It's Almost Christmas! Yes

(sound like a little kid hah?)

Ruth and the boys were able to get a "Christmas"tree.The boys look like they are so happy!

Evan, Ethan, and Easton, don't forget

Mommy too, Ruth.

Ruth had some friends Charlene and Taylor,

that helped her to get the tree and helped her get it set up.

This is them with thier tree.

Thank you Charlene and Taylor for helping Ruth and the boys.

Little Easton thought he needed to help,

good job Easton.

The boys with thier tree downstairs

Looks like Ethan needs his two front teeth for Christmas.

Before decorating the trees- awwwwwwwwwwwww- ice cream

The boys decorated thier tree all by themselves ,

this tree is located at the top of the stairs.

Isn't it pretty? Good job guys!!!

Mommy took some time with this one, located in the living room.

It is beautiful Ruth, great job.

Do you see the spider ordament?

Great job Ruth, thanks for sharing it with us.

Who is the "Best Candidate"??



I am one that is not very politically minded. Sorry to say. Though I have been looking at some of the Republican candidates and I have to say there aren't very many that I can say I would want for my president. As I have been studying and searching it looks like the best candidate is Mike Huckabee. His standards and life as I can see is the best one at this point. If you would like more information just click on:

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/

Happy Birthday Becky!

Yes today is Rebecca Sue's (Becky) Birthday

Rebecca is the youngest of our three girls.

She is the one that has a lot of wit,

and keeps us laughing as you will see in the few pictures

I have posted.

They were taken yesterday at my

Mom & Dad's by Becky herself on

Thanksgiving Day!

I pray you are having a Wonderful Birthday Becky.

Sarah our oldest with the Birthday Girl.

With Grandma Weatherwax.

Grandpa Weatherwax

Yes our Thanksgiving Dinner was at my

Mother & Dad's

It was a wonderful meal and we had such

wonderful quality time with my family.

We want to "Thank You"

Mom & Dad

After dinner we were just relaxing, Sarah, my Mother,

and family friend Lori Conaway.

Sarah, Mom, Lori, my brother Jack

and myself (Eileen)

Our friend Lori

My husband Jim.

Sarah isn't going to be here for Christmas,

so she gave Grandma and Grandpa Weatherwax

their Christmas gift, a Suduko game.

Sarah and grandma were trying it out.

"HAPPY THANKSGIVING!"

Our waking call for "Thanksgiving Morning. Just had to share our first snow with you on this beautiful and Blessed Thanksgiving Day!

Believe it or not there was more on the ground before I went to bed this morning 3:30. I fell asleep on our loveseat

"Our Thanksgiving Feast"

"The picture Ruth took at their "Thanksgiving Feast" at work, Easton pre - school )

As we prepare for our "Thanksgiving Dinner" on Thursday, I am so glad for the time of spending with my family. As we share our "LOVE" we will have a good time together.

Our daughter Sarah and friend are on their way as we are writting this. But we are sharing the "Love" with you in this blog. I pray you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Season, and that you are able to spend Thanksgiving with someone.

I was so happy when I found out someone had invited Ruth and the boys over for Thanksgiving, for she wasn't able to make it home nor could we go there. It is the "LOVE" that people share, she was actually invited by a couple different people. That is showing "love"

In my devotions this morning it so happened it was on "LOVE",

1 Corinthians 13

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Thanksgiving 2004 -

(pictured in the back row from the left-Becky, myself -Eileen- Ruth, Rodney and Sarah. Seated are left to right Evan 2 Grandpa Gerard, Great Grandma Weatherwax, Great Grandpa Weatherwax and then Ethan 3.)

You know me and loving having the family gathered around.
This was taken Thanksgiving 2004. This is the last group picture we have had taken. I think we are due for an update don't you?

"Thank You!"

We just want to give a "BIG" thank you for what you have done or what you are doing to keep us safe in America! "THANK YOU"
May the Lord keep you in His care. Remember HE gave His life for us.
We need to remember Him and give Him "Thanks". Thank you Jesus....

(I made their outfits for Easter a couple of years ago)

For giving your life so that we can live in Heaven one day!

It is Finished~ Our services with Bro. Larry Pettit ended tonight. God was real in the services. You could feel the Spirit. We had different new faces come in. We thank the Lord for that. The spirit was with Bro. Pettit as he brought us the word each night. God is really using him as he shares his life stories with whom ever he comes in contact with. Praise His Holy Name. I've known him years ago when he was in this area pastoring. He now is pastoring in Indianopolis, Indiana.

Lunch For Our Evangelist-

We had our pastor, Bro. James Durr and the Evangelist, Bro. Larry Pettit for lunch. Today we had home made beef stew, salad, apple cinnamon muffins along with chocolate mousse for dessert.

Bro. Pettit is from Indianapolis, Indiana. It was good to see him. We haven't seen him for so many years. Him, his wife and I worked together in the youth camp, every year, in our district back then. We really had some good times in that youth camp.

It was so enjoyable to see Bro. Pettit after all these years.

He has been bringing some soul searching messages. Praise the Lord! He is digging around my soul. Thank you Father for that. I want to keep open and obedient to Him, in all things. He has been so good to me I want to be sure and share with others what He has done for me.

We yet to have Snow. Still really cold.

I think winter is trying to settle in here in the mitten state. It is freezing here this morning. They called for up to 1-2 inches of snow over night, of course as the women said "just as I thought, the mountain is still there" well, just as I thought the snow isn't there. The weather station says it is lightly snowing most of Michigan. But our local station is just saying wind advisory. Interesting we here in Michigan get that a lot. It's like in the baseball game the bases are loaded. They get their third out and they then say, they "threaten but do not score". They threaten snow, but "it does not snow". The local station is now saying rain, snow, and sleet through out the day. So we will see. Right now it looks like it is just raining.

Winter Is Coming!

Yes, winter is on it's way here right now. They say we can get up to 1-2 inches tonight. So here we go. I don't know if it is more interesting to get the snow or to see how the weather people are on. Well, I know one thing when I took these pictures from our 2nd floor deck, I went outside to get a better view, it is COLD out there. I was at one point beginning to wonder here we are the first part of November and being as warm as it has been. They say it is suppose to get back up in the 60's by next week again. So here we go, the roller coaster with the weather. We will keep you up to date with our weather. Until then, you in Florida enjoy your weather.

Feeding the Geese-
Friday late afternoon my husband, Jim asked me if I would like to go feed the geese. We have a pond near by that actually it is in a park called Richmond Park. It is a park where my husband grew up sliding and skating at. They have a large swimming pool for the summer times. A big hill for sliding in the winter time. The pond they used to have for skating but they have band that.

The Canadian geese became my buddies quickly. As you can see here.
As you can see here there were more then just geese. There were seagulls, for Lake Michigan is only about a half an hour from us. So they make their selves at home here at the pond as well. Then there are mallard ducks, the ones with the green heads are the males, the brown ones are the female mallards.
Then there was one lonely white duck that seemed to enjoy the fellowship of the other ducks.
Here is yours truly feeding the geese, Jim didn't get the goose in the picture. I was feeding a goose some bread crumbs.

I really enjoyed my self. And I think a lot of the ducks and geese would say they did too, for they got crumbs of bread and hot dog buns for saying cheese for me.
The few pictures below were also taken while we were at the park at least 3 of them were. I hope you enjoy them.

After feeding the ducks and geese from the same area I took these pictures but the last two. It is so amazing how God can paint so many different pictures and not make the same one twice. It is so beautiful.
Thank you Father for the beautiful Art Work that you have given us.



This picture below was taken from our parking area at home.
This one was taken from our deck on the second floor.
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Lunch For Pastor James Durr and Wife Chelle

We had our pastor and his wife over for lunch today.
At this Harvest Time.
This was the table setting.
We had soup and sandwiches.
We had broccoli and cheese soup.
We had sandwiches made out of swirl rye and pumpernickle bread
with ground bologna. Does the sandwich look like a heart?