Yet another table picture.

Joseph enjoying his reward for hauling all that wood in-a foot long at subway.

Now I can't help it...I'm being drawn to table shots! I just might have to get a whole new blog for them!

Anyway, I love what happens when someone's head or foot or in this case, hand is closer to the camera and looks huge. It's like Joseph has a lobster claw for a left hand!

But, I've been out with David and Clayton lately but not with Joseph, so that was fun...and he really did work very hard to earn his sandwich-he unloaded a truck bed full of wood and stacked it for me.

Thank You Joseph!

Aaaaasssss Yoooouuuuuuu Wwwwiiiiiissssshhhh

Okay, now some of you may not be aware of this but Rosemary and I go for walks 3 times a week with our friend, Kathy.

Kathy introduced us to a perfectly lovely place to walk...only it turned out that there was some hiking involved.

Now, I don't wanna give away our location BUT...the hill that we go up is very steep. And it's so steep that it makes me think bad thoughts on the way up...borderline bad thoughts.

So we do it twice!

It's really hard to take a picture ('specially with a cell phone) that gives proper depth so you can tell how steep the grade is, but trust me-it makes me think of Princess Bride everytime. You know the scene where Wesley is pushed down a steep hill and Buttercup comes tumbling down after hearing the phrase "As You Wish"? It's as steep as that.

But here it is...the tiny, tiny little people way up on top are Kathy (right) and myself (left).

Rosemary took the picture, staying behind to do it and then had the AUDACITY to run up --that's right--RUN up the hill to catch us.

So here's another view from quite a distance away at this particular hill-can you get a little feel for the 'drop off' thing it's got goin' on?

Just for Laura!

Just for Laura!

It must look as if there is a theme to this blog that I hadn't intended: lots of table pictures! Well, when you're traveling, you often have to stop for a bit to eat and that's when it occurs to me to update the blog. So on our recent trip to see Kevan on his birthday and hear him play at Cowboy Church with Dad, I couldn't resist taking a picture of niece Marlie who didn't get to have supper before we left and was such a trooper for waiting until 10:30pm to eat at a McDonalds.

Dad and Kevan

I was able to get Dad and Kevan in the same frame while they performing their last song (that tied in amazingly to the message about Living Water) which was "Cool Water", probably my favorite song that they do together on their CD.

It's a great place to be for a listener when you're priviledged to hear seasoned, experienced musicians that are so comfortable with their instruments and each other.

The Acoustic Cowboys at Cowboy Church in Mineral Point, WI

Dad, Tim, Jeff and Kevan

My sister Rosemary, her little girl Marlie Rose and I travelled about an hour and a half to see our brother, Kevan, on his birthday while he and Dad performed for Cowboy Church. They played 5 songs before the message and then were asked to do another at the end...and then! They had a request after the service was over to play Ghostriders in the Sky.

It was fantastic music and a great time.

Yay! We are past the traffic of Chicago

Okay- I think this was actually son David's favorite part of the day!
And Jayson and Clayton's.
Why????
Because...picture isn't clear enough....
It's TACO BELL!!!!!!
yes, it actually was the Fourth Meal of the day.
Their marketing dept. should be proud.
Because...
although the food was very good at the Chicago cafe from below...
the portions were meager and the boys hunger bigger, much bigger than the amount they were served so they still had some 'spaces' to be filled in their tummies.
And then...do you even have to be hungry, and tired of Chicago traffic to appreciate Taco Bell?

Campus visit

So here are the boys... Clayton, Cousin Jayson and David sitting at a cafe calle La Sera in Chicago after a very long day visiting Moody. Clayton and Jayson got to attend college classes, eat in a college cafeteria and see walk around a lot! They especially loved the book store at the end -NOT! But Rosemary (who also went) and I loved the bookstore. What's not to love?

Anyway, the classes were awesome! Rosemary got to take a Romans class was a junior/senior class and then we both took in an afternoon class with just Jayson and Clayton as David was off filling out his application to the music school there (supposedly~!). The second class: Race, Poverty and Social Justice was soooooooo interesting. We both took notes, the prof. had us each observe a different group of students discussing a book/paper, we took the quiz and passed with an 80%. Clayton's group was quite animated and he enjoyed the students that now seemed just like other kids to him -instead of big scarey college kids. My group had several fascinating students-amazing the the quality of student that Moody draws. And the professor, Craigen, was perfect for an after lunch class..instead of a snoozer, he was quite animated, thought provoking and said many quotable things.

Rosemary's Roman's professor was a surprisingly young Phd...28 years old, and she reported that he too was interesting. They had controversy in their class, which is the college experience, right? Jayson was a bit sleepy in that high level class as we had to leave at 5:20 and so he was up very early and the rooms were sooooooo warm!

David's visit in the music dept. was very informative. We got many of our questions answered, got a better feel for their quality and expectations (both very, very high!). They have a very rigorous program, which is what we want, I think.