I feel like I often spend too much time playing this game, but sometimes, you gotta do whatcha gotta do.
So, I've decided to be merry about it. Yep. It's time to spend a few minutes catching up on the merry month of May.
At the first of the month, we found ourselves in celebration mode in Rochester, MN, at the wedding of my niece, Lauren Wynn, to Ryan Residence. It was beautiful, holy, and joyful!
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| Delightful table/name cards |
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| Mayowood Stone Barn was beautiful. |
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| Succulents for centerpieces |
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| Sweet nieces from the PNW came in for the festivities |
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| My brother, Andy, dancing with his daughter, Lauren |
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| Three of my beautiful nieces with a grand nephew and grand niece thrown in! |
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| I'm a sucker for Daddy/daughter pictures |
The next weekend was Mother's Day. It was the first one for me without my mom. It's still weird to know that. I miss her.
In our world of social media, it's always interesting to see what ends up there on those kind of days. Some of the kids did the IG thing, some didn't.
The ones that didn't still love me ;)
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| Our annual jumping pic where one of us didn't jump |
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| The Cali kid harkened back to 2012 |
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| We also celebrated this girl's 24th bday this month! |
About 6 hours after those fun pictures....
Mayday! Mayday!
My Lou and I picked a bad time to miscommunicate. We were about 2/3 of the way through a delightful bike ride when I thought we were going left at a corner, and he thought we were going right. When you are riding side by side, that doesn't work. In the middle of our collision, I screamed and then both of us proceeded to hit very hard asphalt. Lou's right collar bone took the brunt of his fall. My right rib cage took the brunt of mine. We've both also enjoyed some bruising and road rash. Good grief. Talk about an unexpected inconvenient event! Not what we had planned, but seeking to glorify God in the midst of it.
Two weeks after our wreck, Lou had to have surgery to fix that broken collar bone and make it line up and heal correctly. Grateful to God that all went well.
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| The doctor is the patient |
Well, four days after the wreck, broken rib or not, I was going on a long planned for and much anticipated trip with friends to To Kill A Mockingbird land. Sue Roweton, Marla Kemp and I have been chatting about going to Monroeville, AL, the home of the author of TKAM, Nell Harper Lee, for over a year. Every spring, her home town puts on the play on weekends. We hit town to enjoy the 2nd to last show of the season. Such a great time with the dearest of friends.
And, if you haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird, stop reading this, and order a copy and read it.
So, so good.
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| Side trip to Selma, AL, to walk over this and remember. #bloodysunday |
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| Lots of interesting things to see/read in the Monroe County Museum |
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| 1st act of TKAM is outside |
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| Not gonna let a little rain stop us! |
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| Selfie stick fun |
If you haven't Geocached, you should. With the help of a handy dandy app, wave points, and clues, you go on a "treasure" hunt for the caches. Once you find them, you write your name in the log in the cache and, of course, take a picture. I think we found 6 while there. Tons of fun!
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| Marla, Wes, Lou, me, Connie, and Kerrick |
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| We called ourselves the Liber8ors :)
I actually didn't travel the entire month. I stayed home long enough this week to watch our good friend, Lane Nutt, plow up our garden spot. Talk about a good neighbor!!
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He and his wife even ran over later that day with some extra corn seeds and planted a couple of rows of that for me! I think I'm going to garden like this every year!
Well, here we are at the end of the month. I've included so much - and left out so much.
Each full, busy, hard, easy, happy day is such a gift from God, isn't it? Each marriage, each Mayday!, each trip, each friend - all gifts of grace.
I'm grateful. Just as I know you are for the gifts of grace in your life.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing my merry month of May with me.
Blessings!
