Gardening

Tomatoes growing fast. Flowers everywhere on them. Below is a tomato growing out of the flower. In process one would say.

When we tilled our garden from last year we were going to just plant potatoes in this part of the yard. Well apparently last years pumpkin that did not really take off, replanted itself and now is HUGE! It has flowers growing off of it everywhere. And to top it off last year we DID NOT plant tomato plants in this garden, but apparently someone did before prior to us buying the house. Around 7 tomato plants replanted themselves and now is growing with flowers all around this pumpkin plant. What a treat! I have no idea what kind of tomatoes we will be getting but YUM!

Gardening is allot of work. Our family sadly doesn't keep up with Gardening as we should. We tend to be lazy. What can we say! The tool above is an old manual tiller. This helps go through the rows much quicker! This year we pretty much lost much of our crops. Weeds are bad around here. And we have farm animals who love to be in the middle of it all
Bless their pee picken hearts as my mom would say. :) Well we also have the ducks helping us too and probably a few deer.

Family wedding

I went to a wedding and had a blast. It was so wonderful to see such a close knit family. Seeing daughter and father do the last dance together made the inside of me burn with grief wishing my own father had been there. Why didn't I get a last dance. But it also made be realize that my own daughter God willing will get her's with her daddy. This means so much to me.

The wedding was stunning. On a beach setting

It was so awesome to watch the children play in the sand. The weather was perfect. I am just honored to have spent the day with such wonderful people!

God's Beauty

There is nothing greater then thinking about God's beauty. God created in detail every living thing, the planets, the earth, stars, molecules, atoms, gravity, dirt, the clouds, water, air, light and darkness, beauty and countless other things. Why? For His glory and for US. People ask does God love me? Go look at what God created for us and ask yourself again. The answer becomes obvious. My challenge is to open myself up to His love, even more so then any other time. God loves us. Do you love Him?

Reunion

My daughter and me playing
and below is my sister Lori and I goofing off!!

The reunion was refreshing and really fun! My uncles were amazing. Thats all I can say. They all opened up like when I was a kid and remembered them being like. Family came I never thought would show up at an event like this. It was really a wonderful thing. I feel there may be some hope to come out of all of this. I am so excited that our family decided to start doing these reunions!

For those face book family members..I have these in the reunion photo album folder.

Family Reunion

Today is the first day of our family reunion for my mom's side of the family. Above are 2 pictures of my grandparents Walter and Pauline Gay. I am excited and will be taking pictures of course. We hope there is a good turn out. Hopefully families can put away their differences for a week-end such as this, that is important. Its time to move on..lets meet relatives and see our heritage..its our roots

Letter from my dad

Just go a letter from my dad. He sent me an old recipe book for "Guardian Service" food dishes. Has to be from the 50's. Really neat! I will hopefully remember to take pictures of it and post it here :)
He sounded like his old self. The part I miss about him. Not much else. Maybe, just maybe I have a feeling he wants to visit Oregon. Though I have a feeling it will be more focused on visiting family elsewhere more then me teehee..but that is ok I know he misses me..he did write Love dad and that means allow to me.

Prayers for Children...

Not to long ago our church had vacation bible school. It was really fun. As posted before I got the opportunity to take the pictures for the upcoming slide show for the last day of the event. There are so many blessings that are rearing itself since then. During the event one little girl looked at me and said "okay enough pictures now" I went to explain that I was taking pictures because she was going to be seen on a big TV screen (you know the ones in churches). She was like na ha. I said yes you will. She put out her hand so CUTE and said I bet I won't, and I put out my hand to shake it and when she had her picture on that screen she was so exited! (she was maybe Kindergarten age)
Last night in church was a special prayer service. The pastor tearfully talk about the children who attended and how around 17 of them do not have a place to go to, to learn about God and a few of the children are in homes that are not right (neglect/abuse) and how right after the event 3 (I believe) brothers/sisters were taken out of their home. The mother is a drug addict. He asked us to pray for not only those particular children but all the children who attended. He showed the slide show of pictures and asked each of us to let their eyes and faces burn in our souls and remember to pray for them. The little girl he(pastor) pointed out on the slide show was that of the little girl who was taken from her home, and the Lord gave me a heart for that hand shake in the event. Her beautiful image speared through me like a sword to my soul.

So as the slide show played each face came up my lip started to tremble, thinking about their souls. And after the slide show was over we were asked to get on our knee's for a special prayer for these children. I did and my body started to tremble..memories of childhood of watching my mom get almost beat to death came to me. God was allowing me to remember the this time in my life where I was so scared. Then He brought back that special moment when it was time to leave Oregon to get away from my step dad who beat my mom. My teacher Mrs. Wallas sat me in front of her and handed me a bag to carry my things and told me that I was special and she would miss me. She had so much concern on her face but kept her smile for me not to worry. We moved 2000 miles away with nothing but clothes on our backs. My mom with a beaten face and 4 kids who were scared to death.
When I moved back the 2nd time to Oregon after this I was already married and with kids of my own. I made sure to find Mrs. Wallas to thank her. She looked at me and started to cry . I hugged her, I let her know everything was alright and how the abuse stopped with me. She said Mary my husband is a preacher and all of those years our church prayed for your family. All this memory flooded back to me while on my knee's. I couldn't speak while leaving because when the Lord speaks to us, sometimes we are just silent. I am praying for God to show me how He wants HAIN to be apart of helping these children and praying for them as prayers once were prayed for me...Just had to get this off my chest.

4th of July

I have lots of beautiful firework pictures but don't want to post all 50 of them lolol they were so pretty what can I say :)

This is my beautiful daughter Julionna

There was a plane that dropped 4 sky divers that landed in a field close by. It was pretty cool

And this has nothing to do with the 4th except it was on a tree close by where we were sitting. A dragon fly.

4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. It is the celebration of our independence here in America. Thank you Soldiers and their families who keep us safe here at home.
Thank you Past, present and future soldiers who keep us free, independent and safe here at home!

Clay Pigeon Shooting

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Few shooting pics. We had fun! All the kids but Paul tried the shotgun. Fun times..

Vacation Bible School

This week we were involved in VBS. It was pretty fun. Our kids had a really good time. The theme was Australia and Peter, you know the one who denied Christ 3 times. It was good and the kids learned so much.
I took pictures for the final slide show on family night. Kids were awing and excited to see themselves on screen. It was neat.

Paul jumping to get ball. He may be a natural Basketball player :)

Gabe in Blue shirt making things

And Julionna with her best friend