May in Michigan

It has been quite a while since I posted last (facebook gets more attention than my blog... sorry) but I wanted to get some pictures up of Mary's graduation. Her plans are to attend community college for the next year and work. In the fall of 2010 she is looking at Masters Commission. Right now she is content playing with the worship teams at New Life.

Mary played guitar with the senior choir

Graduation Day!!!!!!!!

Memory board

James is planning to leave us in the fall. As much as I will miss having him around on a day to day basis, it is time. He will be attending Trinity Bible College in North Dakota. He thought it was cold here ..... hee hee....

hiking on the nature trail looking

for mushrooms

James has been called into the ministry and last Sunday he got the opportunity to preach the Sunday morning sermon. James' message was well recieved and more than that very convicting. Grandma came for the graduation so she got to see James give his sermon. James and Grandma have always had a neat relationship.

Sunday morning message.


Our quiz team qualified at regionals in Bowling Green Ohio to go on to nationals in St. Louis Missouri. We have been blessed to have Jonathan Barthuly living with us this past year and he is quizzing with our team.

(Coach) Donna, Mary, Thomas,

Jonathan and Samuel

Assorted looking cool pics!

Rusty and Frank are much happier with the ability to go outside on their own. They now sport collars that keep them in the electric fence. We were "shocked" that they worked, but not as shocked as Rusty and Frank.

John turns 13! Where has the time gone?

Ron, Grandma, and Faith

We are enjoying the spring here. It seems as though the landscape changes daily and the weather is always a question. We planned an open house for the graduation and were blessed to have a beautiful sunny day. That's not always a given. The next day our gazebo just about blew off the deck and then we had a couple of days of rain. The temperatures have been around 70-

75, my kind of weather!

Faith on the nature trail

Aaron on the trail

See you next time, we are putting in our garden and hopefully I'll get some pictures of it and all the happenings of summer around here.