Catching up with January

On January 7th, we were privileged to eat at the Pastor's home with the Stetlers, Strouds, and Staleys.  It is so wonderful to be part of the Burlington KY Bible Church and to worship and fellowship with the dear ones there.  We have the best pastoral team we know of!

 Pastor Darrell took this picture of us.

 Darrell and Regina.  We love and appreciate them so much!

 We took a drive and captured the frozen waterfalls that are all over the roadsides in Kentucky during the coldest days of the year.  We think they are pretty.  Some places have the chain link fencing, because the rocks are continually crumbling down and the fencing keeps it from landing on the roads.

 Our diligent college student, Elizabeth, studying hard in her junior year.

Rowen had his 60th birthday on January 21.  His dessert was cherry/blueberry pie 

and it was yummy!

We are thankful that Rowen is as healthy as he is and able to do the very physical job at Budget Blinds.  It is very tiring for him, especially the closet systems installations; very different from the fairly sedentary microscopist job he had for 25 years.  What a blessing to have a loving, godly husband and father in our lives!

Emily was very sick with a bad cold in January and had to miss several days of work.  On the last day she was off, she felt well enough to do a drawing she had been wanting to do since last April.  It is a picture of our pastor and his wife under one umbrella during a driving rain on Easter Sunday.  She prints out the picture, then a black and white, and uses those to measure and look at while she draws.

 All finished!  She framed it and gave it to them as a gift.

 On January 28th, we got to eat with our Care-n-Connect group at the Coopers lovely home.  It was fun being connected to Marvin and Joyce Cooper, and Frank and Sherry Martinoli.  In that group, there is always plenty of stimulating conversation!