Yesterday marked fifty years of marriage for Ken and me. It's hard to wrap my mind around that fact, but it's true. We were so blessed to celebrate the occasion a little early last month with all our kids and grandkids on a family vacation in Divide, Colorado. There were 23 of us in all and it was a wonderful time of hiking, swimming, mini-golf, board games, and s'mores around a nightly … [Read more...]

Today our adorable first granddaughter becomes a teenager! This is a special day of memory for our family because July 22 was also my amazing mother-in-law’s birthday! This will be Mom's third birthday in heaven but she had a couple of very sad birthdays over the years. Mom's brother—her only living sibling—died on her birthday in 1991. And unbelievably, five years later, Ken’s dad, my dear … [Read more...]