Not-Quite-Country Girl

Mama and I, being the party animals that we are, went to a paint party.

If you've never been to a paint party, sometimes called Brushes and Beverages or Wine and Canvas, it's where a group of people (usually ladies!) gets together to learn how to paint a picture while enjoying food and fellowship together.

Back in July, our niece Sarah married her love Joe in a ceremony at Niagara Falls, New York, with only their young sons Austin and Wyatt in attendance.

I don't know what color my hair REALLY is.

But I'm finding out...

Our beautiful twin granddaughters Kelsey and Kassie turned 3 years old over the weekend!

Dick and his wife Burma (not pictured...that's Mama in the photo) are dear church friends that Kim and I have known and loved for many years. Even though he'd never met her until Dad's funeral, Dick wanted to give Mama a very special hand-crafted gift.

A flag case for Dad's casket flag.

Almost 4 months later, and I feel like I can finally put together a post about Dad's funeral without sinking into a deep pit of sadness. 

Daddy died on June 12, the day of my first chemo treatment.  Those days were the toughest times of my life so far...losing my dad and fearing for my own life. God walked with me through those darkest days and continues to walk with me, and over the past four months my life has gotten back onto somewhat of an even keel with a new "normal" for all of us.

As a finale to the summer season, our Sulphur Springs Christian Church had a picnic/scavenger hunt with about 70 folks from our church family the end of September.

Aren't these kids cute?  Our church family is blessed with LOTS of children!

Karter's football rookie season is in the books, but wanted to share a few more photos from our budding star's final few games of his flag football season.

There is a good chance that this post falls under the "TMI" category, but I'm going to post it anyway. Perhaps it will bring a smile to your face this gloomy (at least here in central Indiana...) Monday morning...

After nearly 6 weeks of daily trips to Indy for radiation treatments, I FINISHED yesterday and got to ring the infamous cancer bell!

Happy, happy day!!!