May 2023

Mondays at Chick-fil-A

The GBS Spring picnic was on  May 3 at Miami Whitewater Forest. It was a chilly but nice day.

Exploring by the river.

The amazing grillers!

My last spring picnic with these friends.

I love these sweet kiddos!

Our neighbor's beautiful snowball bush.

An evening with my friend Brittany, watching the sunset.

I went to a wedding for a friend who I met through my ASL classes at Cincy State. It was good to see these other ASL-classmates too.

May 7, my parents and I went to Bedford because SWSE was having a service there, and we wanted to see Elizabeth!

Playing with this group one last service together! It has been such an amazing blessing to get to be part of the violin section in SWSE for 6 years!

The Quesenberrys, Hartkophs, and Mr. Witt

Our clematis plants have been so beautiful this spring!

Our Columbine plant was loaded for several weeks! We enjoyed it.

Another Monday at Chick-fil-A

Tuesdays and Thursdays I get to spend time with Sis. Leta. We enjoy walking when the weather is nice. 

A few of us from Chick-fil-A went to a program-graduation for one of our coworkers.

Our irises were very pretty for a week too.

May 13, I took these six GBS friends horseback-riding in KY, for Rebecca's birthday. None of them had gone before and we all had a great time!

We went to Sonic for lunch after horseback-riding.

Korin started a new theme at Jr. church about FOCUSing on What Matters Most!

Matching with our sweet pastor's wife, Regina!

I went to listen to SWSE's end of year concert, and it was neat to be part of the audience for the first time in years.

Mr. H was honored for his 14 years of being the SWSE director, and a gift given to him from SWSE because God is leading him and his family somewhere else. Everyone will miss him very much. He has had such an impact on everyone who's been in SWSE.

SWSE end-of-year party.

May 17 was the service on the lawn that always happens at the end of the year.

It ends with candle-lighting and an admonition to go shine our lights for Jesus!

Lunch time with my Dad out on our patio. He is doing well recovering from his shoulder surgery, but the progress is slow, as expected.

Saying goodbye to my sweet friend, Victoria! I'm going to miss her so much.

-GRADUATION WEEKEND-
May 19 was Grad practice and breakfast. It was so exciting to finally reach this time with these girls!

The Grad breakfast

Out for Boba Tea with our friend Renee!

Supper with friends

Every evening that weekend we had services at GBS.

Graduation Day!

So thankful for my family who could be with me on graduation day!

My sweet friends!

Mrs. Frederick, one of my favorite teachers!

Mr. Witt- a wonderful teacher, my advisor through college, chair of my division. 

Receiving my diploma from Pres. Loper!

The class of 2023!

I'm so glad my aunt and uncle were able to come!

Our dear pastor Strouds

With the sweet Stroud kiddos!

With our dear pastor Stetlers

Sweet friends, Kimberly and Mary!

Some of my favorite people, the Harms! They have been such a big part of my time at GBS.

My dear friend Brittany also came for my graduation!

We had a table in the cafeteria for friends to stop by for cake and hug after the graduation.

It was so special to have my best friend of 17 years, Joanna, with us for the weekend!

My dear sister so sweetly took pictures for me that day!

Hanging out with friends after an evening service.

Bro. Jay Slagenweit preached the messages for Commissioning weekend services.

Visiting with friends after Sunday morning service.

Sweet Dasha

I got to take Joanna to Carabello Coffee on Monday morning!

Playing a game while Joanna was still visiting us. 

My mother has been having some knee trouble, so we got her a pretty blue cane. This was after she had an MRI done.

Our neighbor's beautiful peonies!

My aunt Mary sent me this nice purse as a graduation gift. I've really been enjoying using it!

I've been having fun writing (and drawing) thank you cards!

I got to have a lovely visit with Mrs. Frederick one afternoon.

May 27, my mother and I went to Daniel Brandon and Kendra Peck's wedding.

Our lilies have been pretty.

Jr. church  - decoding (with Braille code) the memory verse.

Jeremy and Esther Hopkins sharing a missionary update at church.

Our church always participates in the Florence Memorial Day parade.

The shark in the background wasn't related to our church being in the parade.

Driving back to the start.

Memorial Day evening we went to friends' house out in the country for a fun fellowship time together.

Wilson and Marshall enjoyed giving rides on Bro. Staley's Mule.

Picking flowers

Fun times with these kiddos!

It was a beautiful evening.

May 30, Regina took Brittany and me out for supper to celebrate both of us being done with college! We had such a sweet time together.

I'm thankful for God's many blessings to us and trying to name them one by one and through pictures! :)