Aila's 5th Birthday at Oma's

Yes the balloons were outside as well!

Below, SISTERS!

And, let the party begin, even Alyssa joins in the fun

Below picture, would you not like to know what this is all about?
How cute is that!

Those Dutch shoes have been a hit in the past
and now Alyssa finds them sooooo fascinating

Dancing cousins to Alyssa's favorite music

And.... dancing with Oma!

This is always a special time, blowing out the candles
and all eyes on the cake and the Birthday girl

Something to think about !

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 1:14

Therefore..........

Live your life to do something of significance for eternity. Like the song says, “Only one life will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last!”

So here are some suggestions for living a life that counts forever:

* Give meaningful portions of your time, gifts, talents, and money to advance the eternal cause of Jesus to those around you! Remember, that wiggly six-year-old in your Sunday school class may be the next Billy Graham! (See Matthew 25:21.)

* Encourage your children to consider going somewhere in this world to win people to Christ and to plant churches that will propagate the eternal power of Jesus to save those who otherwise are eternally lost. (See Matthew 9:36.)

* Raise a godly generation to carry the eternal values and principles of God’s Word into their world. (See Psalm 119:89-90.)

* Be like Jesus, live to win a lost friend to the eternal joy of heaven. (See Luke 19:10.) Love and obey God with all your heart. Look forward to His appearing and receive a crown of righteousness when you get to heaven. (See 2 Timothy 4:8.)

As Jesus taught us when He told the story of the rich fool, “This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? . . . Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys” (Luke 12:20,33).

Funny!

An elderly couple (since our grandchildren think we are very, very, veeerrrry old, these could be us, hahaha!) with memory problems are advised by their doctor to write notes to help them remember things.

One evening while watching TV, the wife asks her husband to get her a bowl of ice cream. “Sure”, he said.

“Write it down”, she suggests. “No”, he says, “I can remember a simple thing like that”.

“I also want strawberries and whipped cream”, she says, “write that down”.

“I don’t need to write anything down”, he insists, (just the way men are) heading to the kitchen.

Twenty minutes later he returns, bearing a plate of bacon and scrambled eggs. “I told you to write it down!” his wife says, “I wanted fried eggs!”

At the Beach

Grand Beach

Yesterday we spent the whole entire day at the beach, that is, Ron, Lynne, Jason, Yvonne, me and the five grandchildren. Since I did not take any pictures I will have to wait until the others have posted theirs.

But what a beautiful day it was. The weather was just perfect for us, thank you Lord!
I have not been at Grand beach for ages and I have to say it is very nice, especially for the children since it is shallow for a long ways. Because of a light breeze, there were some waves for the kids to play in. (Thankfully they were wearing life jackets. I have very bad memories of seeing Paul float head down in shallow water when he was four/five years old, that happened in a few seconds of not watching him.) Finally I just turned my chair facing the other way to be able to relax!

We had three umbrella's, not for me thank you very much! I like to sit in the sun! Lots of easy chairs for everybody and food to snack on. We picked up some hot food at the store what you would not like to do every day because they charge an arm and a leg (so to say hahaha!)

We came home all puckered out with a ton of laundry.

Pictures will be forth coming!

And the answers are!

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