This is all that's left of my tree! I came home yesterday to find that John had someone come when I was at work to cut my tree down. Now there is a hole in the ground and in my heart where my tree used to stand. This may be just a tree to some, but I have sat on my couch looking out my window for over 25 yrs watching the birds and the squirrels play on it's branches. I will miss it's beauty in the spring when it's pink blossom would bloom and the way my walls would glow when the sun would shine through it. I hope John likes sleeping in the other room!!!

John's idea of funny after cutting my tree down...well it didn't go over so well!!!

We spent a wonderful Crispie Sunday Afternoon riding bikes with our Friends...Dave logged us riding 28 miles...oh my acking bum and thighs...we rode on 3 trail, the Painted Creek, Clinton River and Orchard Lake Trails...of course we stopped for donuts and coney dogs along the way...you can't go that many miles without snack breaks!

Crispy Sunday Ride

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

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The Final ride of "2008"

I felt the trails calling me so I called our "spur of the moment friends" and talked them into taking off this morning... we rode about 22 miles ...our bottoms got a little sore our thighs were screaming but our spirits were lifted. I can't wait to get started biking again next spring.

It was so beautiful what a perfect day!

SNACKS

What is excercise w/o snacks. We found a little hot dog stand along the way and a Cider Mill...I can smell food a mile away!!!

Where did the time go!

Where

This just can't be...30...No Way!!!

YEAH! The deck is done and we were able to use it for Tom's B-day Party....what a gang!

I am always amazed at how God knows what we need even before we need it. As I look back at our vacation to Virginia, that was planned months in advanced, I never knew the stuff of life that God would take me through inbetween. Sometimes life just has a way of knocking you down, literally, to your knees and it is durning those times that God show's you the stuff of life that needs to go. Joy, is not in the stuff of life. I've had to ask myself, if God never gives me one more external thing over which to rejoice, is it enough that my name is written down in heaven...is the joy of my salvation enough... I would like to say that I answered that question with a big ole, YES, but I could not...because my Joy is so conditional and his is not....and that makes for a miserable life...the only Joy that ever last is His joy...I thank God that he is taking me to a different place...and sometimes it is a little painful getting there and He knew months ago that durning this time I would need to get away, to regroup, to laugh and be loved...he is so amazing that way!