More Wedding Pictures

These are two pictures that Nog Blog suggested posting. This one is Mom with Whitney and Haley, who was the maid of honor, at a bride's luncheon.

This is the engagament picture of Whitney and Josh that was in the paper since I didn't have a candid of him in the pictures that I took at the wedding.

June 29

Happy Anniversary, Mike and Ann!

Happy Retirement Day, Dave!

Looking for some rain in central Illinois! The crops are thirsty!

Wedding Pics

Here are a few pics from the big wedding Sunday evening.

Mark was there as well but this was a quick snap with the mother of the bride before the ceremony.

 This is a view of the wedding site. You can see the ropes hung from tree to tree. Windows were suspended from the ropes to give an idea of a room or an enclosed area. The picture doesn't do the site justice for the work involved or the intimacy of it.

 This is a mantle at the front of the site where the ceremony was held. What was unknown was that there was an M80 (? since I don't know fireworks) hidden behind the logs and a battery trigger on the back of the mantle. The best man reached behind and lit the firework when Whit and Josh were announced as husband and wife. Another interesting tidbit is that the cross is sitting on the mantle for the ceremony as it was suspended from the ropes as well. However, the day before and earlier in the day it was not on the mantle but the humidity caused the rope to sag and lower the cross.

 This is precious Emma entering the wedding.

 The best pic I have of the beautiful bride and her introspective father. The wedding was even more special as Josh's father is a minister. He personalized the wedding of his son and a wonderful girl that the Bateman's have known essentially her entire life as well.

 Had to share this picture to show Emma. She certainly knows what a camera is. When one is pointed at her she immediately grins and if you don't get the picture fast enough she throws her head back continuing her cheesy grin. What a sweetheart.

Cuteness Alert

Sunday night was Whitney's wedding.  It was an outdoor ceremony at the home of some friends of theirs who have a nice place way out in the country, and it was beautiful.  I didn't have a camera with me, but "stole" this off of facebook - it's Lindsay's little girl being wheeled in a wagon up the aisle.  On the back of the wagon was a sign saying "Here comes the Bride."  I think she is absolutely adorable!!!

Here is a link to a fine article about Uncle Perry and his latest writing endeavor, "A Pilgrim's Journey." The article appeared in the Pontiac Daily Leader on Thursday, June 21. Check it out!http://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/news/x1660534855/Klopfenstein-pens-autobiography

Back in Action

Well, I've been totally away from here for awhile.  We took a spur of the moment trip to Omaha, Nebraska, to see Mike's beloved Gamecocks play in the College World Series.  It was a great trip - I've outlined it in more detail on my own blog.

We tried to stop for a few minutes to see Maria's family and meet the new baby, but Brandon got sick the night before we were coming, so that got scratched.  Sure hope he's a lot better by now.  Maria missed out on a jar of my homemade strawberry jam, but maybe we can fix that later on sometime!

If you're ever 45 minutes south of Omaha, I highly recommend Lied Lodge.  It's run by the Arbor Day Foundation and was a lovely place to stay.

Will try to catch up on what's been happening here in the past week or two!

Happy Father's Day...I think!

TIME FOR A CHANGE

It's a bright, sunny, and hot day in Gridley, although we're expecting and hoping for some much-needed rain later today. Everything's been pretty quiet and uneventful since the "reunion" of a couple weeks ago.

We plan to go to the visitation/funeral of a very dear friend, Evy Reis later this morning. She is a native of Chenoa, but lived in Meadows when I worked there. You may have seen her obit in the Pantagraph about a week ago.

Some pictures to share include the daisy bush which is just beginning to bloom,  a hanging pot that I purchased ready-made and is thriving, a quilt waiting for me to finish the binding, AND the new vehicle which now matches the truck. The electronics are a struggle, but the drive is SMOOTH!! What a difference seven years make!!  

Grandma Time

         Milan's first Sunday morning--- going to church with his family.

                  How exciting to wake up to another day with baby brother!

                                            Milan Perry Emch

I spent five days with this precious family.  What a special time!   ---Carol

The Gas Game

The comments on a previous post reverted to the current price of gas in various areas of the country the K's represent. I mentioned that gas was at $3.47 and wasn't sure if I should fill up with half a tank or hope it would come down even more with the price of crude oil dropping. I called it The Gas Game to fill up at optimal time.

Today at lunch the cry went out through the building "Gas is going up" so I headed over to Meijer which was still at $3.44 while Speedway a block away had raised the price to $3.79 a gallon. I would love the explanation for the .35 jump!

Did the price of gas spike in  your area today?

Bloomington Muralist

Speaking of newspapers, if you pull up the Sunday Pantagraph online...or from your stack of papers :) you will see a picture of the Girl Scouts painting a mural on a downtown Bloomington building. The article states that there was a contest among the Girl Scouts and the winning entry was selected and is now being painted. It says that "Bloomington Muralist Martin Klopfenstein" sketched the mural on the building for the girls to fill in. He has done several murals in the downtown area, and in private homes in the area.

Newspapers

Rhoda made these observations about newspaper reading on her blog.  A lot of K's are news readers - I'd be interested to know what you think.  Do you think print newspapers are on the way out?  If so - is that a good or a bad thing?