Life is but a vapor...

Last Friday evening our family went over to the Torgerson's and had dinner with their family and with the Rockley's. Some of you reading this may not know who I am referring to. However, more of you do know who I am talking about when I say I had dinner with Deana and Susan from my Shocker days. Yes, we had a little shocker basketball reunion and our families got to hang out.
What really struck a cord with me the most that evening is that life goes by SO FAST!! As we were sitting around the dinner table(of course talking about things the guys could care less about because they had no idea what we were talking about), I realized that it seemed like yesterday that Susan and I would sit in our duplex and talk about life together and that Deana and I would discuss that coach needed to just start her and let me come off the bench. But that was over 10 years ago.
The Bible describes it so clearly when it talks of life on this side of heaven being like a vapor. Remember when you were a kid and you would breathe on the car window and draw something in the condensation. But all too often the condensation would disappear too quickly and the picture would be gone. That is the word picture that comes to my mind when I think about really how fast life goes by... Deana and Susan thanks for the reminder for me not to waste my time here!! And thanks for hanging out with me and my family! The two of you will always be special people in my life :)

Hanging Out With the Cousins

We had such a great time with Addi and Logan (Ben's brothers kids)the last couple of days. They live just 30 minutes from us, but it seems like life gets busy and we don't see them near as much as we would like.
They had a BLAST at the pool together! And of course we had to beat the heat with a little popsicle break...

Rose Hill Rockets

Jake's baseball team, The Rockets, finish their second season. Jake improved his game quite a bit this year. He can catch fly balls with his glove up and his bat speed increased too. It brought Ben and I a lot of joy to watch him, mostly because you could tell he was having so much fun. And that is what matters the most...having fun!

Air Show 2007

Last Sunday afternoon we went to the air show at the Air Force Base in Wichita. We went with some friends of ours that have 3 boys. Jake has a lot of fun hanging out with them. However, it ended up being one of those activities that we could at least said we did... the afternoon was SUPER hot and the airplanes were much louder than the kiddos wanted them to be.

Kacie, Jake, Mitchell and Chad

Kacie actually fell asleep during the Blue Angel presentation...

she must have been very tired!

Jake sitting under the wing of an airplane waiting

for the "loud" planes to be done.

Enjoying Texas

Girls having fun with the bride at reception

Grandad (Jodie's grandad) and cousins feeding the horse

Cousins playing out in the corn field

Texas Picts.

The west coast kids have gone hick...Pat and Jill (Jodie's sister)

live in California. This is a picture at the 4th of July West Texas celebration.

Sorry Jill, it was too funny of you and your hubby not to post :)

Murr & Papa (Jodie's grandparents) enjoying Kacie

Cousins, Nana and Jodie getting the campfire ready to roast smores...

More Picts. from Texas

Jodie, Jake and Kacie before wedding

Kayla, Kaili, Jake and Kacie

Having fun on the trampoline

Jake and Johnny

2 Weeks in Texas

Cousins having fun on the 4th of July.

Kacie and Sage "shaken it up" at the wedding reception.

Nana and Grandpa Ron

The kids and myself returned from a two week trip in Texas. We had a wonderful time seeing family and watching Amber (Jodie's cousin) get married. We kept very busy with visiting family.
I (Jodie) have 17 cousins just on my mom's side of the family and the cousins have a total of 16 kids. My dad's side of the family is not quite as large, but we were able to spend a couple of days out at my grandparents farm visiting with some of them.

Ben was unable to come with us:( We missed him like crazy!!! We are so thankful for his willingness to go it alone for 2 weeks at home!

It was so wonderful to see all of you and thank you all for such wonderful hospitality!! We love you all!!

Wonderful Friends

Our friends Dave, Marissa and Emma came to visit for a couple of days from Holland, MI.
Kacie and Emma actually share the same birthday, Nov. 11th. It is AWESOME how God gives us neat little connections with the special people in our lives.


The boys are having fun putting on a "little" fireworks show!

Ben having fun with sparklers. Jake is in on the action too!