Our Seniors went to the Petit Jean Car Museum on April 16th. Very interesting!
We always enjoy the Torn Veil service at Antioch on Good Friday
And Easter is always a wonderful day!!
The plan was for the McCrary's to join us in Conway for lunch, dessert and Easter Egg hunt but Kipling wasn't feeling good so we ended up meeting in LR for a quick meal together. I sent home with them the first Bunny Cake I've ever made 🤣
Easter pictures texted to us:
Saylor Faye turned 7 on April 22💜
Ellie Kate turned 13 on April 23rd💓
Lainey Bug turned 15 on April 26th💖
Gideon Elias turned 8 on April 27th💙
April 30th (2025), I had a second shoulder surgery 😣. I have been dealing with a frozen shoulder since February 2024. I had the first surgery (manipulation only) in September 2024 with PT following. But it didn't last. By the end of the year, I was having a lot of pain. I had a couple of steroid shots, gone to PT, etc., but nothing helped for any length of time. On the cruise, I took a hard fall on that shoulder and knew I just made the problems worse. So when I got home from the cruise, I saw Doctor Cole again and he ordered an MRI (which was so awful since they strapped that shoulder down....I almost lost it). The results did show that I had a lot of scar tissue, bursitis, born spurs, torn bicep tendon as well as the very frozen shoulder. So surgery happened again. This time the doctor went into the shoulder and cleaned out scar tissue, bone spurs, cut that tendon, and then again manipulated the shoulder to unfreeze it. I had started sleeping in my recliner before the surgery as it was miserable in bed. Little did I know that 3 months later, I would still be sleeping in the recliner 😒.
It was a big birthday for Rachel💕....40 years old on May 1st. How can our baby be 40!?!?!?
Mother's Day, May 10th. So thankful I am blessed to be Mom to Josh, Andy & Rachel!
The "Moms" with their children
A picture with my friend Linda at church on Mother's Day💞
Due to the sad loss of "Aunt Debbie" (Carman's mom's sister), we saw Andy's family at a funeral in Arkansas on May12th. This was our first time to see them since Christmas!😢 The kids looked like they had grown a foot!😍
Andy did great preaching the service
Our first grandson, Copeland Ware, turned 12 on May 19th 💙
Getting some pictures in our "Sister Cruise" shirts
Blooper😁
One of the days that week, we drove "home" to SE Kansas to decorate graves. First to Pittsburg so Jeff could decorate his Mom's grave and our Grandparent Brunks graves.
And then to Girard to decorate Mom and Dad's graves and Grandparent Boore's graves
and brother, Dwayne
Only remaining Aunts (Joan and Judy) and Uncle Marvin💖💖💙
Aunt Judy took some pictures of us😍
On our last full day in Bella Vista, Don, Bev, Kaye and I went to Bentonville. We visited with the Goering's and saw the pretty updates that have been made to the church and their house and then Mike and Lincoln joined us as we went downtown Bentonville and toured the Walmart Museum, saw where Lincoln worked and ate some ice cream. It was all very fun!
We kept the McCrary kids the end of May while Mom and Dad celebrated their 40th birthdays with a trip to California.
We played lots of games, did a picnic/splash pad/went to a movie, etc.
We have so enjoyed almost six years having Travis Sellers as our Worship Pastor. He was also such a great neighbor to us, mowing our yard for 3 summers (with no pay!). Travis and Caroline along with a team of 30 are planting a church in Celina, TX so Sunday, May 25th was their last Sunday with us. We sure are going to miss them but know God has big plans using them and the team in Texas!
Jeff has had the blessing, for the past five years, of being a part of an excellent Men’s discipleship ministry that was founded by Steve Crawley and Roger Smithson and its called MD5. He participated in a group for two years and then for the last three years, he and Mark Stitch have led groups. It’s a huge commitment for those involved. 30 weeks of meetings plus homework, reading books, and listening to videos. There are many testimonials of how it has been life changing! This is a picture of the group this year! May God continue to bless the ministry and all the men who have been involved over the years!
Rachel is transitioning from a Kindergarten teacher to the Art Teacher (K-grade 5). With all her creativity, she will be great at this! We are proud of her!💓
I was still going to PT 3 times a week thru May and doing my daily exercises but still having much discomfort😢
But I definitely will see the glass half full and very thankful for the blessings during April and May!
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