Friday Night 40th Brainerd High Reunion Tennis Pavillion

Kathy, Dale & Susie Batchelor 9-10-10 Susie Rawlings Batchelor, Claudia Wood Wamack, Debbie Estes Durham, Kathy Jennings Wells, & Jan Blackburn Hines

Kathy & Cindy Shealy Wilkerson

Kathy, Debbie & Claudia

We had such a wonderful time reconnecting with friends from high school. John was a most patient man but I think he had fun too. There was lots of screaming and hugging and was just a huge blessing to be there for me.

Gary Seithel

Gary Seithel stopped by for a visit on his way back to England via Atlanta. It was such a pleasure to sit and talk and remember the OLD days. Gary was in Colorado Springs when John and I met and he and John have been friends for a long time via Clemson and Bible Studies there. I attached a picture of Gary when he and John took a walking tour of Clemson. Gary had not been in around 15+ years and was surprised at the changes.

Visits with friends

Sam, John, Kathy & Mieko at Outback. Mary, Joe, Wendy, Sam and Mieko at Mary & Joe's. Just like old times!

Mieko and Sam went on a road trip to visit their son in Columbia, South Carolina.

They blessed many of us with visits.

I wanted to post some pictures of their visits with Brazil FRIENDS!

Thank you Mieko and Sam for the visit.

Mimo and Papa

Mimo and Papa with Reagan and Rory.

This is Mimo and Papa with Reagan and Rory!

July 31, 2010

Reagan with her playhouse at Mimo and Papa's house.Reagan let me roll her hair. It was so much fun. Meredith with her friends from Clemson and their 8 children under three years old.

Reagan and Rory in the Well's family chair.Rory is walking. Such a cutie!We had a visit from Meredith, Rory and Reagan while John was at a school in New Mexico. We had such fun. We played outside as much as we could but it was a very hot week. Reagan and Rory have grown up so much. It is hard to believe Rory will be one in August and Reagan three in October. Where has the time gone! We also had a reunion with her friends from Clemson. 5 roommates and 8 babies all under 3. WOW! They have decided the next reunion will be without children so they can actually talk.

July 2, 2010

Pampas Grass. Multiplies by the minute. Does anyone know (besides a bomb) HOW to get rid of it??? The Wedding of Beka and Mike. So beautiful!

Our friends Shirley & Larry Reeves.

Hail 6-15-2010

2 WEEKS with no internet and telephone has about driven us (mainly me) crazy. Every night John and I wanted to look something up on the internet and we couldn't. Fortunately for us there was an understanding person at Charter named Kayla and she finally got us help. We had a TERRIBLE storm June 15 and this is when it all started. 45 minutes of hail and wind. Mom and I had never seen anything like it. We now need a new roof. I have attached a picture of the hail.

We also celebrated the wedding of Beka and Mike. They had the wedding outside and who would have thought it would be such a scorcher on June 5. They had the programs on fans and it was not only brilliant but a life saver. Larry Reeves married them. He also took part in Meredith and John's ceremony. He and Shirley are our good friends.

We are all doing pretty good. Mom is still struggling with the control of her pain but 80% of the time we can get her comfortable. Her 87th birthday is July 5. The plant where John now works is running much better. Thank you for your prayers. It has been a real team effort but so far, so good. John Basel's biopsy results came back benign. They will continue to monitor him every six months with an MRI but for now they are just going to let him slowly get off the medication. They are at The Glen in Colorado Springs (where John and I met) for a Christian conference. They took the girls. I hope they get a good picture of the family there. We have many of John and me 34 years ago. WOW that is a long time. Ben is doing well. He has a good job right now and has prospects of more. They are building a new stadium and adding on to the LAX airport so these are good long term prospects. We are praying he gets one or the other.

I am still sorting through things and the women at Goodwill know me by name. The garage is almost finished. We have one more trip to storage and we will be done. John and I are also going through clothes and getting rid of things we no longer wear. This is adding a lot of space. John's pack rat days are over. = )

The lilies opened up one day and Mom and I just enjoyed it so much!

I brought his English Duck from Brazil and he is happy in the yardLooking at the house.

Looking out from the front porch.

I had to post pictures of our yard. I call it our English Garden. Everyday I walk through the yard and something new has bloomed.