart. :-)

We decided to go Fri. afternoon to Union Station --they have a mall there plus some other things--to celebrate Jason and my birthdays. (Jason's is the 9th and mine's the 11th) It was really neat there and the weather was so nice. Then we went out to eat at Olive Garden. David and I had never eaten there before. As we were coming home we saw a car sticking out of the shed next door to us. Colin and Faith came up and surprised us! Poor things had been there for around 2 hours. We were really surprised! I thought they were coming next week end but they changed their minds and decided to surprise us. I had made a cake for Jason's birthday so we all had some cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Then yesterday we (except for Jason and Dacia) went shopping for awhile and then that evening we had some homemade ice cream for my birthday! :-) YUM! It was so good!

And so goes life... Don't you just love summertime???