David & Jill were invited to the Stonewall Jackson Resort for a Sunday School Class activity at our church. We did the singing. It was an enjoyable evening and the resort was beautiful!!

First, at the resort, we went on an hour boat cruise. That is when we did the singing. After that, we went into the beautiful resort for a delicious dinner.

The evening at the resort started off an enjoyable 16th anniversary get-away for David & Jill. We left from the resort and spent the rest of our time in Lancaster, Pa. We enjoyed the slow pace of life among the Amish people and also enjoyed watching the awesome production of “NOAH” at the Sight and Sound theater.

The weekend after our get-away, we had a meeting at Sylvania Hills Baptist Church. Pastor Bailey and his sweet wife Cindy and the dear congregation have become very precious to our family.

The children enjoyed a hay-ride while we were at the Bailey’s Church for their “harvest night”.

The Sunday that we were at Sylavnia Hills, they had “Old Fashioned” Sunday. Our family enjoyed attempting to dress old fashioned. The children really enjoyed that.

We came home from PA and were here for about 3 days. Then, we headed out to Shepardsville, Kentucky to Lighthouse Baptist Church with Pastor Jordan and his dear wife Missy. They have a loving church and we were there for their “Missions Conference”. We enjoyed the fellowship with them all.  There church was SUCH a blessing to our family!!!

At Lighthouse Baptist Church there is a devoted police officer that attends there. It was an honor for the children to meet him!

Our family was so honored to be formally invited to Erin Bates’ Wedding on November 2, 2013!! We went and really enjoyed getting to know the Bates Family and Duggar Family better! God was good and while we were there in Tennessee we were also able to get a meeting at a good church. It was a weekend that was special and will not soon be forgotten.

Kelly Bates (mother of the bride) looked so radiant that day!!!

Their colors were light blue with dark blue and white accents. It was beautiful!!

For the wedding day, our family was all dressed in red and black.

This is a picture of Zach Bates (the oldest Bates son) who is engaged to be married to Whitney on December 14th, 2013. They can’t wait for their special day too! I do not think we will be able to make it that special day though due to our baby being due only shortly before that!!

Sweet Senior Mrs. Duggar

Josh and Anna Duggar with Michael.

At the wedding it was an honor to meet Bill Gothard.

It was also a HUGE honor to meet “Patch the Pirate” (Ron Hamilton) and his dear wife Shelly at the wedding. Shelly Hamilton played the piano for the prelude to the wedding.

This is the hand-made “rag quilt” that I made for the new happy couple……smile.

At the Bates’ Church the next day, we enjoyed more “one on one” time with these 2 dear families and many other sweet Christian people. God was (and is always) sooo Good to us!!!