Abby's 1st Birthday

Mom and birthday girl at the cheesecake factory and fun with grandma Monica at the aboreum covered wagons and,

water frog fun and,

dad joining in the water frog fun and,

enjoying the one year old birthday cake and, more water frog fun and,
picture of grandkids with me above and Grandma Marge below and,

fun at the ballpark!!!!!

Grandma Marge and I traveled to our kids to help celebrate Abby's 1st birthday. It was the first time that Grandma Marge had seen the kids in almost a year as they moved just 10 days after Abby was born. We had a great time with the kids and grandkids as you can see and hopefully we can go visit them together again soon!! The grandkids are so fun to visit and I feel so blessed to have these 4 beautiful grandkids to share life with-thanks God for these precious gifts of love.

Eldomar Zirbel's Family Reunion

During the first weekend in August the my husband's only sibling Fran hosted us at her house for an Eldomar Zirbel family reunion. Fran's 2 children and spouses and her 4 grandchildren, and Steve and my 3 children and spouses and our 4 grandchildren managed to gather all at the same time to celebrate family. We ate all weekend, played baseball, swam, and had fun outside. Eldomar died in 1973 but Steve and Fran's mother Ardy is still with us. She turned 85 this August so we celebrated her birthday while we were all together. It was a wonderful blessing and we are so thankful that it actually happened. I have more pictures to follow of the whole group. Celebrate God's gift of family and don't take it for granted!