Hello to all
of you again this month! I am thankful that you care about me and my
family enough to read this.
Birthday
updates from the past month were me on 10/19, my Dad’s heavenly birthday on
10/21 (5 years!), Levi on 11/14, and one more that I’ll talk about later.
Also, Carissa and Matt celebrated their first anniversary on 11/14, so
congratulations to them!
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| Buffalo Bills slipper socks for my birthday (photobomb by Levi) |
Krista
celebrated my birthday by flying to Minnesota to visit Kortney and Mat.
That might sound mean of her, but really, I’ve had enough birthdays that it was
no problem. We wanted her to go there to be with Kortney and Mat after
their baby was born, and that was the best day to go for the flight. It
turned out to not be the best time to go for the baby. She was due on
10/15, but she was too comfortable inside her Mom or something, and decided to
wait until 10/28 to be born. Marguerite Kimble Rhode was born that day at
about 9:30pm Central time. She weighed 8 lbs, 8 ozs and was 22 inches
long. They are calling her Daisy. Now, I had to look this up, but
you probably all knew this. The reason Daisy is a nickname for Marguerite
is that Marguerite is the French name for a specific kind of daisy. Her
middle name, Kimble, was suggested by Mat, sort of as a joke, because his
family has a cabin on Kimble Lake in Minnesota, but Kortney really liked the
idea when he said it. I think it’s really great that no matter where her
life takes her, she will always have a connection to her lake and to
Minnesota. I told my kids that I should have named one of them Ontario
for our lake here in western New York, which would have been cool, but of
course, Carissa and Kortney were born in Seattle, so they would have been stuck
with Puget or Green for a middle name. Definitely not as cool.
Rainier might have worked.
The other
thing about Krista’s trip there was that her return flight was scheduled for
10/26. Do you see the problem there? But we were able to change
that so that she ended up staying until 11/1, so she got a few days with the
baby.
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| Welcome to our world, Daisy! |
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| Yes, she has already found her thumb |
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| Daisy and her grandma |
In other big
news, Amelia is now a licensed driver and orthodontia free. Those were
the last two obstacles to her moving to Minnesota to live with Kortney and Mat,
so she is now finalizing those plans. I believe the current plan is to
return with them after they come here for Christmas.
On 10/30, our
pastor started a series in the book of Genesis. He put a quote up on the
screen from Ken Matthews that was profound. I was impressed by my
brother’s deep theological insight, but then I researched and discovered the
theologian is actually Ken Mathews (one “t”), but here's the quote anyway.
Most Sunday
nights, all of us here get together at Ella and Cody’s house for a family game
night. It’s always tons of fun enjoying each other’s company and
especially watching the granddaughters play. However, on 11/6 a bunch of
us went to see Tim Hawkins. If you don’t know him, look him up on
YouTube. He’s very funny, and we had a side-aching time!
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| Monopoly game at Family Game Night |
We’re making
good progress on our downstairs. We got all of the drywall up on the
ceiling last Saturday and started on the walls. Hopefully, we’ll finish
the drywall tomorrow and start the long, messy process of mudding and sanding.
That’s it for
now, so until December!
