Happy Father's Day

I will not repeat pictures from the graduation as others have done a good job with that. We are enjoying having Laura home and enjoyed the graduation.

I would like to make a tribute to the fathers in my family. You have been wonderful fathers, a true blessing to each of your children that has more impact than we even realize that will extend down to future generations because of your love and example. We see your love, and provision in so many ways. Thank you.

We were blessed to be able to celebrate Father’s day with Grandpa Larry and Milton and Chris this year. Friday we had mom and dad over for dinner and had a good visit. Today we went to Cathlamet to see the Fergusons and enjoyed the day. Last night we celebrated with Chris after a busy day of garage saling, meetings and worship practice.

Thankfully Teresa and Wilson are much better and Laura is gradually getting over her cold. Teresa has a follow up doctor visit to evaluate her progress with her medicine in Portland on Tuesday. I have a routine mammogram on Monday.

We are giving a baby shower at work to our coworker, Kaylene who had a baby girl on May 18th. I am in charge of decorations. I am going to use dolls and stuffed animals and possibly some books from the kids collection and a quote from the Velveteen Rabbit beside the most loved and worn ones.
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

We look forward to celebrating with Milton and Theo on Saturday for their 60th wedding anniversary. Jonathan and Tonia will be here for the celebration too.

I am also doing sewing on dresses for Andrea’s wedding. One dress done and three more to go.

I'm sorry this blog has been so boring. There is so little time... Agh.
Yesterday was my day off and I had a list a whole page long to accomplish. At 5:00 I found out I had a 4-5 hour dictation tape to do and I worked today so it had to get done last night. Today I realized I totally forgot the manditory staff meeting that was last night. Not good. Tonight we were to have a bar-b-que for life group at 6:00. Chris got home about 5:50 so we could have been close to on time but then we got a call that others needed a ride but the neighbor she had invited wasn't home yet so could we wait for her to come home. So we waited which as you all know is not my strong point especially when we are already late. But in the long run relationships are more important than being on time.

Wilson is sick. This is the second day. We probably should take him to the vet but again there is no time since I work tomorrow. He is looking better than yesterday so hopefully he will be better tomorrow. We also haven't figured out what to do with him this weekend. Agh........

Teresa is babysitting triplets (and another brother) by herself tonight. She called and they are running late so she is still there.

This isn't much but is something new to read. Love Jan