Jael's tricks

Delaney's First Birthday!!!

This past week we traveled to Ohio to celebrate our grandaughter, Delaney's first birthday! Yeah, Delaney!!! She is sooo cute, walking all over the place. Briana made chocolate cupcakes with pink icing. Delaney loved it! The whole fam was there. It was wonderful to see everyone, but especially our beautiful grandaughters! Jael has some special tricks, too. Love you all!

Luke preaching...

Hi All! Just thought you might want to check out our son-in-law, Luke's preaching debut at Mountain Christian Church in Baltimore, MD. The website is mountainchristian.org. Your can hear it on the podcast. He did a fabulous job! Love you, Luke!

What Martin does when nobody is watching!

He watches Animal Planet, of course! Actually, Mike puts him in the den and turns on Animal Planet whenever we have our Bible Study group here. (And you thought he didn't like Martin)

Honor Flight

Grandpa Dave went on the Honor Flight this week to Washington DC! They went first to the WWII memorial. Then they took a bus tour to many other memorials. They saw the White House from a distance. He said they don't go too close anymore. 88 Vets from Rochester and the area and 44 guardians (those who went to help the vets) took a charter flight from Roch. airport. When they returned at 10:10 p.m., probably 500-600 people were there to greet them. A bagpipe band played national and military anthems. Grandpa said he never shook so many hands before; all thanking the vets for their service!

When it rains, it pours...

Hi All! It's been awhile and boy, have we been busy! Things around the Benson house have been buzzin'. The last month we have had things go wrong: dishwasher troubles, water softener repair, clothes washer died, car accident, etc. etc. etc. So, we have gotten the water softener fixed, bought a new washer AND dryer, and are buying a new car to replace our wrecked van. [poor Olivia :( ]

I LOVE my new Honda Fit, "Belle!" And now we will be getting another Honda Fit (red), "Rudy!" This came about because of a car accident Mike had on Friday, Oct. 3. Another car ran a red light and BOOM! Thankfully, everyone involved is ok.

It was homecoming weekend for Mayo High School (Jim) this weekend, also. He had a friend come up from Iowa that he had met at camp. Candace is a lovely young lady. We were delighted to have her stay with us. It was VERY cold at the football game and, unfortunately, they lost. I heard the dance was great!

Sad News/Good News

No pics, just want to let everyone know that this past two weeks has been very hard. We got our mother-in-law, Millie, moved up to Rochester. Then we took her to doctor appointments. They told us to get her into the hospital right away. She was in a lot tougher shape than we knew. On August 6, she passed away. That is the sad news for us. The Good News is that she is now in heaven with her heavenly Father, and Kenny, and Karen. Thankfully, all knew and loved Jesus so we know that they are in a wonderful place. We will someday join them!