A 15 year old daughter is an indescribable blessing! Mine is especially so! She is beautiful and friendly, kind and loving, wickedly funny, talented and just plain perfect. I am truly blessed by God to have been given such a wonderful gift!
Happy Birthday, Rachel! I love you!
You would think the night would be spent cramming for final exams and such. But around here, the evening was spent working (Cameron was working at the theater) or just relaxing and playing. That is important, too, I guess!
Rachel is very thrilled to have Caleb home from University of Iowa for the summer! They jammed on Rock Band for a while tonight!
Mom!
Why are you taking my picture???
MOM! You are messing me up!
Ethan spent some time playing catch with his dad!
Hot, sweaty, happy boy, whose last words tonight were “AH….I only have to wake up early ONE MORE DAY!” That’s a common refrain heard by Cameron, Rachel, Ethan AND Mom tonight!
means flowers and weeds and a GARDEN this year (since our huge tree in the back yard is gone!)
I really love my purple phlox! It grows among my hostas and it’s beautiful!
The garden! Hope it grows well and produces!
8 Roma tomato plants
8 pepper plants
and 8 jalapeno pepper plants!
Can you say SALSA?
Front of the house
stay tuned for updates throughout the summer!
Ethan and Rachel were really hot on Sunday, so Ron and I told them to wash the car and then they could play with the hose a while. They were (mostly) happy to help :)
The day after the last track meet was Ethan’s first baseball game. He is having fun, but it will be more fun when they get their first win! They are trying hard not to get discouraged. I am seeing great improvements each game they play!
smack that ball!!
A hit and run to first!
Listen to that first base coach!
safe at second!
heading to third!
rounding third and…
heading towards home…
almost there…
SAFE at HOME! Woo HOO and Way to GO Ethan!
left field
and shortstop!
This is my accuweather.com 5 day forecast was in my inbox today. LOOK at those high temperatures!!! Woo HOO!
SUNDAY, 05/23/2010 at 05:20 AM.
Your 5-Day Weather Forecast
Today
Partly sunny, very warm and humid; a shower or thunderstorm in spots this afternoon
High 84°
Tonight
Partly cloudy and warm
Low 66°
MONDAY
Breezy and humid with intervals of clouds and sunshine; a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon
High 88°
Low 64°
TUESDAY
Watch for strong thunderstorms; very warm and humid with periods of clouds and sunshine
High 86°
Low 63°
WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy and very warm with a shower or thunderstorm possible
High 86°
Low 62°
THURSDAY
Partly sunny and remaining warm with a couple of showers and thunderstorms possible
High 85°
Low 59°
Wow…the Lutheran-Church Missouri Synod just keeps coming out with more books I just have to add to my library! First it was the revised version of the Book of Concord.
Then, Synod came out with the new hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book. I really love this hymnal! It contains the OLD traditional liturgy that I was raised on, and great, traditional hymns! YAY!
One of my favorite books is the Treasury of Daily Prayer. From the website: “Scripture readings, prayers, psalms, hymnody, writings from the Church fathers appointed for each day work together to deepen reflection, and encourage personal devotion. Enliven your practice of prayer with the most comprehensive, single-volume Lutheran devotional resource ever published.” It has several orders of service, including Matins, Vespers, Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Compline.
The really cool thing is that I downloaded this book on my kindle app for my iPod touch. I have a CD imported onto my iPod touch, where the Concordia Theological Seminary Kantori sings the liturgy from the different services included in the Treasury of Daily Prayer. So for my daily devotions, I can read it on my kindle app, while listening to it! So cool! (Now…to get the Kantori and CPH to work together to make a CD with the Orders of Service from the Lutheran Service Book…now that would be more than the icing on the cake!!!)
And lots of Lutherans have switched over to the Lutheran Study Bible. BUT, I just don’t like the English Standard Version as well as I like the NIV (I’m a traditionalist and I was raised on the NIV…I can’t help it! I have a difficult time when the lessons are read from the ESV in church on Sundays…just give me my NIV!) I would like to own the Lutheran Study Bible for all the extras included…distinctly Lutheran notes, etc. But…I’m just not willing to give up my NIV just yet, or pay the price of the Bible, just for the notes.
And NOW I see that CPH is putting out a new version of CFW Walther’s Law and Gospel! Oh, I already want it! And it isn’t coming out til June or July! It just sounds like a perfect addition to my library.
OK..so…anyone notice the “theme” of these books? Won’t they look sharp on a shelf together with all the matching burgandy color? :-)
