Pretty flowers!

Hi Everyone, after my last post was so sad I thought that I would show you some of my flowers from my flower beds. I am very fortunate that my mother-in-law is very good at flowers and so when I moved in the flower garden, which is all perennials, was ready to go. Last fall, Lanee and I dug up the whole bed to thin it out. It was a very big job and I don't know what I would have done without her! Anyway, I was able to give away a lot of the bulbs and planted some of course back into the bed. 

I was a little disappointed to find that only my tiger lilies bloomed, as you can see in the pictures. I should have had irises and day lilies, hopefully next year! I was surprised to see that where we had thrown all of the "waste " last year, I did have irises. It was quite funny, though frustrating. I should have taken a picture but I didn't think of it at the time. 

Sadness and Prayers

Hi everyone, I come to you all in hopes that you will help me lift my sister, Ruth, and her fiance up in prayers. I found out this afternoon that my sister miscarried this morning. She was 21 1/2 weeks along. They unfortunately found out that it was a boy at this time. They named him Jeremiah James. I talked to my sister today and she is doing okay physically, but as you can imagine she is heartbroken. Please keep Ruth and Dan in your prayers as they go through the motions of grieving for this little one that is now enjoying God's arms. They are planning on having a funeral service in the next week or so. If you could add in your prayers that Brad and I will be able to get off work and travel plans will work, so we can go and support my sister, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

Baking woes

So, I am sitting minding my own business checking my blogs, when I hear this pop in the kitchen. I wonder, "Hmm...I wonder what that was?" I wander in the kitchen (actually I had a feeling I knew what it was) and looked, there was my amish bread starter all over the counter. Actually, it was only about an 1/8 of  the bag but you get the idea. I was able to get most of it back in the bag but that wasn't exactly what I wanted to see. It did prompt me to look at the extra starter I had in my lunch bag, that I have been trying to give to someone at work. Which, not only had my lunch bag fallen on the floor, but it, too, had popped open in my lunch bag. Thankfully, it had not spilled all over the floor or my lunch bag. The joys of yeast fermenting! :) Thanks Lindy, for that first starter, the bread has been really good.:) Maybe, the next loaf/loaves that I make, I'll place a picture up. Now that's an idea!

Thanks for listening to my ramblings! Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Tribute to my Great Grandfather

Sorry it has been a couple of days. I have been working nights this week and I haven't had a lot of time to work on my blog. Thank you to all who welcomed me to "Blogger World", it has been fun so far! 

Now to what I decided to post on today! I was thinking what we have been doing for the past month or so and realized it had been a month since we said goodbye to a very important part of my family and a good role model! 

The picture is of Brad and I and my Great Grandparents. Yes, my Great Grandparents. They are on my mom's side of the family. Unfortunately, on June 14, my Great grandpa went home to be with Jesus. We will definitely miss him but we all know that he is up in heaven, walking with Jesus (along with my mom and other family members) and he is probably gardening God's gardens as well. He was a fantastic gardener even to the point of buying seeds for this years plant, at 98 years old. Up until this point, both he and my Great Grandma were living still on the farm by themselves. 

The reason I say he was a great role model is two fold. He was an awesome man of God in everything he did. I have very fond memories of him reading the Christmas story every year. The second belongs to my Great Grandma too. I remember the first Christmas I brought Brad home to meet my extended family and my Great Grandparents were there. I introduced them to him and that's when I found out that they had been married for 67 years and still very happy. He said that marriage was a lot of work but well worth it. At this point Brad and I were still dating (though he proposed right after Christmas that year) but it was definitely encouragement. When he died he and my Great Grandma were married 71 years. That to me is an amazing testimony in itself. I know that whenever Brad and I think of them, we smile and say, "We hope we are that lucky!" 

Thanks for going down memory lane with me! Like I said, we miss him but we can't wait seeing him again in heaven, standing tall, with all fingers and gardening in the gardens of God! 

Over the Weekend, Part 2

As I said in the previous blog, it was such a busy weekend that it has to be told in 2 separate blogs! We also got to meet my nephew Hayden! He is 6 months old now and it was the first time we all got to meet him! I was a little afraid that he would be afraid of us or shy at first but he warmed up to his Minnesota relatives right away. It may have helped that Mama wasn't very far away too. Unfortunately, my brother, Dan, was unable to come with this trip but he and Hayden will be back in September. As you can see in the pictures, he is a cutee pie and very smilie. We were all really excited to see him! 

Proud Auntie Sarah and Hayden

Proud Mama (How Precious)

I made these for Hayden

I love my nephew!

Playing with Uncle Brad

Gramma & Hayden

Playing with Gramma's Toys

Playing with Auntie Molly

Holding Hayden for the first time!

Proud Grampa Holding Hayden for the first time!

Uncle Brad, Hayden, Auntie Sarah, Mama aka TeriAnna

Uncle Brad and Hayden (Cute smiles)

Auntie Ruthie playing with Hayden

Over the Weekend, Part 1

Wow, this was an extremely busy weekend for us! On Friday we headed down to my parents house for the weekend. When we got there we unloaded and then headed to church where there was a reunion. In 1998, my brother, Dan and I, went to Costa Rica on a missions trip. There were approx. 26 of us that went. We helped a church just outside of San Jose. We did a lot of work around the church plus we were able to do some evangelistic things as well. We each stayed with a national family for about 3 days and got the cultural experience. It was definitely a good experience and one that I will never forget. It had been 10 years since that trip and we got together to share memories. It was a lot of fun, and it was amazing the things we remembered! 

This is a picture of the group at the reunion

Meeting Hayden

 This weekend I get to meet this little guy for the first time! I am super excited! This my nephew Hayden. He is now 6 months old this is a picture from when he was born. I hope to have more pics from this weekend! As soon as I figure out how to download photos from our camera. I will have a few more pictures to share as well! 

WOW! I'm blogging!

I never expected to join the blogging world but here I am! I am very excited to share with you what is happening in our life! It has been a busy summer and that is why this hasn't gotten started yet but here we go! I can't promise that I will be blogging something everyday but I will try to do something at least once a week! So here goes! Welcome to the Paulson blog!