Phoebe's 5th birthday party!

Yesterday afternoon, the girls and I were blessed to be part of Phoebe Hinkle's 5th birthday party. Her birthday was Monday, but the party was Tuesday.

First she opened gifts; then we had yummy chocolate Candy Land Cake.

Then the girls played Candy Land game, but we neglected to get a picture of it. We did get a picture of Andrew Lowery and me playing Sub Search. It is kind of like a 3D Battleship game. Mathew was teaching both of us to play and it was fun and challenging. It is a game from the 1970s that we hope to obtain for our family!

After the games, we went over to Loveland Park and the kids and Mathew rode the miniature train. Andrew is not in this picture because he was in the caboose!

Emily, Phoebe, Ruth and Mary Lowery

The kids standing by the engine: Emily, Phoebe, Andrew, Ruth, Mary, and Beth. There were two other little girls at the party, but their schedule did not allow them to go to the park with us.

Emily and Phoebe and the train engine.

More pictures of Ethan Asbury Hinkle

At Bible Study Sunday night, we got to see and hold little Ethan Hinkle. He is growing and is so alert and sweet! What a precious little boy! Phoebe loves her little brother.

Jeff's and Jason's bedroom furniture

Back in June Jeff and Jason got new bedroom furniture: Jeff bought a rolltop desk at a garage sale and Mother and Dad bought them a new queen sized bed to replace two twin sized stackable beds.

Jeff's rolltop desk with his Dulcimer sitting on top.

The bed.

So now you know what we are going to make the quilt for! (See post below.)

Brenda's Great-Aunt Lea promoted to heaven!

This is a picture of our daughter-in-law, Brenda, and her great-aunt Lea, taken July 2007. Brenda got to spend some time with Aunt Lea at least twice in the last year. We got word today that Lea went to heaven yesterday. I wanted to share Rowen's cousin, Katie Gafford's words about her last visit with Lea.

Katie wrote this in an email to us last night: "I had put Tim and Brenda's wedding pictures in a little hand album and took them to the hospital on Sunday afternoon to show them to her. She really found them very special and very interesting. It had been quite awhile since she had seen her great nieces and nephews. She called them her grandchildren! The thing she said the most often was, "I am fully ready for Heaven, and He can take me any time." I told her about the thought of the morning message based on the words, "Friend, come up higher." Her face just lit up. She asked me to have prayer with her and as I started to leave, she said, "He is going to answer that prayer very soon." She told her therapist that she was ready to go to Heaven. What a testimony to leave behind."

Ps 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His saints.

Starting a new quilt top

Mother and I have started another quilt. We wanted to make one that Jeff and Jason can use on their new bed (see in pictures in another post coming soon.) The quilt's name is Crossroads to Jericho. We found it in a quilting book our friend gave us called "Scrap Quilts - fast and fun" compiled and edited by Patricia Wilens.

Below is a picture of the quilt in the book.


We have cut all of the strips (for strip quilting), and Mother has already pinned a couple of the strips. We are looking forward to sewing it all!

Mother on right, cutting, and me on left holding. :)




Here are all of the fabrics we are using. 9 of the fabrics are blue, and 9 of them are other random colors! The neutral fabric behind is what we're using for inbetweeners.

Us again. Look at that concentration on my face!