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Jenna 's 6th Birthday Cake-Off

The Mc Clures home...the perfect setting for the Bake-Off!

Each little girl got her own cake to decorate. Uncle Mark gave a quick demo.

Jenna decorated her own birthday cake this year.

All the little decorators outside after decorating their cakes.

Our niece, Cherie, drove down from Ft Collins with Judah and Samuel.

My first time to meet our 2nd great nephew, Judah.

Samuel riding on Jenna's brand new birthday scooter.

Uncle Mark and Jenna getting ready for Seattle.

Next stop... Colorado Springs

Our Colorado Cuties in their new aprons. Sophie is sporting a broken arm.

Pastor Jim at Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian Church welcomes Jenna as a new communicant. She was interviewed by the elders and answered all the questions.

It was very special to be there for this event.

Dr. Don Graham and his dear wife Wilma, joined us for lunch. The Grahams were an important family away from home for Corrie and Heather while they were at Covenant College. Dr. Graham was Covenant's chaplain for many years and the reason why Corrie went to Covenant in the first place.

It was so special to see our long time friends and neighbors on Westcliff, Ed and Connie Freund. Our girls grew up together. Our back yards connected and I think our girls spent more time with at their house , in the the summer,than at our house.

Jenna and I sat on the lawn and drew the landscape on a very sunny Colorado Springs day. This is the view from Corrie and Sean's front yard.

Telling John parents Goodbye

We left Grapevine and drove to Plano, where John's mom had ordered delicious barbeque for our last Texas meal. We had a wonderful, tearful visit. These last years have been so special to be near Ruth and Art and to be available to help them into their transition to the Golden Years.
Their spirits are so encouraging in the midst of their physical difficulties.
Another reason leaving Texas was very hard for both of us.

Good Bye Texas xxxx oooo

It was a beautiful day in Louise, Texas. My brother Pat and his family challenged us to a game of croquet. Thanks, Ave, Eli and Ethan for a really fun afternoon.

Pat and Lisa and their son Ethan. We stopped in Grapeland, Texas to visit Mike and Barbara Burkhalter. It was Barbara's prayer in her Sunday school class for her son, Spencer, that eventually connected us with Spencer.

Mike and Barbara are building their dream house. They work at Frontier Ranch and minister to inner city kids as well as other kids who attend this Christian camp.

My mom has now moved closer to Mike and Ellen. We spent two days with her in League City,Texas before going to Galveston to be stay at my brother Todd's beach house.

My brother Mike and his wife Ellen came down to Todd's beach house in Galveston for a relaxing evening. Ellen was sleeping. Sorry, no picture.

Todd fixed a great meal on the grill. Next to San Antonio to visit Spencer. We were his cadet sponsor family when he attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We have so many wonderful memories with him. Now he is married to a wonderful Christian woman and they have these three adorable children.

The Burkhalter children were mesmerized by John's playing the guitar. Their mom, Christy is quite the musician herself.

We were so happy to see the Duvall family in San Antonio. They were precious friends at our church in California.

Ella, almost three, is quite the little personality.

I was so blessed to hold three week old Istra, I forgot to take pictures of her parents, Chris and April. Chris is a nurse in the Air Force, also stationed in San Antonio.There is no better way to spend time than holding a new born baby.

For two wonderful years we lived one minute walking from Susannah, Heather and Troy. We will miss those Monday night dinners and Saturday afternoon visits and all the other times in between.

Susannah was very happy to play with the packing peanuts.

Our afternoon moving crew from Town North Presbyterian Church in Richardson.

Julia from Town North found a silver tray, some cups and began serving apple cider we had in the pantry for two years. We love the Turner family. They will be life long friends.

We made so many wonderful friends at Town North. They helped us so much loading the pods, cracking jokes and keeping our spirits high. Leaving Texas was not an easy thing to do.

We rented a home!

We just rented this house this morning in Bellevue. One of our deacon's found it for us. It is in the right location for the right price. The description on the web was quite storybook like. We are excited.