Confirmation Day

 Aleah's special day dawned bright and beautiful!!  I headed out for an early morning walk hoping to smell some lilacs along the way but I didn't see any bushes out front of the houses - but it was a nice walk anyway!

Jill and I organized the last minute things before the Keppys and Smiths arrived - the actual confirmation service was in the afternoon so Jill was serving a lunch before that and having the cake reception afterwards!

We all enjoyed the nacho bar and then we headed into the church!

Aleah posing with her godparents.

And the mandatory photo with your grandparents!

Whoops - this posted out of order but what a beautiful girl posing with her special cake!!

All the kids made these special banners with their chosen bible verses - they were hung at the back of the church!

The service was very nice - Aleah's parents and godparents went up front when it was her turn!  Most of the kids participated in the actual service with Aleah doing one of the readings.

Aleah and Kenzie after the service!

We ate cake and drank punch and Aleah opened her gifts!  It was such a nice day!

It's not too often that most of the grandkids are together so we snapped a picture of them - missing Rayna but including Irene!  And Kylan is in sunglasses because he spent the day before in the ER after getting dry ice in his eyes - yes, boys will be boys!!

Glenn and I headed out late afternoon - we had driven the pickup because Glenn was picking up several rolls of insulation from a guy in Loveland!  It took a while to get it all loaded and strapped down!

We had barely got on the interstate when I could see that one of the straps was slipping and we were starting to lose a roll - so Glenn pulled over and worked and tightened to strap it down again!  He started out and within a mile, it happened again!!  This time he pulled off on a service type of road!  The strap just wouldn't hold so he walked around in the ditch and found a broken strap and a piece of barbed wire and made it work!!

It was a LONG trip home!!  I was just sure that his contraption wouldn't hold but it did!  We stopped for a quick bite to eat and got home after dark, thoroughly exhausted!!