I am still adjusting to the time change from East coast to West. I spent a week with sisters, brother, nephews and nieces in a lovely 1830's farm house. We roasted smores over a campfire at night, went to see a Shaker village and attended my nephew Tom's wedding at the base of a beautiful ski slope. The pictures were all taken outside and then the thunder clapped and we all moved inside the lodge in front of a lovely fireplace for the ceremony.

     Tom is a naval officer stationed on a ship off Newport, R.I. for awhile. He will have some time with his new bride. Tom's brother Jamie, a midshipman at Annapolis, was dressed in Navy shirt and scotish kilt and played the bagpipes as the bride walked down the aisle. Very emotional moment!  

     Another brother, Gregg, surprised his mother by coming home from Iraq for the wedding. He was dressed in his sailor whites. He is a navy coreman serving the marines in Fallujah. We saw him off back to Iraq weeping with his young wife and parents. Three sons in the Navy, two teenage daughters and an eleven year old - homeschooling! My sister's life is full!  

     The opportunity to be together with this particular group of people all at once is probably not going to happen again. I will return on occasion to see my sister, or she will come out here, but our children are all forming their own families and branching out across the world. The Bible says our children are like arrows and blessed is the man who has a quiver full of them!  The arrows don't stay in the quiver for long!

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