A COVID-19 Wedding

Seth and Nicole (wisely) decided to have a small, family only wedding today.  We totally understood, but we decided to crash it!  

One of the time's Seth's dad, Russ, was deployed in Iraq, his mom, Jana, made face-sized "Russ heads" and brought them to home fellowship.  We took pictures of each family with Russ, Russ eating, Russ playing, Russ whatever!  We had a riot!

When he came home that year, Cindy and I decorated the road home with "Russ heads".  We had "Russ" in the front yard.  "Russ" was on the deck.  "Russ" was even window peaking!

With the pastor's permission, Sam sneaked into the church early this morning and put up our home fellowship heads:

Lynn, Brad, Dell and Cindy - socially distancing!

Matt, Micah, Sam and I at the wedding!

 As the sign says, "So glad we can HEAD to your wedding!"

First Ever Wedding Cake!

Micah made her first ever wedding cake today for our friend and neighbor, Seth Bacon.  Check it out!  It's lovely!

The best part of the story?  Seth and Nicole were over MONDAY (yup, just five days ago!) planning the cake with Micah!

Aliou

Everything changed for Aliou the morning the three-year-old’s blanket caught fire, enveloping him in flames. Without access to immediate medical care and treatment, his burn wounds scarred and contracted, severely restricting the movement in his little arm. When Aliou’s grandmother brought him to Mercy Ships she had exhausted all their options for medical care. She desperately hoped there was help to be finally found for Aliou. 'Everything he could not do, he can do now!' Aliou's grandmother happily declared after his lost function was restored. 'Mercy Ships has opened a big door to Aliou's future. He's living like a normal boy.'

Fun Facts

Sam found out yesterday at his last staff meeting at M.W. Savage Elementary, that in his current building:

• Several staff have been teaching longer (he had a late start in life); and
• Angie had worked in Project Kids (school-age child care) prior to being hired as a teacher at MWS so she had technically worked at the building the longest;
• But my Samuel, with twenty-eight years in, had the longest teaching career there!

Thankful Thursday!

I can not tell you how thankful I was that Sam answered the phone this morning when I called him from Dodd Boulevard.  My bike chain had fallen off my thirty-some year old TREK bike and I couldn't get it back on.  But he hadn't left for school.  He became my rescue hero.  I did not have to walk my bike a good two miles home.  We both got a ride in the pick-up!

Covid Cuts

Matt got the first Covid-19 haircut of the family when the salons opened yesterday only because he and I traded times.  He took my 1 p.m. on June 1st because he couldn't live another day with his 'fro.  I took his 10 a.m. on June 10th because I'm still looking for a new style now that I have hair again.  Sam is getting the same cut as always on Saturday at 10 a.m. 

Rubber Chickens!

Every year we served on the good ship Mercy, we brought along rubber chickens because rubber chickens are just plain FUN!  Our most memorable year had to be our first year.  We set the chickens up in our classroom like they were doing summer program, not realizing that our boss was bringing a bunch of English dignataries on board that night for a tour.  Fortunately, our boss has a great sense of humor!  He sent me this today: