Happy Blogiversary!!

Four years ago today I wrote my my first post for my new blog.  I didn't know what I was doing then and I have to say, nothing has changed!  Kelly helped me get started while I was at her house and then I came home and did my second post all by myself!  Boy, I was so afraid to push that "publish post" button!!

Four years ago today Hubs was getting ready to leave on a trip to India to teach native pastors and here he is, years later, getting ready to go to India again for his fifth trip.

I started writing a blog because I thought it would be a good way to communicate with him and our kids.
I have come to realize as I look back over the past four years, that blogging is like "scrapbooking" your life.  I have gone back and read some of my old post and would have absolutely forgotten some of the events had I not blogged about it.

The most rewarding thing about blogging is meeting and getting to know many of you who come and read my blog and comment.  I have got the greatest pleasure in meeting some of you "in real life" and a few have become wonderful friends!   Isn't the world of blogging a crazy thing?  I'm just happy I am old enough to understand the "real" from the "unreal" and young enough to even be able to put a blog together!  I'm not exactly a techie!!  Just ask Hubs!  He's my tech support!

Of course, now I think: What did I blog about before my two precious granddaughters came along?

Which brings me to my blog today.  My sister, Linda, who is a middle school teacher, is starting back to school this next week and she had not got a chance all summer to meet her new niece, Hollis.

So we decided we would take a girl's trip over to see the kids.  We spent the night and did a little shopping and drove over to the University of Arkansas campus to look around.  Linda hadn't seen it in a while.  We drove around, talked of the years we spent there in the 60's, how naive we were and how much the campus has changed!  We were going to walk around the campus but the 111 degree weather made us change our minds.   We did go down on the downtown square and tried to remember where the old stores we use to haunt were.  Remember Campbell-Bell's??

We had a fun two days!   I just happen to have a few pictures of our fun with Harper and Hollis!!

I had to add these pictures of Harper watching a praise video, singing and doing the motions to the songs. It was so sweet it brought tears to my eyes!

My prayer is that Harper will always want to praise God for all He has done!

Thanks, Kelly and Scott, for letting us come to visit and get some baby sugar! 

To celebrate my bloggy anniversary, would you who come by and read please leave me a comment and let me know where you are from?  I am so surprised when I look at my site meter and see people from all over the world who stop by and read my little blog!  It humbles me to think you would take your time to read a blog from an older woman from a little town in Arkansas!

I appreciate each of you and pray God's blessings on your life!