Sunrises

When I was a little girl visiting out on the farm we would get up early and go to the barn with grandpa to milk the cows and watch the sun rise.

Things have changed a little I am not so little any more and there are no more cows.

But the sunrises are still as beautiful as they ever were.

My little dog needed to go out side at 5:30AM one morning. I glanced out the window and then grabbed my camera to capture Gods beauty.

Tim and I sat in the front yard in the swing and watched the sun rise higher in the sky.

Genesis 1

The Beginning

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day......

¹⁴ And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

My God is an Awesome God!

Grandpa and his garden

My grandpa loves to take his 4 wheeler down to the garden along with an able bodied daughter, granddaughter, son or grandson. He sits atop his ride and uses his cane to point to the weeds that need to be picked or the best veggies to be picked. And we all gladly do his biding.

When I was a little girl The garden extended clear back where you see the green grass growing and also further behind where I was standing to take this picture. There were always plenty of vegetables to be picked for canning or freezing. Now the garden is much smaller but it still contains some of their favorites. Especially dill for making refrigerator pickles.

This is the beautiful path way from the house to the garden. My son likes to call it the forest. It also harbers lots of misquotios. But not this day. We were enjoying it's beauty pest free.

I like this picture of Grandpa peeking out from behind the bush. It shows how playful he is. I remember how we alwyas raced grandpa to his chair after dinner before his nap and how he said he would pull out our belly buttons with his plyers. Or squirt us with milk when he was milking a cow. Oh ya and another time when they had come to visit us in NE he hid behind one of the chairs to supprise us when we got home from school. Any way I could go on and on.

Finally this is a nice close up of him. He is one of my most favorite people in the entire world. I love him with all my heart. He has set a wonderful example for his grandchildren on how to work hard, love his family and serve his Lord and Savior.
Thank you !

Rosco

Our dog learned a new trick this summer. He has learned how to fetch a stick in water. Now you must understand that prior to now he did not like to go into the water above his ankles. We discovered that he liked water while at the lake one day. We heard a splashing, didn't see the dog and went to investigate. He has seen a stick floating in the water and decided it needed rescuing. Naturally we wanted to see if he would do it again and so the game began. He still doesn't like water that is too deep but he will venture into the deep water to get the stick as long as it doesn't look too far away.

Special Family Friends

During our 4th of July vaccation we were able to stop and see some friends. Tim has known these people for many years. In fact the head of the household used to be Tim's Pastor. He has a beautiful family with 6 kids rainging in age from 14.5-2.5 years old.

So as you can tell Ansir had his share of kids to play with.

They spent quality time on the trampoline.

Each of the younger children had to take their turn jumping with Ansir.

Rosco even found a friend there too.

This is the youngest of the bunch. Isn't he just so cute. He was shooting his pretend gun and had to protect his ears.

This is the oldest of the children he is almost ready to take his drivers test. He is just a little excited. He even has a motor cycle in the chicken coop that he was getting advice on how to fix it from Tim.

This young lady is 12.5 and is quite the little helper and second mother to the younger children. One day she will do a fine job raising a family of her own. She told me she would like to have 10 kids. It would not surprise me in the least if that happens.

This is Nolan He is such a great role model for his kids and all those around him. Tim speaks very highly of him. I believe he may have been discussing the ball launcher his oldest son was creating. He ran into a few glitches and it didn't launch.

This is Tracie. She is the mother of all these children. She also home schools each of them and keeps the house running.

While we were the there the kids all gathered around the table to play crash cars.

They each had little toy cars and on the count of three they slid them to the center of the table causing them all to crash into one another. It was noisy but they sure were laughing and having a good time.


Our visit ended as we sat around the campfire getting in the last few moments of visiting before we had to go. I am glad we took the time to stop and I also look forward to visiting them again.

Fireworks

I decided to try to take some pictures of the fireworks this year. I couldn't believe how good they turned out. I am sure that they are not spectacular but good non of the less.

My cousins out did them selves with their awesome display. We were all appreciative of the time and money that went into this display.

So many of them were very large and in the ND dark sky they really came to life.

I find it interesting that what comes through on the camera isn't quite as we remember the original thing.

Check out all these little sparkles.

I am very thankful that no one got hurt while shooting off the fireworks.

We also sent up a hot air baloon in honor of all those who have fought for the freedoms we enjoy.
Thank you to our military for giving so much of your selves.