Christmas fit for a "King"

It has been a long time since the King family has got together for a meal. So long I can't remember. Saturday after Christmas, we all got together for lunch. Aunt Joyce was really sick and decided not to venture out. A great time was had by all. Many memories and lots of catching up were shared.

 

All of Alma and Rob King's Great Grandchildren. Alma knew six of the seven.

A photograph made at Alma and Rob's 50th Wedding Aniversary Celebration, and 5 lite candles for our family members who have gone on to celebrate Christmas with Jesus. Robert H. King, Alma H King, Larry R Williard II, Wade H. King and  Billy E Myers.

In the waiting - Advent Devotions, week 1 part 2

 Dec 5 -  Gift- My Grandfathers birthday, he carved out the stone in the photo, Daddy said the stone stayed under a faucet like this so the chickens would always have fresh water. Pappaw was a gift to my life. I thought about him a lot yesterday.
Gift - John 4:10 “Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’”





Anticipate - 2 Pet 3:13 "But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home."

 Dec 6 – Prayer
 Mark 1:35 “In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.”
Dec 7 – Weeping
 Ps 31:22 “I had said in my alarm,
   ‘I am driven far from your sight.’
But you heard my supplications
   when I cried out to you for help.”

Beach November 2013

We went to the beach over the long weekend (kids were out of school on Friday). The weather was not the best but not the worst. It could have been colder and it could have been raining instead of over cast.  That is why we always stay at the Captain's Quarters at Myrtle Beach, SC. A family resort with indoor pools and lazy river, a bowling ally and restaurant.

Early on Saturday morning (11-2-13) we started seeing horses on the beach. Turns out this was some sort of charity ride and the organizers were expecting up to 1,100 riders and their horses.

Sea Gulls in the surf,  loving my new camera.

Jacob and his Lindsey, she was at the beach with her family just a few miles away. She got there first and began to send him  photos of the ocean. So he made this and sent to her.

 I made it up before the sun and got to the beach just in time to get some photos. Of course the end of daylight savings time probably helped me to get up early enough!

Arrrrrgh Mate! Me thinks we have hit the doldrums! All weekend long.

Then I had company and we went for a walk on the beach.

I found a beautiful big lettered olive shell, it had a tiny piece of another stuck in it. My husband had to work on it to get it out.

The other treasures I found on the beach.

 

My special treasures. We decided to make this trip because Ben is a senior this year in high school so we wondered if this might be his last year to go with us.   Time will tell.

10 Days of Crazy

The last 10 days have been insane for me. Football game, family wedding, 36 hour whirlwind trip to  Va meeting with the Interprovincial Women's Board, booster meeting, crashed pretty much all day Tue, back to work (in the office) on Thursday, booster meeting, Football game,  14+ hours x 5 family members working at the NoFo Marching Band Invitational,  and last night the WSFCS Band Jamboree, twins and I got home at 10:15, last night.  This moma is ready for some down time.

Jake and Lindsey

Ben and his gang at the game.

Po admiring G man's guitar music.

Lamby, her brother Buddy, SIL Toby and sister Becky.

Kenny and I at the wedding.

Kenny and Aubrey

Kenny, Lindsay, James and Aubrey

Lamby dancing with her neice Julia

Uncle Buddy dancing.

My pumpkin project that I found on Pintrest, made these to give as gifts at the Interprovincial Women's Board. I think they turned out adorable!

Ben working at the NoFo Invitational, driving equipment on and off the field. I bet my Daddy turned over in his grave when his oldest grandson drove around in that Ford Truck!

NoFo enters the field at the 2013 WSFCS Jamboree at Reagan High.

G man leads part of the band on the field in the opening song. Not bad for a freshman!

Jake, on sax.

G man

Part of the mass band at the end of Jamboree, there were 11 High School Bands on the field. It was a spectacular site.

The (not so) Little Twin in the Door Way

Grahammy and I were roaming around "Old Salem" and "Salem College" the other night and he, like his big brother had to look in each and every covered door that there was. And there are a lot in Salem.

We peeped in windows of shops selling Moravian itmes, played in yards of olden days that were empty, because tour times were over. We pumped water out of the hand pumped well. We even marveled at a road that was built for a 1870's trolly car. He also tryed to find a way to get inside the college library, because even though it is a women's college, to my G man, a Library is still a Library!

The picture isn't that great because I took it with my cell phone but it maybe someday will be a way for him to remember an evening with just he and I, as Kenny would say "moving at the speed of Lamb". Those times come pretty seldom when you are a twin.

Found Treasure

I have been after Ben to find the cord to his camera, because there are photos of Jacob on the memory of the camera from when he was in the hospital last November. He was such a sick little boy.After working for about 40 minutes to get the pictures off of the camera, I realized there were others. This is two other photos that were on the camera's memory.

This is the day that Daddy took Ben hunting. Photos that Ben and I will treasure always, I am sure.