Half a year!

Enoch turned 6 months on the 16th!

Our golden anniversary; 7 years on the 7th!

We celebrated by going out to dinner the night before at not one, but two restaurants! After ordering an appetizer at one place, we ordered one main dish at another place, and it worked as a full dinner. Since we almost never go out to eat we decided to make the most of it. We also went to Walmart. Very exciting.

The four girls had a sleepover at my parents’ house so we had the house to ourselves, with Enoch as a third wheel.

7 years, 5 children and 4 moves into our marriage, we are thankful for love, forgiveness, patience and friendship. God has been faithful and not abandoned us even in the hard times.

Orcxance is a wonderful husband and father.

Another June

June is a month of a lot of comings and goings in our large extended family. So many wedding anniversaries and birthdays take place in June.

In June we celebrate both my parents’ birthdays, my youngest brother Silas’s birthday, two nieces, Hannah Joy and Lydia, five wedding anniversaries, including ours!

We also remember my grandmother’s passing, and the births of two nephews who didn’t get to know any life on earth.

Late May marked the ten year anniversary of my grandfather’s death. He was a major part of my childhood and influenced hundreds for Christ.

So June is a happy and sad, remembering and celebrating kind of month. With flowers planted on graves at the family cemetery, juicy watermelon enjoyed by grandchildren, memories shared and old writings read aloud.

Every body buried in a wooden casket hand-carved by my uncle Frank, every grave marked by a cross. Amidst the birthdays and the tears, the remembering and the mourning, the persevering and the celebrating, every soul among us waiting for the Resurrection.