Monday, July 24, 2017

Until we meet again

My second son's father-in-law recently died.  It is always hard when a good man leaves us.  I am filled with gratitude for the exemplary life he lead and the love he showered on my son and his beautiful family.  My spirit is awed by the interlacing family relationships that we begin to build here on this earth.  I can almost picture them in the world to come....the myriad connections we will discover to exist with those we love. No one will be left out.  When my son met and grew to love his sweet wife, we discovered that her father and my father worked together in the temple.  The respect and admiration they had for each other strengthened the love our children felt and built the love between our families.  How glad we are to know that these absences, however hard to bear, are only temporary.  Till we meet again Bill Ekins

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Landmarks


It was fun to go to a granddaughter's kindergarten graduation!  That's her in the middle in the sparkly white dress.


 Afterwards the girls went to Chickfilet.

Big sister got to come to the gradua.

So did big brother...but he wanted to come home with us. So sad.
 
Our Handsome Weston turned 8.  We sure enjoyed his baptism. I got to give the talk on the Holy Ghost.
 

                                        Four generations! Our only Castillo grandson!



 
 The Wach kids got to spend the day with Grammy and PopPop.  This was their tent.


The Tucson  clan invited us to go to the temple dedication with them.  We met up for lunch first.


Grandpa Ekins

 It's a love little temple. 

We even ran into some Blau Cousins.

Beautiful Family

Soon there will be another sister.