Their Story Continues…

Just wanted to let you all know that all our wedding joy is complete and went off without any noteworthy hitches! God is good. I will share a lot more soon but I’m in recovery mode from all the fun and excitement we’ve been having over the last 5 days! Yesterday the majority of our guests flew home so there were at least 5 trips to the airport and back. Thank you to Steve and Lana for being our transportation leaders!

Thank you to Bev and Harv who took the photos I’m sharing today with y’all.

Bev’s birthday is the day before mine so that means today is her day. Oh dear, Bev’s birthday is actually the day after my birthday so Happy early Birthday Bev and thank you for coming to Katie and Andrew’s wedding and sharing your photos with me! Blessings! Now you have good proof that I need some more time before I post intelligently again.

The MGCC March birthday girls!

Stay tuned for lots and lots of wedding family and friend photos coming soon!

Give Me Oil in My Lamp ~ Hymn

Give Me Oil in My Lamp Keep Me Burning

Give me oil in my lamp keep me burning
Give me oil in my lamp, I pray,
Give my oil in my lamp, keep me burning,
Keep me burning ’till the end of day.

Sing hosanna, sing hosanna,
Sing hosanna to the King of kings!
Sing hosanna, sing hosanna,
Sing hosanna to the King!

Give me peace in my heart, keep me resting,
Give me peace in my heart, I pray.
Give me peace in my heart, keep me resting,
Keep me resting ’till the end of day.

Sing hosanna, sing hosanna,
Sing hosanna to the King of kings!
Sing hosanna, sing hosanna,
Sing hosanna to the King!

Praying that God will fill us all today with His peace, love, and joy as we celebrate the wedding ceremony for Andrew and Katie.

A Treat For You…

Head over to MGCC Blog to get the recipe for these date balls. They can be made gluten free if you use the new Gluten Free Rice Krispies. Enjoy!

We are busy doing the last minute fresh food shopping for our all day event before the Wedding. Andrew is flying in tonight and Katie is more excited about seeing him than she is for the wedding on Sunday! Life is rich!

2 more days!

Excitement Mounts!

Today might be our last day of real sunshine and we might reach 60 degrees! Woohoo! We are not expecting to see too much sunshine on Sunday, the day of the wedding. We will roll with the weather. That’s something you have to learn to do in the Great Northwest.

The photos above are from the wedding venue. It will be fun to see it all decorated for Katie and Andrew’s wedding. Our first guests arrive this morning.

3 more days!

Moving Ever Forward…

The Lenten Season is one of my favorite times of the year. Looking forward to celebrating Easter, contemplating all that Jesus has done for us and seeing everything new. I showed you my Lenten Rose buds a while back and wanted to make sure not to forget to show you the blooms.

My girlfriend Beth gave me this plant for my birthday a few years ago and I’m so glad it has survived despite my brown thumb. It really is a wonderful sight for sore Winter eyes! Thanks Beth!

My Ladies Bible Study group has been praying for me during this “Wedding Season Countdown Crunch” to be able to have some “Mary” moments instead of all “Martha” moments. You can read that story in the Bible in Luke and a longer version in John.

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:38-42).

Today we are headed to the Venue to drop off items for the day of the wedding like cake toppers, guest book, menu cards, a Celtic Cross, some Marine insignia chargers for the head table, etc. We are also making 4 other stops on the way home. Tomorrow the flower girl arrives from Texas. She’s bringing her parents, too. We are excited to see them all. Another brother and his wife arrive tomorrow. My ring leader sister comes back to her home here in Washington. Our son from Eastern Washington will be traveling over the Cascades to join in all the hoopla. Things are going to get noisy around here! This is only the first small wave…

4 Days till the wedding, 3 days till our all day Clubhouse event on Saturday for friends and family that have traveled from hither and yon.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods and that you can have some “Mary” moments during this Lenten Season…

Confused?

Our weather seems to be very uncommitted right now. Here’s how we started out the day…

Now we have very bright sunshine with blue skies and fluffy clouds. That snow on the deck and yard is all gone!

Until the weather decides whether it will cling to winter or give in to Spring I have Spring treats like these to make me smile.

My days are filled with ticking off things that need to be done on my list before our wedding company starts arriving.

5 Days To Go…

Bachelorette!

Katie’s maid of honor put together a wonderful evening for friends to celebrate each other. They started with French wine and cheese. An old fashioned photo booth, French restaurant for dinner, dessert outside at Kerry Park with a view of Seattle, and a private karaoke booth to sing the night away.

7 days to go!

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days ~ Hymn

Lenten Rose

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.

As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the victory win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.

As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.

And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy passiontide,
Yea, evermore in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.

Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suffering over past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last.

Words: Claudia F. Hernaman, Child’s Book of Praise; A Man­u­al of De­vo­tion in Sim­ple Verse, 1873.