Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Father's Day 2012 Reflections

This year, we spent Father's Day in Edmonton at my sister Ruth, and her husband Nathan's home, driving up Saturday evening, staying overnight, and then attending church with them on Sunday morning.* On Sunday afternoon, we went out to the cottage of my Auntie Lois (father's sister) and a number of the cousins enjoyed seeing one another.

*At Gateway Alliance, they hosted pre-service remote control vehicle racing competition and then the top times competed during the service in a big screen MarioKart race. Needless to say, Caleb could not wait for the service to end and enjoy racing a remote control car himself, and I'm sure will be quite disappointed when the PTC does not have race cars on the tv screen during next Sunday's service!

Along with my sister Ruth and niece Tiffany, my cousin Carl & his wife Terryl and four of their six children were present. Carl actually lived with our family for one year so we probably have the closest relationship with him of all the cousins. Likewise, cousin Dan & his wife Jan and four of their six children were present. Dan's (younger) brother Ron, and his wife, Genetta, and their two boys were also at the cottage. All of these (I believe) attended our wedding in May 2007, though we had not seen any of them since then. Not only did everyone have a great time just hanging out together, Caleb and Rachel (and Anna) especially had a wonderful time with meeting, visiting, and playing with all their "new" cousins. As well, I visited with most pretty much every person and had the incredible blessing of introducing them all to the amazing family God has blessed me with...on Father's Day. On the way back to Three Hills, somewhere between Jungle Book 2 and Cars 2, when the children were sleeping for a few minutes, I put in Chris Tomlin's "Arriving" CD and had no trouble singing out "How Great is our God" and "Your Grace is Enough" (Too Much!).

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