Some "ancient" history from back in January

Here are some pictures from early January before the "away" kids left from their Christmas visit here.

Karen and Charissa

 On New Year's Day we went on a walk in the afternoon to Pride Park here in Taylor Mill.  It has a bridge and we wanted Jeffrey and Lesa to see the bridge because they love bridges.

 On the walk

 There is a Love Lock fence that we wanted to show Jeffrey and Lesa also.  They have a love lock of their own on the bridge in Ottumwa, Iowa.

 Brenda didn't happen to be along on the walk so she missed being in the couples photos. 

This was the walking group, except for Rowen who was taking the picture.

 Playing Interstate after Emily got off work at Chick-Fil-A on January 2. 

The last room we painted was Rowen and Janet's bedroom.  It had special challenges because of cracks and seams in the cathedral ceiling Rowen had to repair, so we saved it for last.

 Though not pictured, Elizabeth helped paint this room before she started back into college classes.

 We love the new colors.

 One kind of warm day, we took a walk down Old Taylor Mill Road.  There is a creek that gets really "busy" when we have rain.  It catches all the runoff from our subdivision.

 Emily took this picture of us before we turned around and went back home.

 Rowen had his 59th birthday on January 21.

 Quil, our 9.5 year old oldest grandchild sent Rowen this drawing in his birthday card.  We thought it was neat how similar his picture was to the work area Rowen created in his garage!

Emily did a pizza, games, and ice skating event with the church Youth Group.

 We had our January-February Care and Connect Friends (Gordon and Nancy Martin and Judy Johnson) plus Retha and our pastors, Darrell and Regina Stetler, over for Sunday dinner.

 We added words to our wall between the kitchen and family room:  With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible!  We needed that reminder as Rowen searched for a job.

And another view of more words on the wall from our front door.

  We had our associate pastors, Andrew and Sherilyn Stroud, Wilson, Marshall, and Karilee over for Sunday dinner.

 Since Karilee didn't show in the other picture, she gets her own!

Here is a picture from Facebook of our dear pastors and their wonderful wives.

 We've had some interesting birds at our feeder.    Two different kinds of woodpeckers:

 We think this is a different kind of redbird than a cardinal because he doesn't have a crest. 

 A beautiful January sunset off our deck.