DeEtta from Chosing Joy tagged me for the following fun photo activity. I had to improvise a little bit since my folders are all in files so I started with the 4th file then the 4th folder and 4th picture. 1. Choose the 4th folder where you store pictures on …

On Tuesday night, I was at a Co-op meeting when I saw a call coming in from Amanda on my cell phone. She knew I was in a meeting. Knowing she knew that, I knew she wouldn’t call unless it was something important so before I even answered the phone …

Way back in April, Amanda bought a new bicycle. Not just any bicycle. An expensive light weight racing type bicycle. She is now officially in training for a ride she’s doing in September. 450 miles or so if I remember right. It’s a fund raiser for a program that benefits …

Last weekend Amanda and her bike-riding friend, Stacie, rode a 25 mile race in our state games. Here are a few random pictures of Amanda getting ready for the race. Attaching her Road ID to her ankle. It has my cell phone #, daddy’s cell phone #, our home phone …

Since I’m on a flag themed roll here and I’ve recently cleaned out my scrapbooking room I happened to know right where this cute little flag was filed! Amanda and Emily each made one of these *MANY* years ago… probably when Amanda was in 1st or 2nd grade, but of …

I knew this day would eventually come. I just didn’t think it would come this soon. I mean really.. it’s *ONLY* been EIGHTEEN YEARS! That’s just NOT long enough, imo. There are so many things we haven’t taken the time to do yet. I almost said we haven’t had time …

After we had everything loaded up there were some last goodbyes before driving out of the yard. The boys stayed home to help Grandpa so this was it for them. She’s only moving 30 miles away. We’ll get to see her often (we hope anyway). I can’t imagine how difficult …

Tim, Amanda, and I were all “on” for worship this past weekend. The last year or two Amanda has occasionally filled in for me on keyboard, but she wasn’t added to the weekend worship team schedule until after she graduated from high school. I’m not sure about the timing of …

Leaving Amanda at her new house is *THE* single most difficult thing we’ve ever done in our lives so far. We, Tim & I, both agree that the season of ADDING children to our home was much more enjoyable than this new season of them starting to leave our comfy …

For those who don’t already know this our oldest daughter, Amanda, moved out today. I’ll blog more about that later when I can see straight again… it’s hard to type when your eyes keep filling up to the point where you can’t see and your nose keeps dripping onto your …