What a wonderful day we had Saturday, starting off our celebration of Josh and Hillary’s wedding with the traditional Uncles’ lunch for the out-of-town guests.  I got this picture of Andy and the groom during the event.

After the brunch Sherri, Boo, and I made a quick visit to see Ms. Millie – she is in a nursing home now not far from the hotel where we had the brunch. We had great fun talking to her, and were thrilled with how good she looked and sounded.

And then that afternoon at 4:00 was the wedding. It was just beautiful, and just so right for Josh and Hillary. Here is the bride being escorted in by her parents. Just such a special day and night.

We got into Franklin yesterday afternoon about 3:30 Tennessee time, and relaxed until Donna and Jody got here to pick us up maybe about 6:30.  We started talking the second we opened the hotel room door and saw their precious faces, and hadn’t stopped when they left the hotel at 11 PM.  They took us to eat at a great place in Nashville, Monell’s – homestyle, around the table – and then drove us around to show us how Nashville had changed.  And it was a lot.  We got this quick picture before we left the restaurant, in front of their Valentine tree.  What an incredibly special evening.

This is the hardest puzzle we’ve done in a long time, and I finally finished it late Tuesday night.  All those branches were a challenge!

At BIG at church Wednesday night we studied the story of Lazarus, and the kids had great fun acting it out. That’s Mason in the blue T-shirt being Jesus, talking to Martha and Mary. We needed more roles for all the kids we had, so little Lee is guarding Lazarus’s tomb 🙂

When we got to her house after I picked Clara up from school Tuesday the putting green was set up in their kitchen.  Jeff had given this to Lindee after he found it in the basement.  He said I gave it to him years and years ago for Christmas (I don’t even remember that!) and he’d never even opened it, so he passed it on to Mallory.  And her sister 🙂

Cold weather was due to come back in, so I’d taken all the ingredients for Clara & I to make both her family and Jeff & I a pot of vegetable soup for supper. Here she is opening the cans. It was yummy!

I didn’t realize it had been a whole week since I’ve downloaded pictures.  These are from last Saturday morning, Charlie’s basketball game.  He only has six guys on his team, so I got this one when it was Charlie’s turn to sit out.

Boo was in town and came to cheer him on!  You can see Andrew, Jenny and Adam all photobombing the picture 🙂