Jon's wedding day

Here we are at Jon's wedding. Forgot to get more pictures!

27th Anniversary!

We went to Leo's Restaurant for our 27th wedding anniversary. It was good but way more expensive than we are used to! But we had a very nice time.

a song For You outside by the fish pond

We set up a bunch of recording stuff and did one of my songs outside. We wanted the sound of the gurgling waterfall in the background. It wasn't quite successful, but we did get the song done back in the house. This is a song for my album. Can't wait to share it with you.

Front and Center - May 2017

I finally got back to Front and Center after being unable to participate for the last 3 months.  I was a little nervous to get up there after so long, but it ended up being the most fun night!  And even though we had little to no practice on most of the songs, it went really great.  I did 2 of my original songs, and Ryan also did one of mine, which was a huge honor.  It was so great!

I'm hoping to have some videos to post soon.

Some songs I played guitar...
some I just sang.

Wade joined us on several songs.

It's cool that we are able to live-stream it to Facebook.

Some of my artwork was on display,

as well as some of my grandfather's.

Darryl is our official sound guy!  (He's also just started doing sound at church too!)

That's us, as seen from the balcony.

pretty things around my yard

John's been preaching on worship lately.  Yesterday he talked about seeing the tiniest little flower on a weed.  He said the beauty of it made him get on his knees and take a picture of it.  The beauty of that little flower, in all its detail, made him want to worship God.  Just to take notice of all of God's magnificent creation should cause us all to want to worship Him!  So today I decided to walk around my yard and capture some the awesome flowers I get to see and enjoy there.

all sorts of stuff

We sanded and painted our deck.

Kyle came over and helped.  It was very hot!

This is one of our goldfish.  Today we were visited by a great Blue Heron and it looks as though it ate all but 1 of our fish.  It was super sad!

We think it might have eaten our frog too.  

Ryan and I have spent many nights sleeping out in the tent.  This particular night was very cold.

Darryl just popped in to visit.

Mother's Day

Here are a few pictures from Mother's Day that I forgot to post. We made a fun little grill in the back by the playhouse.

Mother's Day worship set

forgotten odds and ends

This is from the St. Ann's newsletter.  Some of the Frontline Praise bands folks went there to sing for the residents during lunchtime on Valentine's Day.  It was a nice opportunity.
This is Maryedith, me, Darryl, Ryan, and Ryan O

We have a couple of ducks visiting our yard these days.  They seem to really enjoy the little fish pond.

We went to see Bethel at Radiant Church.  Didn't like it...very creepy behavior from the singers on stage.  But we worshiped anyway....

Yeah, we got some hail recently.  Pretty cool.

Kyle's Masters graduation at GRTS

Kyle received his Master's Degree at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary (GRTS) at Cornerstone University - Summa Cum Laude.  Really proud of him, once again, for doing a fantastic job finishing strong!  Yay, Kyle!!

Ryan, Hilary, Kyle, me, Darryl

at the Chapel at Cornerstone

Scott, Deedee, Ryan, Hilary, Kyle, me, Darryl