In Memory of Brother Beeby

In Memory 1943 - 2008

Brother Joel Beeby was an amazing man. I met him while in my youth and he had a profound impact. He loved the youth. He had confidence in them. He listened and thought their ideas worthwhile. So profound an impact did he make that these many years later we still kept in touch.

I am grateful that I got to see him and his wife on August 31st of this year. We talked, I rubbed his back and head :), and had a good time.

I am privileged to have known Atilla.

Till we meet again...

Another Snow Storm

Today we had another storm. Here are a few pics of the kids.

Oh and by the way, another storm is coming for Christmas Eve!

A Visit to the Cemetery

After the ice storm, I was driving to the school. On the way I saw a tree down in a cemetery. It occurred to me that I didn't know how Rachel's cemetery fared from the storm. We went over and viewed the damage, but couldn't stay long that day.

After S. went to the Dr. this week, we stopped by the cemetery to clean up some of the downed limbs. I took only before pics and not after.

This is the view walking into the cemetery.

This is in front of Rachel's stone.

S. and I cleaned up a lot. We also spent time conversing. That was awesome! I love my kids.

Ice Storm

We had an ice storm that left thousands of people without power. We were very blessed and only lost power about 6 times for a few minutes each time.

This is our weeping cherry tree [it's weeping because it doesn't grow cherries! :) ].

The trees out back were so heavy laden that they were leaning against our roof.

K. took the picture below while we were driving to a friend's house. I know it's not as clear due to the speed at which we were traveling, but I love the colors and the composition.


We did have a bit of excitement. The kids noticed a fire across the road from us. We called the authorities who sent people. We watched it quite a lot to make sure that the fire or sparks didn't spread. It didn't, but we did get to explain the different color of fires to the kids. It turned blue for a while.

Family photos

My wonderful family.


My wonderful family being silly!

Allergy Testing

Earlier in the year I took J. in for allergy testing. He has loads of allergies which we are now dealing with. He had breathing problems, wheezing etc. What we learned there has really helped us help him.

S. had allergy symptoms as well. Runny nose, itchy eyes. She didn't have the wheezing or other major issues (ok, major to us), but somehow it clicked that she shared some of his symptoms, so maybe she had allergies as well.

I took her to the same wonderful place. She had 32 (I believe) pricks on her lower arms. This is before they had a chance to react.


After they did the testing on the lower arms, they did more specific testing on the upper arms. She had to have 16 shots (that is not the technical term, but there were 16 needles and they went into her upper arms.) The pictures show obvious reactions.


We discovered 17 allergies that day. There was 1 we already knew about for a total of 18 allergies. Poor girl. She's awesome!

So to sum up, S. has more allergies, but J. has a stronger reaction.

Making Cookies!

On the seventh K and J worked together to make cookies of K's choosing. (She wants to give some to her teacher at church.) At the same time, S and I made cookies. Everyone got along and we had lots of fun.