Fantastic Sunday

 Mark got up at 3:00 am as we went to bed really early last night after working so hard yesterday. I didn't get up until 4:15 am as the pot roast needed to be in the crock pot by 4:30 am. I was glad Mark had the coffee already started. We took it easy this morning spending a lot of time reading. The potatoes and carrots were added at 8:00 am. We had 3 full crockpots of meat, potatoes and carrots and ended up needing all 3. We needed to leave for church by 8:50 am so we could pick up Rhonda then drive to the Berean office to pick up 2 boxes of Bibles. Rhonda told us they needed Bibles for the jail. Randy and Kathy brought Nancy to church. She was so glad to see us when we walked in as we were a few minutes after 9:30 am. Nancy was so funny this morning, she was anxious to go to Sunday school and when the singing was over I took her up to go with Patty her teacher but I kept her bag. She brought a huge full heavy bag with her today. She reached the door to go downstairs, turned around and very loudly looked at me and said, You'l give it RIGHT BACK?"  I had to assure her that I would give it back after Sunday school and then she willingly went with Patty. Caleb Plattner had the morning message on the tower of Babel but started the message on how buildings could be built for God (Like Solomon's temple) or for the wrong reason.  If you want to watch this message click HERE. After the service I went down to her Sunday school room to pick her up for lunch. She was so pleased with her paper she colored and made a blanket for the baby in the basket AND she knew that baby's name, she was excited to tell me, "It's baby Moses!"  The second service was the reading of the Fall Memorandum. Click HERE if you would like to watch that. That didn't last as long as a regular sermon so we actually made it home by 1:30 pm. As the meal was cooking in crockpots and there wasn't anything needing to be done I listened to Jeff Waibel give a message in Leo on Habakkuk 3. I highly recommend this message. I know I'll need to listen again. It was on fear, the response to fear. Click HERE to watch that. Joan sent some really special pictures from Gulf Shores this afternoon. Joan, Sarah, Ivan and Jacob were able to get mom up the stairs to her Lani Kai condo so she could enjoy the swing on the front porch AND check out the remodel job of that condo.

She is standing in the picture below checking out the sink.

Below she is reading the guest book. This is the book that she and dad put in the condo when they first bought it and guests that stay write what they enjoy. She hasn't been able to see the book for at least 3 years.

While looking at the pictures and the videos of them getting mom up those stairs my eyes started leaking and right then Ruth sent a text "those pictures are making me tear up." We just know how much it meant to mom to be there. 

I hauled all the food over to the barn at 3:30 pm and there were already a couple families there playing. We ate at 4:30 pm and had 29 people for dinner then celebrated the October birthdays. 

Below are few pictures after the supper and party.

See those 3 crockpots in the picture below? There was very little left in them by the time supper was finished.

The weather was pretty cool this afternoon and evening so most of the fun was inside today. The bouncy house was well used.

Below is a short video of some of the volleyball games.

Rhoda and Lee took Nancy home. I took Mark home on the golf cart to get his car and he left for Home Depot to buy another pallet of concrete bags plus he bought 6 of the 2 by 6 by 16 foot boards. We like to keep those on hand for fence repairs. They will deliver the boards when they deliver the concrete. I got home from the barn just before he made it home. Truly a fantastic Sunday.