A few days away in June..

You are beautiful beyond description.

Too marvelous for words.

Too wonderful of comprehension.

Like nothing ever seen or heard

Who can grasp you infinite wisdom.

Who can fathom the depth of your love.

You are beautiful beyond description..

Majesty enthroned above

And I stand,

I stand in awe of you

Jesus...

I stand, I stand in awe of you

Holy God to whom all praise is due

I stand in awe of you.

("I Stand in Awe," Mark Altrogge, 1987)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24JgbmbkTvg

A delightful family weekend away

showing our precious packages we carried... Thane's.... was for the day...mine til October :)

Old Man's Cave

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Hocking Hills ,Ohio

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early June

{intriguing ferns growing out of the side of the rocks}

California Family Dinners

I love a table spread out and set

especially when loved ones are near by to share the bounty with. Here is a few of our dinners that we were able to enjoy and spend some time with family in California. A BIG Thank you to each of you who opened your home and greatly blessed us with yummy food, fellowship and lots of laughs!

Pacific Coast Day Trip

Saturday morning in California we decided to head to the ocean for a quick trip while everyone(my immediate family) was off work. Leah & I packed a light lunch and then we were off...

We stopped at a favorite little town San Juan Bautista and enjoyed our picnic lunch among the chickens ( across the street from the mission). Orrin couldn't hardly concentrate on eating when there was chickens to go see.

so colorful

a bit too chilly to swim

we stuck our toes in

missing papa

U. V gives great piggy back rides!

We kept finding beautiful mossy rocks....

and these adorable mossy patches.

- wouldn't they look great planted in a little pot

The best shot of my attempt(s) to get a nice picture of the two together.....

a pebble beach

On our way to one of the beaches I found out we were right by an...... Anthro!!!!! It so happened that I needed to stop it! ( really I did--i told my niece if I got near one I would grab her a mr & mrs mugs for a bridal shower she was going to.) So my dear brother & Dad let us girls run in while they went ahead and took the children down to the beach. Thank you V I really didn't know it was there.... i really didn't have a secret agenda !!! love you V.

Beautiful visual displays- of course

{amanda.me. leah}

my sis-n-law & my youngest sis

loved the natural cotton sticks(? what are they called?) especially against the aqua

.....hmm maybe Thane would let me use a little in our new bedroom......
..... I'm wanting to have some blue.....

....hmm we shall see....

We had a wonderful day just enjoying God's amazing natural beauty all around us and simply being together. Our last stop before home was to grab some yummy-warm clam chowder, of course in a bread bowl -on the Wharf.

Tiny Party:: Part Two

We had another party for Arabella with her cousin Annie. Here are a few pictures.... I didn't do as well with taking pictures. I had been canning tomatoes and getting ready to leave early the next morning for California all day. So I was still scrambling to finish everything for the party when everyone arrived but we still enjoyed our time together and homemade ice cream!! Yum!

Cake made by Betsy & Annie

Arabella-3 Annie -4

Beautiful cousins

CAlifornia bound!

( Found vintage postcard- look closely it's even Modesto!)

We didn't forget and the kiddos & I headed to California last week !

Be back soon!

A Quick Photo Recap of the Fourth Weekend

We headed to Pennsylvania late Friday the 3rd for a family get together weekend.

Here is a few of the pictures that we still have yay!

[Oh to bring you up to speed a couple of weeks ago our dear laptop had a mishap and somehow ended up on the floor!!! "Ouch" said the hard drive and the was the end of it's life including most of our family life and newborn baby pictures. For some reason the last couple of times I had transferred pics from our camera to the computer but kept forgetting to delete them from the camera. Now I am so glad!]

When I walked up to these girls it looked like Bella was interviewing to hang with the "big girls"!!

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Sunday afternoon we headed over to Thane's cousin house( now his Dad's side of the fam)
and ended up spending the evening and night with this sweet family.

Arabella.Ethan.Elisa.Orrin

Ethan & Thane got to share their birthdays again. Both on the 5th