Life After "The Wedding"


I cannot believe it has been two months since Jenni and Rod got married! I have no new pictures -- well, actually, they are all still in the camera! No new activities to report yet. We mostly go to work, eat, sleep, and repeat! We are having lots of fun watching Ava grow up. She can do so many new things! She has upper and lower teeth now and delights in showing them off; she sort of wrinkles her nose and smiles. She is too fast to get that on camera, though!

Football season has started, so you know where we are and what we are wearing on Saturdays. If you happen to tune in to the game, we are in the upper deck, wearing longhorn orange, and flashing the "hook 'em" sign. This last week it was Jenni, Jay, Mike, and me. Something that usually does not happen! Rod was out of town.

Ava turned one Sept 30. Jenni called her to sing Happy Birthday, and Ava hung up on her! Her birthday party is Sunday. (I feel a new post forming!)

Saturday we will be at Jeff and Cathie's wedding. (Another post!)

Hasn't God been good to all of us this year! A wonderful year watching Ava grow, a wonderful year watching Jenni and Rod grow in their love! A wonderful celebration of love when Rod and Jenni got married! And now the wonderful bliss of watching another couple pledge their love to each other.

We've been studying Psalms. I love reading this book. The Psalmist spends a lot of time praising God, speaking of His Goodness.

"But as for me, how good it is to be near God!
I have made the Sovereign LORD my shelter,
and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do."
Psalm 73:28

"For the LORD God is our light and protector.
He gives us grace and glory.
No good thing will the LORD withhold
from those who do what is right."
Psalm 84:11

"How kind the LORD is!
How good he is!
So merciful, this God of ours!"
Psalm 116:5



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