My Arrow

13 Years Ago

Present Day

Welcome to the teen years, dear Alex.  Your hands are bigger than mine and I anticipate I only have a year or so before you are taller than me.  I will have to pull on heels to pat you on the head.  Your growth is exponential...109 pounds heavier in 13 years and 46 inches taller.  Yikes to those averages, you grew 8 pounds heavier and 3 inches taller every year.  We are blessed indeed to have you start our quiver.  God has made you an arrow and we delight that you fly straight and true.

 

 

      

I Wish you Hunger Pains

May this year your belly growl for God.  Happy New Year.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.  Matthew 5:6

Hike Hill Country

 

Understated Alex is like moss on a rock.  He has a solid base and is spirtually green and vibrant. 

 

Winsome Fritz.

 

Emily is motion and energy. 

 

Jane is my note writer and telephone answerer...she has a promising future as a secretary.

Dear girl, work for a bachelor, because a wife might be jealous.

 

 

Holding the hand of the great man she is named after.

 

 

Dappled in sunlight like his disposition.

 

Salute worthy.

 

My little Boop is a living cartoon.  Kisses and bops on the head in the matter of minutes.

 

 

My handsome mountain man pondering life.

 

 

The girl with the milk chocolate heart.  Be careful she could melt in a hot hand.

 

 

If only he follwed her home, she would have mothered him.

 

Rock chairs.

 

 

Rock hallways.

 

Rock beds.

West On the Wind

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladies in Navy

Navy sweaters and blue jeans.  They love to coordinate outfits.  Recently when we are out about town, my ladies are mistaken for twins, even though Jane is an index card shorter and two years younger than Emily. 

 

When she is 30, she'll have proof she once could do splits.