Addison and Chelsea are coming to visit!!

Well this Grandma and household are pretty excited for Addison's first visit to Rocklin!  Went shopping yesterday and got all sorts of baby stuff - fun!  Just a couple of other things to pick up today and then Kristin and Natalie and I will be putting together some things....  (please make all the pieces be there, please make all the pieces be there....)

Chelsea discovered she has a stress fracture in her left foot and has to be on crutches for 6 (?) weeks - a bit of a challenge for anyone, let alone a mom with a 6 mo. old infant.  So both Grandmas are stepping in to help!  Chelsea and Addison will be here for about 5 days!

Well, I'm off to continue the baby preparations!

I Love You, Dad

As far back as I can remember, June was the month connected to my Dad. His birthday and Father's Day always arrived within a few days of each other. Within his household of five girls, he was king! He was loving and wise.  I always thought I had the best Dad in the whole world--and I did!  Although my Dad is home with the Lord now, I think of him often and miss him--especially every year in June. I will always be thankful to have had such a wonderful loving father.

In honor of you, Dad:

Father of Mine

               by Sarah K. Marinee

Father of mine, some years ago
You showed me the way I ought to go;
You led my feet past the treach'rous sand
By the gentle clasp of your own strong hand.


Father of mine, let me thank you for
The prayers you prayed and the burden you bore.
Like a guiding star thro' the tempests' strife,
All your precepts have shone on my path of life.


Father of mine, when the time has passed
And the work of my life is complete at last,
When I step ashore on the glory strand
With a grateful heart I will clasp your hand.

Our Glorious Flag, Our Exceptional Nation!

Thou hast given a banner to

them that fear thee, that it 

may be displayed because of

the truth.

                         Psalm 60:4

As at the early dawn the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and then, as the sun advances, that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of color, the glowing red and intense white striving together, and ribbing the horizon with bars effulgent, so on the American flag, stars and beams of many-colored light shine out together.  And wherever this flag comes, and men behold it, they see in its sacred emblazonry no ramping lions and no fierce eagle; no embattled castles, or insignia of imperial authority:  they see symbols of light.  It is the banner of Dawn.  It means Liberty....

Our Flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings.  Beginning with the Colonies, and coming down to our time, in its sacred heraldry, in its glorious insignia, it has gathered and stored chiefly this supreme idea:  Divine right of liberty in man.  Every color means liberty; every thread means liberty; every form of star and beam or stripe of light means liberty:  not lawlessness, not license; but organized institutional liberty--liberty through law, and laws for liberty!. . .

. . .It is not a painted rag.  It is a whole national history.  It is the Constitution. It is the government.  It is the free people that stand in the government of the Constitution.
  *Excerpt from The Christian History of the Constitution by Verna M. Hall, FACE, p. 317

Happy Birthday US Army!

Today, June 14, 2011, is the 236th Birthday of our Nation's oldest fighting force, the United States Army.  Their determination to attain, establish, and guard the country envisioned by a people wishing to be free, provided the beginnings of that which would lead to the finest branches of military service, the United States Armed Forces.