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The Weekend...Busy and Blessed

Well...you KNOW it's been a busy weekend when you have to wait for MONDAY to rest up a little! 

FRIDAY:  I dropped our sweet 16yodd off at some friends' house because early Saturday morning they were to set out for an awesome - envious! - week in Florida!!  I've already gotten an e-mail from her telling us what a great time she's having and that she was shocked to find out that they are staying in a hotel that we have OFTEN admired in passing on the way to our time-share.

After dropping her off, the parents of this family and I met my hubby in the town, over an hour away, where he works and laughed our heads off at a Glenn Beck concert!  OH MY!  He is a riot and it is SO good to go hear someone so funny and CLEAN.

SATURDAY:  My hubby, 19yodd and I went to the most incredible wedding.  I seriously think this was my favorite wedding since my own!  There is a dear family, who also homeschools and some of their FIVE dd's are on the volleyball team w/our dd's, and we just love them SO much.  Saturday they married off the first of one of their dd's.  I - and 99.99% of the rest of the church - cried through the entire wedding!!    It started right from the beginning...the groom's dad was the pastor and HE started crying about 3 sentences into the service!  THEN...after the bride's daddy gave her away he strapped on a guitar and SANG A SONG HE HAD WRITTEN FOR HER!!!!  It took him 5 tries to get past the 2nd line!!  Oh...having all girls, our hearts were breaking!  But, of course, it was beautiful.  THEN...once the bride and groom had lit their candle, they stayed by the candle as a song played; while the song played they were quitely praying for each other.  So touching...it brings tears to my eyes to write it.  Oh...while everyone was being seated, before the wedding, their music was being played on a hammered dulcimer!  Of course, I just LOVED that.  I tried to find the young man who played later on, but I couldn't.  He was great.

Their reception was in downtown Dayton, Ohio at the Packard Museum - that's right...the old cars!  You wouldn't really understand how a wedding reception in a refurbished Packard garage, with 50+ refurbished Packard's parked all around could be utterly cool...but I'm telling you, it was!  They were even driven from the church to the reception in a 1930-something Packard!  We had tickets to the 7p.m. Dayton Dragon's baseball game, also downtown, so we just changed there when the reception was over and went right over to the game.  The Dragon's lost, but it was cool, breezy and we had a great time.

SUNDAY:  Last year (a year ago next weekend) we graduated our oldest dd from our homeschool.  (http://www.homesteadblogger.com/wannabeone/17591)  Some VERY dear friends of ours who moved to Michigan (WHY someone would actually move from Ohio to Michigan I have no idea...we have MUCH better football!).    They played and great trick on our dd and sneaked (snuck?) in and drove all the way down here to attend our backyard graduation and then went home.  Well...we were "terrible" and played the same trick on their dd!!  The surprise on her face was pricelss!  The Lord was so gracious, it was a beautiful day...great drive up, wonderful out-door open house and grilling out, and great drive home.

It was a great weekend.  I hope yours was just as good.

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< 

Ohio Football

10:23, 2007-Jun-15 .. Posted by Anonymous

Ok-- I hope you are talking Ohio NFL as the Ohio College football is not so good! Ha. ha! I am a Gator.. so I just had to pick.

I love your blog and the reflections on your week.

May you be blessed!

DJ (http://dj-chocoholiclife.blogspot.com/)

YEA!

07:42, 2007-Jun-17 .. Posted by Christmum

Congratualtions on the graduation!!! How cool is that! Have you had a chance to rest yet?