Day 29: Catch Up Over the Past Few Days

Day 29: Noon, Thursday, June 2.  A very good time to catch everyone up on what has been going on because in about 4 hours it will begin to be a whirlwind--we hope just metaphorically--not actually.  We will be having a scrumptious, homemade, rib dinner before attending Wyatt's graduation at 7pm.  The graduation is an outdoor venue. The issue is that there are possible thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon and evening.  We just love our God who knows about all of this and in 11 hours we will be glorifying Him for what He did.  This moment though, Bob, Patty, Lucas and Celeste are taking their red Suburban (they have had for 10 years) to its new home about an hour from here.  Declan and Wyatt are chilling, and we are getting caught up on different things.  Earlier this morning--6am--Lucas and Wyatt went to the gym to work out one final time.

So, to catch everyone up on the last few days:

Day 25: Sunday, May 29.  We went to church at Calvary Roanoke, VA.  The teaching was on John 6:1-13--the feeding of the five thousand.  There was an emphasis on the bread, both before it was distributed and also what was left over.  What Karen took to heart was:  what was given--even though little--was used in a mighty way and what was left over was more than enough.  There was a power-point slide that showed a basket of bread on one side and a pie chart on the other.  The pastor explained that we as people can have our time and resources "charted" out or we can give what we have (which He has given us) and we will receive back more than what we gave.  Great application!

After church we drove to Lucas and Celeste's and began to have great family time.

Day 26: Monday, May 30--Memorial Day.  We didn't do much but hung out, played games and got caught up on both what has happened and what would be happening the next week and a half.  We went out for ice cream in the middle of the day to a place that has very specialty ice cream items.  As a group we had a variety of ice cream concoctions, including a half hot fudge sundae and half peanut butter milkshake.  The cherry dip on Karen's cone was about 1/4 inch thick--way rich. Of course, we had hamburgers, hot dogs and watermelon for dinner.

Day 27: Tuesday, May 31. Lucas went to work, and Wyatt went to his first graduation practice at 9am.  Celeste and Karen took Declan to the metro so he could go into DC and hang out until Lucas got off work.  Then they did a little shopping.  When Lucas got off work, Declan met him, and they went to the airport to pick up Bob and Patty (Lucas' parents).  Their plane landed on time but it was a very long wait for the luggage to get put out.  All 8 of us enjoyed homemade tacos and chatted away.  There were different games being played also.  Fun family time.

Day 28: Wednesday, June 1.  Lucas went into work for his final day before they leave. Wyatt went to his final graduation practice at 7am.  We went and had the oil changed in the car.  Then we gals did a little shopping during the day and went with Celeste's friend Barbara to dinner in the evening.  What a riot that was.  It seems as though Celeste and Barbara have become "best friends" with a waitress at Uncle Julios Mexican restaurant.  The food was good and the fellowship was great.  When we got home there were more games and conversation.  Good day.

Are you tired?  We are getting rested up even though there has been activity.  Hopefully, tomorrow, Friday we will post about graduation AND Wyatt's swearing into the Coast Guard which is supposed to happen at 10:30 tomorrow morning.  

Thanks for hanging out with us!