More Pictures of Tim and Brenda's wedding

These are some pictures provided by Kevin and Bonnie Peterson from their camera. Their daughter, Lexi, is the flower girl.
Tim and Lexi

Brenda and Lexi
The sand ceremony. Each had a vase with sand in it. Brenda's was white sand; Tim's was black sand. They took turns pouring into a larger vase, symbolizing the blending of their lives, never to be separated into individual lives again.Brenda's best friend and matron of honor, Kari Orvis, with Brenda, Tim, and Randy, who was best man. Also, Lexi, the flower girl.Brenda and her bevy of girls. From left: Audrey Stevenson, Emily Albertson, Lexi Peterson, Brenda Albertson, Kari Orvis, Enid Stevenson, and Beth Albertson Adding in the guys, from Tim and right: Tim Albertson, Randy Albertson, Eric Stevenson, Seth Stevenson, Jeffrey Albertson, Jason Albertson
The additions on this picture are the ushers on the left: Paul Koerner and Brent Susan, and the candlelighters on the right: Rebekah Owens and David Graf. In this picture, Jeffrey disappeared behind Brent. When we see the real photographer's pictures, we will likely see Jeffrey in this pose!

3 car wreck in front of our house today!

About 7:30 this morning, we heard a series of crashes. None of us happened to be looking out the kitchen window right at that moment, but apparently a Ford Explorer stopped on the highway in front of our house to turn north onto Idaho and the vehicles following did not notice in time.

The Ford Ranger hit the Explorer and was subsequently crunched by the Chevy Impala. The Explorer had the least damage, but the driver was taken away by ambulance for possible neck injury. The poor Ranger got it in front and in back. Thankfully no one else was injured. The two white vehicles were taken away by tow trucks.

Our new missionary friends. . .

We had the distinct privilege of not only making the aquaintance of Steve and Gwen Geise, but having them in our home for a couple of days. Their delightful and energeric sons Isaac, Micah, and 10-week old Titus added enjoyment to their time with us. They are missionaries to South Africa with H.I.M., and are on a deputation tour which included the Rocky Mountain West - which was a first time for them as missionaries. We hope to keep in touch with these folks, whose hearts seem to be much in alignment with ours!

Steve and Rowen outstanding in our garden...

Gwen and Janet visiting on our deck...

Jason and Emily loved entertaining Isaac (5) and Micah (2)

10-week old Titus was such a cheerful baby, even when Beth put him in her DOLL CRADLE!

More July pictures

On July 1, we helped Alia celebrate her 6th birthday.This is the finished stitchery that Beth made for Tim and Brenda's wedding gift. It is beautiful!

On July 6, Tim and Brenda were with us for Bible Study and they got to see and hold little Ethan Asbury Hinkle. He is precious. We enjoyed having my parents, Rex and Wanda Scoles, with us the week of the wedding. Grandpa played many a chess game with Beth, Emily, and Jason and Jeffrey, who were off work for the week.

Emily and Jason taught him how to play Stratego.He bravely played it with them, but I think he much preferred chess. Quil was a delight to have in our home, along with his parents, Randy and Joy.
Quil is so good at playing with toys or reading books by himself. Beth and Quil had a nap together! My mother worked on a crocheting project while she was here.
She is Quil's regular babysitter, so he loves having Great-Grandma Scoles feed him.
Emily tried to teach Quil to climb stairs. He doesn't have stairs to practice on at home. This is Grandma Stevenson and Enid Stevenson at a meal with us that week.

This is Audrey Stevenson, Kariann Orvis, (Brenda's best friend who was matron of honor), Brenda, and Tim at a meal at our house.

Tim printed the wedding bulletins and helped to fold them.

Here are some of the Scoles relatives who were at the wedding. They were visiting in the reception hall before the wedding. L to R: Rex Scoles, Lyndell Scoles, Brenda (Scoles) Owens, Andrew Owens, Wanda Scoles, Amanda Scoles, Ashley Scoles, back of Marlene (Scoles) DeOrnellis, Leah Owens, Rebekah Owens. Scoles relatives also present but not pictured: Charles Owens, Scott DeOrnellis, Cody DeOrnellis, Austin Scoles, Sharen Scoles, Sherry (Scoles) Wampler. We missed my brother, Wes and his family, and Sherry's husband and kids.

July 14th was Jeffrey's 17th birthday. Aunt Becky Profitt, (Rowen's sister), was our only guest at that time and she wanted to take us out to eat for Jeff's birthday. Jeff chose IHOP, so that is where we went.

Aunt Becky and Jeffrey

An update of our garden

July Garden Harvesting:

Each month we have posted pictures of our 2008 garden, which the Lord had blessed us with. It is thriving as we all work together to water and weed it...

This picture shows Beth and Emily hard at work doing detailed weeding... Thanks girls!

...and the Lord provides the bright sunshine and temperatures in the 90's most days. We have had no damaging wind or hail, and no bugs of any kind that would eat the foliage (and no pesticides!). We are truly blessed.

So far we have enjoyed romaine lettuce, radishes, onions, zucchini, and yesterday the girls picked enough green beans to can 7-quarts. We hope to can 50-60 quarts before frost.We look forward to the produce from 15 tomato plants, a few carrots, sweet and hot peppers, 3 kinds of cucumbers - most of which will be in late August - September here at 4,820 ft. elevation.


May Garden Planting


June Garden Weeding

The Amazing Paul Koerner and His Toy!

Our friend of several years, Paul Koerner from Mitchell, SD and his family visited us this week. He brought along one of his new toys.

It is this HI-TECH PERMANENT MAGNETIC SUSPENSIBLE FLYING DISK.

Here is Paul with his best-ever magnetic disk flight

Many folks can be seen doing this online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDtWLPDhzjU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9gmZdlc30&feature=related

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We've been blessed with MANY House Guests

Related to Tim and Bren's wedding, we have had many overnight guests in our home. From July 4 - July 19, we had 15 guests stay with us one or more nights. We also had my niece's family of 5 for a meal and afternoon of visiting, and 7 others for one or more meal(s). They are all dear to us, and we are always thankful for guests, but we are really exhausted from it. As many of you have experienced, there just is a bit of tension in a home as you wonder if everybody is okay, and you work to make sure that everybody is comfortable and all their needs are met. Let us rest up a bit, then you can come and visit!

Here are pictures of a few of our guests:

Jeff and Shirlene (Rowen's niece) Kazmaier with their three children were here for a meal and visit when Becky Profitt (Rowen's sister) was staying with us.



Maria Hofer, Sarah and Paul Koerner with their daughter Brynna were here JULY 10-11, and 17 - 19. (see Paul's amazing feat in the video clip on the post subsequent to this)

Here is a picture that someone took at the wedding, of all of the Albertson (and Reiff) relatives that attended the wedding. Hopefully we can obtain some pics of the Scoles relatives present, and of Brenda's family and relatives that were there.

Tim and Brenda are Married!

Tim and Bren stopped by our home briefly today

after three days / nights in a mountain hide-a-way.

They are on their way to Joplin, MO where they

will drop off their U-Haul trailer and continue their

honeymoon throughout the week. After next weekend

they will be at home at:

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Tim and Brenda Albertson

221 N. Gray Avenue

Joplin, MO 64801

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On Friday July 11th, at 2:30 p.m. Tim and Brenda's beautiful wedding was attended by over 100 guests from all over the United States. They were married at the Chapel in the Pines in Red Feather Lakes, CO. We'll publish more pictures as we assemble them from various cameras. These are a few snapshots that we took on our cheap digital camera.

Brenda's dad, Phil Stevenson, walked her down the aisle

All of Brenda's immediate family and her paternal grandmother from Vineland, New Jersey were here for it. Nearly all Janet's family were here from Missouri. We missed her youngest brother's family from FL. and her sister's husband and kids from KS.

It was a great blessing to Tim and Brenda for people to travel so far just for their special day. We enjoyed the snippets of conversations among the busy responsibilities of the day.

The groom was thrilled to see his bride approaching. Rev. James Susan and Tim's Grandpa Rev. Rex Scoles Officiated. Randy was his brother's Best Man.

Tim getting his tux on. . .

Before the pronouncement...

The wedding party seated at the bridal table at the reception in the beautiful fellowship hall at The Chapel in the Pines

Tim and Bren exiting the reception

After Tim and Brenda drove off into the sunset to parts unknown, the rest of our children gathered for a picture. Beth and Emily were bride's maids. Jeff, Randy and Jason were groomsmen. Brenda's siblings were also attendants.

Grandson Quil was such a happy boy most of the day. What a blessing he was to us all!

More wedding pictures at:
http://sethstevenson.blogspot.com/2008/07/wedding.html
http://faithfulvoice.blogspot.com/2008/07/family-pictures.html
http://missionarytravels.wordpress.com/