Celebrating

 It was nice and cool out this morning, such a change from yesterday's heat and humidity. Mark and I took mom to church as Joan is in Bluffton and Ruth camping with her family out of town. Kathy brought Nancy and she had another doozy of an outfit on. ;Joyce was very pleased with the reunion and shared the picture below she had Rachel take of the entire group yesterday.  She had 152 of her family come and to think this entire group started with Bill and Joyce. This isn't even all of them, I know there were some that couldn't make the reunion. 

Mark was pleased the air conditioner worked well, he was able to keep it comfortable even with that many people in the barn. What a blessing that barn has been. 

Caleb Plattner had the morning message. To watch that click HERE. Tina and Fred along with Dave and Lanae served our lunch today and had the lunchroom decorated with red, white and blue and had a copy of the song Faith of our Fathers by each place. Below Nancy is standing next to one of the extra tables. 

Once everyone had gone through the line and was seated we sang that song. It really was beautiful both the song and the lunchroom. Tim Roecker had the afternoon message, click HERE if you would like to listen to that. We took mom and Nancy home after church. After dropping them off I went home, changed then drove back to the barn to start the laundry. We had lots of towels and sheets to wash so got all 3 machines going with a load then went back to the house to get the supper started. Once that was cooking I went up to change the laundry and saw that Jewel is in season so got her covered by Evan today.  Tonight we had chicken teriyaki, wild rice, salad, Hawaiian rolls, water melon and for dessert icecream cake.  Today we celebrated Iris' birthday so Rhoda and Lee brought the dessert. Iris and Zeke both helped put the water glasses on the table.

Since we were celebrating Iris' birthday after the prayer she got to go first in line for the food and also wanted Zion to go second. 

The kids ate quickly then went right out to play.

Soon they were all called in so we could have the birthday party.

After the cake and ice cream and after she opened her presents we all made our way over to the playground. Today we had lots of babies here. There were 3 Sauder grandbabies, 2 Davidovic grandbabies and Tyler and Samantha's Lucy.

Ben brought the minimotor bikes and I just happened to get to watch Abe ride it in the field.

There was much fun for the kids and much visiting for the adults at the playground tonight.

Below is a video of some of the fun today.

Rhoda and Lee took Nancy home tonight. Below she is getting ready to get in their car. This is what she wore to church today.

Diane ordered her 3 skirts, and Karin gave her some nice blouses that will go with the skirts. Hopefully when the skirts arrive we can convince her to wear something a little more matching although she does have pink in her blouse and skirt to go with those bright pink shoes. I was really thankful that Rhoda and Lee could take Nancy home. It takes them about 3 or 4 miles out of their way but saves me an hour of driving.