My mom and her husband Bill came to visit us for almost 3 weeks. They just left on Thursday and I'm going to borrow some of what they sent out in an email to summarize their stay.
They sat in on one of Ken's classes. It was about 10th century B.C. archaeology and they found it very interesting.
One evening they went to hear the Biola University choral group. The women were dressed in black gowns and the guys wore tuxedos. They were very good. Many songs were done acappella. We went to the park one day for lunch and we spent a few hours one day at the Fullerton Aboretum. We had a picnic lunch there, too. The plants, trees and flowers there were amazing!
We had birthday cake for Bill's 61st on the 26th. Bill's nephew, Nathan, called to announce the arrival of triplets on that day! Mom and babies are doing well.
One evening they went to hear the Biola University choral group. The women were dressed in black gowns and the guys wore tuxedos. They were very good. Many songs were done acappella. We went to the park one day for lunch and we spent a few hours one day at the Fullerton Aboretum. We had a picnic lunch there, too. The plants, trees and flowers there were amazing!
We had birthday cake for Bill's 61st on the 26th. Bill's nephew, Nathan, called to announce the arrival of triplets on that day! Mom and babies are doing well.
Another evening we all went to a restaurant called Sizzler's for a delicious meal! (we had given Bill a birthday gift card for that place). We ordered the buffet and everything was so yummy. Of course, we enjoyed Golden Spoon yogurt several times! Actually many times! Gotta have our good bacteria! And we were able to introduce them to shaved ice.
Relatives Jim and Millie (Gram's cousin) came for ham dinner. They do not live very far from us in Long Beach. It was so good to see them and have an evening of enjoyable conversation and looking at my scrapbook of family pictures. Millie and Jim are such nice people!
One Sunday we visited Saddleback church which is the largest church in America. There are over 60,000 members. It was an experience! At announcement time during the service they invited anyone who didn't have a place to go for Thanksgiving to go to the church. Last year they fed Thanksgiving dinner to 600 people! My guess is that they served more this year.
That church is so large they have shuttle buses from the parking lots. It was amazing to see. Pastor Rick Warren was not there but the message we heard was very good. Baptisms were taking place outside after the service. It is always a great experience to visit there. It is quite a place!
We went to the Thanksgiving Eve service at a local church. It was very nice with people, one by one, stepping to the microphones to express their thanks to God for people, His provision, His strength through trials, etc. and thanks for Jesus.
One evening we enjoyed a ride around town while we looked at the Christmas displays in peoples' yards. We played Christmas music on the car CD player. Sky loves the Twelve Days of Christmas. We enjoyed seeing all of the lights but Sky eventually fell asleep from the car ride. Interesting to see strings of lights wrapped around the palm trees.
The kids really enjoyed having Grandma B and Uncle Bill here and spent time playing with them and reading books. When it comes to reading books, most of the time Sky wants to do the "reading" so they sat there and patiently listened. She loves to play doctor with her stuffed animals. Sometimes they were her assistants. A few nights they put Sky to bed. And they babysat one evening so Ken and I could go out. We spent uninterrupted browsing/reading at Barnes and Noble. It was heavenly!
Thanksgiving was great. We invited a few who did not have a place to go that day. It was a nice gathering. Everyone helped me with food preparation the day before so we were in pretty good shape on Thurs. Our friends, (Ken's students-former and present and spouses), brought food, too, so there was plenty and all delicious!
During their stay Bill tended to the outdoors--doing trimming, sweeping and watering. He really loved that and we loved him doing it! The place looks really great!
I have been very tired and somewhat nauseous from the pregnancy--good timing for them to be here to help. I haven't really blogged much because of the weariness but hopefully that will pass soon.
Relatives Jim and Millie (Gram's cousin) came for ham dinner. They do not live very far from us in Long Beach. It was so good to see them and have an evening of enjoyable conversation and looking at my scrapbook of family pictures. Millie and Jim are such nice people!
One Sunday we visited Saddleback church which is the largest church in America. There are over 60,000 members. It was an experience! At announcement time during the service they invited anyone who didn't have a place to go for Thanksgiving to go to the church. Last year they fed Thanksgiving dinner to 600 people! My guess is that they served more this year.
That church is so large they have shuttle buses from the parking lots. It was amazing to see. Pastor Rick Warren was not there but the message we heard was very good. Baptisms were taking place outside after the service. It is always a great experience to visit there. It is quite a place!
We went to the Thanksgiving Eve service at a local church. It was very nice with people, one by one, stepping to the microphones to express their thanks to God for people, His provision, His strength through trials, etc. and thanks for Jesus.
One evening we enjoyed a ride around town while we looked at the Christmas displays in peoples' yards. We played Christmas music on the car CD player. Sky loves the Twelve Days of Christmas. We enjoyed seeing all of the lights but Sky eventually fell asleep from the car ride. Interesting to see strings of lights wrapped around the palm trees.
The kids really enjoyed having Grandma B and Uncle Bill here and spent time playing with them and reading books. When it comes to reading books, most of the time Sky wants to do the "reading" so they sat there and patiently listened. She loves to play doctor with her stuffed animals. Sometimes they were her assistants. A few nights they put Sky to bed. And they babysat one evening so Ken and I could go out. We spent uninterrupted browsing/reading at Barnes and Noble. It was heavenly!
Thanksgiving was great. We invited a few who did not have a place to go that day. It was a nice gathering. Everyone helped me with food preparation the day before so we were in pretty good shape on Thurs. Our friends, (Ken's students-former and present and spouses), brought food, too, so there was plenty and all delicious!
During their stay Bill tended to the outdoors--doing trimming, sweeping and watering. He really loved that and we loved him doing it! The place looks really great!
I have been very tired and somewhat nauseous from the pregnancy--good timing for them to be here to help. I haven't really blogged much because of the weariness but hopefully that will pass soon.
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