Pictures: Molly and Sam at the Fireworks stand

JT at home in Tulsa resting for the afternoon

Ralph and all the boys: lrft to right: Parker, Nathan, Ralph, Sam on the lap, Turner in the back and JT in the car seat.

Sam, Margie and JT in the kitchen. (Sam let me hold him for just a minute!)

A New Day

Good morning friends and family. I am going to try to use this for information about our family. We will see how it works.

Ralph and Allen are gone to Myrtle beach this week for Allen's high school graduation trip. Allen will be a second year Sr. at OSU this fall so I think it is time for his HS gift. They are playing golf. I wish I were there too (not to play golf but just to sit by the ocean water and veg.)However, I have enjoyed the time by myself this week, catching up with some reading and the quiet.

The summer has been a hard summer for us, in a number of ways. Ralph had a small stroke on Memorial day, David was gone to Africa (our Sr. Pastor) for 5 weeks which left me in charge- of course having the organist and the choir director quit just before he left didn't help things. But God is faithful and we got through the month of June without too much termoil. Ralph is still working on getting better. Dr. appointments all summer have not consumed us but have kept us busy.

Molly and Andy are going to have another baby in March. We are so very excited to welcome another Grandchild into our family. Sam their one year old, tried hard to learn to walk while he was at our house for Fireworks. He is delightful, cheerful and good natured. Amy and Jimmy's little 4 month old JT, is growing and becoming a very personable little boy. See pict.s

Hopefully I can keep up and keep everyone informed. My learning curve is a bit steeper than most..:) Fireworks kept us busy- there were some hiccups with that too.