How time passes, when not connected to the internet

Never in the right order, hmmmmmm......this is our meal from the reception of 'Pearl Covington's 6th Wedding'. a slice from the 5' sub, choice of chips, snack pack pudding and
choice of drink from the bar.

this is after the haircut

and this is before the hair cut

Dave and me on our big Valentine's date, to 'Pearl Covington's 6th wedding', where we reavoweled ourselves to each other

Us celebrating with the renew couple, Betty, Pearl Covington, Dave & 2nd or 3rd husband

still in love.

A Day in the Navy

Can you find Dave in this picture?

He's in the middle of the Ice Cream line....1970.

Wow, we've been busy this summer, July brought Ernie home from Camp Orr, Martha went to Camp Noark (Girl Scouts), Dave went to California for his 40th reunion, Ernie went hiking with his troop to Philmont, NM (Boy Scouts), Martha and I went to Indianapolis to do mission work and General Assembly for the Christian Church (DOC), Dave's Birthday and Hanna's Birthday, (they celebrated together, the rest of us were out of town), then just before school started back Ernie and I went with our church youth to Shreveport, LA to do some more mission work.

Back to school has been great, Ernie is enjoying his classes. Martha like her teacher and routine, her new adventure is horseback lessons. Hanna is back at the UofA and enjoying it. Hanna is taking riding lessons, too. She is jumping!

I'll try to get some more pictures posted of our summer fun.

Betty's Birthday!

In the Arambel tradition, my birthday revolved around 'food'! For lunch Dave took us to the Trailside Cafe/Tea Room, I had heard good reviews about it and it was very good! Martha and I relaxed thru the afternoon, not doing much and then for dinner we headed to Wasabi, sushi has become one of my favorite things! We had a very nice dinner on the patio and Martha entertained us with some dancing to the music. (one of these days I'll learn how to download video from phone to computer to blog)

Let's see, backing up, Friday was Sara's Birthday, Saturday was Kaiya's 1st, today is Leah's and tomorrow is Parker's! Not to mention all the birthdays that fell towards the beginning of the month and those in July.

Martha's 'stone boot' She spotted this on the Mulberry River when we went canoeing with the church youth.

Bikes, Bikes, Bikes and more bikes....our church hosted Bike and Build, they rode in Sunday 14th from Clarksville, AR (up the pig trail) It's a group of young adults that ride across the country, raising awarness for projects like Habitat for Humanity and they stop and help build houses. They are headed to Colorado Springs, CO and will eventually end up in San Diego, CA.

You can see what they are up to at : bikesandbuild.org (I haven't actually been there yet, hope that's right) Martha and I are going to check in on the group to see what and where they are going.

I have been busy working at my mothers house, cleaning out the beds and yard. I finally got the last of the limbs cleaned up from the ice storm out of the front yard! Yeah! And in it's place I have been planting flowers to brighten the walk to mom's front door a bit.

No pictures of it, but Dave and I worked the NCAA Track & Field Meet held in Fayetteville. We got to escort athletes to various places. We got to talk with and watch some amazing Athletes!

I have to say after meeting the winner of the men's Decathalon and the women's Heptatalon (sp?), I will be watching the Oregon State team. They were both very nice young people!

Let us not forget Hanna

And here's Hanna.......

she made the Dean's list for the fall semester and then the Chancellor's list for the spring semester!

Way to go Hanna, we all love you!

Busy Month of May (part 1)

A few pics from the month of May, there were suppose to be more, where are they?
(top and bottom) Flowers from my garden spots. In the middle top, Alaina and Kiaya and
middle bottom, Rosemary and Kiaya.
We had a great visit with Rosemary and Alaina last week. This past week has been very busy. Dave worked local graduations 3 days in a row at Bud Walton Arena. I attended Fayetteville (Youth I know) and Springdale Har-Ber (niece Taylor). This weekend was non-stop.
I started Friday out with wedding rehersal for Pete and Allie Reis, then a campout with the Brownie's on Friday night into Saturday, left that for Taylor's graduation and on to the wedding and reception that was big time fun! Then Sunday, we were all up early, Dave started the smoker up to smoke some pork tender loin for a luncheon for Lara Blackwood Pickrel's ordination, it was delicious! And Hanna, Ernie, Martha and I headed to church, helped with the luncheon after church, then help with ordination (film crew of 1) and then to the reception afterwards. All of that and we forgot to get a picture of the five of us for the pictorial, urg.

Happy Memorials Day.....I'm relaxing today and giving thought to all of the saints that have influenced my life and encouraged me through good times and not so good. Amen to all of them!

A busy week in between the rains

The pictures never seem to layout like I want them to, I'm sure I could do something about that but not sure what.?

Here is Martha on the train at Silver Dollar City, a favorite of mine, my father worked for the Frisco Railroad Co.

A gerber flower that I planted last year and has come back up again, Yeah!

Martha getting ready to go into the cave, I was very excited to go in again but she was not very excited about it. She has never been very fond of dark places and she said she didn't like the water falls.

And holding a rabbit at the University farm zoo. Her class got to go out, it's alot of hands on farm experiences.