A life update; Tuesday

The person in our family who was perhaps more excited about Willem's birthday than Willem was Oren.
Birthdays are so fun!
Merit is doing a presentation on Dave Niehaus. Fun to hear him research a man who he thinks a lot of.
Oren likes the book and the movie, Beauty and the Beast - but he is sad when the "beast" is gone and the prince is back. He misses that gently beast that people sort of fall in love with.
Hazel is loving life as a second grader. Her friends are terrific. Her teacher is amazing. Hazel's love for her family and also the animals in this family makes me so happy.

A terrible fire on Saturday night at Chico's Pizza left our community reminiscing.
The next day a dear friend called and said police were at the Western Building and that she saw smoke.  Vance quickly went there. Many firefighters had arrived at that point. The fire started in the basement. Vance and Vic's offices are there. Fires are so destructive. Where things are not burned, the smoke damage can be pretty severe. Vance is very occupied with all of this.

We all hoped the only fire were would see over Willem's birthday weekend were from the candles on his cake... but the weekend was quite different. The most important thing, no one was injured.

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I have had a lot of fun over the past few weeks, putting scripture and inspirational quotes on some of my favorite pictures!

And I stumbled acrossed this picture which I love.
Willem was 9 or 10 and incredible at netting fish! This was at the Ayakulik - trip of a lifetime. Natasha is next to him.